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 El^D OF LIAO. 249 the keys of Yoongping ; and the Yenking fugitives were escorted westwards, under the care of the " Ever Victorious " army, which was wholly composed of Liaotung men, formed by the Liao, but which had lately deserted to Sung. The last king of the Liao on Chinese soil was captured by Ein in the north of Shansi, in 1125, and by them made an honorary Wang. The main portion of the I^ had before that time moved far to the west, to the Hia country, and there established the West liao. Their seat was called Chirman. They had reigned in one unbroken line for two hundred and twenty years ; and they first made the modem Peking the capital of a kingdom. The illness and death of Agooda prevented that sudden revenge, which the Ein were able enough and willing enough at once to take. He was succeeded by his brother, Woo Chiwmai, the Tiger Chief. And two months after his death, in November 1123, the Ein general, Doo Moo, was ordered against Jang with 3000 horse. Jang met him with a much superior force, and Moo had to retire. When Jang reported his victory, he was made a lieutenant-general, and had many myriad taels forwarded him by the glad Sung emperor. But next month a stronger force was marched against him ; and to prove himself worthy of his new honours, he advanced, as before, to meet them ; but» taken unawares, he was completely defeated, and fled to Tenshan. The Dootoong of Fingchow took possession of the city, to hand it over to Ein. He was killed by the inhabitants, who prepared to stand a siege to the death ; and it was July of next year before the Ein again occupied the city. Immediately on the defeat of Jang Goo, the Elin sent messengers to the emperor, upbraiding the court with breach of fiedth and unfriendliness, in receiving and harbouring a rebeL They also demanded the head of Jang Goo. And the Chinese court exposed its contemptible weakness and hollow worthlesch nessy by sending a messenger, who had Jang's head off and sent to Eon. This event bore its immediate and natural fruits ; for the men of the " Ever Victorious '* army went into the presence of their commander, Gwo Losu, weeping, and saying: ''The