On September 1, the Brigade was attacked by four German divisions - 2nd Panzer, 4th Light, 3rd Mountain and 7th I.D. In bitter fights around Wegierska Gorka, the Berezwecz Battalion of KOP was destroyed and the following night Colonel Galadyk ordered his men to leave the valley of the Sola river, as the neighboring Polish 21. Mountain Infantry Division had also been destroyed and further defence of the area was impossible. During retreat towards Wadowice, the Brigade fought several skirmishes with the advancing Wehrmacht. It was helped for a while by the 10th Cavalry Brigade under Colonel Stanisław Maczek, its task was to halt the Germans, who wanted to gain control over the Zakopane - Kraków road.
