Abu Ajis's nightmare did not end there, and he escaped from his brigade and tried to retreat to the city of Margalang before making plans under the escort of dozens of cavalry guards.

However, after more than two days of running 180 miles, and arriving at the foot of Margalang on the afternoon of the third day, when the exhausted Abu Ajis and the more than 300 cavalry he had gathered on the way were about to enter the city, Abu Agis suddenly found that the officers who had stayed in the city of Margalang did not meet him at the city gate, and the soldiers near the city gate were not the Balkhs he had left behind.

Suspicious, Abu Aggis slowly slowed down his horse's march, and suddenly asked the gatekeeper who was guiding him into the city, "Was Captain Narouz killed by you?" ”

The goalkeeper, who looked very nervous, subconsciously replied, "No, he is still alive." ”

The goalkeeper who had finished answering this sentence suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he quickly rolled off his horse to the side away from Abu Aggis, and just as he rolled off the horse, Abu Ajis's knife slashed right through his waist, cutting a shallow wound on him.

The gatekeeper, having narrowly escaped with his quick reflexes, immediately rolled towards the moat on one side, shouting hoarsely, "Enemy attack, enemy attack." ”

The goalkeeper's actions saved his life, Abu Aggis obviously did not intend to risk his own life, he did not continue to chase but turned around and called his subordinates to leave, as for the few soldiers who came out with the gatekeeper to meet Abu Aggis obviously did not have such good luck, they were soon cut down by the guards around Abu Aggis one by one.

However, the venting behavior of these guards cavalry also brought disaster to themselves, with the shouting of the city gate officials, the originally scattered defenders on the city wall suddenly turned into a large number of archers, these archers lying in ambush at the head of the wall caused more than 20 guards cavalry to lose their horses in a wave of fire, although their armor protected them, so that they were only wounded and not killed.

However, the sound of horses' hooves in the streets of the city made it impossible for Abu Aggis to stay and save the wounded guards, so he could only pull out a few guards who could walk, and had to flee under the rain of arrows.

Although the cavalry team that rushed out of the city was not large, about 4 or 500 people, but the running for several days made the mounts of Abu Aggis's troops quite weak, even if their horses were much better than the horses of these Mongol cavalry, but at this moment it was difficult to get rid of the pursuit of the other party.

And these Mongol cavalry were also extremely cunning, they did not go beyond the troops who intercepted Abu Ajis, forcing the other side to engage in hand-to-hand combat, but kept attacking the tail of Abu Aggis, as long as the other side stopped, they kept their distance, as if waiting for reinforcements from their rear.

It's like a pack of wolves hunting a herd of yellow sheep on the grassland, killing only the last part of the team at a time until the sheep can no longer rebel in an organized way. What these Mongol cavalry were waiting for was the complete collapse of Abu Aggis's forces.

As long as this discouraged cavalry team scattered and fled, then no matter how well equipped they were, a few peasants would be able to catch a heavily armed cavalry, let alone their morale-boosting cavalry team.

Abu Aggis almost fell into despair, he almost wanted to turn back and fight with these Mongol cavalry, but the other party did not hesitate to scatter in all directions, it was difficult for him to catch up, but consumed his own horsepower. By the time Abu Aggis and the others continued on their way, the Mongols quickly regained their formation and once again devoured some of their tail cavalry.

These Mongolian herdsmen who struggled to survive in the Mobei grassland were actually the world's first-class hard-working cavalry candidates, and after the training of military discipline and material rationing in the Ming Dynasty, they were familiar with this kind of cavalry pursuit.

In particular, after the officers sent by the Ming Dynasty abolished the hierarchy of the noble and low in these Mongolian tribal armies and promoted a large number of outstanding low-level soldiers as middle- and low-ranking officers, the combat power of the Mongolian cavalry under the command of Arslan was no less than that of the best guards cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the command of these junior officers, Abu Ajis's every counterattack fell into the air, and they were able to reorganize their ranks with great speed and take a bite from the enemy's tail.

If it weren't for the appearance of a group of Kokand cavalry, Abu Aggis's team would probably not last long and would have fled for their lives.

When this Kokand cavalry appeared behind the Mongols, the Mongol cavalry had to turn around and surround the more than 100 Kokand cavalry first, in order to prevent itself from being flanked in front and rear. Abu Aggis stood on horseback and watched for a long time, and found that the Mongol cavalry had only divided two-thirds of their forces to attack the Kokand cavalry, and the rest stood between them and the battlefield.

He looked down at the men around him again, and saw that their faces were expressionless except for anxiety. After a moment of silence, Abu Aggis sat back on his horse and ordered the evacuation, taking advantage of the fact that the Mongols had no time to deal with the Kokands.

Abu Agis's judgment was still accurate, this time the Mongols did not catch up, allowing them to smoothly get out of the other side's field of vision. Of course, for the Kokands, the flight of Abu Aggis deprived them of the last bit of courage to resist, and they soon surrendered to the Mongols.

After escaping the trap of Margalang, Abu Aggis's luck finally began to improve. After taking advantage of the darkness that followed to change the direction of travel, Abu Aggis and his pursuers finally missed the direction.

Abu Aggis also bypassed the city of Namugan, after all, it was on the north side of the river, and he did not think that the Mongols would not wait for them at the place where they crossed. When Abu Ajis arrived at the foot of Kokand and saw a supplementary army sent by his father, he felt relieved.

