"Hundred Households in the Remaining Ming Dynasty": An epic of struggle engraved in the bones and blood of Liaodong
When the snow in Sarhu soaked through the armor of the Ming army, and when the fire in Kaiyuan swallowed up the last banner, the land of Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty was being crushed into a bloody quagmire by the iron hoofs of Hou Jin. The hereditary Shangguan Wenxiang of hundreds of households stood up from this quagmire, carrying the loyal souls of three hundred fellow villagers, and carved a tragic epic belonging to a small person on the blade of the troubled times.
This is not a record of the achievements of princes and generals, but a history of the struggles of a low-level military officer. In the Battle of Saarhu, he personally led his fellow countrymen in a bloody charge, but watched helplessly as three hundred of his brothers turned into mottled bloodstains in the snow. Only he crawled out of the blood sea of corpses wrapped in remnants of armor. The dents on his breastplate became an indelible mark on him for the rest of his life.
