In 1522, shortly after the Siege of Belgrade (1521), he became the commander of a flotilla, with 500 chaiki. Together with Pál Tomori he defeated the Bosnian pasha Ferhat at Manđelos in Syrmia, on August 12, 1523. Although he already was elderly and sick, he defeated an Ottoman band at Petrovaradin in 1526, then participated in the Battle of Mohács, as well as destroying an Ottoman Army department at Titel after the battle. John Zápolya called him the most revered Serbian person in Hungary.