His guns were mowing down the English artillerymen.

The English party on the left of the watercourse, with difficulty, held their own against the charges of his horsemen, and were rapidly dwindling away under the artillery fire, while other bodies of his cavalry had surrounded the baggage, and were attacking the little force told off to guard it.

He knew, too, that any attempt the English might make to attack the battery, with its strong defences, must inevitably fail.
The situation was becoming desperate.

It was now ten o'clock.

The fight had gone on for four hours.