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Kalmyks campaign against Kazakhs (1627) — Chokhur-taishi's campaign against the Kazakhs.

In the early years of Yesim Khan's reign, the threat of Kalmyk incursions into Kazakh lands persisted. According to the Book of the Great Map, in 1627, some Kalmyk tribes neighbored the Kazakhs in the areas around the Sarysu and Kenderlik rivers. In the fall of the same year, the Kalmyk leader Chokhur-Taisha, who had previously been defeated by the Kazakhs, launched a new campaign against the Kazakh Khanate. He managed to assemble an army of about 40,000 men.

The results of this campaign were reported by Russian musketeers who had returned from Turkmen captivity: "This autumn, a force of forty thousand Kalmyks marched on the Kazakh Horde, and the Kazakh king, with his people, defeated and dispersed them. The remnants of the Kalmyk army, numbering about two thousand men, retreated to the upper reaches of the Emba River." This indicates that the Kazakh army delivered a crushing defeat to Chokhur-Taisha's forces.

As Yesim Khan's authority strengthened, there were notable successes in the struggle against the Kalmyks. The Kazakhs managed to drive the Kalmyk tribes, who had been roaming the valleys of the Irtysh River, to its right bank. I. Y. Zlatkin noted: "Lake Yamyshevo, which two or three decades earlier had been one of the centers of Oirat migrations, had now become their frontier point."

Reference

1. Тепкеев, В. Т. (2015). Ойраты в начале XVII века (in Russian). Элиста: Киги РАН. pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-5-903833-92-4.
2. Atygaev, Nurlan (2023). The Kazakh Khanate: essays on the foreign policy history of the XV-XVII centuries(Казахское ханство: очерки внешнеполитической истории XV-XVII веков.) [not in English] (in Russian). Almaty: Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of the Yasavi Moscow State Technical University. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-601-7805-24-1.

• History of Kalmykia
• Battles involving the Kazakh Khanate
• Military history of Kazakhstan
• Kazakh Khanate