The Rashīdī History 96.7

96.7

In the early spring of the year 920 all the great Uzbeg Sultans, with a very numerous army of warriors, advanced against Andijan. The Khan, not deeming it wise to offer fight, retired into Moghulistan before the foreign army reached Farghana. When he arrived at Yatikand they held a council of war, and acting on the timely advice and persuasion of my uncle Sayyid Muhammad Mirza (who was brother to Mirza Aba Bakr), they marched towards Kashghar, where a terrible battle was fought, in which the army of that place was routed and obliged to retire within the fort of Kashghar. The Khan then marched on Yangi Hisar, which he besieged for three months. At length the inhabitants entered into a capitulation with my uncle, and delivered up the fort. On this news reaching Kashghar, the army that was in that town abandoned it. When the fugitives joined Mirza Aba Bakr in Yarkand, he too resolved on flight, and took the road to Khotan. The Khan pursued him to Yarkand, and then sent on troops after him, as far as the mountains of Tibet. Much booty in the shape of cloths, goods, cattle and horses fell into the hands of the Moghul army (as is described in the Second Part). The accession of the Khan to the kingdom of Kashghar was in Rajab of the year 920. At the end of that winter Aiman Khwaja Sultan, who was brother to the Khan, by the same father and mother, came from Turfan, as has been stated above.