When SUI CHUEN and the others arrive at Yick Yeung to meet with the Taipings, they discover that HAM FLING has ordered the arrest of members of the Eighth Flags. Ching soldiers, however, loot along their ways, thus enabling the Taipings to recruit new followers. SUI CHINE discovers that they lack food supplies. Some of his men start looting in Fa Kiu town, which greatly grieves SIN CHEUNG. SUI CHINE realizes the disadvantages of staying in the hills, and decides to rejoin SUI CHUEN. Fearful that Ching soldiers will find out that his ancestors have worked for the Eighth Flags, MASTER CHEUNG orders LEE CHIU SHAO to destroy related documents. CHIU SHAO complies, but finds a map depicting the secret locations of foreign-made cannons. The Ching soldiers arrive and kill the CHEUNGs. CHIU SHAO masquerades as a Ching soldier and escapes. He bumps into SUI CHINE, and joins his camp. SUI CHINE follows the map, and finds the firearms.… ...
