In the 20th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Ningxia rebelled and the Japanese pirates in Korea were in chaos.
Forty-four-year-old Li Rusong, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, walked out of the ice and snow of Tieling carrying a thirty kilogram iron sword. First pacify Ningxia and flood the isolated city; then cross Yalu and blast Pyongyang to pieces. Bitiguan used two thousand riders as twenty thousand Japanese slaves, and the Longshan warehouse burned all the thieves' food.
He won the battle, but he couldn't win the scorn in the court. Yan Guan's bullets were denser than the Japanese pirates' iron cannons. Four years of idleness wasted a general's most precious years under the locust trees in Beijing.
His teachers Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang, who were masters of poetry, calligraphy and painting, and who outdid the Japanese in Hu Zongxianmu, closed their eyes in the winter of the 21st year of Wanli. Before he died, he left a message to him: "As long as you have a clear conscience, why should you be afraid of your reputation after death."
No matter how chaotic Ding You is, he will watch the fire from the other side, watching others fight the battle that he has not finished. When Deng Zilong and Yi Sun-shin both died in battle, he took pictures of the railings in Beijing.
In the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, Liaodong was in urgent need. The court finally remembered him again. Five thousand against thirty thousand. On the ice of the Hun River, he fell facing the enemy with more than twenty wounds on his body.
This is the story of a general. There is artillery fire, there is court, there are teachers and students, there is life and death. There is no romance, only iron horses and fighting.
His name is Li Rusong. A native of Tieling, Liaodong, he was the eldest son of Li Chengliang. Zuo Dudu, Liaodong Commander-in-Chief, Ning Yuanbo, posthumously named Zhonglie.
