It resulted in a Serbian victory after heavy fighting north of the city, the routed Turks fled abandoning their guns.

[6] As an ongoing part of the Balkan Wars, the Ottoman Vardar Army retreated from the defeat at Kumanovo and regrouped around Bitola.

With the conquest of Bitola the Serbs controlled southwestern Macedonia, including the symbolically important town of Ohrid.

At this point some officers wanted the 1st Army to continue its advance down the valley of the Vardar to Thessaloniki.

In addition, with the Bulgarians and Greeks already in Thessaloniki, the appearance of Serbian forces there would only muddle an already complicated situation.