"Babur, if we can't move forward, we'll all die." The two men grabbed Babur's arm tightly to prevent him from continuing into the alley.

Babur, who was half a head taller than ordinary people, was a rare warrior in Andijan, and even if two guards wearing full chain mail grabbed him, he was dragged several steps by him.

Listening to the wails of the knights of the guards in front of him, Babur was about to lose his mind. The number of Guards Knights represents the strength of each clan leader, and the reason why his family was able to control Andijan and maintain a semi-independent state under the Khan is precisely because of these more than 800 Guards Knights.

Like other light cavalry, no matter how much they lost, they could still be recruited from the herdsmen of the tribes around the city, after all, the light cavalry only needed to be able to ride horses and shoot arrows, and almost all adult men in the Bukhara Khanate could do both.

And training a Guards Cavalry is not so simple, without more than ten years of riding and horse combat training, and after more than three battles, it is impossible to train a Guards Knight.

These knights of the guard were in fact the personal soldiers of the nobles and chieftains, and they were the most loyal to them. For nobles and chieftains, the Knights of the Guards were not only samurai who defended themselves, but also companions who accompanied them in their growth.

The 200 knights of the guards brought out by Babur were the ones with whom he had the best relations, and if they were left in the village, it would be impossible for the entire family of knights to get close to him in the future.

Therefore, even though the two cronies tried desperately to stop him, Babur still refused to give up, he looked back at the subordinates who grabbed him and said, "Let go, my brother is ahead, as long as we try harder, we can get them out." Are you going to leave more than one-eighth of your family's knights of the guard here? How can I have the face to see my father in that case, I would rather die here with them. ”

Instead of letting go, Shamili grabbed tighter, and despite Babur's angry scolding, he tried his best to persuade him: "Babur don't be impulsive anymore, listen with your ears, see with your eyes, Malik's voice is not a cry for help, but because of the pain wailing, they are no longer helped."

The returning troops in front of us were not driven away by us, but retreated on their own. If you're going to rush into the alley, you're going to trap yourself here. It's a trap, are you going to trap us all here?

Sober up, Babur. Now we should turn around and get out of the village, or we will be burned alive by the flames when the vicious returnees seal our retreat with flames. ”

Under the painstaking persuasion of his subordinates, Babur finally calmed down a little, and he looked up at the roof in front of him, and soon saw a shadowy figure on the roof, obviously there was really an ambush ahead.

While he was still hesitating, another of his men crowded through the side alley and shouted loudly to them: "Babur, are we attacking or retreating?" The soldiers on the roof were carrying a lot of muskets, and our soldiers rushing to the roof were about to be unable to stop them, and if they didn't make a decision, everyone would not be able to leave. ”

Babur was silent for a moment, and finally picked up the scimitar in his right hand and slashed at the earthen wall, and then said hatefully: "Retreat, retreat, first go out of the village and reorganize the people." When I catch the leader of the returning soldiers, I will definitely cook every piece of meat on his body and let him eat it..."

Babur's retreat order made the Andijan soldiers who rushed into the village feel like they were amnesty, and the Andijan soldiers at this time no longer shouted that thirty soldiers were inferior to one Andijan soldiers, they only wanted to get out of this place where they were beaten everywhere as soon as possible. The Andijan soldiers, who did not have any formation, lost their organization when they fled, and only a few were willing to stay behind the palace to buy a little time for their comrades to leave the village.

By this time, the Yarkand army had finally regained their courage and began to pursue the fleeing Andijan soldiers. In such a narrow and tortuous alley, the men and horses who had lost their organization became the best target for the Yarkand army. After breaking through the obstruction of the few Andijan soldiers who volunteered to be behind the palace, the Andijan soldiers who exposed their backs to the Yarkand army rushed towards the crowd like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and no one reflexively fought with the Yarkand soldiers in the rear.

When the Andijan troops attacked the village, the number of casualties in the actual battle was less than 50, except for the more than 100 knights of the guards who were besieged by fire. But in this wave of retreat, more than 100 people have been killed by the Yarkand soldiers in vain.

And the closer death came, the more chaotic and crazy the fleeing Andijan soldiers became, and the scene they had chased the Yarkand soldiers to the camp was now repeated in them. As Babur's cronies began to use knives against his subordinates who were blocking the way in order for Babur to escape from the village first, this scene soon appeared in several congested alleys that fled outside the village. The strong either rush out by stepping on the bodies of the weak, or simply turn their comrades who are blocking the way into corpses.

Such a chaotic retreat made Babur's desire to regroup his troops outside the village an extravagant hope. It is clear that the soldiers who have abandoned their comrades and fled will not be able to restore their trust in their comrades in a short period of time. As the Andijan soldiers who attacked the village fled, the Andijan cavalry, who were fighting with the Yarkand cavalry in the rear camp, feared being attacked from both sides, so they had to leave behind thirty or forty corpses and retreat.

