Inside the Temple of the Red Crane, a large number of Crane Wing forces were still holding their ground, but they were already on the verge of collapse. Had the Horde army not arrived, they likely would not have held out much longer.
Rend ordered the Horde forces not to clash with the Crane Wing troops and made it clear that he had come to help the Pandaren. After gaining the Crane Wing forces' trust,
he settled the utterly exhausted troops, many of whom had lost their fighting spirit under the Sha of Despair's influence, somewhere safe.
He had the Trifarix Legion establish a defensive line outside the Temple of the Red Crane, preparing for an attack by the Alliance's main force.
He himself led the Dark Rider Guard into the Temple of the Red Crane.
The reason he had brought only the Dark Rider Guard inside was because the Sha of Despair was hiding within the temple. Ordinary lesser despair sha would not affect the Trifarix Legion, but the Sha of Despair's true body could.
Thus, bringing the Trifarix Legion's warriors to face the Sha of Despair would not only fail to help, but might even have the opposite effect.
The Dark Rider Guard were toys of the fallen Titan Sargeras. As Sargeras was the mortal enemy of the Old Gods and the Void, he had naturally made the Dark Rider Guard immune to the effects of emotions.
It could even be said that the Dark Rider Guard had no emotions whatsoever. Rend's orders were the meaning of their existence.
Unaffected by emotions, the Dark Rider Guard, led by Taron Gorefiend, continually purged the sha demons within the Temple of the Red Crane. Armed from head to toe with epic-grade weapons, they cleaved through the sha demons' bodies as