On the left flank of his First Army, Viktor Dankl still held out hope of crushing the opposing Russian flank and rolling up the enemy’s Fourth Army. His I Corps had inflicted a serious defeat on the Russian XIV Corps just two days previously. With the aid of reinforcements – a March brigade of replacements and a Landsturm brigade of previously-unorganized reservists – Dankl believed that his leftmost division would be up to the task.

The March battalions added little other than numbers to the Austrian assault, which stalled along the river Chodel, at this point little more than a stream. The Russians had recovered quickly from their initial defeats and held their ground, while the Austrians eventually had to retreat back to their start line. Once again, they suffered terrible losses, especially among the raw March battalions – reservists handed rifles and shoved toward the front to die, which they did in droves.