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 76 YEN WANG. In March, 350, Yen Wang ordered General Ba to start with 20,000 men by the east route via Tooho. He wonld, therefore, march south along the sea shore through the modem Shan- haigwan. Moyii was sent by the west route through Fiwung border, and Jwun marched at the head of the main body by the central route through Looloong * (which was 200 li north-west of Pingchow). Go and Yiiliang commanded the van of this army. And Loongchung was left in charge of the Heir- Apparent As soon as Commander Ba got to the neighbourhood of Sanhing, Dung, the Commandant of Anlo, or Longan, abandoned the city, after setting fire to the heaps of stores. He then joined Wang Woo, Commandant of Yowchow, to protect Kichow, which had been formerly plundered by Whang's forces. This Kichow is now called Tahing hien, in the neighbourhood of Peking. He had fled too soon, however; for Swun, the DooyH of South Tooho, entered Longan, extinguished the fires, and saved enormous stores of grain and silk, — all the grain of Beiping and Anlo having been stored up there. Swun then joined Jwun at Linju city, — ^now called Sanho, full thirty miles east of Peking. The Yen men got to Woodsoong in April, and Wang Woo, leaving Wang Two with a few thousand men in Kichow, hastened, with Dung in retreat, to protect Lookow.f Kichow was assaulted in a few days and taken by storm. Wang Two was seized and beheaded, — a fate which Wang Woo and his second wisely avoided, by seeking to fight another day. Jwun, like his father at Hiangping, but with less provocation, was about to order a massacre of all the soldiers of Two, but Ba reasoned with him that it was just such conduct which prevented Stone Tiger from becoming Emperor of China. Soldiers who will not fight for their incapable rulers will fight to save their Peking, through those main gullies which resounded so many centuries later to the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan and the Banners of the Liaotung Manchus. tThe modem Tingchow.
 * These two wotild enter China from the north-east and north of the modem