>>22785819>>22785878>>22785920The dust would clear showing a scene of devestation in a circle around them, the majority of the first line was completely wiped out, the trenches and defenses completely pounded into dust, along with several of the forces gathered along the line, the survivors pulled back to the second line to regroup using the remaining trenches, digging in again around the temple exterior while they waited for the next attack.
Of course what would make things worse would be the sudden secondary explosions coming from just ahead of them as several of the traps that had been set in place went off in the process, a massive spray of burning fuel erupting ahead of them to coat the ground and cliff side ahead of them with thick burning oil.
Further to the rear the main officer in charge eyeballed the devastation taking stock of the loses before deciding it was time to play his trump card.
He gave the order to ready the main and secondary guns and instructed the artillery to drop some things behind them.
As the battle lines shifted and the smoke from the fires finally cleared, the group could make out a force of soldiers arrayed against them along the temple itself, several were wounded, some looked a little but others gave no sense of their discomfort or strife behind their masks as they quickly begin digging in again around the rubble.
With the distance between them now, it was clear that the trick wouldn't work again.
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