The Ability to Overwhelm - Part 9

He chased them, just enough to make them alter their course ever so slightly, and then he gave another order, and targeted the soft flesh of the army that lay beyond. "WE CARVE A HOLE!" Oliver bellowed.

Three forces of the Patrick army made their commitments to their attack.

"They're like bees," Zilan said, grimacing in irritation. The effect that they were having seemed to be minimal, but the real issue was that with how spread out the attacks were, they couldn't all be solved in a single sweeping move.

That gave the Blackthorn forces in particular the time that they needed to dig deeper into the Verna army and reach the siege weapons that lay beyond. They already had felled a catapult, and they sent the siege engineers fleeing as the swords came down upon their backs.