"RIGHT FLANK BREAKTHROUGH CONFIRMED!" Lieutenant Zara's voice cut through the combat noise. She was coordinating from a command position behind the front lines, directing the assault with cold precision. "Enemy reserves deploying to reinforce—recommend third wave commitment immediately!"
"THIRD WAVE, ADVANCE!" Koth's command echoed across the battlefield.
The final twenty thousand demons of the assault force crashed into the already chaotic engagement. The sheer weight of numbers was overwhelming now—five thousand Radiant defenders couldn't hold against sixty thousand demon soldiers, not when their fortifications were burning and their battle-priests were dying.
The enemy line broke.
Not all at once, but in cascading failures as individual positions were overrun and survivors retreated toward their secondary defensive positions. The organized defense dissolved into a fighting retreat, Radiant soldiers withdrawing in good order but withdrawing nonetheless.
