The Rhakaddons hit the barbarian counterattack at the market district's western intersection and the intersection ceased to exist as an intersection.
Garrok had ordered the counterattack at the twelfth hour, the warchief's tactical assessment concluding that the Horde's Yurakk advance through the narrow streets could be arrested by the concentrated assault of five thousand warriors funneled through the market district's western approach, the approach that connected the palace district's defensive perimeter to the market district's contested blocks. The five thousand warriors advanced in the column that the approach's forty-foot width permitted, their boomstick fire preceding the advance in the sustained volleys that the unlimited ammunition provided, the column's depth extending back through the palace district's streets in the formation that five thousand warriors' compressed deployment produced.
