"What? Hold the line and wait for reinforcements?"
The front-line commander who received the telegram from the rear, the division leader from the Quebec Division, expressed disbelief: "Our soldiers are disappearing like snowflakes; this is a trap, we are charging into the pit of fire!"
Each army's command system is lagging, and Marshal Julian hasn't been on the front lines personally. He relied solely on the accounts of the front-line officers, and his decision was straightforward: he ordered the front-line units to secure a foothold on the enemy's walls with subsequent troops immediately following.
This was originally not wrong; historically, the hardest part of attacking a city is scaling the enemy's walls.
From the front-line battle reports, Marshal Julian obtained the information that—just a little more effort, and exertion, the heart of Texas, New Basilicata, would be in his grasp.
