"Béatrice" comprised three separate strong points forming a triangle with the point facing north. In the southeast, strong point "Beatrice"-3, its defenses smashed by 75mm mountain guns firing at point-blank range, was quickly overrun by the 209th Regiment's 130th Battalion. In the north, most of "Beatrice"-1 was swiftly conquered by the 141st Regiment's 428th Battalion, but the defenders held out in corner of the position for a time because the attackers thought they had captured the entire strong point when they encountered an internal barbed wire barrier in the dark. In the southwest, the assault on "Beatrice"-2 by the 141st Regiment's 11th Battalion did not fare well because its assault trenches were too shallow and portions of them had been flattened by French artillery. Its efforts to breach "Beatrice"-2's barbed wire were stalled for hours by flanking fire from "Beatrice"-1 and several previously-undetected bunkers on "Beatrice"-2 that had been spared by the bombardment. The holdouts on "Beatrice"-1 were eliminated by 22:30, and the 141st Regiment's 11th and 16th Battalions finally broke into "Beatrice"-2 an hour later, though the strong point was not entirely taken until after 01:00 on 14 March. Roughly 350 French legionnaires were killed, wounded, or captured. About 100 managed to escape and rejoin the French lines. The French estimated that Viet Minh losses totalled 600 dead and 1,200 wounded. The victory at "Beatrice" "galvanized the morale" of the Viet Minh troops. On the following morning, a truce of a few hours was agreed and the French were authorized to come to the captured position and evacuate their wounded and dead.