Due to several of the knights being in a severely wounded state, the group was forced to split into two, leaving most of the members to carry more seriously wounded knights back to town. A few of the wounded knights who weren't critically injured had started picking up their deceased comrades, deciding that they were going to bring them home to be buried properly.
A total of five knights stayed behind and began following Merlin's group back to the campsite where the orc warlord was hiding.
To their surprise, it seemed as though another group had also made it to that spot and were quickly explained the plan before they did anything stupid.
The group was rather large, consisting of twenty knights, and with the addition of the five that they had saved from the other camp, alongside the knight that had been acting as their guide, they had a total of twenty-six knights to assist them in their plan.
