In First Army’s center, V Corps did the bulk of the fighting, as the Russian XVI Corps pressed forward alongside the Grenadiers in an effort to turn the Austro-Hungarian right flank. While the two regular divisions of V Corps pivoted right to strike the Russian corps in the flank, they depended on the Slovak regulars of 37th Honvéd Infantry Division to hold their ground and pin the enemy in place.

The Russians brought a large-scale set-piece attack that threatened to unhinge the right flank of the Austro-Hungarian V Corps. The Russian XVI Corps appears to have had no greater plan than to plunge straight ahead, however, and did not probe for the Austrian flank. The Honvéds held their ground, and for once an Austro-Hungarian division restrained itself from incurring excess casualties by way of ill-considered frontal assaults.