The battery had been lost, but those who had been driven out rallied and, with the Plothow men, made so furious a rush forward that they hurled the Austrians out again.

It was but for a few minutes, for such masses of the enemy poured up through the mist that there was no withstanding them, and many of the Prussians were taken prisoners.

Their captivity was of short duration, for through the mist Ziethen's horse burst out suddenly into the raging tumult, scattered the Austrians, released the prisoners, and were then off to fall upon fresh enemies, as soon as they discovered their position.
Everywhere isolated combats took place.

Battalion after battalion, and squadron after squadron, as it arrived, flung itself upon the first enemy it came upon in the darkness.

Keith, on reaching the battery, again retook it; but again the Austrian masses obtained possession.
In and around Hochkirch, similar desperate struggles were going on.
None fled but, falling back until meeting another battalion hastening up, reformed and charged again.