Seeing as Carthor is currently six feet off the ground in the hand of a troll, I think he'll have to fight this one out.
As for what Brander, Lissi and Renedwen do... that's up to them.
A couple of the soldiers that Carthor has with him won't be running of course, not when their mate is in the hot stuff.
I guess until the trolls start their bit, we don't know how many there are, or where in the column the one Carthor ran into is...
I await your post with increasing anticipation
Novnarwen!