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Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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P. Tungáni amnestied after the Khánaric fight; having first got the blessing of the
Shekhulistam Eshán Mahmúd Khán. Yákúb Beg had early made a special friend of
this most important Church dignitary, who was one of the original party coming over
from Khokand.
When Yákúb Beg with the force going against Yárkand arrived at Yángi
Hissár, he discovered reasons to doubt the fidelity of the Tungáni contingent. He,
consequently, at once disarmed them of four cannon, 100 tyfú, 200 spears, and 400
swords, which they had brought with them to the Khánaric fight, and stored them
all in the fort there, and then, taking them along with his army, camped at
Kizili. Here the Kirghiz and Kapchák under Sadiç Beg, in connivance with Buzurg
Khán, plotted to assassinate Yákúb Beg. Their design was discovered and imme-
diately disclosed to the intended victim by Abdulla Pánsad, his trusty adherent.
Yákúb Beg was at the time able to do no more than increase the vigilance of his
self-guard, and to summon the chiefs of the conspirators and bind them to good faith
by oath on the Kurán. He then marched on by Kok Rabát to Yárkand, where he
pitched his camp with the Tungáni in rear, at a mile to the south of the Yángishahr,
near Chínibágh.
On their way to camp these disarmed Tungáni interviewed some of their
brethren from the Yángishahr, and immediately proposed to them a night surprise
upon the camp; but to allay suspicion advised a pretence of submission without
delay. The Tungáni leaders, accordingly, shortly repaired to the camp, and
presenting rich offerings, humbly apologized for their conduct, and swore devotion
and fidelity to the Khoja, and promised to surrender the city and fort to Yákúb
Beg on the morrow. Thus deceived by their professions, the Koshbegi robed and
dismissed the deputation, and the camp, careless of security, omitted the precaution
of outlying pickets.
At midnight the Tungáni issued from their fort, surprised the enemy's camp,
and setting fire to some of the tents, slew many and dispersed the rest in utter con-
fusion. Yákúb Beg and Abdulla with a few devoted adherents, after a hard hand
to hand fight, in which they were all wounded, cut their way through the crowd of
assailants and escaped to a place of shelter hard by; whilst the Tungáni, joined by
their disarmed brethren, plundered the camp and at daylight returned with their
booty to the Yángishahr.
Yákúb Beg now sent Abdulla with a few men to rally the scattered army,
and he returned in the course of the day with some 300 bootless and half-clad
fugitives, of whom an equal number from different quarters had already gathered
round their chief to the sound of bugles blown in all directions around. The Kirghiz
and Kapchák, who had held by Buzurg Khán, now wished to separate, but Yákúb
Beg appealing to the Khoja pointed out the folly of the step and the certain ruin
it would bring upon him, and persuaded him to hold on for the capture of the city.
They consequently, though with reluctance, rejoined and together returned to the
original camp ground, and trenching the position awaited events. A few days later the
Tungáni, having gained over the city chiefs to their side, marched in and raising the
populace expelled Mir Bábá and his few followers, and plundered the treasury.
They then opened fire from the walls upon the Káshghar camp. On this the Kirghiz
and Kapchák, in connivance with Buzurg Khán who from the commencement, through
pique at his secondary position, had done all his little abilities enabled him to thwart
the operations of his General and rival, and whose conduct was the cause of the failure
of this enterprise, again bodily deserted the camp with their leader Sadiç Beg. Yákúb
Beg, however, managed to reassure and win them back, and next day led them in
person to the assault of the city. Abdulla leading the advance set fire to and forced
the south gate, and driving the Tungáni out of the city back to the shelter of their
fort, reinstated Mir Bábá in the orda with a small garrison, and rejoined Yákúb Beg
who, to prevent complications and a sack of the city, had withdrawn the force back
to the camp.
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