About forty years ago, there was a beautiful man in Taiwan who often put on grease and powder to perform on stage. His martial arts are very good, the singing work is not bad, and everyone who watches the play knows that his name is Zhang Ahuo and he is a famous character. But no one knew he was a resourceful warrior.
At that time, just as the French soldiers attacked Taipei, there was a soldier named Li who recruited soldiers and prepared to meet the enemy. Zhang Ling gave up his profession to request enlistment. The man surnamed Li said to him, "Ah Huo, you are a dramatist, you can only act, how can you fight?" Zhang Ling said, "Foreigners bully us, and I am really unwilling to be a slave to foreigners." Now there are more than a thousand natives in mountain villages everywhere, and I have a good one, and their marksmanship is very accurate. If I were to recruit them, they would come, and they would immediately be able to fight in an army. When the surname Li heard this, he praised it very much, and sent Zhang Ling to recruit five hundred natives and become new soldiers. On one side, two thousand men were sent as vanguards, stationed on the slope of the fort. The five hundred recruits led by Zhang Ling were divided into two teams, as the queen of the palace. The vanguard engaged the French and was immediately defeated. Zhang Ling hurriedly led two hundred and fifty people out of the battle, all of whom were clothed and naked. I only saw them chewing on the betel nut, and the red spit spilled out of the lips, and the shape was very terrible. At that time, the tide was rising, and the Soldiers took a small boat and entered the slope. The grass under the slope was very deep, and the two hundred and fifty men, seeing that the enemy had arrived, lay down on their backs together, hiding in the grass, cocked their left feet, opened their toes, set up their shotguns, and waited quietly. When the enemy soldiers advanced, they were very close, and they fired their guns together, killing more than a hundred people. The soldiers were horrified and fled; Unexpectedly, two hundred and fifty people protruded from behind the mountain, and surrounded the mages with a circular array, and none of them escaped. At this time, the tide receded, the boats were stranded on the beach, and the french soldiers on the boat had no choice but to wave a white flag to ask for landing; And please redeem with money. Zhang Ling refused, and in a singing tone, he said, "I don't want the enemy's money."
"New Primary School Textbook Chinese Reader (High School)", Volume 1, Lesson 29, edited by Li Jinhui and Lu Feikui, Zhonghua Bookstore, 1923 edition