The cannons were being carried in the gamut, and the ifhota was marching, and outside the camp the cavalry rode in thick ranks, covering it from the enemy's view. Part of the cavalry scattered far in front and on the sides of the camp to protect it from an unexpected attack and to obtain the “tongue”; language was the name given to those of the captured enemies who were tortured in order to gather information about the forces and capabilities of the enemy. When encountering an enemy while moving, the camp did not stop unless absolutely necessary, but fought on the move as best it could until it reached some water: a river, a lake, etc., and then stopped. The bodies turned with their shafts in the middle so that their axes aligned with each other; The hunter was located behind the bodies, with his spears sticking out. The guns were placed in the gates, that is, the spaces between the telfgs, the cavalry spread out on the sides and behind the camp, a small part of it headed towards the enemy and began to challenge those who wanted to “hertz”, or single combat of separate horsemen; Gradually the Hertz moved into larger battles and at the end the real battle began, the cavalry retreated to the camp and, when the enemy stood behind him for a quick rifle shot, spread out to the right and left, opening the army and cannons. At once they fired at the enemy, and the cavalry, standing on the sides of the camp, rushed at the enemy from the sides; sometimes part of the infantry came out of the camp and lifted the enemy onto their spears. If the camp stood for a long time on the mfet, then it also got stronger; a rampart with a moat was built up to the telphs, gates covered with thick logs were extended in the rampart, and towns were sprinkled on the sides, i.e. slides onto which guns were pulled; among the camp, log houses were placed, covered with earth and armed with cannons, to repel the enemy who broke through inside the camp; the field ahead was sometimes littered with broken weapons,
iron thorns, or ditches and holes were dug out on it, then covered with brushwood, turf, grass: all this was done in order to detain the enemy as long as possible under cannon and rifle shots.
The Cossacks set up a camp similar to the one described above Lake Kurakov. Several days passed in fights with the Poles, and finally the Cossacks, greatly embarrassed, agreed to submit. Zhmail was replaced from the hetmanship, but was not extradited to the Poles; Instead they chose Doroshenko. An agreement was concluded with the Cossacks, which stated that all those who took part in the uprising would be exempt from punishment, but in reality this was not fulfilled: those who lived on the crown lands were left alone; Those who fled to Zhmail from the masters' estates fell again into the hands of the masters, who did not want to know any agreement and brutally dealt with the guilty. The number of dissatisfied and embittered people increased every day.
After the Kurakov Treaty, the fn was revised and the register was drawn up again; many of its members were expelled and overshadowed by others; they turned out to be so-called “dischargers”, or discharged, excluded from the register. Considering themselves to be legitimately Cossacks, the infantry commissioners decided to join freemen as fasting royals in their old age, and therefore in 1630 they proclaimed Taras tetman; part of the registry recognized him, and the other chose Gritsko Cherny; the king approved the latter.
Taras ran to Zaporozhye and began to call the Cossacks to the throne, declaring that it was not Gritsko, who stood with the Poles at the same time, who was the hetman, but he, Taras, chosen according to Cossack custom by free votes. People flocked to Zaporozhye in droves. Taras with the Cossacks and those who accosted him appeared in Ukraine, captured Gritsko and executed him. All over Ukraine there was an outbreak zero rose up; The gentlemen, Jews, and zholners, whom Taras demanded to be removed from Ukraine, began to be beaten. Crowds of people, armed with anything and everything, pestered Taras every day.
We see that this uprising, which at first had the character of a domestic feud between two Cossack hetmans, turned into the defeat of everything Polish and gentry in Ukraine.
Near Korsun, Taras clashed with the Polish army; that part of the registered Cossacks, which previously stood for Gritsko Cherny, went over to the side of Taras: the Poles were defeated and fled. The war continued happily for the Cossacks, but Taras himself fell into the hands of the Poles and was executed by them. The Cossacks, deprived of a good leader, could not resist with the same success and made peace with the Poles, but did not acquire any new rights.
In 1632, King Sigismund III, the enemy of Orthodoxy and the Cossacks, died.