 On 5 November the Bulgarian 9th Infantry Division succeeded in reaching and cutting the main road running south through Niš made contact with General Gallwitz’s Eleventh German Army.On 6 November, the Forty-Third Reserve Infantry Division, commanded by Generalmajor Hermann von Runckel, moved quickly to gain control of the area south of Kraljevo which the Serb Government had abandoned two days earlier, this put the Germans in position to gain entrance to the Ibar River valley.Mackensen ordered an all-out pursuit by the Bulgarians southwest toward Priština, however, the Bulgarian First Army was having difficulties in getting all of its units across the West and South Morava Rivers.