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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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and their followers, next day made their appearance at Farrásh. They were P.
welcomed and robed, and assigned a place in the fort as troops in the service of the
Khoja Buzurg Khán, before whom Kichik was sent to pay his respects as to an eldest
brother.
As before mentioned, Hamráh Khán had summoned an army from Badakhshán,
which shortly after arrival at Sárigh Kúl heard of his death at the assault of Yángí
Hissár. The chiefs on this consulted whether they should return empty-handed to
meet the jeers of their countrymen and taunts of their wives, or advance and seek
a share in the profits of war; and they decided on first offering their services to Yákúb
Beg. He accepted their offer, only too glad to draw any men to his ranks, for, owing
to the divided state of parties in the country, the single district of Káshghar offered
but a limited field for recruiting, and sent Masúm Khán Tora to Sárigh Kúl to
reassure the Badakhshí leaders and to bring the whole force to him at Farrásh by way
of Yángí Hissár. On arrival they were feasted and robed, and quartered with the
Kirghiz and Kapchák, 2,000 men altogether, who with one accord acknowledged Yákúb
Beg as their leader and ruler; the first sign of the independence Yákúb Beg presently
asserted, and soon after made good.
From Farrásh these new troops were shortly removed to assist in the siege of
the Káshghar Yángíshahr. A few days later, about the end of July 1865, news
came from Khánaric that the troops of Kúchá, Aksú, and Uch Turán, having met
at Marálbáshí, had moved on to Taghárchí, and there, in conference with the Tungání
and Yárkand chiefs, had agreed to attack and destroy the Khokand invaders, to seize
Káshghar and make it the capital, and then to annex Andiján. Jamáluddín Khoja
of Aksú had been elected Amíríláshkar, and being joined by the Tungání from
Yárkand with 100 tyfú and four large cannon had marched to Mughal Tárim
and there mustered his force, 40,000 men including 1,500 Tungání. From this he
had marched, with the Tungání in advance, and camped in the settlement of Khánaric;
from which he threatened Yángí Hissár.
On learning this intelligence, Yákúb Beg appointed Kichik Khán Tora to continue
the siege of Yángíshahr, and bringing Buzurg out of the city, where he was besotting
himself with drugs and debauchery of the vilest, took him with a force of only
2,400 men to confront the enemy and divert attention from Yángí Hissár, and
camped at two farsakh from the Kúchá army to conceal his strength. That night they
offered prayers and sacrifices for victory, and next morning disposed their force
in three divisions—Buzurg with 1,200 Badakhshí and Kirghiz in the centre,
Yákúb Beg with 1,000 Kapchák and Andijání on the right, and Abdulla and
Ghazi Beg Pánsad with only 200 Andijání and Kapchák on the left. They all
now performed prayers, and then confessing and repenting their sins formally
pardoned each the other's faults and offences, and then imploring victory from God
mounted and went against the enemy's host.
The Kúchá army was in readiness, and the battle closed on all sides at once.
Yákúb Beg was soon hard-pressed, and, wounded in two places by gun-shot, was
obliged to retire a little. His Kirghiz and Kapchák, seeing this, turned and fled the
field to take up a safe position four miles off. The Badakhshí now came in for the
brunt of the enemy's attack, and losing a few men quickly followed with Buzurg
at their head to join the other fugitives. At this critical juncture the Kúchá troops,
oppressed by heat and thirst, slackened the attack to slake their parched throats at
an intervening canal. Yákúb Beg seized the opportunity, whilst denouncing the
cowardice of Buzurg, to rally some of his special adherents, and "applying to his
wounds the ointment of the empire he aimed at," banished hesitation and cheered
them to a renewal of the contest. "Victory is the gift of God," he said, "and
depends not on mere numbers and arms. This is the moment for exertion. The
least hesitation now, and all is lost." With these words he lead them afresh to the
attack, and driving the enemy from the canal, slew some hundreds as they lay on its
banks exhausted by the heat and fatigue.
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