We were entirely out of reach of Hermannstadt, and didn't know what was going on.
He hurried at the head of his troops to attack the Turkish leader who was laying siege to Hermannstadt.
His first encounter with them was at Hermannstadt, north of the Danube, which was invested by an army of eighty thousand Ottomans.
On February 4, Bem was defeated on the site of his former victory at Hermannstadt.