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T.R. Gurikán, and granted the government of the Doghlat tribe in Andiján, but who had
since rebelled and fled the country) was a refugee with Hydar, who had given him his
daughter, Aghá Sultán Kháním, in marriage; and he now sent him against Abábakar
who was plundering Yángí Hissár. The successful young soldier, however, quickly
defeated him, and Cudús, with three hundred men, fled to Badakhshán. Here he
joined Sultán Mahmúd, who gave him the government of Kundúz, where he was
subsequently killed in a border skirmish with the Kator infidels.

After the defeat and flight of Cudus, Hydar issued with an army of thirty thousand
men to oppose the advance of Abábakar, but was driven back with great loss. In
this extremity he sent urgent appeals for succour to his maternal uncle, Yúnus, who,
hastily collecting fifteen thousand Moghol, hurried to the aid of his tributary protegé.
On his approach Abábakar called in his plundering parties and retired to his capital;
and Hydar, now joined by Yúnus, followed to besiege him in Yarkand.

Abábakar, however, nothing daunted by their advance, made a vigorous sally
from the city, and put them all to flight in the greatest disorder and haste. Hydar,
with only two or three attendants who could keep pace with him, reached Káshghar
without drawing rein in twenty-four hours, whilst the panic struck Moghol fled with-
out ever turning to look behind them. Abábakar, proud of his success, lavished
rewards on his soldiers; and Hydar, disgusted, was only too glad to get rid of the
rabble who now deserted him; whilst Yúnus, full of wrath, took his way back to
Mogholistán vowing condign vengeance.

He returned the following year, 885 H.=1480 A.D. with sixty thousand Moghol,
and joining Hydar and his new levy of thirty thousand men at Káshghar, they
marched together to Yárkand, and completely invested the city. Abábakar, in face of
the odds against him, confined himself to the defence of his capital, for which he had
only five thousand men, including three thousand tried veterans; and he employed
them to the best advantage, and with an unlooked for success in his sallies.

Each of his horsemen was accompanied by an archer, and a sworded shield-bearer
on each side. As they neared the enemy, and their horse came to the charge, the
bowmen shot their arrows, whilst the shield-bearers capered and tumbled, and, rat-
tling their shields, performed wild antics to frighten the adversary's horse; and with
such success that many of their riders were thrown and at once beheaded. In this man-
ner Abábakar's skirmishers advanced against the besiegers, and, a sudden panic seizing
the Moghol, they broke and fled in utter disorder. The efforts of Yúnus failing to
rally them, he was forced to follow, and retired with his discomfited host to Aksú,
where he wintered with his family and army. Hydar meanwhile was pursued by
Abábakar, and hastily collecting five thousand families, abandoned his capital and
joined Yúnus. On this Káshghar fell into the hands of the victor, and thousands of
its people, fleeing from the vengeance of his soldiery, emigrated to Andiján.

On the first occasion of Yúnus coming to Káshghar to aid Sániz against Hydar
and Dost Muhammad, he married Sháh Begum, the daughter of Sháh Sultan
Muhammad, the King of Badakhshán. She bore him two sons and two daughters,
namely, Mahmúd, born 868 H.=1465 A.D., and Ahmad, and Nigár Kháním and
Daulat Kháním. During his stay at Aksú this winter after the defeat at Yárkand,
Hydar, having lost Káshghar and anxious to secure Aksú for himself, detached the
youthful Ahmad from his father on the promise of giving him the place so soon as he
recovered his own government; and they both rebelled and seized one of the two
forts the place contained.

On this Yúnus summoned his eldest son, Mahmúd, who, during his absence ruled
in Mogholistán, to come to his aid. He arrived in seventeen days with thirty thousand
Moghol, and they then besieged the rebellious Hydar. After forty days, during
which Ahmad repenting of his folly had effected his escape and gained the pardon of
his parent, Hydar, finding himself deserted and hard pressed for food, surrendered
unconditionally. Yúnus generously pardoned his treachery, and, on his departure
in the spring, took him to Mogholistán, and there attached his son, Muhammad