The Memoirs of Bābur 2.1.5

2.1.5

Mahmiid Khdn Khdn-Jahan, to whom the custody of Lahore had been intrusted, was also pressed into their measures. In a word, it was in the end definitively arranged among them, that Daulat Khdn, and Ghazl Khan should take under their orders all the Begs who had been left in Hindustan, and should, at the same time themselves assume the government of all the adjacent territories; while Dilawar Khan and Haji Khan were to accompany 'Alim Khan, and occupy the whole of the country about Dehli and Agra, and in that neighbourhood. Ismd.'il Jilwanl, and a number of other amirs, waited on 'Alim Khan, and acknowledged him. He now proceeded towards Dehli without delay by forced marches. On reaching Indari, Sulaiman Shaikh-zdda came and likewise joined him. The numbers of the confederate army now amounted to 30,000 or 40,000 men. They laid siege to Dehli, but were unable either to take the place by storm or to reduce it by famine. Sultan Ibrahim, as soon as he heard that they had collected an army, and invaded his dominions, led his troops to oppose them. Having notice of his march as he approached, they raised the siege and advanced to meet him. The confederates concurred in opinion, that if the battle was fought in the daytime, the Afghans, from regard to their reputation with their countrymen, would not flee ; but that if the attack was made by night, the night is dark, and no one seeing another, each chief would shift for himself.