Bayan shan kaye Isaac II Angelos ya kulla kawance da Sarkin Hungarian Bela III kan abokan gaba.Dole ne Byzantium ya kai hari daga kudanci kuma Hungary ita ce ta mamaye yankunan arewa maso yammacin Bulgaria kuma ta dauki Belgrade, Branichevo da Vidin amma shirin ya ci tura.A cikin Maris 1195 Isaac II ya gudanar da shirya yakin da Bulgaria amma ɗan'uwansa Alexios III Angelos ya kore shi kuma wannan yakin ya ci nasara.A cikin wannan shekarar, sojojin Bulgaria sun ci gaba da zurfi zuwa kudu maso yamma kuma sun isa kusa da Serres suna ɗaukar kagara masu yawa a kan hanya.A lokacin hunturu, 'yan Bulgaria sun koma arewa amma a cikin shekara ta gaba sun sake bayyana kuma sun yi nasara akan sojojin Rumawa a karkashin mai mulkin Sebastokrator Isaac kusa da garin.Ana cikin wannan yakin an kewaye sojojin dawakan Rumawa, inda aka yi ta fama da munanan raunuka, aka kuma kame kwamandansu.