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 TIN DEFEATED. 57 seven li of Pinggwo city, when he apprehended two scouts. He immediately drew up his army at the north-west of the city, and waited the arrival of his brother. But the Moyoong men in his army deserted to their fellow-countrymen under Whang, and Yin, with his Liaotung men, was totally defeated. The men of his own tent revolted after the battle, seized and brought hm a prisoner to the victors. His most trusty friends and advisers were slain, and he himself ^rmitted to commit suicide ; for, unlike the Turks, no member of any royal or imperial family in Ghioa can be executed, but one may be ordered to execute himself. Many of Yin's men, who at first fled, returned and joined the conqueror ; and, of all the officers, only two fled into Qaogowli Oao, the general of this successful expedition, was created a Duke by Whang. To keep Dwan in check, Whang now built the city of Haochung,* to the east of Yilien, — ^the easternmost city of Dwan. Bo was made commandant, with a force sufficient to keep a sharp look-out on both Dwan and Yuwun. Next month after the city was finished, some thousands of Dwan men approached to ascertain whether they could not pull it down. Bo drove them off; and the Dwan commander of a second laiger army was afterwards seized. Kitig liao of Dwan was, however, not to be beaten, but sent yet a third army, numbering fifty thousand men, which camped at Hwishwit river, west of liwchung. The commander of this army hearing that Whang was marching against him with an equal number of men, retreated quickly without striking a blow. Whang, therefore, marched northwards to a city he had built some years before* A general of Yuwun, who had set out for fin early Gliinese history "riyer" is always translated "SS^wi^ or water,— ^o being a modem generic name, it having becoa anciently applied to the So, the Yellow Biver. This Hwi river is also called the Ghti Shwi, north-west of Haochnng coming from Mongol land, passing THunchung in a north-west direction, then north-east passing Ooothan, then south-east,— so says a note to the original hietory. liwdrang was north of the present Kingchow, so the river must have been the Daliang.
 * This dty would needs be aomewhere in the vidnity of Kwangning.