Of two roads he chose the nearer one which led to I-ling.…Unable to go any further, Ts’ao Ts’ao was forced to bivouac by the side of the road till daylight; was overtaken first by Chao Yün, fought his way out, and then by Chang Fei, whom he also outwitted and finally reached I-ling with only twenty-seven men, the remnant of his vast army of eight hundred and thirty thousand men!