at the beginning of the third day of the battle , the crimean khan killed his horse with a cannonballcided to return to the crimea. khmelnitsky rushed after the khan to convince him to return to the battlefield. the khan not only did not return, but detained khmelnitsky himself. colonel dzhedzhaliy was urgently appointed in khmelnitsky's place, of course, as chief, who had long refused this title and these problems, knowing how much bohdan khmianitsky did not like it when someone took the command in his place. dzhedzhaliy fought off the poles for some time, but seeing his army in extreme difficulty, he decided to enter into negotiations for a truce with the poles. despite the negotiations, part of the polish troops nevertheless moved to ukraine, devastating everything in their path. by that time, at the end of july , khmelnitsky, having spent about a month in captivity, with the tatars, with the crimean khan, returned back to the town of pavolich. colonels began to come to him here with the remnants of their detachments, destroyed. everyone, of course, was despondent. now the people t