"I can't be sure!" Shire answered bluntly, "But we can only take a gamble now!"
With that, Shire squatted back down in front of the map and, after a brief contemplation, laid out a battle plan: "Continue the frontal assault to keep the enemy's attention. There are six amphibious landing craft arriving. Arm them and cover the second echelon as they advance along the road."
"Advance along the road?" Tijani exclaimed, looking at Shire in disbelief. Is this too obvious?
Before this, amphibious landing craft had also gone up the road, because the road was very close to this defensive line.
But only because the troops had taken over trenches to provide necessary cover did they dare to do so.
"The amphibious landing craft only have front armor that can stop bullets, Colonel," Tijani reminded, "If the enemy has defenses on the road, even just a platoon, we could suffer heavy casualties..."
