[1] The column of the Hanoverian Lieutenant Colonel Plate arrived at Bilskov Kro north of Sankelmark lake, where it learned that a squadron of 5th Danish Dragoons was still south, and that it was therefore possible to cut them off.

Before all the wounded prisoners could be removed, two companies of the 2nd Jager Corps appeared and drove the Hussars back west of Bilskov.

Although the bulk of the central Federal column had been slow to advance, its front unit (a squadron of the Mecklenburg Hussars) had reached within striking distance of the Danes and immediately went on the offensive.

The attack was unsuccessful and cost the Hussars six wounded, but it forced the Danes to stop the retreat and seek refuge in the swampy terrain.

The jagers, however, fought valiantly on until about noon 16 p.m, but with a dwindling stockpile of ammunition and a rapidly increasing darkness, they ultimately had to give up the unequal fight and surrender.