{"book":"adl0978","page":32,"text":"welcome them and give them food. When the troops came to Lun-\ntou, this country would not yield. After besieging the capital for several\ndays, the city was taken and the people slaughtered. From hence all\nwas easy going westward till the capital of Tayuan. When the Han\ntroops numbering 30 thousand came to the capital, they were met with\nand set upon by the Tayuan troops. Then the Tayuan troops were\ndefeated by Han shooters and fled inside the city to take cover behind\nthe parapets. General Erhshih thought about going away to attack\nthe city of Yu-hcheng but was afraid lest delay would cause mishap.\nSo he had the water supply of the capital cut off and besieged the\ncity for more than forty days. The outer city was broken and a brave\ngeneral of Tayuan, nobleman Chienmi was taken prisoner. The\nTayuan troops were greatly frightened and retreated to the middle city.\nThe noblemen of Tayuan conferred and one of them said: \"Han is attac-\nking Tayuan because our King Mukua hid the steed and killed the\nHan envoy. If we kill our King Mukua and yield the steed, the Han\ntroops would most likely depart. If they should refuse to depart, it\nwould not be too late than to fight till we die.\" The other noblemen\nagreed, and they jointly killed King Mukua. One of the noblemen,\ntaking the head of Mukua, came to General Erhshih and parley in\nthis way: \"If Han stops attacking us, we will offer all our good\nhorses to be taken by you at will, and will give Han troops food. If\nyou refuse to do so, we will kill all the good horses. In the meantime,\nour rescue from Kangchu is soon due. When it comes, with us\nfrom within and Kangchu from without, your Han troops will be\nattacked from both sides. Consider well which to choose.\" At\nthat time, Kangchu was waiting and watching the Han\ntroops. As the latter were yet fresh, it dared not come forward. Gene-\nral Erhshih conferred with Chao Shih-cheng, Li Chih, and others\nand learnt that the Tayuan people inside the capital had newly learnt\nthe art of well-drilling from a person from Chin and that they had\nstill plenty stores of food. Han troops had come to punish the\nchief culprit Mukua, and now Mukua's head was already here. If\nthey should refuse to lift the siege under these terms, the Tayuan\npeople would endeavour to guard the city, and Kangchu would come\nto their rescue when it saw the Han troops becoming tired. In that\ncase, the Han troops would certainly be defeated. All the officers\nagreed with this line of reasoning. The Tayuan terms were accepted.\nTayuan took out its good horses for Han to choose, and supplied\nHan troops with food. The Han troops took several scores of the good\nhorses and 3,000 stallions and mares of the middle and lower breeds.\nThey also made Moshe the King of Tayuan, who was a nobleman\nand had treated Han envoys well, and pledged alliance and peace with\nhim. So the Han troops ultimately returned home without entering\nthe middle city of the Tayuan capital.\n- 18 -","chars":2955,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00032.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":51,"title":"Tāyān : faṣl-i 123 Shī Chī yā asnād-i tārīkhī تايان : فصل ١٢٣ شى چى ىا اسناد تاريخى","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0978/32","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/32","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0978/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0978_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. 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