Percival continued to maintain a belief that further landings by the invading forces would eventually occur in the northeast and did not agree to reinforce the badly-weakened 22nd Brigade until Tengah Airfield itself was threatened with the nearby presence of the Japanese troops which were just landed. However, before limited British and Indian infantry reinforcements arrived, the badly-battered Australian and Singaporean defence units, along with the Jinds, had already retreated to take up new defence positions on the so-called "Jurong Line", stretching south from the village of Bulim, located to the east of the airfield. Tengah Airfield was finally taken by the Japanese at around mid-day on 9 February, thus fulfilling their key objective for the landings at Sarimbun.