The Herders clad in double-layered heavy armor still moved with vigor. The weapons in their hands weren't the characteristic scimitars, but flails, heavy axes, and war hammers.
The elite forces of both armies collided with a thunderous crash. As everyone was clad in heavy armor, it became exceptionally difficult to kill one another.
When the war hammer struck a helmet, the iron was dented inward. Yet the person inside did not die instantly; blood backflowed into their trachea. Choking on blood, the soldier collapsed on the enemy, grabbed a halberd, and stabbed it into the opponent's mouth, all the way through.
Almost no one received a clean, swift death. The combat turned into a kind of torture. Most who died did so from internal bleeding caused by multiple blunt force strikes.
Friend and foe alike, some soldiers had their limbs broken but were not yet dead, and these iron men begged for a quick end.