Tang is the best soldier in China - Malcolm Bosse

[A young mission worker in Shanghai told him that] China's nothing but a loosely allied group of principalities that establish whatever law there is through force of arms.

You Big Swords think you're good riders, good cavalrymen, but you have a long way to go, and you'll never be Mongols.

His batteries north of the swamp open fire on the nearest hill, which will later be assaulted. Batteries eastward, in front of the lake and the knoll where he stands, are rolled forward almost to the transverse road, between willow trees..