In The Summer Of 1288 Several Of The Princes Of Nayan's League,
Under Hatan (Apparently The Abkan Of Erdmann's Genealogies), The
Grandson Of Chinghiz's Brother Kajyun [Hachiun], Threatened The Provinces
North-East Of The Wall.
Kublai sent his grandson and designated heir,
Teimur, against them, accompanied by some of his best generals.
After a
two days' fight on the banks of the River Kweilei, the rebels were
completely beaten. The territories on the said River Kweilei, the
Tiro, or Torro, and the Liao, are mentioned both by Gaubil and De
Mailla as among those which had belonged to Nayan. As the Kweilei and Toro
appear on our maps and also the better-known Liao, we are thus enabled to
determine with tolerable precision Nayan's country. (See Gaubil, p. 209,
and De Mailla, 431 seqq.)
["The rebellion of Nayan and Hatan is incompletely and contradictorily
related in Chinese history. The suppression of both these rebellions
lasted four years. In 1287 Nayan marched from his ordo with sixty
thousand men through Eastern Mongolia. In the 5th moon (var. 6th) of the
same year Khubilai marched against him from Shangtu. The battle was fought
in South-Eastern Mongolia, and gained by Khubilai, who returned to Shangtu
in the 8th month. Nayan fled to the south-east, across the mountain range,
along which a willow palisade now stands; but forces had been sent
beforehand from Shin-chow (modern Mukden) and Kuang-ning (probably to
watch the pass), and Nayan was made prisoner.
"Two months had not passed, when Hatan's rebellion broke out (so that it
took place in the same year 1287). It is mentioned under the year 1288,
that Hatan was beaten, and that the whole of Manchuria was pacified; but
in 1290, it is again recorded that Hatan disturbed Southern Manchuria, and
that he was again defeated.
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