Every hour brought fresh reinforcements to the king's standard.

Many were already on their way when the battle was fought; and as the news of the victory spread rapidly every man of the West Saxons capable of bearing arms made for Chippenham, feeling that now or never must a complete victory over the Danes be obtained.
No assault was made upon the Danish camp.

Confident in his now vastly superior numbers, and in the enthusiasm which reigned in his army, Alfred was unwilling to waste a single life in an attack upon the entrenchments, which must ere long surrender from famine.

There was no risk of reinforcements arriving to relieve the Danes.

Guthorn had led to the battle the whole fighting force of the Danes in Wessex and East Anglia.