 Throughout <unk> , the <unk> command made preparations for the upcoming invasions of <unk> and northern Burma . The objective of the Burma campaign was to take over northern Burma but no further ; the emperor did not <unk> an attack on Pagan itself . At least one army consisted of 14 @,@ 000 men of the <unk> Persian <unk> Empire under the command of <unk> <unk> was sent to <unk> to reinforce the Burma invasion force , which again was made up of Turks and other central <unk> . On the <unk> side , the king managed to raise an army although given his low standing with his vassals , he probably could not have raised a large one . By mid @-@ <unk> , a <unk> army led by generals <unk> <unk> and <unk> <unk> was deployed at a fort at <unk> . 
