The seventh engagement of the new phase was the engagement where the Rakshas showed the combined force what the spear wall did when the spear wall advanced.
Khao'khen ordered the advance at the ninth hour of the morning, the 1st and 2nd Warbands stepping forward from the defensive line that they had held through every previous engagement of the campaign and moving toward the combined force's positions at the measured pace that the spear wall used for offensive movement.
The pace was slow. Deliberately slow. One step per two heartbeats, each step synchronized across the formation's two-thousand-warrior width, each boot hitting the ground at the same moment in the rhythm that the Ironmaw chanting tradition provided.
"Zug zug mag. Zug zug mag."
