 Three weeks later a captured VC soldier from the 2nd Battalion, 271st Regiment, revealed that his unit lost 59 soldiers killed and 56 wounded, in battle with Cavazos' battalion.On 8 October, Hay pulled 1/2nd Infantry back to Phuoc Vinh to act as the division's reaction force.Lieutenant Colonel Terry D. Allen—commander of the 2/28th Infantry—was then ordered to depart from Lai Khê with three of his rifle companies (A, B and D) and air-lifted into a site about northwest of Chon Thanh village, and north-west of 1/18th Infantry.