[b] Taking into account the spring roadlessness (bezdorizhzhia), flooding of rivers and streams, the considerable distance between military units, as well as diseases and other important reasons, the Cossacks of the Kalnytskyi regiment were unable to arrive at the assembly points on time.

Polish magnate Stefan Czarniecki[c] was considered one of the best generals of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth due to his strategic insight, and he predicted these circumstances in advance.

After merging with the regiments of S. Hurski and S. Machowski in the town of Pavloch (now a village in the Popilninsk district, Zhytomyr Oblast), their number rose to 20,000 men (including servants).

Colonel Ivan Bohun found out about the massive enemy attack through his territory already when the Poles were practically "at the doorstep" of the regimental town of Kalnyk.

With such a small detachment at his disposal, Colonel Ivan Bohun, being one of the best strategists of the Zaporozhian Army, made the only right decision—to block the "Black Road" towards Humansk.

[3][2][1] From inside the fortress it was defended by a hundred Tsybuliv troops from the Uman Sotnia regiment of Khrozdenko and part of Ivan Bohun's cavalry.

This small detachment of Cossacks dressed in coats with wool turned up in the Tatar fashion and made their way to the rear of the Poles, using the 'Galay Dam', which connected the village to the fortress by a deep ravine.

[2][6][1][4] The escape route of the Crown army ran along a road past the Cossack settlement of Letychowka and a dense oak forest.

For six versts (about 7 km) the entire road towards the century-old town of Tsibulow, where the Poles slumbered "all the way to the forest", was littered with the bodies of German mercenaries and Polish honour guards, chopped to stumps.

[4] Samiylo Velikhko reports that the Poles fled in panic towards the town of Tsibuli and puts Polish losses at more than 5,000 dead and their abandoned wagon near Monastrichia.

The remnants of the Polish penal corps reoccupied the "Black Road" and hurriedly marched to Volhynia, to the border of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but this isn't quite true as witnesses reported much smaller losses.

[1][4] Ivan Bohun managed to leave Monastyryshche with part of his army, while the rest stayed to defend the castle.

However, the commander of the Polish troops, Stefan Czarniecki, was wounded during the fighting, which may have determined the final defeat of the Poles in the Battle of Monastyryshche.

However, Joachim Jerlicz His brother Maciej fought at Monasterzysk), Samuel Twardowski and even the Ruthenian chronicler Samiilo Velychko state that Bohun simply fled the town.

[1]Samiilo Velychko about escape: Bohun saw his own danger in this tumultuous chaos and, having left his army in the smoke of gunpowder and the thunder of muskets, got out of Monastyrys and headed for Khmelnytsky.

Bohun's army was in good shape, defended itself bravely with the rest of the officers and killed another thousand and a half soldiers, while Czarniecki himself was left hard done by in these battles.