With 15th Infantry Division shattered, the Austrian Fourth Army shored up its VI Corps with a scratch force cobbled together from three March battalions and the divisional reserves of the 39th Honvéd Infantry Division and K.u.K. 19th Infantry Division. As soon as they came under the orders of VI Corps commander Svetozar Boroevic, he naturally ordered them to attack the Russians at once.

The scratch force fell back with heavy casualties, failing to dent the Russian lines but keeping the enemy occupied and blocking their further advance. This met Fourth Army’s goals for the force, but not those of VI Corps, which continued its relentless attacks regardless of losses. The March battalions, replacements who should have re-filled the ranks of depleted units, were instead mown down before they ever reached their regiments.