On the first day Keserović's Rasina Detachment attacked the Kruševac garrison from the direction of Bagdala and Rasina.[24] The hardest battle was waged on the first day of the attack when the Chetniks of the Rasina Detachment pushed the German garrison from their positions on the town's periphery to its center and blocked them in three buildings in the town center: the Gymnasium, the Hotel Belgrade and the Town Hall.[25]