Boom! Boom! Boom!
The intense gunfire and cannonade continued, but the hearts of the Island Nation's Army generals kept sinking. Though they had committed heavy forces, and the officers and soldiers had fought bravely and launched fierce assaults, it now seemed their attacks were no different from throwing their lives away. Who knew how many valiant Island Nation's Army officers and men had died beneath the German military's ferocious artillery fire!
"Damn it! Those cursed Germans! Once we capture Brunei City, I'll kill every last one of them!" Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma said viciously. The heavy losses suffered by his troops had nearly driven him out of his mind.
Lieutenant General Seiichi Tanaka said nothing. He had always believed this attack would probably not go so smoothly. Judging from the current situation, everything seemed like a conspiracy.
"Commander, the 2nd Tank Division, the 1st Division, and the 10th Division have all reached their designated areas and begun constructing defensive lines," Lieutenant General Masami Maeda, Chief of Staff of the 14th Area Army, reported.
Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma nodded. The heart he had been holding in his throat finally settled somewhat.
The 1st Division and the 10th Division were both standing divisions, each commanding two infantry brigades and four infantry regiments, with a total strength of more than twenty-five thousand men. The 2nd Tank Division was also one of the Island Nation's Army's few tank divisions, equipped with more than three hundred tanks. However, the tanks currently fielded by the Island Nation's Army had virtually no ability to fight back before the German military's world-rampaging Tiger-Panther tanks.
The tanks currently equipped by the Island Nation's Army were mainly Type 95 light tanks, Type 89B medium tanks, and Type 97 medium tanks. Of the more than three hundred tanks in the 2nd