{"book":"adl0978","page":34,"text":"half had died of hunger on the way; and thus \"how could Han\ndispatch large troops here to molest us?\" Morever the Erhshih\nsteed was a precious one. So they refused to give it to the Han\nenvoy. The Han envoy got angry and walked out after voicing uncivil\nwords and hammering the gold horse statuette to pieces. The Tayuan\nelders also became angry and said \"The Han envoy, slighted us too\nmuch.\" They drove out the Han envoy and ordered him to be\nambushed at Yuencheng in eastern Tayuan. The Han envoy was\nkilled and his goods and money taken away. Thereupon the Emperor\nwas roused to a great wrath. Yao Ting-han and others who had\nbeen to Tayuan as envoys said that the Tayuan troops were weak\nand that the country could be defeated and captured with no greater\nforce than 3,000 Han troops armed with hard bows and arrows. Having\nsent the Knight of Chuyeh to attack Louland, who rushed ahead\nwith seven hundred horsemen and captured its King, the Emperor\napproved of the opinion of Yao Ting-han and others. As a special\nfavour to his beloved concubine Li, the Emperor appointed Li Kuang\nli the General of Erhshih to lead six thousand horsemen of the subject\ncountries and several tens of thousands of aggressive youths of the\nfeudal states to attack Tayuan. The general was entitled Erhshih because\nit was expected to invade the city of Erhshih and win the steed.\nChao Shih-cheng was made Chief of the Headquarters; Wang Huei,\nformerly the Knight of Hao, the advance guard; and Li Chih the\nruler of the army affairs. That was the first year of the reign of\nTaichu (104 B. C.) when numerous locusts plagued Kuantung and flew\nwest to Tunhuang. When the troops of General Erhshih advanced\nto the west of the Salt River, the samll countries in the way be-\ncame afraid and each shut tight their cities and refused to supply food.\nThose cities were not easily stormed. When they were taken, food was\nobtained, and when not, the troops had to depart after several\nday's siege. When they came to Yuehcheng, the troops only\nnumbered several thousands and were all hungry exhausted.\nThey attacked Yuehcheng, but were seriously defeated, with a\ngreat number killed and wounded. General Erhshih, together\nwith Li Chih, Chao Shih-cheng and others, estimated that even\nYuehcheng could not be won, how could they take the capital\nof Tayuan. So they led the remaining troops back. It took them\n- 16 -","chars":2383,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00034.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/adl0978/34","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/34","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. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}