The heads of the four columns, the artillery, and Ziethen's cavalry appeared simultaneously, marching swiftly and making no pause.
Being a good general, he lost not a moment in endeavouring to meet the storm.

His left was thrown back a little, a battery of fourteen guns at the angle so formed opened fire, and he launched his cavalry against that of Ziethen.

For the moment Ziethen's men were pushed back, but the fire from an infantry battalion, close by, checked the Austrian horse.

They fell back out of range, and Ziethen, making a counter charge, drove them away.
In the meantime the Prussian infantry, as they advanced, poured a storm of fire upon the Austrian line, aided by a battery of ten heavy guns that Prince Maurice, who commanded here, had planted on a rise.

A clump of fir trees, held by Croats in advance of the Austrian line, was speedily cleared; and then the Prussians broke down the abattis that protected the enemy's front, charged furiously against the infantry, and drove these before them, capturing Nadasti's battery.
In ten minutes after the beginning of the fight, the position of the Austrian left was already desperate.