 The 3d Algerian Division meanwhile got across the Moder with little enough trouble but then encountered intense house-to-house fighting.Despite good artillery support made possible by the unlimited visibility of a clear day, grazing fire from automatic weapons prevented the Algerians from crossing a stretch of open ground facing the buildings of a former French Army frontier post.A welter of mines and two counterattacks, the latter repulsed in both cases by artillery fire, added to the problems.