Zadakine warriors, seeing their opportunity, clambered over the rubble eagerly.
Going over the top of the pile, the fighting shifted in their favour as they were now coming down the slope.
The Nymus soldiers were better equipped and trained than their Zadakine opponents, but the weight of numbers and momentum was with the Zadakine. The Nymus began to fall back from the rubble to regroup.
The Zadakine, reaching the bottom of the breach stopped to regroup, gathering their forces to secure their foothold within the city.
The Golta Rangers reached the top of the rubble and took up positions, firing their rifles to ensure the Nymus could not effectively reform to counter attack.

Upon the walls, Shogun, covered in Junlock blood, looked down on the fighting below.
The defences were being breached at the gate and at the broken wall, and the defenders were being hard-pressed by enemies pouring out from the siege towers.
Nymus warriors on the walls were beginning to cast off their armour and shields and then leap from the walls to escape back into the city.
Shogun snarled as he rushed along the top, barging allies and enemies out of the way until he was above the gate.
Then, without hesitation, Shogun leapt from the battlements.
He curled into a ball, falling like a stone, directly onto one of the tightly-packed enemy Ivos mercenaries.
Shogun slammed down, crushing Ivos under him and knocking others off their feet.
Shogun himself, having mastered the Anvil of Moi-Lon technique, stood up unharmed. Without hesitation, Shogun began to slash all around with his blade, cutting down Ivos who had yet to recover from his landing.
The defending Ivos drove forwards while their enemies were disrupted. The attackers began to retreat and then fall into a confused route back through the gateway.
In the panic, men became packed together, struggling to get through the gates all at once, trampling their wounded under their hooves. Those at the back of the retreat were mercilessly cut down by the defenders as they struggled to escape.
As the remaining attackers managed to flee out of the gates, Shogun glanced around again.
Though this was a victory, the wider situation was becoming untenable.
The exodus from the outer walls was now in full swing with any Nymus that could, escaping the rampaging Junlocks.
The Zadakine were more cautious than their mercenary allies, and continued to move troops through the breach in the wall but not advance further, content to build up their strength within the city.
The officers with the defending Ivos recognised their situation and began calling for a retreat.
Having just chased off their rivals, these mercenaries were in high spirits, despite the broader situation, and began to fall back into the city in good order.

Shogun gritted his teeth.
Retreating from the enemy went against his instincts, but even he could not fight an army alone.
Reluctantly he followed the Ivos Mercenaries.
The city’s outer wall was impressive, but not their only defence.
There was a secondary, inner wall.
While smaller and less impressive, its position within the city made this secondary wall more difficult to attack and its smaller circumference made it easier for defenders to concentrate their forces.
However, Shogun was shocked when he reached the inner wall and found it was closed.