We charged after them cutting them down mercilessly the length of the pass that had turned into a gory landscape that reflected the true horrors of war. Near the bend of the pass the cavalry gave up their pursuit of the enemy and circled back toward the wall. They cut down those they had missed on the first charge and then smashed into the larger body of fleeing soldiers that my warriors were busy slicing down from behind.
It was full on blood bath melee as the retreating soldier's escape was cut off by the milling heavy cavalry in their way. They had no choice but to fight, but the heart to fight with was gone from them and they fell away quickly before our blades.
There was the echoing sound of the beat of horse's hooves and from down the pass a solid wall of cavalry numbering in the thousands appeared at a full gallop. Their haste was such that they ran wholesale over their own fleeing troops in an effort to join the battle and snatch victory out of a skirmish that could only be labeled as the most shameful of defeats on their part.
The wall of cavalry turned the bend in the pass and as they came abreast of the narrowest distance between the pass walls where the two ancient rivers that had once flown through the pass had converged into one. Murky colored fluid sprayed down upon them from sluice ways that had been carefully built into and hidden in the steep sides of the pass to either side of the narrowest point. The murky colored fluid drained out in great volume from massive underground vats that had been opened further up the steep sides of the passes.
The direct fall of gravity down the pass sides and the decreasement in sluice size aided the higher pressure of the fluid as it shot out into the pass forming interlacing arcs of fluid across it over thirty feet into the air. Torches were thrown by men, who had lain in concealment for days in carved out niches on the pass sides. The fountains of fluid arcing out and over the pass ignited instantly to reveal itself as a light flammable oil.
The forward rows of cavalry already doused with the oil burst into flame and went crazy in their desperation to be free of the fire engulfing them both man and horse alike. The thundering column behind them drew up to a shuddering halt even as the new frontrunners of the column were pushed from behind by the momentum of the charge into the liquid rain of fire that poured down like a sheet across the pass.