He had to turn his horse with a jerk of the reins, and he had to bellow his order before he could even be sure that his men would be ready for it. "PATRICK FORCES, ATTACK!" He said.
It came as suddenly for his own men as it did for the enemy. Oliver separated from Karstly's retreating men, with Verdant and Blackthorn behind him, and he took to the front.
Hearing Oliver, the Verna men quite rightly supposed that it was just another ruse designed to get them to react. However, the Patrick men had no such second guessing. They knew their Captain well enough that with a shout like that, their only thoughts were to action.
The four hundred men came rumbling across the battlefield, closing that rather sizable distance between them and the enemy. The Blackthorn men followed with them, included in the banner of the Patrick forces, even if they might not have wished to be called that by name.
