The Sun and the Lion

The messenger from Fergana ran on the grassland south of Urati. He had gone to Khuzel before and failed to find Babur. After much trouble, he learned that Babur and his troops were camping here.

After returning, Babur sent people to negotiate with the special lord of Urati, Mahima Husin of the Duglat tribe, and asked him to temporarily hand over part of his territory to his control. Eventually he gained the right to rule a small village for half a year.

Then Babur began his conquest, but because of his weak strength, it was difficult to achieve a major event. The borrowed Mughals also refused to obey the rules, and most of them deserted and slipped back to Tashkent.

Everything went wrong and Babur fell into a sea of ​​despair and anxiety. He did not want to return to Huzang, even though his mother and grandmother were still there.

"Kuzel is a poor place, and it is difficult to support a Burke there. I lived there with my family and entourage for almost half a year. The Muslims there tried their best to provide us with living expenses and served us thoughtfully. How can I have the dignity to go to Huzhen again, and what will I do if I get there?"

After the bored Babur finished writing this paragraph and was thinking about how to continue organizing the diary, the messenger found the camp.

"Where is the Emir? Where is the Emil? I have a letter to give to him." The messenger shouted to the people around him and quickly attracted everyone's attention.

Hasimu led people to stop him and asked, "Who is your master? What is your purpose? How did you find this place?"

The messenger asked in turn: "Who are you? My master has a message asking me to deliver it to Babur, the real master of Fergana. Don't delay the great cause of restoring Gulegheni!"

Hasim laughed angrily at the rude messenger, but his reason prompted him not to order his companions to arrest him and whip him, but to report the matter to Babur.

Only then did the messenger know that the person who stopped him to talk to him was actually a Burke.

It's not the messenger's fault, Babur was really in such a miserable state, not to mention the ordinary soldiers and companions, even Burke and himself were dressed very "simplely".

The messenger recovered from Babur's poverty and saluted the young man in front of him: "Dear Emir of Fergana, I am the companion of Ali Dost Tahai, the lord of Malgran City. My master entrusted I have a message for you."

Ali Dost Tahai was Burke who was in charge of the defense of Andijan at that time. After the city defense of Andijan was deceived, he was forced to return to the territory to work. His territory of Margland was west of Andijan and, together with the capital, south of the Syr Darya River.

Although Tanbal and Uzun Hassan have not done anything to him yet, he is still worried that Tanbal will come to liquidate him. After all, if loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.

Coincidentally, Tanbal's behavior of sending Babur's grandmother and mother to Khuzel reminded him that since Andijan and Samarkand changed hands one after another, Babur had become a missing person.

Therefore, he wanted to contact his old master and help Gulegani.

"What message, what does he want?" Babur asked numbly.

The messenger then dictated the message: "My lord, Malgranbek Ali Dost Tahay, I have made a huge mistake and caused you huge losses, but I still hope that you can ignore the past grievances and show me your humiliation. I will hand Malgran over to Your Majesty and serve you with all my heart, in order to wash away my past sins and shame."

After listening to Ali Dost's message, Babur's eyes lit up. In such a difficult time, God gave him another chance to turn around!

Babur, who was excited and incoherent, immediately asked the officials to pack their bags, regardless of the fact that the sun was about to set. However, the Burkes were not as excited as Babur imagined after hearing the news, but they still carried out Babur's order.

Less than half an hour after the arrival of the courier, the small army broke camp and set off, marching as fast as if they were about to launch a surprise attack.

Babur traveled under the sun and the moon for one day and two nights, until there was only one day's journey left from Margram, the Burkes took advantage of the rest time to confess their worries to Babur.

Ibrahim Saru and Shilim anxiously suggested to Babur: "Your Majesty, Ali Dost is a villain who has done all kinds of bad things. Before this, he had never made any attempt to contact His Majesty. No. And there was no negotiation or agreement of any kind between us and him. You acted entirely in accordance with the other party's instructions. Under such circumstances, what can we have towards him? Hope? If he is not sincere and wants to offer you to Tanbal and Uzun Hasan just to beg for mercy, then how should we deal with ourselves?"

After hearing these words, Babur showed a rare angry attitude: "In that case, why didn't you tell me when you set off? Now we are only one day's journey from Marglan. , the troops have been galloping continuously for one day and two nights without rest, and their morale is extremely low. If we turn back without any reason, can we really go back?"

The reprimanded Burkes wanted to speak again, but Babur smiled bitterly: "If we really go back now, what future will we have? We have come so far, we can only continue to move forward. This is God's arrangement It’s our destiny, we can only follow it.”

"Your Majesty is right. Now that we have reached this point, we can only place our fate on God's arrangements." In silence, Hasim sighed and agreed with Babur's argument.

The whole team sped up their pace and finally arrived at Malgran City before dark the next day, but the gate was closed. Ali Dost quickly rushed to the tower to talk to Babur.

"Ali Dost Tahay, aren't you going to welcome me into Malgran? Is this how you welcome a monarch?" Babur shouted in confusion.

"No, Your Majesty." Ali Dost explained quickly: "The rule of Tanbal and Uzun Hassan was tyrannical and unkind. The people of Fergana were miserable and in urgent need of a kind and wise Lord to save them. For Therefore, I decided to abandon the secret and turn to the light, but my subordinates still doubt that you will liquidate me because of the incident in Andijan, so I have to ask your majesty to sign an agreement with me before the door can be opened."

Babur was furious, but he had no other choice but to do as he was told.

After Babur entered the city, Ali Dost arranged a house in the castle for Babur to rest. Only then did Babur have time to count how many people he had. The wandering journey was enough to test the loyalty of his subordinates. At this time, there were only 240 people including nobles and commoners following Malglan.