The fierce old soldier is said to have burst into a passion of tears on beholding the slaughter and defeat of his infantry.

Hitherto he had been invincible, this being the first defeat he had suffered in the course of his long military career.

Great stores of provision and wine had been captured, and the night was spent in feasting in the Swedish camp.
The next morning the Elector of Saxony rode on to the field to congratulate Gustavus on his victory.

The latter was politic enough to receive him with great courtesy and to thank him for the services the Saxons had rendered.

He intrusted to the elector the task of recapturing Leipzig, while he marched against Merseburg, which he captured with its garrison of five hundred men.
After two or three assaults had been made on Leipzig the garrison capitulated to the Saxons, and on the 11th of September the army was drawn up and reviewed by Gustavus.