The locals of Transylvania start an uprising in 1467, and Corvinus has a difficult time in quelling the riots.

He later discovers that Stephen had supported the rioters, probably in order to find and kill Aron.

The Hungarians recruit an army of forty thousand, many drawn locally from Transylvania.

Many knights and Hungarian aristocrats follow, one of them being Stefan Báthory, who will one day rule Transylvania.

With them, they bring five hundred cannon and other heavy siege equipment.

The Moldavians, being fewer in number and seeing that the Hungarians are determined to wage war, start to evacuate the population close to the Hungarian border and blockade the passages by cutting down trees and placing them on the roads.

The Hungarians depart in the middle of October and reach the realm of Moldavia at the beginning of November, using a passage near Bacău.

On November 19, the Hungarians arrive at the Trotuș River, where they meet some Moldavian resistance.

The town is destroyed and the Hungarians head for Bacău, which they also burn down; they then continue to …