Rebooting the Empire: Starting at Yiling

[High-Octane · Epic · Scheming · Ensemble Cast · Feel-Good] In a nutshell: Liu Bang and his legendary early Han team drop into the Battle of Yiling, teach Liu Bei how to be an emperor all over again, and flatten the map of the Three Kingdoms along the way. Highlights: 1. History’s strongest “transmigration squad” goes to work as a team: it’s not just one person who transmigrates, but Liu Bang, Han Xin, Zhang Liang, Xiao He, Chen Ping, Fan Kuai, and Zhou Bo, the full early Han leadership team, arriving together with twenty thousand battle-hardened soldiers! 2. A “dialogue between the souls of Han” spanning four hundred years: the roguish founding ancestor Liu Bang versus his benevolent descendant Liu Bei; the god of war Han Xin versus Lu Xun and Zhuge Liang; the master strategist Zhang Liang and the Sleeping Dragon trading wits. Their clashing ideals and generational friction ultimately combine into a terrifying force. 3. Military and political domination by an overwhelming margin: Han Xin’s military doctrine versus Three Kingdoms tactics; Xiao He’s methods for governing a great state versus Shu Han’s predicament; Zhang Liang’s open schemes versus the Three Kingdoms’ intrigues. Watch the ancients use “classical wisdom” to crush the “upstarts.” 4. Two storylines, rebuilding the Han: one follows the reversal at Yiling, where the burning of the linked camps becomes Lu Xun’s nightmare; the other follows political reconstruction, as Shu Han transforms into Ji Han and then the “New Han.” 5. Fresh takes and clashes between historical figures: Guan Yu and Zhang Fei hear about Fan Kuai’s exploits; Zhao Yun witnesses Han Xin’s command of the troops; Zhuge Liang and Zhang Liang play chess late into the night… Sparks fly as the eras collide. The story begins on that legendary night: Flames engulf Yiling, and Liu Bei is in despair. Suddenly, thick fog rolls in. An army bearing ancient banners emblazoned with the character “Han” tears through time and space onto the battlefield. The man at its head looks at Liu Bei and laughs heartily. “