One day, near Karnān, they numbered their men[626] and reckoned them up to be 30,000. From ahead news began to come that Taṃbal also was collecting a force and going to Akhsī. After having consulted together, The Khāns decided to join some of their men to me, in order that I might cross the Khujand-water, and, marching by way of Aūsh and Aūzkīnt, turn Taṃbal's rear. Having so settled, they joined to me Ayūb _Begchīk_ with his _tūmān_, Jān-ḥasan Bārīn (var. Nārīn) with his Bārīns, Muḥ. _Ḥiṣārī Dūghlāt_, Sl. Ḥusain _Dūghlāt_ and Sl. Aḥmad Mīrzā _Dūghlāt_, not in command of the Dūghlāt _tūmān_,—and Qaṃbar-`alī Beg (the Skinner). The commandant (_darogha_) of their force was Sārīgh-bāsh (Yellow-head) Mīrza _Itārchī_.[627] Leaving The Khāns in Karnān, we crossed the river on rafts near Sakan, traversed the Khūqān sub-district (_aūrchīn_), crushed [Sidenote: Fol. 104.] Qabā and by way of the Alāī sub-districts[628] descended suddenly on Aūsh. We reached it at dawn, unexpected; those in it could but surrender. Naturally the country-folk were wishing much for us, but they had not been able to find their means, both through dread of Taṃbal and through our remoteness. After we entered Aūsh, the hordes and the highland and lowland tribes of southern and eastern Andijān came in to us. The Aūzkīnt people also, willing to serve us, sent me a man and came in. (_Author's note on Aūzkīnt._) Aūzkīnt formerly must have been a capital of Farghāna;[629] it has an excellent fort and is situated on the boundary (of Farghāna). The Marghīnānīs also came in after two or three days, having beaten and chased their commandant (_darogha_). Except Andijān, every fort south of the Khujand-water had now come in to us. Spite of the return in those days of so many forts, and spite of risings and revolt against him, Taṃbal did not yet come to his senses but sat down with an army of horse and foot, fortified with ditch and branch, to face The Khāns, between Karnān and Akhsī. Several times over there was a little fighting and pell-mell but without decided success to either side. In the Andijān country (_wilāyat_), most of the tribes and [Sidenote: Fol. 104b.] hordes and the forts and all the districts had come in to me; naturally the Andijānīs also were wishing for me. They however could not find their means. (_d. Bābur's attempt to enter Andijān frustrated by a mistake._)