He did not recognize the capitulation and defected with his brother in the spring and formed a resistance group of twenty people, attempting to harass occupational forces.

However, when he reached Kopaonik and learned that the Toplica Uprising was being prepared and, therefore, he headed for Jablanica, where he formed a Jablanics-Toplics Detachment.

[2] At the beginning of October, they arrived in Toplica and there contacted Kosta Pećanac, who had come from the Salonika front a little earlier, sent by the Serbian Supreme Command.

[5] At the conference in Obilić (Pusta Reka), his title of duke was confirmed, as well as the command over the Jablanica detachment [2] He was the only professional soldier with the rank of captain in the uprising.

[2] Toško was killed in a battle with Bulgarian units on 2 November 1917, while Milinko Vlahović and Radović remained in the south of Serbia, mostly in Toplica District, until the end of the war.