Sojojin Ottoman sun shiga Transylvania a ranar 9 ga Oktoba, kusa da Kelnek (Câlnic), karkashin jagorancin Ali Koca Bey.'Yan Akıncı sun kai hari a wasu kauyuka, gidaje, da garuruwan kasuwa, inda suka yi garkuwa da wasu 'yan kasar Hungary, Vlachs, da Saxon.A ranar 13 ga Oktoba, Koca Bey ya kafa sansaninsa a filin Breadfield (Kenyérmező), kusa da Zsibót.Koca Bey ya zama tilas a cikin yaƙin neman zaɓe ta hanyar dagewar Basarab cel Tânăr, wani basarake na Wallachia, wanda da kansa ya kawo sojoji 1,000 – 2,000 a dalilin.An fara yakin ne da rana.Stephen V Báthory, Voivode na Transylvania, ya fado daga kan dokinsa kuma Ottoman sun kusa kama shi, amma wani mai martaba mai suna Antal Nagy ya buge kurwar.Bayan sun shiga yaƙi, Ottomans sun kasance cikin haɓaka tun da wuri, amma Kinizsi ya tuhumi Turkawa tare da manyan mayaƙan doki na Hungary da Serbs 900 a ƙarƙashin Jakšić waɗanda suka taimaka wa "sarakunan sarki da yawa".An tilastawa Ali Bey ja da baya.Kinizsi ya koma gefe don murkushe cibiyar ta Turkiyya kuma kafin nan Isa Bey shima ya janye.Turkawa kadan da suka tsira daga kisan kiyashin sun gudu zuwa cikin tsaunuka, inda mutanen yankin suka kashe mafi yawansu.Jarumin yaƙin shine Pál Kinizsi, babban ɗan ƙasar Hungarian kuma mutun mai ƙarfin Herculean a hidimar Matthias Corvinus' Black Army na Hungary.