The commander of the first batch was also caught in the quicksand but his reaction was considered fast even without light at all. He quickly jumped from his mount and rolled on the ground, avoiding the quicksand area.
"Everybody get away from your mount!! Rolled your body pass the quicksand!!" The commander was indeed a good commander as he could quickly solved the quicksand problem.
The other people who weren't dead yet, quickly leave behind their mount and rolled on the quicksand extremely fast to get over to the area without quicksand.
While the first batch already lost 150 people, the second batch also lost around 30 people from the tornado attack before finally the tornado disappeared.
This batch still had their torch so they could see the quicksand area in front of them. The quicksand area was wide extremely wide that normal horses couldn't jump over it.
