Ottoman forces retreated to Kermanshah and Borujerd; the German consul Rohner distributed a significant amount of weapons to the population before fleeing.

On February 4, Colonel Stopchansky with four hundred and two guns began an offensive on Borujerd, but it developed slowly, as the troops had to march through deep snow.

[6] In the Baghdad area, the Sixth Army was formed, the commander of which was appointed on December 6, Field Marshal von der Goltz Pasha.

His main goal was to fight the British Mesopotamian army, but he was also instructed to act against the Russians in the Kermanshah direction and subordinate the troops located there.

The enemy troops included 2,500 Turks, the militia of the Lurs, Bakhtiari, the remnants of the Emir Hikmat's detachment defeated at Rabat-Kerim, and the gendarmes.

[12] As a result of offensive operations, the corps occupied a huge territory 800 miles wide along the front and the same depth in two and a half months.