Their flank was protected by war wagons loaded with arquebusiers, and many large ponds and marshy areas surrounded the Hussite infantry—ground which the Royalist cavalry could not hope to cross.

Three hundred Knights Hospitaller from Strakonice led by Jindřich of Hradec (killed in battle) attacked war wagons placed on a slim dam, with huge casualties but no success.

After that, another four hundred Royalist cavalrymen, led by Peter von Konopischt of Sternberg (killed in the Battle of Vítkov Hill later that year) rushed a weakly held side of the Hussite formation, but were mired in marshy ground.

Though the Catholic Royalists were not entirely defeated, the fact the Hussites were able to inflict such heavy casualties with so few men, and then escape soundly, proved to be a great victory.

Hussite General, Jan Žižka, through superior knowledge of tactics and terrain, along with the highly effective deployment of wagon fort strategies, won the day.