four o'clock
In vain Mollendorf , an active and enterprising general , had implored him to attempt something , if only to draw off a portion of the Austrian strength from the king . Saldern , another general , had fruitlessly added his voice to that of Mollendorf . A feeling of deep gloom spread through the army , a feeling that the king had been deserted , and must have been crushed ; just as , on the other side , all felt certain that some serious misfortune must have happened to Ziethen . At last , as darkness began to set in , at four o'clock , Ziethen was persuaded to move . He marched towards the left , to the point where he should have attacked in the morning , but which he had passed in his hot pursuit of the small Austrian force ; but first sent Saldern against the village of Siptitz . Burning with their repressed impatience , Saldern 's infantry went at the enemy with a rush , captured the battery there , and drove the Austrians out ; but the latter fired the bridge so that , for the present , farther advance was barred to the Prussians . Fortunately at this moment Mollendorf , more to the west , came upon the road by which Ziethen should have marched .