At the same time, the news of the fall of the cities of Margalang and Namugan also reached his ears. After leaving the battlefield, Haidar went straight to the city of Margalang, claiming that he had captured the city of Andijan, and that His Royal Highness the prince had asked him to transfer a number of baggage.

So when Captain Naruz opened the city and let Haidar and others enter the city, he might as well let this person take the opportunity to seize the city gate, and then a Mongolian cavalry rushed into the city of Margalang, and most of the captain and 600 soldiers defending the city were killed.

Hedar then borrowed the letter from Captain Naruz and deceived the city of Namugan, and the soldiers and civilians of Namugan chose to surrender in order to save their homeland. Shortly after the news of these two news reached Kokand, Abu Ajis returned, so the soldiers and civilians of the city of Kokand handed over the decision to Abu Ajis, waiting for him to give instructions on the next step.

For Abu Ajis, however, this decision was tantamount to roasting him on a fireplace. This battle soon cost him all the levies, and even more so nine-tenths of the most important guards cavalry around him, and not a single one of the more than 1,000 arquebusiers escaped.

In addition to the losses under his command, almost none of the troops that followed him in Kokand and Namugan escaped from the city. Namugan City has already fallen into the hands of the Yarkand people anyway, and he doesn't have to face those Namugan City nobles, but he can't avoid the criticism of the Kokand City nobles.

The Bukhara Khanate was a semi-sedentary and semi-nomadic state, and if the Khorasan region, centered on the Balkh and Badak mountains, was the southern barrier of the khanate, then the region between Samarkand and Bukhara and the Ferghana basin were the source of wealth for the khanate.

Since Ferghana is called a basin, it means that this area is also blocked by mountains like the rest of the Bukhara Khanate.

The Bukhara Khanate was not yet a fully centralized feudal dynasty, and its military power was roughly divided into four types: the Khan, the great nobles, and the guards around the lords, the Gulam; The khanate's standing army, Ashakir, was mostly cavalry; the feudal cavalry Sarbada, composed of large and small landowners and their subordinate peasants; Finally, there are the informal nomadic riders, who are made up of farmers and nomads at the bottom of society.

This was a war advocated by Nadir Muhammad, and naturally it should be led by the Balkh army under Nadir Muhammad, and then the other nobles would decide whether to follow up depending on the course of the war.

After all, the Great Khan Imam Kuri did not want to be hostile to the Safavids in the west and the Kazakhs in the northeast, and then to make enemies with the Yarkand Khanate in the east. Unlike the other two rivals, the Yarkand Khanate also had trade routes to China, which was an indispensable source of revenue for the Bukhara.

Therefore, Imam Kuri could not oppose the princes and nobles led by Nadir Muhammad to wage war against the Yarkand Khanate, but he was able to prevent the other side from calling in the standing army of the Khanate to participate in the war, so as to force Nadir Muhammad to use his own power to wage this war.

The Balkh region, more than 600 miles south of Samarkand, was the strongest in the Bukhara Khanate due to the constant threat of the Safavid and Mughal dynasties, and once built up an army of 60,000 men in the face of the Safavid invasion. Such power was also the source of fear among the princes and nobles of Bukhara.

After the death of Abbasid the Great, the power of the Safavid Empire began to wane, and an overly powerful Balkh army in such a situation was obviously not conducive to the internal stability of the khanate. Even if Imam Quri had identified Nadir Muhammad as his successor, he did not want his heir to take the throne and completely overturn his policy of good-neighborliness.

In fact, Imam Kuri preferred to support Nadir Muhammad in his plan to annex the Khiva Khanate rather than attack the Yarkand Khanate. Over the past few decades, the Khanate, which had the same roots as the Bukhara, had become moribund under the attacks of the Turkmens, Kazakhs, Russians, and Bukharans, and even now the Bukhara army was stationed in the southern part of the Khiva Khanate.

Imam Kuri believes that it is most appropriate to take advantage of the decline of the Safavid Empire and the fact that the Kazakhs have been friendly with Bukhara in recent years to merge Bukhara and Khiva into one state. However, Nadir Muhammad was afraid of provoking a war with the Turkmen, who had raised the current Khan of Khiva, and re-embroiled Balkh in an endless war against the Safavids, so he wanted to wait for the death of the current Khan of Khiva.

Imam Kuri, who was old and frail, could only watch from the sidelines of Nadir Mohammed's actions, and this time Nadir Muhammad transferred 20,000 soldiers from the Balkh region and recruited more than 10,000 troops from his supporters. However, when the Balkh army arrived in Samarkand, news of a rebellion in northern Balkh was received, and Nadir Muhammad had to order Abu Agis to enter the Ferghana Basin with his advance while he himself returned to Balkh to quell the rebellion.

Nadir Mohammed turned around and went back to quell the rebellion in his own territory, and his supporters were naturally less responsive. After all, everyone wants to follow Brother Wang to get some benefits, not to compromise their own strength for Brother Wang. What's more, Nadir Mohammed himself is not on the front line, no matter how hard they try, they can't see each other.

Thus, when Abu Aggis fled back from under Andijan, only a reinforcement of more than 3,000 men arrived, while more troops remained in Tashkent, intending to wait until spring to enter the basin.

In such a situation, what kind of decision can Abu Ajis make? He had no choice but to cling to Kokand.