During The Winter Of 1277-78, A Second
Chinese Expedition With Nasr Ed-Din At Its Head Ended With The Capture Of
Kaung Sin, The Burmese Stronghold Commanding The Defile Of Bhamo.
The
Pagan Yazawin is the only Burmese Chronicle giving exactly the spot of
this second encounter.
During these two expeditions, the invaders had not
succeeded in breaking through the thick veil of numerous small thai
principalities which still stand to-day between Yun Nan and Burma proper.
It was only in 1283 that the final crush took place, when a third
expedition, whose chief was Siang-wu-ta-eul (Singtaur), retook the fort of
Kaung sin and penetrated more into the south in the Irawadi Valley, but
without reaching Pagan. King Narasihapati evacuated Pagan before the
impending advancing Chinese forces and fled to the Delta. In 1285 parleys
for the establishment of a Chinese Protectorship were begun; but in the
following year, King Narasihapati was poisoned at Prome by his own son
Sihasura. In 1287, a fourth Chinese expedition, with Prince Ye-sin Timur
at its head, reached at last Pagan, having suffered considerable
losses.... A fifth and last Chinese expedition took place during the
autumn of 1300 when the Chinese army went down the Irawadi Valley and
besieged Myin-Saing during the winter of 1300-1301. The Mongol officers of
the staff having been bribed the siege was raised." (Bul. Ecole
Extreme-Orient, Oct.-Dec., 1909, pp. 679-680; cf. also p. 651 n.)
Huber, p. 666 n., places the battle-field of Vochan in the Nam Ti
Valley; the Burmese never reached the plain of Yung Ch'ang.
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