During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates were raging along the coast of Zhejiang. In order to avenge his father's murder, Lu Changfeng, the son of a fisherman, united with fishermen and miners to form the "Sea Eagle Rebels", using fishing boats and harpoons as weapons to launch a guerrilla war against the Japanese in Yandang Mountain. They cooperated and clashed with Qi Jiguang's Qi family army, and repeatedly defeated the Japanese pirates: they cleverly set up ambushes to intercept grain ships, made disguises and sneaked into broken nests, and attacked Taizhou by land and water. Faced with the constraints of the court masters and factions, the rebellion of the inner ghosts, and the lack of supplies, Lu Changfeng grew from an "avenger" to a real general. He understood that resisting Japan is not a personal hatred, but the peace of all families. After eight years of hard fighting, the rebel army and the Qi Army joined forces to eliminate the Japanese pirates in the southeast and restore peace to the people and the sea. From the perspective of a small character, the novel shows the wisdom and bloody spirit of the people's resistance to Japanese aggression, and interprets the feelings of family and country of "responsibility for defending the land".
