"We shall see what they will do now." There was a pause for ten minutes, then a heavy mass of men could be seen approaching.
"Doubtless they will have planks with them, to push across the moat," Philip said.
"We will let them come within twenty yards," Francois replied, "then I think we shall astonish them." Believing that all in the chateau were asleep, and that even the precaution of keeping a watchman on the walls had been neglected, the assailants advanced eagerly.

Suddenly, the silence on the walls was broken by a voice shouting, "Give fire!" And then, from along the whole face of the battlements, deadly fire from arquebuses was poured into them.

A moment later half a dozen fireballs were flung into the column, and a rain of crossbow bolts followed.
Shouts of astonishment, rage, and pain broke from the mass and, breaking up, they recoiled in confusion; while the shouts of the officers, urging them forward, could be heard.

The heavy fire from the walls was, however, too much for men who had expected no resistance, but had moved forward believing that they had but to sack and plunder; and in two or three minutes from the first shot being fired, all who were able to do so had retired; though a number of dark figures, dotting the ground, showed how deadly had been the fire of the besieged.
"They will do nothing more tonight, I fancy," one of the Huguenot gentlemen standing by the two friends remarked.

"They expected to take you entirely by surprise.