The 46th Landwehr Division, raised in Krakow from mostly Polish recruits, marched eagerly to its first combat action. Exiting the paths through the Tanew Marsh, they encountered the Russian 18th Infantry Division moving southward from Kraśnik. Falling artillery shells signaled the presence of the enemy, and the Poles moved swiftly to attack them.

Maj. Gen. August Urbanski von Ostrymiecz, commander of the 46th Division’s 91st Landwehr Infantry Brigade, called his introduction to combat a “concert from Hell.” The Poles charged madly into action, but the Russians withdrew in the face of Polish numbers and ferocity. The overstrength 91st Infantry Brigade (with three infantry regiments rather than the usual two) suffered relatively few losses in its first action; that would change on the following day.