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910 LE, 2091 BE.[1] He was known as King Mahachakkraphat. As King Mahachakkraphat had reigned for seven months, King Tabinshweti of Hanthawati arrived with his armed force. On that occasion, despite having perfect manpower, the Thai were inferior to the Burmese in one thing: the Burmese, having engaged and gained victory in wars for consecutive years, had been skilled in warfare and were being in the mood of fighting. The Thai sent out an armed force to fight them at the city of Suphan in order to test their strength, and found that this was a great war waged by a king-led army, the operations against which should not be carried out around the outer provinces. The armed force was then withdrawn to be stationed in the capital city of Glorious Ayutthaya. The Burmese armed force marched after them to their capital and launched a siege thereon. King Mahachakkraphat brought an armed force out to offer resistance and, in duelling with the ruler of Pyi on elephants, lost the upper hand to the enemy. Queen Suriyothai, his principal wife who dressed as a man, joined the battle. Finding her husband being endangered, she drove her elephant forth to block the way, successfully removing her husband from the peril. But Queen Suriyothai herself was slain by an enemy’s weapon amidst the theatre of that war. Seeing that opposing the enemy through on-field operations was beyond their ability, the Thai changed their fighting strategy by basing their operations within the capital city and instructing Prince Mahathammaracha, the royal son-in-law who ruled the city of Phitsanulok, to muster the forces from the northern provinces and march them down to surround the enemy. As for the Burmese, all their many attempts to march in and seize the capital city ended in failure, and their efforts to move their encampments closer to the city were thwarted by the Thai sailing along the river on junks, firing cannons at them. As the Burmese continued to besiege the capital city, they began to run out of food supplies. Upon hearing that the forces from the northern provinces were marching south to
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