"Your Excellency, the regimental commander! These Chinese are nothing more than this! Whenever their garrison troops encounter our advance, it doesn't take long for them to collapse completely!"
On the battlefield where the Amatani Detachment was advancing toward Jurong City, a newly deployed Japanese infantry battalion was making its presence known. The battalion commander, Shimuki Ichiro, was showing off boisterously in front of the old fox, Takatani Naojiro.
Ever since the news of Takatani Naojiro’s defeat broke, the headquarters of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army had issued its highest directive: the remnants of Takatani’s brigade were to be reorganized into a new operational unit. To scrape together this new detachment, the Imperial General Headquarters had essentially squeezed blood from a stone, and Shimuki Ichiro was a representative of the reinforcements newly added to the Amatani Detachment.
Chapter 219