THE TAKING-UP OF ARMS
Florence Wheelock Ayscough translation
BY LI T'AI-PO
A hundred battles, the sandy fields of battles, armour broken into fragments. To the South of the city they are already shut in and surrounded by many layers of men. They rush out from their cantonments. They shoot and kill the General of the Barbarians. A single officer leads the routed soldiers of the "Thousand Horsemen" returning whence they came.