The invaders fired one round, then turned and fled before a fierce charge.
After this experience the invaders were careful to keep a safe distance from the wall.
In battalions their invaders were not to be beaten, but man to man, or ten to ten, they were their equals.
Sometimes the invaders were driven back, sometimes they eluded the imperial troops and escaped with their booty.
In northern Babylonia the invaders apparently found it necessary to conciliate and secure the continued allegiance of the tillers of the soil.
If any part of the royal forces resolutely withstood the invaders, would not that part soon have on its side the patriotic sympathy of millions?
Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
They were not in hundreds, as the boys imagined, their number apparently not exceeding forty; but it was evident that they were threatening death and destruction to the invaders of their territory.
Suddenly a tremendous uproar filled the streets, yells, the clicking grunts of the Drilgoes, the screams of the panic-stricken populace. The invaders had arrived, and they were sweeping all before them.