The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.91

v4.c23.s3.91

A plague of freebooter armies broke out in China during the change of dynasty. They swarmed over the provinces but, finding by bitter experience that it did not pay to plunder the Manchus, the new conquerors of China, they looked for easier prey. They occupied Mone and Yawnghwe and ravaged up to Ava, plundering the villages, killing men, carrying off women and burning monasteries, while the monks fled in terror to the woods. They could not take Ava, for it was a walled town, and one of their leaders was even killed by a shot from the feringhi gunners from the wall. But for the next three years they ravaged upper Burma from Yawnghwe, occupying Wundwin in Meiktila district, raiding Pagan, defeating every army, and even capturing some of the princes.