Haguk caught the Threian cavalry at the fork where the eastern road split between the river route and the highland track that led back toward the southeastern corridor.
Four hundred and sixty warg riders against eight hundred Threian horsemen. The arithmetic was not favorable, and Haguk was not a commander who ignored arithmetic. But arithmetic was not the only variable in mounted warfare, and the variables that Haguk understood better than any Threian cavalry officer, terrain, speed, and the particular psychology of warg-mounted combat, shifted the calculation in ways that numbers alone could not express.
