Hans's rear alarm reached Hajin before Loccy's third Wing closed above the folded siege road.
Hans read Juna's recovered relay copy while the rear attack entered the service lane.
"There are ninety moving through the clinic-forge lane," he said. "Their formation counts twelve war mages behind seventy-eight forge flankers."
The central standards continued toward Dreth's command ridge and made the rear attack his final attempt to break Hajin's support line.
Hajin turned away from the collapsed pass before he answered.
"Route me back to both of the rear sectors," he said. "I will stay there until both rear sectors truly hold."
Hans sent him through the quarry cut while militia engineers kept every prisoner beyond the collapsed road.
Hajin reached the clinic service lane after the first attack crossed its outer barrier and found two bodies beside nine fresh serious-wound markers.
