Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 19.3.2

19.3.2

By this time Qhadum-hassen-qhan had approached the enemy, but as fear and despondency seemed to have seized him, as well as his antagonist, he thought proper to stop short, and to write pressing letters to the Navvab for his hastening his promised assistance. Luckily for him that the Pùraniah troops no sooner heard of the enemy's approach, than they were seized with a panic, and they disappeared by small parties; each man, as his fear prompted him, quitting the camp in the night, and making the best of his way to his home. The desertion became so general, that the numbers in camp became thinner and thinner, to the great disappointment of Hazyr-aaly-qhan, who was still more intimidated by hearing that the Navvab had sent repeated orders to Mir-cazem-qhan to hasten his march. These orders, however, did not please Qhadum-hassen-qhan; but as he was a shrewd man, and fully informed how matters went in the enemy's camp, he thought it expedient to hasten to an engagement, for fear of being obliged to share the honour of the success with another in a victory which he thought could not escape him. Full of these ideas, he assembled the few troops he had with him, and before Mir-cazem-qhan could come up, he marched directly against the enemy's camp. Hazyr-aaly-qhan, on the other hand, ranged his troops upon the intrenchment, and with his Minister, Atchul-sing, he made his appearance at their head.