 In the end, only 7000 of the 30,000 Burmese soldiers returned.Bandula fell back to his rear base at Danubyu, a small town not far from Yangon, in the Irrawaddy delta.Having lost experienced men in Yangon, the Burmese forces now numbered about 10,000, of mixed quality, including some of the king's best soldiers but also many untrained and barely armed conscripts.