 Meanwhile, the eastern blocking company, led by Captain Robert B. Garrett, advanced from its laager with Lynch and ambushed a PAVN platoon moving to Meloy's front, but for reasons not clear then or later; de Saussure ordered it to turn around and rendezvous with the rest of the Lynch elements well east of the fight.These units would not rejoin the battle until the next morning.Also reinforcing was Company C from Meloy's sister battalion, the 2/27th Infantry.