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"During the late Ming Dynasty on the Liaodong battlefield, there once occurred a tragedy of epic proportions. Information regarding this battle, along with the names of its primary commanders, was completely and utterly scrubbed from Chinese-language historical records. Fortunately, Korean envoys accompanying the Qing army recorded it in their travel journals, giving us a chance to catch a glimpse of the traces of its existence.
Back then, several thousand loyal soldiers held out at Tashiang Castle, resisting tens of thousands of Qing troops for over a month until the very last moment when the enemy finally breached the walls. The defenders chose to detonate explosives to perish together with the Qing soldiers, with not a single person intending to surrender from start to finish. The identity of that main commander—the one who mobilized the entire city's military and citizens to resist the Qing troops with a firm resolve to die—remains unknown to this day.
In the vast history of the Ming-Qing wars, he might merely be an insignificant figure in some forgotten corner, but it was precisely such a seemingly negligible character who, standing face-to-face with the most ruthless armed syndicate of the 17th century, led a crowd of extras destined never to leave even their names behind, rising up in desperate resistance with a death-pact resolve. Though well aware they were destined to turn to dust, they never wavered in their determination. How many more …
Chapter 690