This was an exciting battle that came down to the final turn. The North Koreans attacked with one battalion across the hills just northwest of town, and sent a second battalion on a march down the western road to attack from due west across the main plateau. Both forces essentially met on the plateau and attacked the western approaches to the town, with a few companies on the extreme northern and southern flanks clearing out RoK resistance there.

The South Koreans defended the western plateau with multiple lines of casemates and HMG/infantry teams. The initial hours seemed to be going their way as their artillery inflicted multiple step losses and morale degradations on the NK troops. But by mid battle the NK forces had firmed up a solid line west of town, and launched their final drive. Infiltration tactics worked repeatedly to unseat RoK defenders who would become isolated if they didn't fall back. In the final hour of battle, as the North entered the town in a series of final bloody assaults, the RoK troops tried local counterattacks that went badly for them, resulting in them losing control of two town hexes and only able to weakly contest the other two.

North Korean Victory.