"Now," said Taras, and waved a cloth on high.

Ostap understood this signal and springing quickly from his ambush attacked sharply.

The Lyakhs could not withstand this onslaught; and he drove them back, and chased them straight to the spot where the stakes and fragments of spears were driven into the earth.

The horses began to stumble and fall and the Lyakhs to fly over their heads.
At that moment the Korsuntzi, who had stood till the last by the baggage waggons, perceived that they still had some bullets left, and suddenly fired a volley from their matchlocks.

The Lyakhs became confused, and lost their presence of mind; and the Cossacks took courage.