The Chetnik band heading for Poreče, numbering 27 men, descended at dawn on 27 March (O.S.

[4] The band included, among others, sergeant Veselin Veselinović, lieutenant Dragomir Protić (Kovačević's deputy), sublieutenant Dragomir Vasiljević, Stojan Koruba, and Stojan Ristić-Giljanče.

[9] The askeri surrounded Veselinović's house, and the reformed Ottoman officer Turić informed the besieged that they had been abandoned by their comrades, who had fled before the army, and that he guaranteed them their lives if they surrendered; as resistance in these circumstances would be futile, so they surrendered.

[13] The Ottomans had c. 60 dead and wounded, while the Chetniks had 11 dead (Dragomir Protić, Dragomir Vasiljević, Veselin Veselinković, Sava Jovanović, Trajko Đorđević, Radoš Radulović, Sava Stevanović, David Bošnjanin, Trajče Kumanovac, Stojan Kumanovac and Nikola Jablaničanin) and two lightly wounded.

After the fights in Tabanovce, Savatije Milošević, Lazar Kujundžić and Aksentije Bacetović–Baceta left their offices as organizers of the action, wanting to feel the Chetnik lifestyle "from within" as voivodes.