pursue a routed army(zhuī bēn zhú běi)

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

His elite horse team, who came from the desert and pursued the north, was his strong point. Gao Yang's "jade seat and Pearl curtain" Volume I

Chinese PinYin : zhuī bēn zhú běi