24 CHAOS [EN. found the country so flooded by rains that no cart could move, and yet too shallow for boats to float In the autumn of 207, he marched from Hiiwo shan, 500 li, to £ailan shan by the Ping gang road, past Looloong ; and in September, he passed Bailangs han * (white-wolf mountain) in search of the foa As soon as he came in sight of the enemy, he sent forward his van, under Jang Liao, to an immediate attack. The van pressed in with fiiry, and the enemy was routed with great slaughter. Tadun and some other commanding officers were slain. 200,000 men submitted ; but a few under Aisiaishang, king of Woohung, fled towards Xiaotung, whither they were pursued, and most of them cut down by Swunkang, who had succeeded his father as Taishow of Liaotung. Tsao returned from Liwchung in October in extremely cold weather. To add to the sufferings of his men, he had to march 200 li without water, for which he had to dig 30 feet ; f and he was compelled to kill thousands of his horses for food. But when he got home, he lavishly rewarded his surviving men. The overstrained and water-logged vessel of state had now burst up, and a Wei dynasty rose out of the northern portion of China, with a Woo to its south,J reviving the Confucian kingdoms on their ancient sites. The Han, however, retained a large portion of Central and Western China. Such was the final resultant of innumerable opposite forces acting and reacting, clashing and combining for a century. And the power of each of the rival thrones proved conclusively to itself and its adherents that
- Said to be west of Yowbeiping. Liwchung was in the neighbourhood of the
modem Eingchow, whither he might be drawn in puisuit. In the Toongkien, carried down to the end of the Ming dynasty, occur the following notes by authors of the Ming dynasty. Liwchung was south-west of Loongshan and north-east of Beiping. BaUan was south of Beiping and east of Hilwoo; it was 25 li south of the modem Miyun hien. Bailang was in Woohung land, and north-east of Yowchow. Looloong was under the jtirisdiction of Yowchow, and is still known as Looloong hien ; in the language of the " men of the north " (Woohung), Loo was Uadc and loong water; hence Looloong, the Black water. The river there is said to be very dark. fThe history says 30 Jang, or 300 ft; but this is absurd. X Shanghai is in Woo,
