The order was wrong.
The order in which the Celestial Dragons landed was wrong.
The various attitudes the Celestial Dragons had displayed beforehand had led Sengoku to make the wrong judgment.
Under the guiding assumption that the Celestial Dragons would never come to the rescue after the Marines were wiped out—and that it would even be normal for them to flatten Marineford with a single Dyna Stone—
Sengoku made the wrong prediction.
He had not expected the Celestial Dragons to talk such a big game while being completely unwilling to gamble on the risk of the Marines being annihilated. They had rushed out in a panic.
For someone in Sengoku's position, making a strategic misjudgment was extremely serious, just as it was now.
He could indeed have had the Marines perish alongside the Revolutionary Army after exhausting all their ammunition and supplies, then let the Celestial Dragons come in to clean up the aftermath.
But first, the Celestial Dragons had not personally taken command in battle for over a century, so their judgment of the overall battlefield situation was bound to be flawed. Second, they had not involved themselves in such matters for at least a century, and had long since come to view the Marines as another military force rather than their own subordinate organization.
Otherwise, promoting Admirals as their direct subordinates was itself a way of planting spies. If the Celestial Dragons did not distrust the Fleet Admiral or the Marines as a whole, why would they bother with such a move?
Precisely because of this, the disconnect between the Marines and the Celestial Dragons had become inevitable. The Marines had already prepared to sacrifice all their senior officers, but the Celestial Dragons had not prepared to sacrifice the Marines. They had hurried down to meddle.
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