Kang Yuan, historian, local author, and former curator of the Lai Ho Memorial Hall, says that in 1895, when Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese, the people of Changhua put up a spirited fight. Martyrs like Li Shibing, Wu Tangxing, and Wu Pengnian valiantly fought the Japanese army in the Pakua Mountains for three days and three nights.
彰化作家、曾任賴和紀念館館長，也自創文史工作室的康原提到，西元一八九五年台灣割讓給日本時，彰化人曾頑強抵抗，地方先烈李士炳、吳湯興、吳彭年等人，還在八卦山與日本軍血戰三天三夜。