[2][3] Instead, on the following day, only Berendt Gröön's cavalry and Reinhold Johan von Hage's dragoons were sent to Taipale.

The choice of location is unclear from the primary sources, although it was the nearest place where Russian troops were known to be present.

Gröön and Hage attacked the city during the early hours of 18 June, when most of the defenders were asleep.

However, the subsequent noise woke them up and they fired at the Finns from behind the toll fence and fortified themselves in the houses inside the city.

Some were killed, others died in the fires, and some, including the Mayor of Taipale, Vasili Lobanov, who escaped from a fenced house by the edge of the water, reached boats that managed to take them to Lake Ladoga and eventually to the safety of the troops in Shlisselburg.