They have us surrounded...they can’t get away any more...the situation is well in hand.
That’s much like Chesty Puller’s “We’re surrounded! That simplifies our problem!”
The same scenario at Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. Chicom volunteers had the Marines surrounded. “Chesty” Puller said “we got ‘em right where we want ‘em”. The Marines “broke out”. Brought their wounded and KIA with them.
Weather was bitter cold, sub zero temperatures.
REAL heros every darn one of them.