Malcolm shot one and cut down another, and the rest scattered in all directions.
"Now, lads, follow me while we may," and Malcolm again took to the fields.

The peasants followed for some distance, but when the soldiers had quite recovered the use of their limbs Malcolm suddenly turned on his pursuers, overtaking and killing two of them.

Then he and his men again continued their journey, the peasants no longer following.

When at some distance from the village he said: "We must turn and make for the Lech again.

It is no farther than it is to Ingolstadt, and we shall find friends there.