They also discussed the issue of reorganizing the insurgent regiments into a single army that would be effective in guerrilla warfare.

Belash developed the structure of the RIAU, which consisted of four corps (three active and one reserve), each built from a number of divisions, which were in turn divided into regiments, battalions, companies and platoons.

The right column, which was made up of the infantry units of the 2nd corps, advanced 315 versts through Peschanyy Brod [ru], Sofiyevka, Dolinskaya, Kryvyi Rih, Apostolove and Nikopol.

[5] On 11 January 1920, at a meeting of commanders in Huliaipole, it was decided to send the 2nd corps to the Berdyansk and Mariupol districts, where it would then dissolve.

In the Mariupol district in the spring of 1920, Foma Kozhyn's formations of 100 sabers with 30 tachankas and Maskalevsky's 500 cavalry, collected from the remnants of the 2nd corps, were raided.