You said that Xiang [Ying] and Yuan [Guoping]¹ had left the army, but we have not
yet received news of this. It is expected that you will let us know immediately
when they left, where they are now, how things are with Xiyi [Ye Ting] and Xiao
Yao,² and how things are with the army. We had a report from Ye [Ting] and Xiang
on the 5th that they set out on the night of the 4th and reached somewhere between
Taiping and Jingxian in the early morning of the 5th. Things are unclear after that.