Having identified the scratch group on the right flank of the Austrian VI Corps for what it was, the Russian Fifth Army staff immediately planned to take advantage by crushing this side of the central Austrian position and rolling up the opposing Austrian corps. The Russians came on a broad front at dawn, with particular weight given to the attack on the motley assemblage guarding VI Corps’ flank.

The Russians deeply dented the Austro-Hungarian position, but the scratch force did not break. The situation had become serious, but not yet hopeless, when advances by the rest of VI Corps forced the Russians to break off their offensive here lest they become the ones outflanked. The seeming success of the Landsturm here would become one of the General Staff’s arguments for continuing to deploy them in the front lines, ignoring how they had been buttressed by the elite Feldjäger battalions.