Now charge and those Easterns will be caught between the hammer and the stone, for while they are meeting us they will not look behind." So I went down the lines of our little force telling them the good news and showing them my plan.

They listened and understood.

We formed up, those who were left of us, not more than a thousand men perhaps, and advanced.

The Easterns laughed when they saw us coming down the slope, for they thought that we were mad and that they would kill us every one, believing as they did that Peroa had no other army.

When we were within bowshot we began to shoot, though sparingly, for but few arrows were left.