With the Russians seemingly close to defeat, the battered Austrian VI Corps rose from its hastily-dug fighting positions and shelters to assault them once again. Once they abandoned their own hopeless offensive, the Russians steadily dug in their infantry and cleared fields of fire for their pre-sighted field guns. The Austrian leadership knew that their infantry would advance into a well-prepared killing zone; they sent them forward anyway.

The Austrian division undertook the assault on its own initiative, and it failed miserably under what in August 1914 was considered heavy pre-registered Russian artillery fire. The Austrians returned to their start line, where in the afternoon the survivors in their turn shattered an attack by the Russian 81st Reserve Infantry Division.