Shire stood up to make himself a cup of coffee, while busy with his hands, he said to Tijani, "You seem to have forgotten the principle of 'attack outweighs defense'.
"No, I haven't forgotten." Tijani felt wronged, he waved heavily toward the map: "But this is different, General, what's in front of us is the Meuse River, the Meuse River! It's an insurmountable barrier."
Cross the river using amphibious landing boats?
That might be one way, but even if the landing boats get across, the tanks still can't.
The infantry that crosses might be utterly annihilated by the German Army's counterattack!
Shire didn't rush to answer. He held the coffee and sat down at his desk, took a sip before replying, "Floating bridge, Major General."
"Floating bridge?" Tijani looked at Shire incredulously: "Are you joking? It would take us at least a dozen hours to build a floating bridge, and it needs to support tanks while the enemy can blow it up within minutes."
