When he had concluded his observations, he returned and reported to Colonel Kelly; and orders were issued for the attack, the next day.
The levies were expected to join the next morning.

They were to advance with a guide, and turn out the enemy from the top of a dangerous shoot; from which they would be enabled to hurl down rocks upon the main body, as it advanced.

Beynon was to start, at six, to work through the hills to the right rear of the enemy's position.

The main body were to move forward at nine o'clock.
Beynon encountered enormous difficulties and, in many places, he and his men had to go on all fours to get along.

He succeeded, however, in driving off the enemy; who occupied a number of sangars on the hills, and who could have greatly harassed the main body by rolling down rocks upon them.
The enemy's principal position consisted of sangars blocking the roads to the river, up to a fan-shaped alluvial piece of ground.
The road led across this ground to the foot of a steep shoot, within five hundred yards of sangars on the opposite side of the river and, as it was totally devoid of any sort of shelter, it could be swept by avalanches of stones, by a few men placed on the heights for the purpose.
When the troops arrived within eight hundred yards, volley firing was opened; and the guns threw shells on the sangar on the extreme right of the enemy's position.