 By April 3, the Armenian forces had encircled the capital and resistance had weakened.Azeri commander Suret Huseynov and his 709th brigade, which had been tasked to defending the Murov Mountains, had retreated to Ganja after political and military problems began to unravel upon in the battlefield.An account of the war-weariness afflicting the inhabitants of the town was described by Melkonian's elder brother, Markar