Surprisingly the Lithuanian Defense Forces put up a good fight on the right flank of their position along the western edge of the woods on map 6 and delayed the Soviet advance for 17 turns before they melted away from the relentless Soviet advance, far more turns than anticipated. The Soviets used their superiority in artillery and air support to suppress the dug in LDF defenders but that took far too much time. Even the 11 rated Kommissar could not keep up with rallying all the disrupted and demoralized Soviet platoons.

Seeing that the Soviet forces were struggling the Lithuanians decided to commit their armor reserve to break up and route the Soviet advance, but the Soviets countered with their armor and a one sided tank battle ensued, sure the Lithuanians took out a couple of steps of Soviet armor but the Soviet tank gunners were more accurate than their Lithuanian counter parts.

The delays cost the Soviets a major victory as they could only gain two of the three victory conditions, the Lithuanians almost got a draw or minor victory but they could not match the superior Soviet firepower, especially the Soviet artillery & air support.