Later, when the Nationalist government in Shanghai collapsed and its troops carried out a scorched-earth policy to prevent agricultural resources from falling into enemy hands, the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan sent a squad of Taiwanese agricultural volunteers over to that region.
當國民政府在上海失陷後，不得已採「焦土政策」驅散農民，致使日軍無法在佔領地就地取得物資時，日本殖民政府於是招募軍伕性質的「台灣農業義勇團」前往上海。