Detraining at Loknya, a small stop on the Dno Nevel railway line, but still 50 miles from Kholm, the first battalion to arrive, the I/386, was rushed by all available trucks to Kholm along with a convoy carrying food and ammunition. Oberstleutnant Johannes Manitius, the commander of Infantry Regiment 386, joined his unit in Kholm and another battalion from the Regiment managed slipped past advancing units of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, before the Russians threw a solid cordon around the town.