Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s3.8

v2.c27.s3.8

The fugitive governor of the Panjab arrived in the siege camp on 8th November. Dattāji was utterly bewildered. His work in the Panjab had been undone at one stroke, and his five months' siege of Shukartal had proved barren of any result except a heavy loss of men and money to him. And now, if Abdali occupied Delhi in his rear, with the unsubdued and reinvigorated Najib in his front, his own army would be crushed between the two enemy hosts. And yet he could not show his face at Puna if he retreated from Shukartal without realizing any indemnity. It was Jayapa's position before Nagor once again.