 During the night of 16–17 June, Vlad broke into the Ottoman camp in an attempt to capture or kill the sultan.Either the imprisonment or the death of the sultan would have caused a panic among the Ottomans, which could have enabled Vlad to defeat the Ottoman army.However, the Wallachians "missed the court of the sultan himself" and attacked the tents of the "viziers" Mahmut Pasha and Isaac.