Vyhovsky meanwhile leaves the command of his…
June 1659 CE
Vyhovsky meanwhile leaves the command of his forces to the brother of Hryhoriy Hulyanytsky, Stepan Hulyanytsky, and at the head of a small Cossack detachment leaves for Konotop.
Vyhovsky's detachment in the early morning of June 27, 1659, attacks Trubetskoy's army near Konotop, and using this sudden and unexpected attack manages to capture a sizable number of the enemy's horses and drive them away and further into the steppe.
The enemy counterattacks, and Vyhovsky retreats across the bridge to the other bank of the Sosnivka river in the direction of his camp.
Having learned of the assault, Trubetskoy dispatches a large detachment of thirty thousand men, led by Prince Semen Pozharsky and Cossacks of the appointed rival hetman Bezpalyi, across the river to pursue Vyhovsky.
Trubetskoy's forces are thus divided between this detachment, those besieging Konotop and the one hundred thousand at his HQ according to the Chronicle of the Eyewitness and Russian historian Solovyov.
The numbers of the Russian army and the Pozharsky detachment are significantly different in historical Russian documents where Trubetskoy's overall army counts about twenty-four thousand six hundred men and the Pozharsky cavalry about five thousand men.
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