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In the 16th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1643, the Guiwei year of the lunar calendar), tens of thousands of Qing troops ravaged Shandong and advanced to Laiyang. Under the leadership of Chen Xianji, the magistrate of Laiyang, and Zuo Maozhang, the leader of the four major families in Laiyang (Zhang, Zhao, Zuo and Song), an unprecedented resistance began. Although they were eventually outnumbered and the city was destroyed, the national righteousness of resisting foreign aggression and defending the city and protecting the family demonstrated in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty was commendable. From Zuo Maozhang's victory in the school competition, leading Zuo's tigers to prepare for war, and cleverly setting up an ambush to thwart Aguda's first siege, to actively preparing for the second anti-Qing war, going deep into the tiger's den to explore the enemy's situation, boosting morale and swearing to resist the enemy, and heroic sacrifice in a life-and-death struggle, the novel vividly reproduces Zuo Maozhang's fearless spirit of both wisdom and courage and the courage to sacrifice, and the soul-stirring scene of Laiyang people's resistance to the Qing 370 years ago.