Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ferdinand ya sake fara tattaunawar zaman lafiya a watan Nuwamba, amma matsayinsa ya tsananta lokacin da sojojin Gallas suka lalace; ragowar sun koma Bohemia, inda Torstenson ya warwatsa su a Jankau
a watan Maris na shekara ta 1645. A watan Mayu, sojojin Bavarian karkashin von Mercy sun hallaka wani rukunin Faransa a Herbsthausen, kafin a ci shi da kashe shi a Nördlingen na biyu a watan Agusta. Tare da Ferdinand ba zai iya taimakawa ba, John George na Saxony ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar watanni shida tare da Sweden a watan Satumba, wanda ya biyo bayan yarjejeniyar Eulenberg a watan Maris na 1646 wanda ya yarda ya kasance tsaka tsaki har zuwa karshen yakin.