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  1. ⁠⁠At that time, the Chinese deployed artillery guns and batteries on Sarhv Mountain. Our Five Banners attacked the mountaintop bravely and annihilated them in a short while. They then immediately crossed the river, our troops on the Girin Mountain also started to attack Jaxehexen, and the two banners of the right wing also outflanked them from the south side, we fought with muskets and bows and defeated them in less than two hours. Then we chased them to the top of Gurcin Mountain. It was already dark then, so our soldiers surrounded the mountain and killed those Chinese who tried to break out from the encirclement. The Sure Khan spent the night on Mount Bagrada and the crown Prince on Mount Hark. The other princes and ministers were camping along the Tum River. They saw a large group of Chinese troops forming formations between the south of Xanggxan Mountain and the north of Gurcin Mountain, and those foes were beating gongs and drums. So a report was sent to the Crown prince, he said: "Don't reveal yourself, just keep observing in secret and I shall head there tomorrow."

The next day, the Crown prince led the army there and the Chinese immediately retreated into the triple trench they had dug in the night. They formed a phalanx formation, and deployed cavalry outside the trench, with a row of guns in front of them and three rows of heavy guns behind. In the west, there was yet another 10k-strong Chinese division stationed on Furfen Mountain, three miles away from Xanggxan Mountain. The Crown prince then sent three envoys to the Khan one after another. At that time, the Khan was in the wilderness of Olyvome. He found there were 10k Chinese marching with guns, chariots and rattan plates. He then led less than a thousand elite bannermen to attack them. The Chinese immediately retreated into the trenches to defend themselves. The Khan then dismounted and attacked the trench with half of his men, but the guns of the Chinese were of poor quality, they tried to fire them but it won't work. Perceiving this, our army then attacked together, overturned their chariots, and killed all the 10,000 Chinese troops.

During the withdrawal, the Khan received those envoys from the crown prince, so Sure Khan rode forward to the prince without waiting for others. Arriving at high noon, the Khan said: "Our army must take Gurcin Mountain first, then attack from the high ground to win." When the elite bannermen were about to launch an attack on the mountain they saw Chinese soldiers on the ground starting to come out of the trench, the Khan then said: "This is it, they are going to fight us. Withdrawal my previous order, we must dismount quickly and fight them." The crown prince asked a certain man to inform two banners of the left wing to dismount. But the Chinese force was approaching and there were only 50-60 of our men who had dismounted, the crown prince thus said to Khan: "Khan my Father, the critical moment has come. I will lead an attack on the Chinese right now. ” So he rushed into the enemy’s formation on horseback and wiped out the vanguard of the Chinese. Seeing the approaching Chinese army, the other six banners did not have time to form a wedge formation. The one who rode fast led the charge and those who were slow followed them like they were hunting some beasts. Immediately after they reached the front they rushed in, disregarded the guns and artillery of the Chinese, and the enemies retreated. We chased them into the wilderness of Xanggxan Mountain, forcing them to throw themselves into the river or fall into the swamp, thus killing many enemies. Then we chased down the other fleeing enemies. Some of them fled to the mountains. We encircled them and then we sent half of our soldiers to kill them all.

After this victory, we turned back to attack the 10k Chinese division on Furfen Mountain. Half of our army were ordered to dismount, among them those who wore heavy armour charged into the enemy line with spears and broadswords in their hand, the lightly armoured troops shot arrows from behind. The other half of the men stayed in the rear on their horses. That was how we attacked the mountain, the Chinese army stood on their ground. They defended themselves with their shields and fired guns at us, but like before these guns could not harm our soldiers. We then launched a devastating blow and killed all these 10k Chinese troops before 3:00 pm.

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