But he deviated from the plans too. Instead of holding the line in front of the main attacking force of the Emperor, and backing toward the marshalling area, he chose to evade instead and started a march toward north east. While his move weakened the direct defense of the new center of rally it was quite unexpected for the imperial command. They sent a considerable force onto his chase, in case he breaks into Austrian lands, or threatens logistically important settlements and supply lines. Görgey basically stopped the enemy's advance at the region of the Danube just the same.
His part in the so called Winter Campaign was a mixed bag. While he and his subordinate commanders lost more battles than won, the strategical goal to distract troops, and then joining to the rest of the forming Hungarian force was successful. They achieved some feats, and did surprising moves (like re-digging a route through an unused mine from one side of a hill to the other, and then retreat through the tunnel), and in overall it was an adventure for sure, but while he went on this hike through the Highlands, Kossuth decided whom he appoints as the new commander-in-chief and that person wasn't the obvious choice Görgey, but - as a reaction for the Proclamation of Vác - a Polish revolutionary, General Henryk Dembinski. He had experience in that role but he was a brand new face around here which led to a couple of disagreements with a few key figures - among them Görgey -, and lost his first important battle against Windisch-Grätz (at Kápolna, on 1849 February 26-27, I have my suspicion that his failure was "helped" by those key figures just a little bit, but maybe I'm just too cynical). After the popular demand of the high ranking officers - sometimes called as a mutiny -, he was dismissed, but his "heir" commander-in-chief Görgey was also dismissed by Kossuth a couple of days later. Which was way less harsh treatment than the original plan that Görgey gets a bullet in his head for organizing and leading the mutiny instead of suppressing those who objected Dembinski's nomination as asked by Kossuth earlier. It turned out he just joined but not led and after personal meetings and discussions with Kossuth, their relation normalized and when the next commander-in-chief was resigned citing his illness finally Görgey got the position for good.

In the first map Bernd can find Görgey's and his junior commanders activity in the north western segment, also on the colored map.