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The Ayagoz battle took place at the end of 1717 - one of the battles between the Kazakhs and the Dzungars. In 1717, a battle took place near the Ayagoz River. The 15 thousandth Kazakh army, led by the khans Kaip and Abulkhair, in a raid on the Dzungarian nomad camps, met a small Dzungarian border detachment, from 3,000 to 10,000 people, who, "chopping trees in a narrow place (gorge)" and seeding in an impromptu trench, for three days he detained the Kazakh army and with the help of another, which came on the third day of a small (1500 people) Dzungar detachment, defeated the Kazakhs.
The Kazakh army, despite the overwhelming superiority in numbers and in firearms, could not withstand the Dzungar (Zyungar, Kalmyk) "cruel spear strike" - a horse spear attack and subsequent hand-to-hand combat - and fled.
Kaip-khan fled from the battlefield, but was killed at his headquarters, Kart-Abulkhair abandoned his khanate and left to Bukhara. The Kazakhs immediately lost control over Sary-Arka (except for a part of the Turgai valley).
In 1717 - 1718 the Dzungars continued their attack on the territory of the Kazakhs, without meeting any organized resistance. Analyzing the consequences of the battle, catastrophic for the Kazakhs, and the actions of Abulkhair Khan, who was not affected by this catastrophe and who in 1717 - 1719 continued military operations against Russia and even laid siege to Yaitsky town.
Kazakh ethnographer Zimanov believes that another Abulkhair commanded the troops in the Ayagoz battle: Kart-Abulkhair and Kaip-khan, both close relatives (possibly children or nephews) of Tauke-khan. Following the historian Kushkumbayev, he suggested that the Kazakh army managed to squeeze the Dzungarian forces in a bend or on a cape at the confluence of the Ayagoz with some tributary or ravine, where they settled under the cover of a notch of trees.
Perhaps the Kazakhs began to wait for famine in the army near the Dzungars, but they showed carelessness, and unexpectedly attacking the besieging camp, the Dzhugar reinforcements managed to sow panic with a "spear blow" and then kill the Kazakh army, which was not ready to repel the attack.

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Alexander Petrov.