After walking about 10 versts, they came to the river, where they noticed a group of 150 horsemen who immediately decided to strike at the Russians.

A detachment of Cossacks laid the camels in a infantry square in a checkerboard pattern and tied their legs.

[5][2] The Kazakh detachment was better armed than the Russians, commander Korzhikov ordered to save ammunition and shoot only if absolutely necessary.

Reinforcements galloped up to the Kazakhs, and they decided to storm the Square, by this point the Russians realized that they could not shoot through the chain mail of the rebels.

They grabbed them by the beard, hair and tore their weapons out of their hands; the Russians fought desperately.