Note 1 — Chapter XXXIII · Tsʻao Pʻei Finds a Wife: A Plan for Settling Liaotung.
C. H. (Charles Henry) Brewitt-Taylor translation
The season was winter, cold and dry. For two hundred li there was no water, and grain also was scanty. The troops fed on horse flesh. They had to dig very deep, thirty to forty chang,1 to find water.