 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muzhizha ra1879, aive nhengo yekubatsira yevamiriri veSerbia muInternational Commission yekugadzirisa muganho mushure meHondo dzeSerbia-Turkey. Muna Gumiguru 1879 akagadzwa muSerbian General Staff. Kubva muna 1879 akadzidzisa General Staff paMilitary Academy, uye kubva muna 1882 nhoroondo yehondo uye zano. Akagadzwa kuva mutungamiri we2nd Infantry Regiment muna 1881. Akakwidziridzwa pachinzvimbo chaColonel neGeneral Staff muna 1883. Mune zvematongerwe enyika aiva wevaProservative uye akava gurukota muhurumende dzinoverengeka dzeProservative panguva iyoyo. Akanga ari Gurukota Rekuvaka muKabineti yaMilan Piroćanac kubva musi wa16 Ndira 1883 kusvika musi wa3 Gumiguru 1883. Mushure meizvozvo aive Gurukota reDziviriro muhurumende dzaNikola Hristić naMilutin Garašanin kubva musi wa3 Gumiguru 1883 kusvika 6 Zvita 1885. Pakutanga kweHondo yeSerbo-Bulgarian, kuwedzera pabasa reGurukota rezvekudzivirirwa, akashanda seMukuru weVashandi veSupreme Command. Nemhaka yokuti akanga asina ruzivo rwakakura rwehondo, akaonekwa neuto kuti akanga asingakwanisi kuita zvose zviri zviviri mabasa aMinister of War uye Chief of Staff weSupreme Command. Aivewo mubatsiri wekuremekedza kuna Mambo Milan Obrenović. Pashure pokukundwa paHondo yeSlivnitsa, mambo akaramba mabasa ake seanorwara uye asina kukodzera. Pakukumbira kwake amene, akarega basa musi wa 10 January 1886. 