pursue a routed army

pursue a routed army

Chasing the north is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Zhu ī B ē nzh ú B ě I, which means to pursue the defeated enemy. It comes from the Han Dynasty Jia Yi's Guo Qin Lun.

The origin of Idioms

Han Jiayi's on crossing the Qin Dynasty: "chasing the subjugated and chasing the north, one million corpses." Li Ling's answer to Su Wu Shu in the Han Dynasty: "however, you still have to cut the flag of the general, chase the north, wipe out the trace and sweep away the dust, and kill the commander."

Idiom usage

To pursue a defeated enemy

Examples

His elite horse team, also from the desert, chasing north, is his strong point. Gao Yang's "jade seat and Pearl curtain" Volume I