I came across this story from a Lama named Enebishin Gelung, who, at one point, had secluded himself in the Mazong Mountains in Gansu province and returned to Hobogsair in 1958. During his time there, he encountered escaping figures, including Minchin Wang, Tsaganbiligin Dugur, and Dowan Zongorov. In the 1930s and 1940s, Hobogsair faced constant raids by Kazakh bandits, coupled with political instability from the Nationalist Party. This prompted many Torghuts to leave their hometowns, heading to Khalha, Gansu, and eastward to Alsha in Inner Mongolia. The situation improved to a certain point after Hobogsair’s emancipation in 1949, leading some return and settle around Urha, the southernmost region of Hobogsair, near Shaajgat. Tsaganbiligin Dugur and Dowan Zongorov, both members of the Nationalist Party, followed the party’s retreat from Hobogsair to Urumchi, and later to Taiwan. As recounted by local elders, Dugur and Zongorov gathered crucial materials from the Nationalist Party during their service, aiding their survival. Dugur, leveraging his party position, collected secret materials, while Zongorov learned traditional divine skills, influencing weather for those on the run. When the Nationalist Party decided to retreat to Urumchi in the 1940s due to the upcoming Three District Revolutionary troops from Ili and Tarbagatai, Dugur and Zongorov first followed Chöjav, the last queen of Hobogsair, and then Min Qin Wang, the prince of Har Us, escaping to the Taiwan via Gansu, Tibet, and Nepal. We gathered in the yurt of Batukhishig, the younger brother of Dugur, for several days of feasting and celebrating when Dugur’s wife visited her relatives in Hobogsair in 1993. According to her, Dugur rose to a minor official position in the Nationalist Party in Taiwan but tragically passed away in a car accident in 1964. Zongorov, on the other hand, married a Taiwanese woman and lived in Taiwan until his death. Dugur’s wife was eighteen when she left Hobogsair and returned in her sixties.