At last the town was in ruins, and was on fire in a
score of places. Its streets and lanes were heaped with dead, and
it was no longer tenable. Munro therefore gave orders that the
houses should everywhere be set on fire, and the troops fall back
to the castle.
Steadily and in good order his commands were carried out, and with
levelled pikes, still facing the enemy, the troops retired into the
castle. The Imperial general, seeing how heavy had been his losses
in carrying the open town, shrank from the prospect of assaulting
a castle defended by such troops, and when night fell he quietly
marched away with the force under his command.
CHAPTER III SIR JOHN HEPBURN
Munro's first care, when he found that the Imperialists had retreated
in the direction of Colberg, was to send out some horsemen to
discover whether the Swedes were in a position to cover that town.
The men returned in two hours with the report that Field Marshal
Horn, with the Swedish troops from Stettin, had joined Kniphausen
and Hepburn, and were guarding the passage between the enemy and
Colberg.
Two days later a message arrived to the effect that Sir Donald
Mackay, who had now been created Lord Reay, had arrived to take
the command of his regiment, and that Nigel Graheme's company was
to march and join him; while Munro with the rest of his command
was to continue to hold the Castle of Schiefelbrune.
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