A shekara ta 1568 Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmet Paşa, wanda shi ne ainihin mai iko a mulkin Daular Usmaniyya a karkashin Selim II, ya fara haduwa ta farko tsakanin Daular Usmaniyya da babbar abokiyar hamayyarta Rasha a nan gaba.Sakamako ya yi hasashen bala'o'i da yawa masu zuwa.An yi cikakken bayani game da shirin haɗin kan Volga da Don ta hanyar ruwa a cikin Constantinople.A lokacin rani na shekara ta 1569 don mayar da martani ga tsoma bakin Moscovy a harkokin kasuwanci da ibada na Ottoman, daular Usmaniyya ta aika da dakaru mai yawa karkashin Kasim Paşa na Turkawa 20,000 da Tatar 50,000 domin su yi wa Astrakhan kawanya.A halin da ake ciki kuma sojojin Ottoman sun kewaye Azov.Duk da haka, wani rukunin sojojin da ke ƙarƙashin Knyaz (yarima) Serebrianyi-Obolenskiy, gwamnan soja na Astrakhan, ya kori maharan.Sojojin Rasha 30,000 na agaji sun kai hari tare da warwatsa ma'aikatan da sojojin Tatar da aka aika don kare su.A hanyarsu ta komawa gida kusan kashi 70% na sauran sojoji da ma'aikata sun daskare har suka mutu a cikin tudu ko kuma sun zama wadanda hare-haren Circassians ke kaiwa.Guguwa ta lalata rundunar Ottoman.Daular Ottoman, duk da cewa ta yi nasara a kan soji, ta samu amintacciyar hanya ga mahajjata musulmi da 'yan kasuwa daga tsakiyar Asiya da kuma lalata katangar Rasha a kan kogin Terek.