the surviving task force staff, led by major jordan, resume command. c company is effectively wiped out and its survivors are integrated with d company. the task force plans to ambush a soviet battalion heading westward into their position, centered on an east german town. jordan plans a reverse slope defense, not attacking the soviets at the logical choke point. the soviet attackers, harassed by the task force scout platoon and u.s. artillery-delivered mines, fail to take the town or the hills to the north of the valley. the soviet commander moves south, into bannon's team's guns.