Allen and his men were fighting desperately against the Trolls.
Cries of battle also rang out from the ruins atop Ravenhill, where the Dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield had clashed fiercely with Azog's Half-orcs.
The ruined Outpost on Ravenhill was not particularly large, and Azog, lying in ambush with his personal guards, had little trouble catching the Dwarves searching for him.
Fili's group was the first to walk into Azog's ambush. The young Dwarven prince met a sudden Half-orc attack inside a narrow tunnel.
Caught off guard as he walked, Fili took a heavy blow from Azog to his left arm.
The tremendous force sent the stocky young Dwarf crashing straight through the abandoned Outpost's wall, leaving a gaping hole.
This inadvertently helped the Dwarven squad, for Half-orcs had already blocked both ends of the tunnel.
Fili lay outside the collapsed wall, his left arm twisted at an unnatural angle, barely conscious.
But the Dwarves were moving in groups of five, and the other four elite warriors, all seasoned veterans, reacted immediately to Azog's ambush.
Two of them jumped straight through the hole, dragged Fili clear, and fled with him.
The other two held the opening at the cost of their own lives, resisting the Half-orcs' attacks to delay their pursuit.
Fili soon regained consciousness. Enduring the agonizing pain in his left arm, he shouted for help from the other Dwarves while the two veterans supported him.
Thorin Oakenshield, Kili, and Dwalin soon brought their squads over upon hearing his cries. Once they had gathered, they charged toward Azog.
By the time they arrived, the two Dwarven warriors holding off the pursuers had fallen silent beneath the frenzied attacks of a group of Uruk soldiers.
Thorin Oakenshield arrived with his warriors just in time to witness this. There was no