 The third reason is that at the time that Turkic Muslims were waging
rebellion in the early years of the Guangxu reign, the ‘five elite
divisions’ that governor general Liu Jintang led out of the Pass were
all Dungan troops [Hui dui 回队].Back then, Dungan military
commanders such as Cui Wei and Hua Dacai were surrendered
troops who had been redeployed.These are undoubtedly cases of
pawns who went on to achieve great merit.