“The dam is up to the east a bit, isn’t it?” Dick said. “On the right arm of the Y.”
“That’s right,” Tony said. “This road skirts around the edge of the dam and lake, then dips down into the valley. It will be wiped out completely by the flood waters when the dam is blown up.”
They were across the road by this time, leaping over another wall into another field.
“Then the waters will pour down through Maletta and into the valley leading to the south, where our main attack seems to be,” Dick figured out.
“Yep, and a good flood it will be,” Tony said.
“But that leaves the main supply road into Maletta free,” Dick said. “The left arm of the Y, leading to the northwest.”
“Yes, it does,” Tony replied. “But we’ll catch plenty of German troops and supplies in Maletta itself, and below it, where they are going to meet our attack.”
“But they can escape up the northwest road,” Dick said. “We ought to be able to do something about that.”
“You want to make it a hundred per cent catastrophe, don’t you?” Tony asked with a laugh.
“I surely do,” Dick said. “And if we get time, we might take a little walk up that northwest road to look it over.”