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This policy of pursuing war and peace simultaneously was also what the Chinese commander Ye Zhizhao^([sic – meaning Zhichao]) in Yashan recommended:[…] In mid-July, the British ambassador in Beijing, Nicholas O'Conor remarked that while there were as many as 10,000 Japanese soldiers in Korea, there were only 2,000 Chinese soldiers,³⁴ not to mention the fact that those Chinese troops were all stuck in Yashan, a place which was impossible to defend strategically.

[1996 October, Allen Fung, “Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in Modern Asian Studies, volume 30, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 1014