A few weeks after the siege, Mustafa Pasha led 15,000 men into Albania, as requested by Skanderbeg's Venetian rivals, only to be heavily defeated with Mustafa being captured.[26] Skanderbeg tried to regain Svetigrad the next year, but he did not have the proper artillery to do so.[2] He surrounded the fortress, but he realized that his position was hopeless and lifted the siege.[3] In early 1450, the Turks would take Berat through a night-time stratagem and later that same year, Murad would besiege Krujë[27]