 Threatened with encirclement, the KPA's 5th Division and 766th Regiment were ordered into full retreat on August 17.By this time, the 766th had been reduced to 1,500 men, half its original strength.Exhausted and out of supplies, the 766th Regiment moved to Pihak-san, a mountain north of Kigye, to join the shattered KPA's 12th Division.