When devising battle plans, it was essential to anticipate a range of possibilities, including the worst scenario, and prepare various contingencies based on one's own capabilities. Even if one couldn't devise the best countermeasure, at least a viable secondary strategy needed to be prepared.
Li Lin did this, so did the Defense Army Headquarters, and so did Roland.
As soon as he had predicted the true strategic intentions of the Wehrmacht, Roland began preparing for delay tactics in the Ardennes Region. Besides mobilizing the limited elite forces at his disposal to various transit hubs and roads, he also prepared a fallback plan in case the delay tactics failed—the 5th Light Cavalry Division.
