Wen Tianxiang: Fighting against the Mongols, he refused to be generous to senior officials after being captured, preferring to die rather than surrender, and wrote poems that showed his heart, such as Song of Justice, Crossing Zero and Ding Yang.
Su Wu: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was detained when he was ordered to send an envoy to Xiongnu with a corps commander. Xiongnu nobles repeatedly threatened to induce them to surrender; Later, he moved to Beihai (now Lake Baikal) to herd sheep, threatening that he would not be released to China until the ram gave birth. Su Wu went through hardships and stayed in Xiongnu for nineteen years.
Yan Zhenqing: During the An Shi Rebellion, the rebels fought against the rebels. Yan Zhenqing was framed by Prime Minister Qilu and sent to Li Xilie, the leader of the rebel army, telling him to refuse to be a thief, but he was finally strangled.
Deng Shichang, an outstanding patriotic general and national hero of the navy in the late Qing Dynasty, died heroically in the Yellow Sea naval battle on September 1894.