the hungarians retreat also served as was part of their psychological warfare, which had the goal to induce self-confidence in berengar and the belief that he already won the war against them, with this lulling his vigilance. to augment this they sent envoys to berengar, which promised that they will renounce to all of their plunders, and asked only their safe return to their homeland, but the over confident berengar and his commanders refused this, believing that it will be an easy task to make them all prisoners. although the chronicler liutprand believes that the hungarians were frightened, hopeless, and just wanted to escape alive, but the modern historians realized that this was only a clever role playing in order to induce the italians in the mood, which eased their future defeat. the role playing of the hungarian army was almost exposed when the italian vanguard reached the hungarian rearguard at the "wide fields" of verona and forced it to fight, and the magyars were forced to defeat the italians, in order to escape, although probably it was not among the commanders' plans to expose their strength before the final battle. but when berengar's main forces arrived, the hungarian rearguard ran away, continuing its retreat. but berengar did not took this sign too serious, and continued to chase the fleeing hungarians.