Archduke Peter Ferdinand’s 25th Infantry Division reached the Russian lines hours after it had been expected, and even then parts of it lagged behind. The 4th Deutschmeister Infantry Regiment and Salzburg’s 10th Feldjäger Battalion (assigned in peacetime to the Kaiserjäger Division) arrived first and immediately attacked the town of Czesniki.

By afternoon the Deutschmeister and the Kopal Battalion had secured Czesniki; as in most actions of this campaign, the Austrians achieved their objectives by ignoring their casualties. The Russian XIX Corps had been pushed back a slight distance, but maintained its integrity in the face of the rather weak Austrian attempts to cave in the Russian flank. Without more troops, or better leadership than Peter Ferdinand, the Austrians were unlikely to roll up this Russian flank.