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 DEFEAT OF YUWUN. 51 ere a thousand of Han's horse galloped in by the north end, and set it on fire. As they were wholly unable to account for the attack in that quarter, they became stupified and were easily defeated and broken up. Doogwan escaped alone, and most of his men fell into the hands of Kwei, who found among the spoils the three seals of office given by former Chinese dynasties to the chiefs of Hienbi, — ^from which seals they took the distinctive name of Yuwun, when Hienbi was divided into three. The allied army had its eyes opened now when too late ; for the moral effect of that battle, and the skilful stratagems by which it was gained, made it impossible for Dwan and Gaogowli to hope for any success, and they hastily withdrew. The instigator of the war was also terrified, and sent a nephew to Jichung, to act as mediator between Kwei and the three kingdoms, to overture peace in their name, and to declare, on the part of the Chinese commander, that this war was none of his private seeking ; for that it was only the urgent appeals of the people of Pingchow which had constrained him to act as he had dona Kwei sent the nephew back with a message, declaring to the Governor that surrender was his wisest policy, and flight his next best. Kwei followed this messenger with his army ; and the governor, choosing ihe second suggestion as his best plan, fled, with a few dozen horse, to Gaogowli.* As he was unable to remove his family out of Pingchow, they fell into Kwei's hands, along with the city and all its inhabitants. Kwei appointed his son, Yin, Governor over Liaotung, leaving officials, markets, and everything else as he found them. The Gaogowli army, seeing Kwei now encroaching on their borders, drew up their army, but with the spirit " of slaves,*' and Yin's army completely routed them ; while Jang, the former (Jovemor or north-west, in a way rendering it impossible for Pingchow Commandant to retreat into China. This wotdd place Pingchow very much to the east of Toongping ; perhaps in the neighbourhood of Shanhaigwan, or between that and Ningyuen. Shanhaigwan is now under the jurisdiction of Yoongping ; and if Pingchow were located on any portion of the soil now subject to Yoongping, it would be said to be in Yoongping f oo.
 * Hub would seem to imply that Kwei advanoed against Pingchow from the west