On 27 January the Greek III/4 Battalion under Major Ioannis Baldoumis captured Height 1923 and set up defensive positions in deep snow, while the I/5 Battalion under the command of Major Antonios Goulas captured Height 1620.

Due to heavy snow and blizzards the Greeks were soon forced to abandon Trebeshina, which was subsequently occupied by two Italian Blackshirt battalions.

On 14 February 1941 the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division, under Colonel Ioannis Theodorou, repelled an Italian attack on the Skutara line near Height 504.

The attack aimed to dislodge the Greek defensive line in the coastal sector, near the Albanian port city of Vlorë.

By 17 February, the Greeks had captured the mountain ranges, but it was a costly victory, particularly for the Cretan Division, which suffered 5,776 killed, wounded, or missing and had ceased to exist as a combat-worthy formation.