The war ended with a Polish victory after the Battle of Obertyn in 1531 and the signing of a peace treaty in which Pokuttia remained part of Poland.

However, Moldavian Hospodar Petru Rareș did not give up, invading Podolia in 1538 defeating a small Polish detachment at Seret, but he was unable to achieve greater success and withdrew to Moldavia which ended the war.

However, seven years later, this borderland returned to Poland, following the signing of a peace treaty between King Sigismund I the Old and the hospodar Bogdan III the One-Eyed.

[3][4] Under its terms, Moldova gained independence from Poland, but weakened by ravaging wars, it had to recognize Ottoman sovereignty and pay tribute to the sultan.

One of the imperatives of the Polish national interest was not to allow Habsburgs to merge with Muscovites, and now there was an additional problem in the form of a new southern member of the anti-Jagiellonian coalition.

[4] Rares hoped that fear of Ottomans would guarantee his passivity in the face of his annexation of Pokuttia, and in the summer of 1530 he requested the return of these lands, arguing that they were part of Moldavia.

under the command of the Chernivtsi Barnowski and Chocim Vlad perkulabs, with the intention of destroying the Polish troops located in Pokuttia and also capturing Gwoździec.

On August 3, 1531, during Tarnowski's retaliatory expedition, Gwoździec was attempted to be captured by Maciej Włodek from the march; forewarned by gunfire, the assault by Winged Hussars was repulsed.

The Moldavians, in an attempt to surprise the Gwoździec garrison, immediately headed for the village, wasting no time in capturing the castles they passed along the way.

[11] Jan Amor Tarnowski, staying with the army in Bolszow, learned of the siege of Gwoździec on August 16 and, without waiting for artillery, immediately ordered a march out.

Tarnowski chose the safer western road, which bypassed Gwoździec from the north and provided an opportunity to spring back and develop the formation on the flatland in the event of an enemy attack.

The first to appear was field guard Mikolaj Sieniawski leading 330 horsemen, he struck at the Moldavians and pushed them slightly towards the besieged castle, the attack was also renewed by Swiecicki.

[14] The Moldavians, seeing the changing situation on the battlefield, began to stir and retreat, at the same time Wlodek's flagship made an advance from the castle to the enemy's rear.

[15] The news that Petru Rareș's army was advancing behind him reached the Hetman on August 21, just as he finished writing a letter to the king, in which he reported the recent victory.

[16] Tarnowski took the envelope from the messenger Zbigniew Sienieński with the words: "I don't want you to leave already, because I hope in God that we will beat this crowd of enemies as well, and then you will hang doubly auspicious news."

[4] The enemy appeared around 9 a.m. on August 22, 1531, letting Obertyn go up in smoke and slowly developing a semicircle encircling the Polish army from southwest to northeast.

In an impassioned speech to those gathered, he encouraged them to fight and convinced them of the possibility of victory, and concluded by saying: "Here I will beat the enemy or die bravely.

[4] During the bombardment, Rares ordered the encirclement of the stockade from the side of the forest, fearing that the Poles would flee through the wilderness under cover of darkness and take away his victory.

In this situation, the hetman ordered Andrzej Trojanowski, Stanislaw Balicki and Janusz Swiecicki, the commanders of the general's huff, to strike at the Moldavians through the rear gate.

[4] Poorly armed and devoid of armor, the horsemen of the hospodar had no chance against the trained army, which inflicted more and more losses on them, but nevertheless new troops kept arriving in place of those killed.

[4] First, Nikolai Iskrzycki's rifle division fell out, which, after showering the enemy with arrows, scattered to the flanks, giving space for the spearmen and hussars to attack, at the same time the artillery in the wagon began firing.

[4] Rotmistrz Aleksander Sieniawski seized almost all of the enemy's artillery, which the Moldavian cavalry wanted to take back after a while, but this was prevented by an infantry unit sent by the hetman.

After the battle, the hetman sang a thanksgiving "Te Deum" with the army, and then spoke to his comrades, thanking them on behalf of the king for their sacrifice.

Two days after the battle, on August 24, Tarnowski rolled up camp and headed for Poland, leaving a corps of only three hundred cavalry and few infantry in Pokuttia.

He explained to the Hetman that Pokuttia was Moldavian property, and Petru Rares had only claimed his own and occupied it, but when the Sultan ordered him to withdraw, he did so, but left a few garrisons to guard the inhabitants from bandits before the Polish forces arrived.

However, in order to permanently secure the southern flank of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1533, King Sigismund I decided to make peace with Sultan Suleiman I.

[1] The failure to capitalize politically and militarily on the victory at the Battle of Obertyn (August 22, 1531) caused the struggle for Pokuttia with Petru Rareş to continue for almost seven more years.

In January 1537, during the Sejm of Kraków, the number of potentate defenses was increased, on February 19 war was declared against Rareş by convening a mass movement for July 2.

At the Moldavian border operated a 2,000-strong cavalry corps of common defense under the command of Mikolaj Sieniawski and the castellan of Połaniec, Andrzej Tęczyński.

Petru Rareș defeated a small Polish detachment at Seret, but he was unable to achieve greater success and withdrew to Moldavia which ended the war.