It ended with a victory for the French, but the Russians retreated in good order to Smolensk.

Bagration had reinforced Neverovsky's troops with some cavalry and ordered him to cover Krasnoi (Krasny) and especially westwards the direction of Orsha.

[1] Ney drove him out of Krasnoi and captured part of his artillery, the first trophies of the entire campaign.

Neverovsky assembled his 6,000 to 7,000 men into a huge square Ney's cavalry could not break.

The square moved across the field over a palisade fence and Ney's cavalry could not follow.