Without halting for rest or food the troops under General Keng kept. right after the robbers on the night of January 30. The bandits now fled due north, their purpose evidently being to get over the Great Wall and out upon the grasse lands of Mongolia as quickly as possible. Passing near Yangkao, which is the fourth station east of Tatungfu on the railway, they reached a village ten li north of Yangkao. There a body of local militia, numbering thirty or forty, put up a stiff fight with the robbers, but were numerically too inferior to handle them. However, they delayed the bandits until the regular troops arrived on January 31. From that point the bandits were chased out over the northern arm of the Great Wall.
will thus be seen that d the entire width si, from the time province at on the west, clear through 'o Hunyjian, on the east. Much of the territory traversed was very difficult, being mountainous, and with no roads other than trails for pack-animals, After the engagement with General Kong's troops near Shohchow the bandits plundered mercilessly for a day or two, but later were so hotly pursued that they had no chance to From the fact that they kept away from the larger towns, even th some of them lay directly in their path, we may infer that they were poorly armed and probably short of ammunition. Their number was probably never in excess of 1,000. The only town they looted in which missionaries were hiving was Saratsi. It is clear that the movement had nothing whatever to do with the political changes, but was simply one of those ebullitions of brigandage with which we are ce familiar in China.
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