Vienna’s 25th Infantry Division had some of the Dual Monarchy’s best troops and its youngest and possibly its least effective division commander, the 40-year-old Archduke Peter Ferdinand. Ordered to attack, the archduke sent his battalions promptly into action, where they ran into a division of Russian grenadiers in the forests south-east of Zamosc. Once again, the 4th "Deutschmeister" Infantry Regiment spearheaded the Austrian attack.

Despite the Deutschmeister’s losses (including their commander) several days earlier in a senseless bayonet charge, they entered the woods with just as much enthusiasm alongside several battalions of Feldjäger, all part of Maj. Gen. Ferdinand Kosak’s 50th Infantry Brigade. Taking enormous losses, they ejected the Grenadiers from the woods and beyond, driving them back to Zamosc with battle-mad fury that shocked even their generals.