At 1:00 PM Ramming decided to untangle by escaping forward and he committed his final brigade - Waldstätten's - to clear the woods around Kleny, pivot on Rosenzweig's left and take the town, and then turn Steinmetz's flank in order to push the Prussians back in to the pass. Using their numerically superior 42 gun artillery strength - the bulk of the Austrian guns were still struck in traffic - to pummel Waldstätten, a Prussian regiment attacked Rosenzweig in Václavice and a fresh regiment flanked Waldstätten's columns. At 2:00 PM, having spent all his reserve, Ramming commanded a retreat to Česká Skalice (Skalitz), where he united with his artillery batteries to form an 80 gun grand battery and took up position behind a railway embankment.