Danish engineers soon began digging trenches leading up to the castle in the west and to the eastern and southern gates on the city wall.

But reports from Kristianstad about how Christian V had allowed his soldiers three hours of plunder after the capture of the town by the Danes in August 1676, convinced the local citizenry that their best option was to support the Swedes.

[1] On 3 June, the Danish army moved towards Malmö, which received reinforcements from a contingent from Münster including both cavalry and infantry, along with eight cannons.

Fersen, realizing that Malmö would eventually be besieged, undertook all available precautions, and by the beginning of the siege, he had 2,277 soldiers in the town and castle, of which 1,463 were fit for service.

On 13 June, heavy artillery arrived from Copenhagen, and Fersen quickly disrupted the siege works, sending a squadron of cavalry to harass the Danes, killing many.

Inside the town, von Bibow didn't have enough troops to force his way to the gate and open it, and eventually he and all his men were cut down by Swedish soldiers and civilians.

[5][6] The Danes lost some 4,000 men, along with significant casualties among their officers, Bibow, Busch, Warnstedt, and the Lieutenant Colonel's Plessen and Ellebrecht had all been killed.