154 SINLO. soldier before him, to ask kindly and minutely after his ailments ; and if he found a man very imwell, he left him in the hands of the nearest magistrate, while the dead he saw properly buried. He got to Tingchow in April 645 ; having two months before sent messengers to Sinlo, Baiji, and the Si (west) Eitan to summon them to his standard A remarkable man, the Duke Li Daliang, died about this time in Changan, the capital. He had all along emphatically denounced this Corean expedition* When he died all his inheritance consisted of five pecks of rice and thirty pieces of cotton, for he was as good as he was greats supporting all his poor relations with his salary. The main army was placed imder Li Shuji, who got to Yowchow, 1600 li from Loyang, in March 645, a month before the emperor started from the capital. Li started from Liwchung in the following May, passed through Whaiyuen,* passed Toongdao; and at Toongding crossed the Liao, taking a route by which the Qaoli could not expect him, and marched for Hiientoo; thus flank- ing Liaotung city, and pushing into the heart of the countiy, necessarily from the north. This was with the evident design of cutting Gaoli communication, and isolating Liaotung city. Jang Hien had been sent on to the Liao before, but dared not cross. He now crossed eastwards, marching by Jienanchung, and defeated, with his van of Hoo troops, the Gaoli army opposing him. At an earlier period Wang Daodsoong, the honorary Taotai of Liaotung, prayed to be perpiitted to take a hundred horse, promising with these to explore the enemy's land. The emperor agreed, and asked what time he would require — ten days to go.
- Liwchung was in the jurisdiction of Yingchow, and so was Whaiyuen, which
must be sought for north of Yingchow. Toongding jun was estaUished by Swi Emperor when there, and the floating bridges were cast over the river at Toongdao, Hiientoo was, as we have seen (ch. 1.), established by Han, and as a counterpoise to]|Wojoo; but as it was afterwards taken by the "Savages,'* its magistrate was moved to Oaoli ?Uen, passed which the (small) Liao flowed. Toongding was doubtless Sancha ho, west of Newchwang, where the river is easiest to cross, for the outer and inner Liao rivers there meet. Whaiyuen must be located somewhere to the west of that and east of the Daliang river.
