Military Treatise (Wubeizhi), Volume 41

"Originally, I intended to send you back immediately. However, I feared that the various stockades fortified camps or mountain strongholds along the road ahead would not yet know my intentions and might be anxious or suspicious. I will use your group to lead the way for me. As you pass the stockades, show them the characters on your backs Gao Renhou famously marked the backs of prisoners with the character for "Pardon" to signify they were no longer enemies and had been granted amnesty and proclaim my message to them."

Then, he took the banners belonging to Luo Hunqing and tied them upside down. For every fifty men, he provided one banner, ordering them to run ahead, wave the banners, and shout loudly:

Upon arriving at Chuankou, where Xun Huseng had established eleven stockades, the people inside competed with each other to come out and surrender. Huseng was struck with terror and drew his sword to intercept them to prevent them from surrendering, but the crowd threw tiles and stones at him. Together, they seized him to present him to Gao Renhou. His followers, numbering more than five thousand men, all surrendered.

On the following morning, Renhou burned the stockades and ordered the surrendered rebels to carry banners and lead the vanguard, repeating the process from Shuangliu to Xinjin. There, Han Qiu had established thirteen stockades. They all surrendered in succession. Qiu threw himself into a deep ravine in an attempt to commit suicide or escape, but his followers hauled him out original: 鈞出 (jūn chū); to lift or pull out collectively. He was already dead, so they cut off his head to present it as an offering.