In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
I didn't die nor win.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.
Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.