416 Data Gathering

[Forget saving the city. Eliminate all threats with extreme prejudice.] Max ordered, bringing cheering from the Mecha lines.

No longer did they wait until they had a target in sight. They annihilated the buildings where the enemy might hide or take shelter. They began a carpet bombing pattern with the Thunder Guns that would quickly level everything from them to the trenches, which the Klem had collapsed out of the city's former ring road.

The new Klem infantry, as the Pilots had dubbed them, were undeterred, hiding in the smallest piles of rubble to avoid taking direct fire and spreading out so that they weren't losing too many forces to any single strike.