When Shah Abbas I succeeded in driving the Ottoman armies out of eastern Georgia, leaving a Persian force in Tbilisi, he confirmed Luarsab as king of Kartli.
[3] In June 1609, their army invaded Kartli, sacked and looted several villages, captured part of the population and quickly approached Manglis.
[4] In the meantime, the Georgians gathered an army and under the command of Giorgi Saakadze and Zaza Tsitsishvili, at the village of Nyabi (now Kaspi municipality), at the Shcherti swamp, they turned back the enemy.
The army of Georgians crossed the river Mtkvari near the village of Akhaldaba (present-day Borjomi municipality) and cut off the opponent's way to Akhaltsikhe.
The Georgian army suddenly attacked the enemy at dawn and almost completely destroyed them, only a small part managed to escape.