He was the "most loyal and brave" general in Zeng Guofan's heart, and the most tragic hero in the history of the Hunan Army.
Li Xubin, a passionate legend of a peasant boy. He was born as a scholar, but with his simple and resolute style, he became the first force of the Hunan Army's Army Division. From the city walls of Wuchang to the strongholds of Jiujiang, he walked through the most brutal battlefields. He was invincible and shocked the south of the Yangtze River. He engraved the word "hard battle" into the bones of the Hunan Army.
However, fate always takes a sudden turn at the peak moment. In the late autumn of the eighth year of Xianfeng's reign, in Sanhe Town, a place destined to go down in history, he led six thousand soldiers and fell into a heavy siege by the Taiping Army's 100,000 troops. With food and supplies exhausted and a bloody battle all night long, he did not choose to retreat, but used his life to fulfill his oath of "the city is alive and the people are alive, the city is dead and the people are dead."
The wind in Sanhe has been mourning ever since. His fall shocked the entire Hunan army and made Zeng Guofan burst into tears.
This book is based on detailed historical materials and uses literary techniques to reproduce Li Xubin's turbulent years from a peasant boy to a famous general. It also deeply depicts the bloody battle of Three Rivers that changed the fate of the Hunan Army. This is not only a personal biography, but also a heroic song about loyalty, courage, ideals and tragedy.
