War God Qi Jiguang: My Anti-Pirate Diary Is a Little Too Thrilling

During the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming, the southeastern coast was in chaos! The Japanese pirates swaggered around with samurai swords and wooden sandals, like dungeon bosses with cheat codes enabled. The imperial army? So useless they could barely stand, and they knelt the moment they saw a pirate. Just when all hope seemed lost, a chuuni young general appeared out of nowhere: Qi Jiguang!

He could fight and write poetry; he could train troops and was also afraid of his wife (strike that). He founded the Qi Family Army and invented the Mandarin Duck Formation, turning miners and farmers from Yiwu into the strongest fighting force on the planet. From nine straight victories in Taizhou to a nighttime raid on Hengyu Island, then a last-second comeback at Xianyou, he pulled off one jaw-dropping maneuver after another, beating the pirates so badly they questioned their own lives.

With a fiery, laugh-out-loud style, this book shows how Qi Jiguang used