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Seeing the day going against them, the Hungarians bolted for their camp.

Fleeing across the river, many were caught in the shallow river bed ( made up of banks of pebbles ) and killed as they urged their tired horses up the steep and slippery west bank of the Lech.

After the Germans stormed and plundered the Hungarian camp, the raiders set out for Hungary.

They had to swing a long detour south and east, during which a number of the smaller war parties were overtaken and slaughtered by the enraged local people.