Yu Lin Bloodhawk let her have her way, flying wherever she told him to. She could direct him wherever she pleased for the whole afternoon. He simply treated himself as a taxi driver, except he wasn't charging a fare. The two of them did not return until the sun was nearly down. That evening, Sylvanas no longer pestered him for stories and went to bed early.
Just as the sun rose the next morning, Lor'themar finally received a unit of some four hundred exhausted human light cavalry. Seeing their bedraggled state, he went out to meet them, took them under his care, and gave them food and other supplies while asking for more details about the situation.
This light cavalry unit had been among the first Allied vanguard forces sent to reinforce the Bronzebeard Dwarves on the front line. They had originally numbered over twelve hundred heavy and light cavalrymen. Now, only four hundred-odd terrified light cavalrymen remained.
If they had not been light cavalry, fast enough to escape, they probably would have met the same fate as the heavy cavalry. The Orc Wolf Riders numbered over three thousand, and they were extraordinarily fierce and strong. They were more than a match for human heavy cavalry in a head-on charge. Although they lacked the fine armor that protected both the human riders and their mounts, every one of them was powerfully built, and most wielded heavy weapons.
The Orcs fought with reckless ferocity, daring to charge straight into the human heavy cavalry and trade life for life. A human heavy cavalryman could run an Orcs Wolf Rider through with a single lance thrust, but an Orc Wolf Rider could likewise knock a human heavy cavalryman from his mount with one blow of a hammer or axe.
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