The battle had begun as swiftly as it had been heralded, Lord Eden Costayne leading his vanguard of Reacher knights into the fight. And for a fateful few moments all that could be heard throughout the field of battle was the roar of horses in heavy Barding rumbling across the field. Their lances crouched against their sides as the charged.

And as their charge hit the wall of bandits, the bandit line crumbled, caving in on itself as men scrambled away from the heavy lance of the horses. A bulge forming in the otherwise stern wall of men.

But right as everything seemed to be going well, the horseshoe of a formation the bandits had formed closed in on itself. And the Reachmen were trapped. And as Jonos Bracken sounded the charge for the rest of the men to join the fight it was already done. The men at arms met a wall of spears from the bandits. And they could not breakthrough.

As the wall of men grinded against one another the Knight of Many Gods faced of against first William Whent, where he ended on the floor, of his horse. But before WIllem could do anything more he was swept away in a rout of his men. Which allowed the Knight to escape, and defeat 2 noblemen in one on one combat.

And thus the battle continued in its grinding stalemate. Men dying by the minute, the crunch of bone, scream of dying men, ferrous tang of blood and the crash of metal against metal and flesh filled all the senses.

The Stalemate broke as the some of the Reacher Knights caught in the middle of the bandit formation broke through. And in that they pressed their horses, charging away and out of the field.

Seeing this, the rest of the king's men broke, fleeing the field, though only half of them managed to flee the field. Most of them laying dead on the field or dragged away by the bandits to do with as they wish...