In the first year of the Xuanhe era, as Song Jiang eagerly lifts the imperial wine for the Liangshan heroes' hoped-for amnesty, a modern military-strategy PhD who has transmigrated into the body of Yang Zhi, the "Blue-Faced Beast," overturns the banquet table in front of everyone. He denounces their so-called "loyalty and righteousness" as nothing more than leading their brothers to become cannon fodder for a rotten court. Knowing that the Jingkang Disaster will come in three years and that the Jin cavalry will trample the Central Plains, Yang Zhi resolutely leads Lin Chong, Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, and more than twenty other mighty warriors away from Liangshan. They seize Erlong Mountain, where he activates the [Warlord System]! From then on, he is no longer a fugitive on the run. He becomes an iron-fisted warlord who ushers in an industrial revolution and commands weapons with unmatched range. While the court rots amid song and dance, Erlong Mountain raises blast furnaces and builds imposing cement forts. When the Jin Kingdom's Iron Pagoda troops march south, believing themselves invincible, they are met by volleys from the Divine Machine Battalion and the thunder of red-coat cannons. In this life, Yang Zhi refuses to live on his knees and vows to die on his feet. Under the banner of "purging traitors at court and resisting foreign aggression," he declares to the world: The realm that the Zhao emperor cannot protect, I will protect. The people the court cannot save, I will save!
