about one o'clock
Both sides wrought hard all day and night , as if the spade , not the sword , had been to decide the controversy , and that he had got the victory whose trenches and batteries were first ready . In the meanwhile the cannon and musket bullets flew like hail , and made the service so hot that both sides had enough to do to make their men stand to their work . The king , in the hottest of it , animated his men by his presence , and Tilly , to give him his due , did the same ; for the execution was so great , and so many officers killed , General Altringer wounded , and two sergeant-majors killed , that at last Tilly himself was obliged to expose himself , and to come up to the very face of our line to encourage his men , and give his necessary orders . And here about one o'clock , much about the time that the king 's brigade and works were finished , and just as they said he had ordered to fall on upon our ravelin with 3000 foot , was the brave old Tilly slain with a musket ball in the thigh . He was carried off to Ingolstadt , and lived some days after , but died of that wound the same day as the king had his horse shot under him at the siege of that town . We made no question of passing the river here , having brought everything so forward , and with such extraordinary success ; but we should have found it a very hot piece of work if Tilly had lived one day more , and , if I may give my opinion of it , having seen Tilly 's battery and breastwork , in the face of which we must have passed the river , I must say that , whenever we had marched , if Tilly had fallen in with his horse and foot , placed in that trench , the whole army would have passed as much danger as in the face of a strong town in the storming a counterscarp . The king himself , when he saw with what judgment Tilly had prepared his works , and what danger he must have run , would often say that day 's success was every way equal to the victory of Leipsic .