If my officers are killed, who is to command my soldiers ?" Fascines and scaling ladders were prepared.

The Green Brigade were to head the assault, and Gustavus, addressing them, bade them remember New Brandenburg.
At five o'clock a tremendous cannonade was opened on the walls from all the Swedish batteries, and under cover of the smoke the Green Brigade advanced to the assault.

From the circle of the walls a cloud of smoke and fire broke out from cannon and arquebus, muskets, and wall pieces.
Sir John Hepburn and Colonel Lumsden, side by side, led on their regiments against the Guben gate; both carried petards.
In spite of the tremendous fire poured upon them from the wall they reached the gate, and the two colonels fixed the petards to it and retired a few paces.

In a minute there was a tremendous explosion, and the gate fell scattered in fragments.

Then the Scottish pikemen rushed forward.