Although the front of their position had been strengthened by the construction of several redoubts and abbatis, no force appeared to be protecting the right flank of the allied army, leaving the Reichsarmy troops somewhat 'out on a limb'.

This was too tempting a target for the Prince, who planned to pin the Austrians to the south-west with a small detachment while his main army outflanked and defeated the lower quality Reichsarmy.

At dawn on 29 October Prince Henry formed his army on the ground to the west of Lang Hennersdorf, detailing Forcade with the reserve to the north, Kleist to the south to pin Meyer, with Seydlitz and Stutterheim to attack the heights held by the Reichsarmy.

As they advanced, the leading elements of the Prussian army skirmished briefly with the Croats in the woods, but these troops soon withdrew in the face of formed infantry.

Several Prussian cavalry attacks also failed to shift the Austrians, and a regiment had to be borrowed from the left wing in order to stabilise this front.

With the pressure mounting, Stolberg began to move his line to the south in order to bolster the defence of a hillock known as the Trois Croix.