Kammala wannan jumla: Janar na Jamus Hermann von Staabs, kwamandan rundunar XXXIX wanda ya dauki alhakin ranar 8 ga Satumba don ayyukan a yankin kudancin Transylvania, ya amsa da sauri ga janyewar Austrian. Baya ga Brigade na 144 na Infantry na Austro-Hungary da Jamusanci na 187th na Jamus na 187th Infantry Division (ƙungiyar Jamusanci ta farko da ta shiga Transylvania), von Staabs kuma ya aika zuwa Puj na 189th Regiment, da bindigogi na 187th Division, da kuma rundunar bindigogi na Bavarian na Alpenkorps (ƙungiyar farko ta Alpenkorps da ta isa Transylvania). Wannan rundunar, wacce Manjo Janar Edwin Sunkel (shugaban rundunar sojan sama ta 187 ta Jamus) ke jagoranta, ta fara ci gaba a ranar 14 ga Satumba. A halin yanzu sojojin Romaniya a yankin sun ragu sosai. A farkon watan Satumba, rukunin Romaniya a yankin sun ƙunshi yawancin rundunar sojojin Janar Culcer ta 1: 2nd, 11th da 12th Divisions. Duk da haka, bayan da Romanian
Bayan shan kashi a Dobruja, an tura rundunar ta 2 da ta 12 zuwa kudu. Canja wurin sassan biyu na Culcer ya fara kafin Satumba 9. A ranar 9 ga watan, Manjo Radu R. Rosetti daga hedkwatar Romania ya shaida wa Janar Andrei Zayonchkovski - kwamandan Rasha a Dobruja - cewa rukunin 2 da na 12 "suna zuwa daga Transylvania". Ragowar Rukunin na 11 a cikin Petrozsény an umurce shi da Janar Ioan Muică. Culcer kuma ya shiga kai tsaye cikin ayyukan gida ta hanyar aika da umarnin I Corps - rukunin rukunin rundunar sojojin 1 na Romanian da ke aiki a Transylvania - zuwa Nagytalmács (Tălmaciu / Talmesch), don jagorantar ayyukan rukuni biyu da ke wurin. Da farko, I Corps ya jagoranci ayyukan a yankin da ke kusa da Petrozsény (Jiu Valley) da kuma yankin da ke kusa da Nagytalmács (Olt Valley). Janar Ioan Popovici, kwamandan rundunar I, ya isa Nagytalmács tare da ma'aikatansa a ranar 16 ga Satumba.