Jelacic behaviour also started to change. He made the Sabor permanent on July 9, but he adjourned it's meetings and acted as a dictator charged with full authority (his offices combined with the martial law made this possible for him). His preparations for a war against Hungary went gradually, as the situation in Italy stabilized. The Hungarian government made an agreement with him, that both parties will withdraw their troops from the Drava. Until August he moved couple of battalions here and there. In early August he occupied the two easternmost counties between the Sava and Drava. By the end of the month he started to demand from Hungary that she should give up her independent affairs of military and finance. On September 4 the king reinstituted him into the position of bán. A week later, after the first Hungarian government resigned on September 11, he started out with 50000 soldiers against Hungary, under the black-yellow Imperial flag instead of the Croatian.

Who controlled the bán, controlled Croatia. A bán friendly towards us could have changed the events dramatically, but that did not favor the influential conservatives of the Habsburg imperium (even tho there was a way to preserve that imperium together with the Hungarians, as I previously written in these commemorations). And Jelacic was an effective agent of the Court. And via Jelacic the Croatians were turned against the changes in the Hungarian Kingdom, and they were used as a cudgel - along with the other Slavic nations and the Vlahs - against the revolutionary thought. And in the end, after the danger for the Habsburg absolutism passed, they got the same treatment as us, as I also pointed out on previous occasions