Brigadier Childebrand looked down into the armored car and could see the young driver, Gefreiter Dalfin, who was driving pedal-to-metal to get the front-leading officer to where his men were by now beginning their opening maneuvers. True to the custom of the Panchalans, and indeed the entire Empire, an officer would be required to lead from the front. Changes to the operation were always, as the doctrine taught to them said, better conducted in the direct field of fire. 

He looked behind him and could see a convoy of armored cars, perhaps ten or twelve of them, likewise on a course to assist the infantry operations. The [url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_the_Teutonic_Order.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Teutonic_Order.svg.png]flag of the Royal Panchalan Regiment[/url] fluttered in the wind on each of their cars. Their part in the plan, an ingenious gambit that if it paid off would surely throw the Chasseurs in disarray but if it didn't would doom the defense to defeat, would be to smash through the weakest point in their lines and overwhelm the already occupied enemy infantry. It would be, in essence, like a cavalry charge of Old. Like when Procas cut apart the Tirolian lines on the Fields of Trantano.

"Lieutenant! Issue the codeword to the Brigade!" The Brigadier shouted down over the roar of the engines. The watch-word [i]Ritterschaft[/i] would denote that the officers of the companies and battalions would begin their offensive operations, and to signal to the convoy that they would soon be breaking through the enemy lines, and to prepare for engagement.