Book Posting 5

As Roran and the rest of his company move south towards Surda, they come across a town with a huge legion (almost 5 times the amount of soldiers the Varden had at the time) barricaded in it. Roran’s commander charges in with his men and loses more than half of them to crossbow fire before they reach the enemy soldiers. Roran, however, stations his archers on top of buildings for cover and range while he and his foot soldiers attack the Empires soldiers from behind a barricade so that only a few enemy soldiers could get to them at a time. Roran ends up killing almost 200 soldiers by himself and doesn’t lose any of his company in the process. His commander is very angry (and wounded) that Roran did not follow him the way he was supposed to and loses his command for the time being which almost causes a rebellion from the other soldiers against Roran’s commander. As a result, the men obey and Roran gets flogged for insubordination against the will of all the other commanders.