 42nd "Jaeger" Division seems to have been taken by surprise by their opponents' amphibious capacity and seemed somewhat unnerved by the LVTs emerging from the water so that by daylight on 12 April all three columns had made some headway, linking up in the Menate-Longastrino area.169th Brigade then pushed forward on the road towards Filo and 167th Brigade continued up the Reno, rolling up the German defences as far as the confluence with the Santerno river to link with the Italian Cremona Combat Group which had advanced from the south.Reacting to the Allied attack, von Vietinghof ordered 29th "Panzergrenadier" Division south to reinforce the Argenta gap.