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In the fourteenth year of Jiaqing, Xiu-Bing was nineteen years old, on the cusp of the age of marriage. Chang Pao just happened to invade on the twenty-ninth day of the seventh month. Father and daughter both died in the following battle. Alas! When Wei-Deng was trapped behind enemy lines, the villagers could neither plan nor fight. They were an isolated and vulnerable village, throwing themselves at the outlaws like a man might thrown himself to a tiger. With continued enemy assault on all sides, their front and rear could not reinforce the other, so they dropped their weapons and scattered, destroying their bridges as they fled. Xiu-Bing, along with Mei-Ying and the other women, had been hiding in the rice fields. When she heard that her father as trapped, she bid Mei-Ying goodbye, saying, "Big sister, please take care of yourself, your little sister is going to save her father." And so she armed herself and rushed into the fray with twin cutlasses. When she saw her father badly wounded, her rage sent her hair standing on end and she fought harder than ever, killing more than ten enemies alongside her father and letting none escape her sight. The outlaws were shocked. Chang Pao, observing from his platform, saw Xiu-Bing attacking to and fro, her two knives flying like snow in wind. No enemies were able to approach her. Chang Pao wished to take her alive, but after many efforts failed, he ordered a cannon strike, filling the skies with projectiles. Xiu-Bing and her father were, by the time, exhausted, so they were unfortunately killed.