In the thirty-third year of Jiajing's reign, Japanese pirates came to cover the sea, and all ten counties in the southeast were reduced to scorched earth. Governor Zhang Jing was ordered to face the danger and sent out two extraordinary troops - Guangxi wolf soldiers and Xiangxi local soldiers, who traveled thousands of miles to help.
The fifty-seven-year-old Mrs. Wa Shi took command on behalf of her great-grandson and led 6,800 wolf soldiers from Tianzhou down the Youjiang River.
At the age of eighteen, Peng Yinan, the chieftain of Yongshun, led 10,000 local soldiers out of western Hunan, forming a formation with hooks and sickles.
An old man and a young man were strangers to each other, but they combined their swords on the battlefield of Wangjiangjing and beheaded more than 2,000 Japanese pirates. They were known in history as "the most successful warrior in the Southeast." Wa was granted the title of second-grade lady. Peng Yinan was awarded the title of "General Zhaoyi", and the emperor personally awarded him the official uniform of the third rank. It was recorded in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" as "the first in military exploits in the southeast."
A historical legend about glory and sorrow, the passion of young people and the strength of old people.
The Peng family chieftain in Yongshun, Hunan, was repatriated from the early Song Dynasty to the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty and coexisted for more than 800 years. In 2015, it was included in the "World Heritage List", making it the only one in Hunan Province.
