History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c8.76

v1.c8.76

The Bukhara king could no longer pay and keep his vast host together. The hope of an easy plunder of the Imperialists had brought his men together. That design having failed they were eager to return home. The Turkomans in particular sold their horses to the Imperial army and decamped across the Oxus.†