The Nāṣirī Generations 262: ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING OF WALKH OF TUKHARISTAN.

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When, in conformity with the command of the Chingiz Khan, Arsalan Khan of Kaialik, the Musalman, with his own troops, and the Juzbi, Tulan, the Mughal, marched to the fortress of Walkh, they sat down before it for a period of eight months; and, as that fortress had no approach [save one] in any direction, they gave orders to the Mughal troops in such wise that, around and in the parts adjacent to that mountain skirt, they kept felling trees and throwing their trunks and branches at the foot of the fortress, and making it appear to the people within the stronghold that they would [really] fill up the darah [defile], whereas it could not be filled up in the space of a hundred years from its profundity; but, as the vengeance of Heaven, and the decree of Fate, had come down [upon the Musalmans], the son of the Ra'is [Chief] of Walkh came into the camp of the Mughals, and he directed and guided them by a path by which a single light-footed person, on foot, alone could proceed. In the ridges of that mountain [on which the fortress stands] are numerous niches of stone, like unto couches; and, for the space of three nights and days, he continued to take the Mughals and conceal them in those niches until a considerable number of men ascended towards the fortress. On the fourth day, at the dawn of morning, the enemy raised a shout, and fell with their swords upon the band which guarded the gateway of the fortress, until they cleared the gateway completely of its defenders. The Mughal army [now] ascended to the place, and martyred the whole of the Musalmans within it, and set their hearts at ease respecting that momentous affair.
They [the Mughal leaders] were directed so that they proceeded from the height of the fortress of Wallch to the foot of the [walls of the] fortress of Fiwar of Kadas, and invested that fortress likewise.
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