...A long nine. Horatio has to check the beginnings of a smile. But there's business to attend to.

"But others here might not," Horatio interjects, tone as even as he can manage.

"We may not have access to many quickly. But any that we do have, we can use.

Cutting off the tunnels-- It's an old tactic. A good one." Sound in theory, he doesn't want to argue that. "But an old one. If they know about the tunnels-- and they might-- then." His tone changes. It lowers, not calmer but more guarded. "All they need do is send a decoy force by sea. We will react-- destroy the transport system and effectively block the tunnels. Then they sweep the main force from the other side.

We would have no means of escape."