Great Ming: The City Turns Red, Its Finery Melting into Spring Snow

Parallel Blue Star.

At the end of the Ming dynasty, flames of war spread everywhere. Eunuchs held power, and the old Tartar slave raided the borders. Beset by troubles at home and abroad, the Han dynasty's realm was already on the verge of collapse.

West of Liaodong, at Fengyan Fort.

On this day, every woman in the town dressed in red. They went ten miles beyond the gates to await their husbands' triumphant return.

But what came back were only the souls of warhorses and fallen heroes.

Countless white silk veils rose in the wind, as the sons of Han returned in spirit.

As one red robe after another was taken off, three thousand women stood dressed in white, their tears falling at the frontier.

On this day, three thousand cavalrymen from a Liaodong battalion stayed behind to cover their comrades, resisting an army of fifty thousand Banner troops until every last one was killed.

On this day, not a single grown man remained in Fengyan Fort.

The old horses knew the way, but their riders did not return. The wedding gowns were never finished, cut instead into mourning clothes.

The bones of the fallen along the Great Wall became spring snow, and returned home.

The story begins at Fengyan Fort.

Only when Han dynasty banners are planted across the world will this dirge, wrought from blood and tears, finally fall silent!!!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.