The Frontier Soldier of Great Wu

When the Great Wu court abandoned the Western Regions and Tibetan cavalry trampled the cooking smoke from the Four Garrisons, Zhou Huai, who had transmigrated as a useless scholar, rose from the bloody chaos of Beacon Fort with a lifetime of ancient martial arts at his disposal.

He kills scouts and breaks enemy formations, rising from a fierce soldier in a tiny squad to a general commanding thousands of border troops. He repels Tibet and reclaims lost territory, smelting iron in blast furnaces to forge armor and using curved-axle plows to farm and defend the land.

Wang Yiyi follows him, her devotion hidden beneath her shyness, while old Deng and the other brothers entrust their lives to him.

Clutching his blade in the sandstorms of the Western Regions, Zhou Huai transforms from an unknown nobody into the last pillar holding up the soldiers and people of the Four Garrisons:

“Fight to the death. Never retreat!”