 Although the loss of Niš, Kragujevac, Kruševac, and Kraljevo had cost the Serbians a tremendous quantity of equipment and had made a retreat inevitable, the Serbian army retained its organizational integrity while its rearguards managed to hold off the oncoming forces of the Central powers.The Serbian armies reached Priština and Kosovo ahead of their pursuers.The Serbians had also taken a large number of Austro-Hungarian prisoners with them, and there was also a great many civilian refugees.