The Germans defended with a mobile force in the center of Board 05 with the intent to delay the Soviet attack until the the 13th Panzer would arrive to hit the commies in the flank. Lokachi would be defended by the landsers of the 298th ID coming in from the west.

The Soviets hit the German line hard and broke through the center and it looked bad for the Germans. But the 13th PD came in early and hit the Russians in the flank. The Soviet tanks tried to prevent this but were slaughtered by the panzers. The Soviets now had a crumbling flank and ran for the swamps to avoid the combined panzer/paazergrenadier assaults but the German firepower was too much. By 1745 hours it was clear the Soviets losses were too high so the Soviets conceded a major victory to the Germans.

This looked to be good see-saw battle until the Russian tanks got destroyed. Then it was a grinding down of the Russians and there was plenty of time to do so.