Babur was surrounded by his men and fled to a distance of ten miles from the Yarkand camp before he stopped. At this time, there were only sixty or seventy men left with him, and Babur sent 30 men to gather his men, but it was not until it was getting dark that less than 300 men came back, and half of them lost their horses and weapons in order to flee.

As Babur watched in silence as the remaining remnants of the army were defeated, the rangers sent by Haidar finally found them. At this time, Babur naturally could not say the words to continue the attack, so he could only follow the ranger to meet his brother and ask him for his guilt.

Babur's defeat put the skinny Haidar in a good mood. But the fact that Babur lost 147 knights of the Guards at one time also made him lose the interest in laughing at this younger brother.

Haidar raised his whip and whipped Babur on the shoulder, and said viciously to the younger brother, "You actually threw Malik and them to those scheming Huizi like this, and you still have the face to come back alive..."

Babur kept his head down and did not dodge his brother's whip in the slightest, and the camp was silent, and the Andijan generals did not know how to deal with such a situation.

After three or four lashes, Haidar stopped, and said coldly to his brother: "Your cowardice has brought shame on the family, and now I will deprive you of command of the army. Shamili, you take someone to escort him back and let his father decide how to punish him. Azze, you take Babur's command of his men.

Let's all rest early tonight, and tomorrow morning we'll go and settle accounts with those Huizi, and bring back Malik's bodies..."

Babur silently endured his brother's humiliation, left the camp that night with a few of his cronies, and returned to Andijan to receive his father's punishment.

This defeat made the Andijan soldiers, who had originally defeated the Yarkand army, restrain their arrogance, and also cast a shadow on the hearts of some people. After all, Andijan has only one city, while the Yarkand Khanate is a khanate with cities such as Kashgar, Yarkand, and Aksu.

Bukhara is too far from Andijan, and the most powerful city in the Ferghana Basin, apart from Andijan, is the easternmost city of Kokand. As for the cities of Margalang and Namugan between the two cities, they basically have no strength, and they have always been strong against whom.

The city of Kokand, which is vying with Andijan for control of the Fergana Basin, is hard to imagine that the other side will do everything in their power to rescue Andijan. And without the city of Kokand, the city of Margalang and the city of Namugan will only guard their homes and live a stable life, where will they come to the aid of Andijan.

Although Haidar had driven his brother away and posed to avenge the death of the knight of the guard, he was not as brave and decisive as Babur. When he arrived at the Yarkand camp with his army early the next morning, Haidar gave up his plan to attack immediately after looking at the deep trenches and repaired wooden fences outside the camp that had been expanded overnight, as well as the hundreds of Yarkand soldiers standing on the wooden walls.

Haidar then summoned a Yarkand captive and asked him to send a message to the defenders of the camp on his behalf, hoping to talk to the opposing battalion general before the battle.

The soldiers of the battalion, who had already regarded Ma Shouying as the backbone of the backbone, rushed to persuade Ma Shouying that he did not have to agree to the other party, thinking that these Andijanians had always been cunning and might be playing some kind of trickery.

Ma Shouying looked at everyone and said: "I just looked at the wall, the morale of these Andijan soldiers is still good, and their combined men and horses are estimated to be no less than 1,500, obviously there is a new force to join."

Our battalion is now capable of fighting only 1,400 or 500 people, and there are 3 or 400 lightly or seriously wounded. Yesterday the fire burned out the kerosene reserves, and if they were to rush into the camp today, as long as we cut off our back roads, and then set a fire to the village, the fate of those Andijanites yesterday would be our fate.

No matter what idea any Andijan leader wants to play, he can delay for a moment. I think it's time for the rear army to arrive today. As soon as Houjin arrives, there will be no danger of the camp falling, so I should go out and meet him. ”

Hearing Ma Shouying mention yesterday's fire, many people's faces suddenly turned pale. Seeing the corpses that were huddled together during the cleaning of the battlefield yesterday, many of them couldn't even eat the roast horse meat that night, and they didn't want to end up in the same fate themselves.

Haidar's indecision gave Ma Shouying a chance. Seeing a general of the opposing battalion running out with three or four horsemen, Haidar finally dispelled the idea of launching an attack immediately.

After grabbing and cutting off the head of the commander of the Yarkand army, Haidar did not believe what his brother said, and the Yarkand battalion still had generals in charge of the overall situation. He thinks that yesterday's garrison battle may just be a dog jumping over the wall of those defeated soldiers in Yarkand, and he very much hopes that the other side will not be able to find a battalion to talk to him in the future, which proves that the other battalion lacks a person who is in charge of the overall situation.

Then he will order the troops to attack immediately and wipe out the rabble. Thus blocking the passage of the Yarkand Khanate into the Ferghana basin and waiting for the arrival of the Bukhara army.

Looking at the Yarkand generals waiting in the middle of the battlefield, Haidar sighed, turned his head and ordered his lieutenant to stabilize the army, while he took six guards knights to meet him.

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