The New Attacks of Khan Kapagan to China             

     

        However, contrary to his wish to marry his daughter with a prince of T'ang, the Empress Wu exposed a prince from her own family as the son-in-law; then he got mad and declared the General Çen-çi-wei (he most be from the T'ang family), one of the committee from Chinese embassy, "the Chinese khan", and suddenly appeared in the Chinese lands like a storm: he made 30 attacks to different providences in the same year (698). All the Chinese forces who tried to resist them were crushed, they obtained lots of spoils, especially the horse crowds, and the slaves.

 

        They directed to the north. The commander of the Chinese forces Şa-Ça-Cung-i, eventhough he had a few thousands of forces, could not find the courage to attack to Turks and he only watched the cavalrymen divisions of Gok-Turks from aside. At the same time, the Chinese Palace had lost the hope and sent a daily and secret order to the army and noticed that the one "who could kill the khan" would be the prince.