Page:History of Corea, ancient and modern; with description of manners and customs, language and geography (1879).djvu/187

 OOBSAK SPY. 1^8 9sad gmtitade whidi was heard over a score of E The 9,300 Mogo men who surrendered were all slain. Spoils umnmeraUe w^re taken, with 50,000 horsea and 10,000 iron coats of maiL The hill on which the emperor had camped was afterwards callod Jo6bialum, the Imperial Halt This defeat threw Gaoli into a state of extreme terror. The cities of Howhwang and Tmdinng weie emptied, the country people fled, and not a house smoked within ser^nd hundred li of Anshu. The aaiperor sent the fleetest horseman to inform the heir apparent, thea in charge in Loyang, and with exultant Tanity to ask, ''what think you now of me as a general?^' On the fortp fifth day of the AegQ of Anshu, after that battle^ a spy of Qaisoowun's was taken, and brought bound before the emperor, who ordered his fetters to be remored, and then asked him idbiy he looked so thin ; to whidi he replied that he had been days without food* The emperor ordered attendants to prepaie and give him food, and then said that he vn^t inform Qoisoowini that, if he desired to know the condition of the CSunese army, he might send a man openly to enquire and to see. After giving the spy a pair of wooden pattens, the emperor disBBSsed him* After this incident, another month passed, but the atj gave no fflgn of yielding. The emperor recalled the advice of Shuji whfle yet at Yenchow, to the effect that Anshu was a well protected city, and its chief* an able man, who successfully defied Qaisoowun, when the rest of Qaoli acknowledged him; that Jienan was not strong, nor well provisioned, and could be taken with a rush, after whidi Anshu would not stand long. An objector said, that as Jienan was on the south, and Anshu on the JkorOkf between it and liaotung, where their proviaons were collected^— « Anshu would be in their rear, and mi^t be able to cut off their communication, — and what then ? The emperor, referring now to that plan, said: ''The Duke Shuji fer a leader 1 Ha ! Anshu would have long ago opened its gate0 at sight of the imperial banners, but for the plundering sentunenti ^Svny ci^ lud Ste own h««dilaKy »4kle tiU «oiiipin^^ ><*•>.,