The Iron Horse and the Glacier Come into Dreams - the Biography of Xin Qiji

He was originally a general, but he became a poet. There is no other person in history who, like Xin Qiji, lived in such a violent dislocation—— At the age of twenty-two, he led 2,000 rebels to join the anti-jin banner. He chased and killed the traitors on his own horse as if he were killing a dog; At the age of twenty-three, he led 50 cavalry into an enemy camp of 50,000 people, captured the traitor Zhang Anguo alive, and escorted him across thousands of miles to the south. Overnight, his name spread throughout Lin'an City. At that time, the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty thought that after Yue Fei, another famous general would emerge. However, no one expected that this would be the last time in his life that he would ride on the battlefield.