A few hours later, changshan halts the attack on the city of Tongguan. The generals of the yeoman army are jubilant, and they send tokens of gratitude to li e, a former soldier of the military governor of Anxi . They hope that he will bring the tokens to the city and request the help of the troops. The only silver lining, however, is that he has discovered the whereabouts of a monk named jianzhen, who has established a school of Buddhism in the nara temple. Some of the powerful still keep their turtles as tokens of loyalty to the emperor, but others are avoiding the battle in the south.