Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Biritaniya yanzu ta yi barazanar janye tallafinta idan Frederick bai yi la'akari da ba da izini don tabbatar da zaman lafiya ba. Yayin da sojojin Prussia suka ragu zuwa maza 60,000 kawai kuma tare da Berlin kanta tana gab da shiga cikin kewaye, an yi wa rayuwar Prussia da sarkinta barazana sosai. Sannan a ranar 5 ga Janairu 1762 Sarauniyar Rasha Elizabeth ta mutu. Maigidansa na Prussophile, Peter III, nan da nan ya kawo karshen mamayar Rasha na Gabashin Prussia da Pomerania (duba: Yarjejeniyar Saint Petersburg (1762)) kuma ya yi sulhu tsakanin Frederick da Sweden. Ya kuma sanya rundunar sojojinsa a ƙarƙashin umurnin Frederick. Frederick ya sami damar tattara sojoji mafi girma, na maza 120,000, kuma ya mai da hankali kan Austria. Ya kore su daga yawancin Silesia bayan ya sake kama Schweidnitz
, yayin da ɗan'uwansa Henry ya ci nasara a Saxony a yakin Freiberg (29 ga Oktoba 1762). A lokaci guda, abokansa na Brunswick sun kama garin Göttingen mai mahimmanci kuma sun rikita wannan ta hanyar ɗaukar Cassel.