The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c21.34

v3.c21.34

These two officers, after enduring a short siege, discovered that the fidelity of the citizens, which had been sorely tried by constant attacks against which the royal garrison could ill protect them, was uncertain, and fled from the city with their troops. During their flight they suffered heavy losses at the hands of a force dispatched in pursuit of them by Shaikh ‘Alī, who plundered Lahore, placed a garrison of 10,000 horse in the city, marched to Dīpālpūr, where Yūsuf had taken refuge, and besieged that town. ‘Imād-ul-Mulk, who was still besieging Bhātinda, sent his brother, Malik Ahmad, to the relief of Yūsuf, and Shaikh ‘Alī raised the siege of Dīpālpūr, but occupied all the towns lying between that place and Lahore.