 However, in 1910 he returned to the Oirat Torghuts in Altay (in Dzungaria), and in 1912 he helped the Outer Mongolians mount an attack on the last Qing garrison at Kovd, where the Manchu "Amban" was refusing to leave and fighting the newly declared independent Mongolian state.The Manchu Qing force was defeated and slaughtered by the Mongols after Khovd fell.Ja Lama told the Oirat remnants in Xinjiang