However, only three troops of the Auckland Mounted Rifle Regiment were in position, the remainder being delayed in the mounted screen, by strong hostile columns of reinforcements advancing from Huj and Nejed.
Det var dog kun tre tropper af Auckland Mounted Rifle Regiment, som var på plads; resten var blevet forsinket i den beredne skærm af kraftige fjendtlige kolonner af forstærkninger, som nærmede sig fra Huj og Nejed.