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 GREAT WALL KEBUILT. 199 of 4000 light horse was sent still further east to cut off the Kitan retreat These got to Yangshwai* river. As this Lord of Chi was able to undergo a great deal of fatigue, he rested not day nor nighty but pushed on for Tueshan ling, 1000 lii" distant (from Pingchow ?) ; and as his men ate only flesh, and drank only water, they were of giant strength and in splendid spirit& As soon as they came up with the Kitan they rushed upon and completely defeated them, taking over 100,000 captives with millions of cattle. Another force broke up the Kitan tribes on Chingshan, and Lord Chi returned to Yingchow. Hence we learn that Kitan bordered all the north-east, and most of the north, frontier of China ; as weU as all the western border of Liaosi But, notwithstanding this victory, so frequent and serious were the irruptions from the north, that the Lord of Chi followed the example of the former Tsin emperor, and sent 1,800,000 men to build the great wall fix)m Hiakow J of Yow- chow to Hungchow || a distance of 900 li. The Kitan were soon eclipsed by the rapidly rising power of Tookue to their west in Inner Mongolia, who made incessant and terrible raids into China ; though its divisions were healed by the Swi dynasty, which, like Moses' rod, had swallowed up all the other rod& In the larger events distracting China, it was not till 605, the Kitan again made themselves sufficiently troublesome to deserve a place in Chinese story. They then plundered the country round Yingchow of Liaosi A Chinese general, Wei Yunchi, was ordered against them, in company with a Tookue commander, who had 20,000 horse. Yunchi divided his army into 24 camps, each marching one li distant from the other. They marched Ib the " Yangahwai hien and station of Yingchow." t This would go to show the Kitan on the Daliang river W. of Jinchow or Ying- chow then, as when Anlooshan attacked them in the last days of Tang (see below). ^This fc doubtless the Nankow pass, for a " stream springing N.W. of Jwnndoo hien, and flowing S.E. of Dsooyang hien of Shanggoo (Skangchow, Suenhwa) flows through Hiakow." For building of the Wall, see note p. IL n Hungchow is Tatung f oo of Shansi.
 * Daliang? A note says that Kitan Shiwd tribes ruled from Shwaichow, which