This record is a heroic and exciting history.It's about how the Chinese fought against invaders and beat them over 160 years ago. It happened in the late May and early June of the thirteenth year during Emperor Daoguang's reign (1832). Several British ships sailed into the Golden Star Gate of Qi'ao Island in the pearl sea, their purpose was to occupy the advantageous place and set up stronghold for smuggling trade and invasion. They robbed the villagers of food and cows, raped women there and committed other villainous crimes. From this event derived name of a lane in Qi'ao Village, "The Cow Plundering Lane". Their savage crimes aroused the villagers' indignation. They got united into an organization to fight against the invaders. The British ships didn't take their defeat lying down. They mustered another 15 or 16 ships and invaded into the Qi'ao Harbor from the north side. They attacked the Tianhou Temple and Zhong Family's Ancestral Temple with dozens of cannons. Under Zhong Jiuxia's direction, hundreds of young and strong people of the Qi'ao Village piled up sandbags, built up batteries, at the fort near the Tianhou Temple of the north village. They fought back with sand and copper cannons bravely, especially Cao Yi, a sharpshooter who wasted no shot. The enemy's directing ship lost its mast and William Karl, the captain, died on the spot. The invaders had to surrender to the Qi'ao villagers and compensate three thousand liang of silver for their invasion. The villagers had a couplet written down on an erected memorial archway. It says, "before the Qi'ao Island was annexed, we drew out swords and fought the enemy together, after the British soldiers were cornered, they threw away their armor and fled desperately." With the compensated money, they paved a 2000-meter-longslab-stone road and named it the Baishi Road.

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