Li Ping-hong who, after ordering the local Militia to be renamed "I-yung" or Patriot Soldiers, like the The Chuan outlaws. left Yangchow on the Ist instant for Tsingkiangpu to lead some 12,000 troops, (under Generals Ch'tn 'I's¢-lin and Chang Chun-fix,) to Peking, has returned to Yangchow again. It is stated that Generals Ch'én and Chang's troops, who are all Hunanese, refused to go north under Li Ping-héug's leadership, saying that their true chief is Viceroy Lift K'un-yi and no one else. Li Ping-hong has therefore returned and will, it is stated, take up other troops who will obey him.
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