 Nyora kuenderera kweiyi ndima - Musi wa6 Kukadzi 1918, mutungamiriri weMuslim Corps, Lieutenant-General Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, mutsamba yakanyorerwa Transcaucasian Commissariat akakumbira kuvhurwa kwechikoro chemauto muBaku pasi pe1st Muslim Division. Chirevo cheRusununguko rweAzerbaijan chakatambirwa musi wa 28 Chivabvu 1918 chakataura kuti Azerbaijan inofanirwa kuve neuto rakarongeka kuti rizvidzivirire kubva mukupindira kwekunze uye kudzikisira masimba emuvengi emukati. Pakasvika mugumo wegore iroro, masangano akawanda ehurumende nemauto ehondo akatangwa, kusanganisira chikoro chechiuto. Muna March 1918, chikoro chechiuto chakavhurwa, mukuru mukuru Cahangir Zeynaloğlu achigadzwa semukuru. Pashure Pemazuva aMarch, kwakasarudzwa kuendesa chikoro kuGanja. Nzvimbo yechikoro, iyo yakasvika muGanja musi wa 2 Kubvumbi, yakatanga kuiswa muchivako chechikoro chechitima, uyezve muchivako chechikoro chehunyanzvi chemuno na9 Kubvumbi. MuGanja, chikoro chemauto chaitungamirirwa naColonel Atif Bey weOttoman Army. 