At the hinge between the battered VI Corps in the Austrian center and II Corps making a sweeping out-flanking move, the Austrian IX Corps had orders from Auffenberg to “advance boldly” into the space between them. Even as Archduke Peter and II Corps dithered, the two divisions of IX Corps attacked into the gap, where the Russian XIX Corps had been left alone for the previous day to dig in and prepare its defenses.

Already FML Johann von Friedel’s Landwehr division began to show signs of wavering, and while his Czech-Sudeten regiments made some progress they could not hold their gains in the face of heavy Russian fire. By nightfall the 26th Landwehr Infantry Division had fallen back to its start lines, leaving heavy casualties behind.