Encyclopaedia Britannica, or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol. 6: Enlarged and Improved (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Under this monarch the empire began to recover itself; but the Kitan still continued their incursions. The successors of Kau-tsu opposed them with various success but at last, in 978, the barbarians became so strong as to lay siege to a considerable city. Tay tsong, successor to Kan-tan, detached 300 soldiers, each carrying a light in his hand, against them in the night time, with orders to approach as near as possible to the Tartar camp. The barbarians imagining, by the num ber of lights, that the whole Chinese army was at hand, immediately fled, and, falling into the ambuscades laid for them by the Chinese general, were almost all cut to pieces.

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