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Como las fuerzas serbias estaban teniendo que retroceder en Bulgaria, el rey [[Milan Obrenović IV|Milan]] ordenó finalmente una retirada general del ejército hacia Pirot el 19 de noviembre. Tres días después, unidades búlgaras atacaron esta en Neškov. El 12.º Regimiento de Stepanović tuvo que replegarse.{{harvnp|Skoko|Opačić|1990|pp=132-133}}

 

 

 

From 29 March to 15 April 1892, Stepanović wrote and successfully passed an exam for the rank major in the same time as [[Milutin Milanović]] and [[Živojin Mišić]]. Stepanović became commander of the 5th Battalion in [[Požega, Serbia|Požega]] on 13 September 1892. He was promoted to the rank of major on 8 May of the following year. On 14 August, he was moved to Valjevo to once again serve as the executive of the Drina divisional area. He stayed in Valjevo until 20 October 1895, when he was moved to Belgrade.{{harvnp|Skoko|Opačić|1990|pp=149–151}} Stepanović stayed in Belgrade for five months, where he was commander of the 7th Battalion. He also became a part-time professor of military history at the Belgrade Military Academy. On 30 March 1897, he became acting commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment in Belgrade. On 11 May, he was promoted to the rank of colonel and two days later he became commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment. Stepanović became Chief of the General Staff in the Ministry of Defense on 27 October 1898.{{harvnp|Skoko|Opačić|1990|pp=156–160}} He served in this position until 15 March 1899, when he became an executive of the general military department of the Ministry of Defense. Although he didn't like to work indoors, he made an excellent impression on members of the ministry and was remembered as being very strict and punctual. He was transferred again to Valjevo on 17 October 1900, where he became commander of an infantry brigade in the Drina Division. Because of a misunderstanding on 11 November, he was transferred to [[Zaječar]] and assigned as commander of an infantry brigade in the Timok Division. He liked this position and said: ″Troop for an officer is the same as water to a fish, and especially a headquarters officer. There he can show what he knows and he can show results. The office kills the spirit, drains the strength and changes man into mechanism.″{{harvnp|Skoko|Opačić|1990|pp=165–166}}