While Itami was in the act of visiting Little Kyoto so that she may speak with some of her exiled citizens, and help them overcome their difficulties. Shiba was facing a full scale rebellion in the southernmost region of the Japanese Mainland.
General Tsugaru Akihiko was currently in the act of leading a guerilla force composed of old veterans from the Imperial Japanese Army and the Japanese Imperial Guard. For the sake of food and medicine, he had taken up arms on behalf of Empress Itami Riyo in an attempt to overthrow the Shiba Shogunate and reclaim the throne for the exiled Empress.
Tsugaru kneeled in the middle of the woods, with a Panzerfaust 250 in his hands. He aimed down the top of the high explosive anti-tank missile as he waited for the Type 4 Chi-To medium tank, which was at the head of the Shogunate convoy to cross his path.