The day had well begun for the French: Their successful early morning counterattack at Haut-le-Wastia had endangered the whole German bridgehead on the Meuse. But 5th and 7th Panzer Divisions had been ordered to merge their two separate toeholds on the left bank and expand their control to the west. The German engineers had worked all night and thrown two pontoon bridges across the Meuse: one to the south of Houx and another one at Bouvignes. But neither bridge was strong enough to support heavy panzers, so the main burden of expanding the bridgehead fell to the poor, bloody infantry.

French morale soared in the wake of their successful morning counterattack, and several French units attacked the narrow German bridgehead aggressively. Poor coordination denied success to the French this time, and one battalion of the 39th Infantry Regiment was encircled and crushed after retaking the Surinvaux woods on the heights above the river. Meanwhile, the Gennans sent the 2nd Battalion of their 7th Schutzen Regiment toward Onhaye, a village four kilometers west of Dinant. The battalion met little resistance, so Rommel followed them with his main body. Riding in a tank, Rommel was lightly wounded when his column came under anti-tank fire after pushing too far into an area held by 5th Motorized Dragoon Regiment. But the Germans took Onhaye along with all the other hastily formed French strongpoints in the area. By evening, the German advance was running wildly ahead of schedule and the shattered French XI Corps had to be disbanded.