It is not certain that those who survived the immediate attack would be much better off than the dead.
The agreement came under almost immediate attack from opposition forces on both sides.
He expected to have to face an immediate follow-up attack, but nothing of the sort happened.
The only logical plan would be for him to bring all of his troops up and stage an immediate attack.
Then we don't have to worry about an immediate attack.
Still, in his opinion, there was valid reason for an immediate attack.
Your failure to do this will bring an immediate attack.
If this happened, he wanted to follow up with an immediate attack.
But only one of his generals favored an immediate attack.
In which case, our best course of action is an immediate attack.