The Yurakk street fighting was the fighting that the stabbing sword had been designed for.
The 3rd Warband's advance through the capital's northwestern residential district proceeded at the rate that twenty-foot-wide streets and sustained close-quarters combat combined to produce: one block per thirty minutes, each block's defense cleared by the specific technique that the Yurakk warriors had developed across four months of continuous combat and that the capital's urban terrain demanded the refinement of.
The technique was the technique of the shield and the sword and the doorway.
