Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c15.s2.26

v1.c15.s2.26

Attacked vigorously in front and rear and threatened on both flanks, Muin sent 300 of his Mughalia *jizail*-men to support Adina Beg and the same number to Kuramal, while he kept Khwajah Mirza with the remaining 300 by his own side. Adina Beg is accused by some contemporary writers of having treacherously neglected to support Kuramal, so that cohesion among the three divisions of Muin's army was lost.* When Kuramal was hastening to his master's defence, a cannon-ball wounded his elephant. As he was changing it for another he was shot down by a bullet, and his troops dispersed in a panic. Thus Muin's rear was entirely uncovered and the exultant enemy attacked his division (the centre.) Here after a heroic resistance, two of his leading officers were wounded. But mercifully the shades of evening now closed on the field of terror confusion and death, and the remnant of the Indian army was saved. Some Afghans entered the city of Lahor pellmell with the fugitives and started plundering. In the thick darkness of that night, neither the citizens nor the soldiers could see anything distinctly, and so every one in his distraction sought safety by flight.