Smim Payu

[2] He is most well known for planning and commanding the 1541 naval attack on Martaban (Mottama) that finally breached the defenses of the last Hanthawaddy holdout, and ended the Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War (1534–41).

In the 1538–1539 campaign that finally captured Pegu, Payu commanded one of the seven flotillas that chased the retreating Hanthawaddy forces.

[6][note 2] For months, Toungoo forces tried but could not break through the wealthy port's heavily fortified defenses that included Portuguese mercenaries, firearms and warships.

Payu's "navy", which consisted of small war boats, too was unable to take on seven Portuguese warships guarding the harbor.

In May 1541, seven months into the siege and only weeks away from the rainy season, several fire-rafts "with flames higher than a toddy tree" came floating down the river toward the Portuguese ships guarding the harbor.

Then the rafts with mounted bamboo towers, crammed with troops and musketeers, slipped past the wreckage, and made it to the wall by the harbor.

[2] Payu was the joint commander of the navy (with Nanda Yawda, governor of Thamyindon) in Toungoo's November 1541 attack on Prome Kingdom.

Faced with an impending naval and land invasion, the troika advised that Toungoo forces focus on defeating the Confederation's navy first.

Without naval support, the 16,000-strong Confederation armies could not break Toungoo lines, and retreated after a month in January 1544.