well supplied and where he could make easier contact with Mörner's and Stenbock's troops. The latter arrived at Lublin on June 26, after which they crossed the Weichsel at Kazimierz Dolny on June 29. At Wierzbica, on 5 July, Mörner and Stenbock had an unexpected meeting with Charles XII, who from Kielce made a ride in just two days to give them oral instructions on the direction of march to his camp. The king then returned to his troops on 6 July, and ordered them to withdraw to the south. Augustus II received intelligence of Charles XII's approach and was urged by Lieutenant General Jacob Heinrich von Flemming to march north with a large army and defeat Charles XII before he could unite with Gyllenstierna's troops. On the news of Gyllenstierna's decampment from Stettin, Augustus II marched out of Kraków on July 2 with a Saxon army of 15,000 men. On July 6, he encamped at the village of Kliszów, about south of Kielce. Later on July 8, he received word that the Crown Army under Hetman Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski was on the marsch and was only from Kliszów. Prelude On July 7, Charles XII and the main Swedish army arrived at the village of Obice, north of Kliszów. Earlier on July 2, the king had detached colonel Johan August Meijerfeldt, who with 600 cavalry was to reconnoitre the Saxon positions at the town of Pińczów, south of Kliszów. On the way there, Meijerfeldt was ambushed by a cavalry force of 200 Cossacks and Wallachians in a forest near Obice. 30 Swedish dragoons under Captain Tomas Funck repulsed their attack, with the latter retreating with heavy casualties. Meijerfeldt returned to Charles XII on 5 July and made a report on the incident. The king contemplated on launching a surprise attack against Augustus II on the morning of July 8. But on the advice of lieutenant general Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, he decided to wait another day for Mörner's and Stenbock's troops to arrive at his camp. On the morning of July 8, ryttmästare Carl Gustaf Örnestedt's outposts near the army's field camp at Obice were attacked by 200 Saxon soldiers and about a hundred Wallachians under Major General von Brause, who was ordered by Augustus II to gather intelligence about the Swedes' location. Örnestedt managed to repel the attack and the Saxons' losses amounted to about twenty killed or wounded and