Hindu Baig marched with all possible expedition till he reached the Ganges and while busily employed in conveying his other troops across that river sent on in advance a Mughal officer with a body of his countrymen.[citation needed] Though the party did not exceed 150 men, they rode forward till they reached the town and such was the superiority which the invaders from the north had acquired over the troops of the country, that the Mughals had no sooner got between the town and the besiegers than they resolutely turned and charged them, though already the alarm had been given and Baban had had time to draw out his force.[citation needed] The attack was so vigorous and probably the panic produced by the expected approach of the rest of the detachment so great that Baban's whole army was routed and dispersed, with several elephants taken and many slaughtered.[citation needed]