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The last defenders had fallen, and the few who had thrown down their weapons and surrendered, mostly women and children, stood huddled together in small, well-guarded groups.

Imperial troops screamed and fell from their craft as the fast-flying espers took their toll, sniping at unguarded targets, but the air force was just too big and unstoppable, and its targeting computers soon came on line, taking out the flying defenders one by one, for all their speed and courage.

Men fell dead and dying on all sides, but though the tides of battle surged this way and that, somehow still the defenders held.

War cries from a dozen worlds and cultures filled the air as the new defenders forced the invading troops back, step by step.

The dark stains spread inward as the invading forces pressed on into the city despite all the defenders could do to slow or stop them.

The defenders did the best they could, falling back only when there was no other option, retreating slowly toward the vulnerable heart of Mistport.

The sight gave new heart to the rebels, and they roared their triumph as they surged forward behind Young Jack, driving the demoralized defenders back and back.

Jack hacked and cut his way through an army of defenders, blood spilling onto the ground and streaming around his feet.

And so he and Flynn were perfectly placed to see the grenade come arcing out of the defenders and tumble almost unhurriedly through the air toward Young Jack.

Mitylene, each big enough to permit the passage of hundreds of troops through them and onto the top of the walls quickly enough to meet the defenders and hurl them down.

Unfortunately for Lucullus, the defenders were well aware that their chances of withstanding such an assault were less than their chances of winning a pitched battle outside their walls.

Iran-Iraq front was shattered in February 1986, when Iran launched a sudden amphibious assault across the Shatt al-Arab and caught the Iraqi defenders by surprise.

Ebinissia for two months, but the defenders outside the walls were able to hold them back in the surrounding passes, pin them down, and harry them relentlessly until the attackers finally withdrew, licking their wounds, in search of easier prey.

Beyond her, the line doubled back sharply along a lane, but the defenders had only a short stretch from the bank to the first building with no sort of parapet.

And with a few quick commands to Dorrin and the Marshals, the defenders were ready to move.