User:Vmenkov/Bai Yanhu

Originally from Shaanxi...

In the fall of 1872 Bai Yanhu's Hui militia participated in the defense of Xining against the Qing forces commanded by Liu Jintang, but eventually they had to retreat north, via Datong and to the Hexi Corridor.

... Bai Yanhu and his followers fled from Kurla, and took Kucha from Qadir Pansad. But on October 17, 1877, Zuo Zongtang's troops reached the vicinity of Kucha, and took the city the next day. Bai Yanhu retreated to the west, and eventually crossed the border of Russian Empire.