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Chinese, and, driving them out of their stockades on that mountain, 

 pursued them as far as Md.wun, taking a great quantity of arms, 

 prisoners and horses. 



The land force of 22 divisions, which marched from Ava under the 

 Wi'in-gyih Maha-tsi'-thu', having arrived at Mo-gaung, after repair- 

 ing the defences of that town, and leaving a sufficient garrison in it, 

 proceeded to meet the Chinese army, which was advancing by the 

 Santa* route. On crossing the Kat-hjo-waing-md, the Wun-gyih 

 heard that the Chinese army were near Liz5 mountain, and sent a 

 small party in advance to reconnoitre. This party before it came to 

 Lizo fell in with a party of 1 ,000 horse, which the Chinese general 

 Tsheng-ta-l6-ye had also sent in advance, for the same purpose of 

 reconnoitring, and the Burmese, drawing the Chinese into a narrow 

 pass between two mountains, where their horse could not form line, 

 attacked and defeated them. Judging, however, from this reconnoi- 

 tring party only consisting of 1,000 horse, that the Chinese army 

 must be of great force, the Burmese party stopped on the bank of 

 the Ndn-nyenf river, and sent some scouts on in advance. These 

 returned with the intelligence, that, on ascending the top of a moun- 

 tain and climbing some trees, they had seen the Chinese army, which 

 amounted to about 20,000 horse, and 100,000 foot. The Wun-gyih 

 then appointed six divisions of his army to proceed with celerity by 

 the right, and six by the left, round each side of the Lizo mountain, 

 whilst with the remaining ten divisions, he advanced by the centre 

 route slowly, and occasionally firing cannon. The Chinese general 

 hearing of the approach of the Burmese, left one-third of his army 

 to take care of his stockades in Lizo, and with the remainder advanced 

 to meet the Burmese, and took post on the eastern bank of the Ndn- 

 nyen river. The Burmese force under the Wun-gyih came up and 

 joined the reconnoitring party on the western bank of the same river, 

 whilst the right and left wings, which had reached Liz6 by marching 

 round the rear of the Chinese main army, suddenly attacked and 

 carried the stockades there. The Chinese in those stockades believ- 

 ing that the principal portion of their own force was in front of them, 

 were completely taken by surprise, aud fled and joined their army 

 under general Tsheng-ta-lo-ye'? These wings of the Burmese army 

 then fell in with another Chinese force, which was coming from 

 China with a convoy of provisions to their army, and took possession 



* The distance between Mo-gaung and Santa is said to be only five or six 

 days' journey. 



t For the Shan word Ndm, water and small river, the Burmese always write 

 Ndn. 



