Editing With Fire and Sword (section)

===Chapters IX–XV===
[[File:Anonymous Bohdan Khmelnytsky.jpg|thumb|right|260px|Portrait of [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky|Bohdan Chmielnicki]] (c. 1650) in the District Museum in [[Tarnów]].]] 
The messages to the friends in the court are discovered and two, Barabasz (Barabash) and Tatarczuk (Tatarchuk), are murdered by the Brotherhood of Cossacks. Tuhaj-bej (Tugay Bey), the Tartar leader, is given Jan as a ransom captive and news arrives that the Great [[Hetman]], [[Mikołaj Potocki]], has sent his son [[Stefan Potocki (1624–1648)|Stefan]] (Stephen) with his army against the Brotherhood, so Chmielnicki is chosen as their leader. The [[Zaporozhian Cossacks|Zaporojians]] and Tartars march out of the Sitch to meet the Poles marching from Czyhryn. Chmielnicki avoids besieging [[Kodak Fortress|Kudak]]. Krzeszowski, a Cossack, is sent to support Potocki but is won over by talks with Chmielnicki and massacres the German mercenaries who refuse to support his betrayal. At [[Battle of Żółte Wody|Żółte Wody]] (Zhovti Vody) the [[Polish hussars]] become bogged down in the soft mud and cannot attack on the second day of the battle, so Chmielnicki wins it and another at Kruta Bałka.