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Xuan-de: Year 2, Month 3, Day 11

7 Apr 1427

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On this day, the Li bandit in Jiao-zhi attacked and encircled Qiu-wen. The Commissioner Sun Ju led troops to strengthen the defences. They erected a watch-tower and arranged ballista (飛砲) and cannons (神銃) for defence. The bandits thus did not dare come close. However, the grain stores within the city were low and a person was secretly sent with an urgent message for the Zhen-yuan Marquis Gu Xing-zu, the "General for Subduing the Man". Xing-zu sent the guard commander Yang Zheng and others with grain under armed escort to deliver via a by-path.

Xuan-zong: juan 26.4b

Zhong-yang Yan-jiu yuan Ming Shi-lu, volume 17, page 678

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Geoff Wade, translator, Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu: an open access resource, Singapore: Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/reign/xuan-de/year-2-month-3-day-11, accessed January 22, 2019