Fabius marched out with his four legions to join the battle. Hannibal is said to have remarked “That cloud on the mountains has broken in storm at last!” when he saw Fabius approaching with his army. The fleeing Romans of Minucius’ army began to form up beside his legions, the Carthaginians between the armies of Fabius and Minucius then gave way, enabling Minucius and his surviving soldiers to fall back and regroup beside the fresh Roman troops. Both armies regrouped and redeployed for battle, but Hannibal did not allow anything more than skirmishing to develop between the armies, and it was also Hannibal who first broke contact and retired to his camp. Fabius promptly followed suit and the battle was over.