Nothing and nobody is spared. Eventually the front stabilises around the line Bethincourt-Cumi res. The German main attack is now launched from the West at the front line Malancourt-Avocourt. More than 3.000 men are made prisoners of war, among them are a brigadier general and two regimental commanders. It is a massacre under the worst possible weather conditions.
Soldiers loose their boots in the sucking soil.
Guns and mortars sink into the mud up to their axes and cannot be moved. Whole German battalions are slashed, sometimes until the last man, by camouflaged French machine guns. The French artillery firings are just as heavy as the German ones . At the end of the day the battle is stopped for the time being. One soldier was going insane with thirst and drank from a pond covered with a greenish layer near Le Mort-Homme.