The king sent an army of ten thousand men against the insurgents.

All over Russia there was the choosing of sides, as prince after prince ranged his followers under the banners of one or of the other of the combatants.

At last the two armies met upon the banks of the river Kza.

The Russian annalists say that the sovereign was surrounded with the banners of thirty regiments, accompanied by a military band of one hundred and forty trumpets and drums.
The insurgent princes, either alarmed by the power of the sovereign, or anxious to spare the effusion of blood, proposed terms of accommodation.
"It is too late to talk of peace," said Georges.

"You are now as fishes on the land.