In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu's reign, Japanese pirates broke into the city and the government abandoned the city. Zhao Dagang, a farmer from Shandong Province, stood on the stone bridge at the entrance of the village with a red-tasseled gun made of jujube wood, and used three shots to overthrow the Japanese pirate advance team. No one believed that mud legs could block foreign guns and cannons, but he just wouldn't let it go. From protecting a village to guarding a city, from being hunted by the government to being worshiped by the people. The Japanese pirate offered a reward of 500 taels for his head, and the Qing court laughed at him for using his arms as a chariot. He only asked: "Who has the final say in this land?"
Great book, very historical.