What happens when a couple score JBTs throw up their hands and surrender?
The concept of “parole” for combatants is unlikely to be respected in the 21st century — but they would have to be released.
The officer will likely be pilloried, or far worse, for this.
But, his men did get to walk out, or choose to stay, after the locals fed them a meal, that they hadn’t had in three days.
Ideally they’d be relieved of their taxpayer-funded equipment and sent back into town in their boos and underwear.