The next morning, January 23, they ware again on the march to Dijon.

This time, however, they chose another way to avoid the batteries of Talant and Fontaine, and approached the town from the north instead of from the west.

Following the road and the railway embankment from Langres to Dijon, the German troops pressed forward without halting.

The French outposts and breastworks soon fell before the advancing Germans, and made no stand till they got to the Faubourg St.Nicholas, the northeast suburb of Dijon.

The greater number of the Germans stationed themselves on the embankment, but the walls of the vineyard, plentifully loopholed, pressed them hard with shot.