A new round of attacks.
The festered had escalated their offense.
Other than the first hundreds of years of war, large-scale attacks only happened once a month or a year with reconnaissance and skirmishes in between. But since the last four years, those freaks had increased the frequency of attacks, every ten days on average. The rate of attacks had increased to once every three days. An attack came right after the Apocalypse Torrent thwarted the one before that, giving soldiers no breathing time.