In early 995, 100 Viet warships sailed onto Yongzhou (Nanning, Guangxi), sacked the town of Ruhong before leaving. In summer, Le Hoan’s local officials from To Mau (modern-day Quang Ninh) led a village force of 5,000 men and sailors invaded China, plundered Luzhou near Yongzhou, but were defeated by Chinese general Yang Wenjie. In 1004, Le Hoan sent a mission to China led by one of his son, Prince Lê Minh Đề. Minh Đề was invited for the 1005 Lunar New Year Festival’s feast of the Song court along with emissaries of Champa and Arab. The Song records treated Dai Viet along with Java, Pagan, and the Arabs as equal sovereign states. Outside China and Champa, a Khmer inscription dated 987 records the arrival of Vietnamese merchants in Angkor.