Qi Jiguang’s heroic deeds are:
In the 41st year of Jiajing, Japanese pirates invaded Fujian, and combined with Japanese pirates from Funing, Lianjiang and other places, they successively captured Shouning, Zhenghe, In Ningde and other places, the Japanese pirates who invaded from Nan'ao, Guangdong, combined with the Japanese pirates from Fuqing and Changle, captured Xuanzhongsuo, and invaded Longyan, Songxi, Datian, Gutian, Putian and other places. ?
The Japanese pirates were so powerful that the local officers and soldiers did not dare to attack, so Hu Zongxian sent an order for Qi Jiguang to lead troops to suppress the bandits. After receiving the order, Qi Jiguang led his troops to attack Hengyu Island first. The dangerous waterways around Hengyu Island were difficult to pass. Qi Jiguang ordered his soldiers each to hold a bunch of straw and fill the trenches. They defeated the Japanese pirates on Hengyu Island and beheaded more than 2,200 of them.
Then, Qi Jiguang took advantage of the victory and pursued him to Fuqing, destroying the cattle fields and taking away the Japanese pirates' lair. The remnants of the Japanese pirates fled to Xinghua in a hurry, and Qi Jiguang did not stop. He chased them all the way, destroyed more than 60 camps of Japanese pirate strongholds, and beheaded countless people.
After Qi Jiguang pacified the Japanese pirates in Fujian, he returned to Zhejiang and traveled to Fuqing. He encountered a small number of Japanese pirates who had landed from Dongyingao. Qi Jiguang led his troops to attack and beheaded two hundred people. After several battles, Qi Jiguang almost killed all the Japanese pirates in the Fujian-Guangzhou area.
Extended information:
Qi's saber is a weapon specially made by Qi Jiguang to improve the Japanese knives used by Japanese pirates. The knives used by the Ming Dynasty army were often cut off by the Japanese knives when fighting Japanese pirates. Qi Jiguang absorbed the advantages of Japanese swords and improved Chinese sabers.
It has an obvious Japanese style. The arc of the blade is increased, the width of the blade is reduced, the tip of the blade has a small arc, there is a pick line in the middle of the blade, and there is also a pillar line on the back of the blade, and the tip of the blade is retained. It is basically the same thickness as the blade, and the back of the blade is chipped.
Reduce the overall weight of the blade without reducing the strength of the blade. Qi Jiguang recorded the forging method of this sword in his book "Miscellaneous Records of Military Training: Weapons Explanation". The National Museum of China now has a Dengzhou Qi family sword in its collection. The upper part of the sword is engraved with the characters "Dengzhou Qi family in the tenth year of Wanli".