Well if you look from our perspective, you will start to realize that the more you give leeway to your enemy, the higher the chances are that they will retaliate with an even bigger force, than if you were to say: Eliminate the present targets as fast as possible to ensure you can tackle the inevitable reinforcement. Today depicted exactly that situation, how we were on the advantage of numbers, but just like that we were outnumbered 2 to 1. The difference is, we didn't complain about it.