The eunuch's servants were hunted by the mandarins in order that they might be given the punishment they deserved for their crimes; but they, with many other Chinese, fled to the Tartars, whom they begged and persuaded to invade and destroy China, offering themselves to serve as guides.

It was not difficult to induce the Tartars to do this, since for other reasons they were already angry with the Chinese.

So they planned that these Chinese traitors and some Tartars should go with concealed weapons, and in the guise of friends, to a certain place.

They went there, and one night suddenly seized their arms, killed the greater part of the soldiers, sacked the place, and, pretending to flee, withdrew with the spoils.

They left a great number of people in ambush, in the woods.