Soldi Alauddin Khilji
Zafar Khan | ||
At the Battle of Sindh, Soldi led the Second Mongol Invasion into the India Sultanate, overran Sindh, and captured its stronghold, Siwistan.
Zafar Khan then led a sudden counterattack against the enemy fort and reclaimed the structure in heavy battles involving melee combats using short ranged weapons like axes, swords, javelins, and spears. Zafar Khan was said to proceed this siege without using standart military equipments of siege warfare such as Manjaniq or Ballistas('Aradah), He even did not resorting mines, Wooden siege towers(Gargaj) or Earthwork battlement mounds(Pashib) until he managed to break the sorties of defending Chagatai forces.
After the fighting ceased, the Soldi armies had perished under Zafar's onslaught. Soldi himself was captured alive along with the women and children of the Mongols. Thus this feat was inspiring awe of Zafar Khan bravery. In the same year Zafar Khan received the fief in Samana