The breach fighting was the fighting that breach assaults produced when the defenders were professional soldiers fighting for the capital that contained their families and the attackers were highland warriors fighting for the valley that their mountains could not provide.
The Threian garrison's breach defense was the defense that General Snowe's dispatches and the campaign's accumulated tactical wisdom had produced: not the static wall of shields behind the breach's interior that the traditional breach defense doctrine prescribed, but the layered defense that the Horde's own defensive engineering had inspired, the defense that accepted the breach's existence and converted the breach from a gap in the wall into a killing corridor whose interior was more dangerous to the attacker than the wall's exterior had been.
