Despite every inch of the land having been bombed, many human soldiers emerged at this moment. Machine guns, rifles, even connected grenade launchers were pushed out from anti-artillery bunkers, and both sides were face-to-face, desperately clashing with bayonets.
Moreover, both sides were continually sending reinforcements to the front line of battle.
Yet, this reinforcement was highly challenging. It's hard for artillery to directly bombard troops in such close combat, but it could move the bombing line back a few hundred meters. Whether you're the infected troops in iron armor or the Empire's infantry or armored soldiers, you have to pass through this artillery line, and the cost of doing so is unknown.
In this process, the human side's reinforcement situation was somewhat more favorable than that of the iron-armored side.
