They set up their tents near the springs, and
they were still a league away from the city. The ones who
followed behind set up camp at the foot of the mountain where
there were beautiful meadows and a canal. The men here had about
four thousand horses.
When Tirant saw that nearly half the enemy had dismounted, he and
the king attacked their camp and killed so many Moors that the
number of corpses stretched out on the ground were a wonder to
behold. And there would have been even more if night had not
fallen. The Moors up on the mountain heard the cries, but they
did not think the Christians would dare come so close to their
camp.
The morning of the following day, as soon as the sun came out,
King Meneador came down from the mountain, not suspecting that
King Escariano and Tirant would be there. He thought, instead,
that these must be thieving marauders. So he sent a messenger to
them, telling them to convert back to the Mohammedan faith or he
would hang as many of them as he found.
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