The group had only a moment to reposition before the hobgoblin reinforcements showed up. Freya blocked the chokepoint against the hobgoblin vanguard. But a caster on the hobgoblin side used a magical vortex to pull freya behind hobgoblin lines and just dogpile her quickly dropping her. The party could not drop much damage with freya in the middle of the hobgoblins and the mercenaries were incredibly difficult to hit as they all wore heavy armor and heavy shields. But the party won to Freya's side and got her back on her feet again.
But the warcaster had more tricks. He stepped forth and let out a wave of force forcing back most of the party and tripping Lindal and Freya. The Hobgoblin archer then shot Sister Linora and callled out something to the mage who next tried to chuck Sister Linora in the well but failed. The Hobgoblins did however manage to drop freya again but Kylorin and Sister Linora brought her back up again.
Meanwhile the soldiers were just forming shield walls and causing huge damage with their heavy flails. It was more that the party could easily sustain but the party did pick off most of the light fighters and eventually the caster ran out of spells and called a temporary retreat which the party used to focus fire on the archer slowing him and preventing him from fleeing with the others. But the caster changed directions and drove back into the party to try and retrieve his archer. A fierce battle was fought by the well with the archer trapped by Freya and Kylorin but the wizard again used a vortex and this time plunged Kylorin into a well instead. Kylorin now stuck at the bottom of a well could only call out repeatedly as battle raged above. Sister Linora made the caster vulnerable as Lindal moved to a spot to take advantage of the casters weakness. But the caster charged his staff with lightning and left Lindal convulsing while he made another retreat. The party was unwilling to let the mage get away and Lindal charged past the archer into flanking to strike down the mage but the archer and mage made it down another corridor to a different room. Freya stayed behind to help Kylorin out of a well meanwhile Lindal almost got pinned down by a dropping portcullis barely managing to step back in enough time. The hobgoblin archer was not willing to let Lindal get away so easily and stepped forward to strike Lindal down. Meanwhile Sister Linora called on the great dragon to strike down the archer and turned him into a radiant pile of ash.
The party then used more potions to heal up Lindal and retreated to rest and recover.
The party earned 940 xp (188 each => 2871 cumulative) 20 gp 34 sp and the following gear:
2 sets of scale armor
2 heavy shields
2 flails
5 light shields
5 longswords
6 suits of leather armor
longbow
staff