ABSTRACT
The Jenuye Achvidied in B.C. 105, after a reign of ten years, and was succeeded by his son Chimsiru, nicknamed "the Boy Jenuye," a young man of restless and bloodthirsty disposition. The Hiung-nu seem at this period to have lost their hold upon the Tungusic part of their dominions, and to have concentrated themselves into two main bodies, the eastern one of which did not reach farther than the Chinese frontier at modern Ta-t'ung Fu in Shan Si, whilst the western one came into contact with the Chinese at the great junction of roads east of Lob-nor, thus leaving the Harashar and Khoten roads to Kashgar both in possession of the Chinese, and themselves manœuvring along the Caracorum, Uliasutai, and Cobdo road. It was during the Boy Jenuye's reign that the already mentioned war with Kokand took place; but the opportune arrival of a great snowstorm, which carried off a great number of the Hiung-nu sheep and cattle, prevented them from doing very much injury to the Chinese. Still, the frontier war went on; the Chinese armies once more fought their way to the Tula and Orkhon rivers, and the nomads found themselves unable to make any impression upon the line of Chinese posts north of the Yellow River Loop and the Ordous country. Chimsiru only lived three years, and, as his son was too young to be of any use, his uncle Kulegu, brother of Achvi, was elected to fill the vacant throne. The Chinese attempted to hold a line of fortified posts all the way north to the River Kerulon, and there was a good deal of fighting along this road; but without any satisfactory results for the Hiung-nu. Kulegu's idea was to attack the successful Chinese army on its way back after its brilliant action in Kokand; but no good
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