In the fifteenth year of Wanli's reign, the famous anti-Japanese general Qi Jiguang died, and the southeast coastal defense suddenly collapsed.
The iron hooves of the Japanese pirates crushed the morning fog in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province. Li Rufeng, a seventeen-year-old boy, picked up his sister's cold body in the burning ruins of his home. The eight-petal cherry blossom tattoo on his enemy's arm became the only nightmare in his life.
In order to take revenge, he was taught the "Thirteen Spears of the Ghost Gate" by a hidden master, and joined the Qi family's army with the black iron gentian spear containing the secret map of coastal defense. However, deep in the military camp, the stern mentor Wang Tiegu, who had saved his life many times, actually had a red rope tied around his wrist to cover up his tattoos.
When the truth of "the teacher is the enemy" was revealed in blood, and when the trusted military camp turned into a quagmire of smuggling firearms and treason, Li Rufeng's road to revenge suddenly collapsed. He had to make a choice between killing his enemies and using them. He had to find the meaning of holding a gun again between his hatred for one person and his responsibility for millions of people.
From the shady scenes of Ningbo officialdom to the Japanese Kagoshima life and death ceremony, from Qi Jiguang's resentful transfer to the bloody battles in foreign countries, Li Rufeng dragged the gentian gun through lies, betrayal and war. In the end, he understood: true strength is not to kill all enemies, but to end hatred in one's own generation; true protection is not to destroy anything, but to stand for something.
This is the story of a gun, and it is also the tempering journey of a young man to rediscover the answer to "how to stand up and defend the country" in the broken mountains and rivers. The blood and fire will come to an end, but the will to protect will be like a dragon's spear holding the sea and will never retreat.
Reader comments
The novel "Dragon Spear: Anti-Japanese Legend" uses history as its bones and martial arts as its blood. It carves out a growth epic beyond revenge in the war smoke of Wanli Sea. The most touching thing about it is not the excitement of picking off Japanese pirates with a gun, but the tempering process of young Li Rufeng relearning why he fights and who he holds a gun for in the ruins of the belief that "the teacher is the enemy". When personal blood feuds collide fiercely with the righteousness of family and country, those gray souls struggling in the gaps of history finally give this work the weight of questioning people's hearts.
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The novel "Dragon Spear: Anti-Japanese Legend" uses history as its bones and martial arts as its blood. It carves out a growth epic beyond revenge in the war smoke of Wanli Sea. The most touching thing about it is not the excitement of picking off Japanese pirates with a gun, but the tempering process of young Li Rufeng relearning why he fights and who he holds a gun for in the ruins of the belief that "the teacher is the enemy". When personal blood feuds collide fiercely with the righteousness of family and country, those gray souls struggling in the gaps of history finally give this work the weight of questioning people's hearts.
Novels with this theme should be seen by more people [please update]