The irregular cavalry and those of the zemindars were ordered to attack them but, as soon as they left the town, they dispersed and rode away.
The next day the enemy's infantry and artillery came up, and a heavy fire was immediately opened on the southeast angle of the city wall.

In twenty-four hours the whole of the parapet was demolished, and some partial breaches made in the wall itself.

The Sepoys, encouraged by the presence and efforts of Ochterlony and Burns, stood their ground with great courage and, at nightfall, laboured incessantly at repairing the breaches, and in making a new parapet with sandbags.
Towards morning they formed up; passed out through one of the breaches, led by their officers; made a rush at the battery that had been doing so much damage, bayoneted or drove off the enemy stationed there, and spiked the guns.
In the meantime, some guns had been playing against the southern walls.

Here they were able to approach, through gardens and the ruins of a village, until near the defences and, establishing a powerful battery, opened fire, and soon made a breach in the walls between the Turkoman and Ajmere gates.
Unable to hinder them the Sepoys, aided by a portion of the population, worked from the morning of the 10th until that of the 12th to form an inner defence.

The houses near the breach were pulled down, and the materials used for forming strong barricades at the mouths of the streets leading from it.