Disorder took place amongst this infantry so unexpectedly attacked.

Caesar launched his legions at them, and there was a general panic and rout among the Gauls.

Vercingetorix had great trouble in rallying them, and he rallied them only to order a general retreat, for which they clamored.

Hurriedly striking his camp, he made for Alesia (Semur in Auxois), a neighboring town and the capital of the Mandubians, a peoplet in clientship to the AEduans.

Caesar immediately went in pursuit of the Gauls; killed, he says, three thousand, made important prisoners, and encamped with his legions before Alesia the day but one after Vercingetorix, with his fugitive army, had occupied the place as well as the neighboring hills, and was hard at work intrenching himself, probably without any clear idea as yet of what he should do to continue the struggle.
Caesar at once took a resolution as unexpected as it was discreetly bold.
Here was the whole Gallic insurrection, chieftain and soldiery, united together within or beneath the walls of a town of moderate extent.