 In 1724 , major hostilities resumed between Coorg and Mysore . Changing his modus operandi from guerrilla skirmishes in the hilly Coorg jungle to open field warfare , Dodda Virappa , attacked the Mysore army in the plains . Catching it off guard , he took in rapid succession six fortresses from Piriyapatna to Arkalgud . The resulting loss of revenue , some 600 @,@ 000 gold pagodas , was felt in Mysore , and several months later , in August or September 1724 , a large army was sent from Seringapatam , the Mysore capital , to Coorg . Upon the Mysore army 's arrival in the western region , however , the Coorg forces , returning to guerrilla warfare , retreated into the woods . Emboldened by the lack of resistance , the Mysore forces next mounted an attack on the Coorg hills . There too , they met no resistance . However , a few days into this invasion , the Mysore forces , recalling their ignominious ambush in the 1690s , panicked and retreated during the night . Soon , the Coorg army was attacking the Mysore outposts again . This pattern of back and forth was to continue until the Mysore army was recalled , a few months later , to Seringapatam , leaving the region again vulnerable to the periodic raids of the Coorg army . According to historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam , 
