the majority of the italians were in the fortified camp, eating and drinking, when the three hungarian units sent in ambush, encircled the camp and started to shoot arrows, and caught the italians so off guard, that liutprand writes that many of them still ate in the moment, when the hungarians arrows, or lances pierced the food in their throats. of course, liutprand could be exaggerating when he writes that the italians were killed with the food in their throats, but nevertheless he expresses with this image the total surprise caused by the hungarian attack to the italians. this simultaneous attack on the italians inside and outside of the camp, prevented them from helping each other. the hungarians who attacked the camp, destroyed the defences preventing the italians from barricading themselves in the camp, shot continuously arrows on the italians trapped in it, and probably waited for the main army to finish the italians outside, then they stormed together inside the fortified camp, because the italians, due to their surprise and terror, were in impossibility to organize a defence of it, and started a slaughter. the italians were totally off guard, and was impossible for them to organize a resistance, being caught in this way, so the only option was to flee. but when some of them arrived to the place where their horses were camped, they saw that it was already taken by hungarian warriors, so these italians were massacred by them. probably one of the three hungarian units sent before to encircle the italian camp had the duty to occupy the stables before the battle even started.