The bridge gate was built from overlapping steel plates anchored into both sides of the road. It stood between Kendra's convoy and the public silos.
The monster migration rolled through the rail flats behind them in a cloud of torn weeds and dust. The gate had been placed where one obstruction could turn both the convoy and the creatures into pressure against each other.
Kendra counted six freight crawlers at the front of the migration. Each was the size of a small truck, plated with scavenged metal and carrying hooked forelimbs that dragged abandoned rails behind it.
"They are following the fuel heat," Sella said over the radio. "If we stop here, they come straight through the tender."
"Then we do not stop," Kendra replied.
The road was narrow between the closed bridge and the drainage embankment. A normal defense line would have put the trucks bumper to bumper and let the crawlers choose which vehicle to tear apart first.
