[3] In 1365, the Mongols returned under the leadership of Haji Ilyas.

[1] Timur and Amir Hussein set out for Tashkent to meet this army.

[citation needed] Amir Hussein's condition was not good.

[citation needed] The Mongols came and besieged Samarkand, Timur's capital, neither Amir Hussein nor Timur faced the Mongols.

Samarkand was left to its fate, and by their own efforts they defeated the Mongols.