During the reign of Renzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, the protagonist Ye Sheng (zi Ke) was born into a poor peasant family in Yelang's hometown in the southwest border. He farmed during the day, studied hard at night, and even learned martial arts from a hermit in the mountains. When he was sixteen years old, he traveled thousands of miles to Beijing to take the exam. He amazed the court with "Ten Strategies for Frontier Fortress" and became a Jinshi in high school.
However, because the article directly pointed out the current ills, he offended the prime minister of the dynasty, Lu Yijian, and was falsely accused of "discussing border affairs". He was stripped of his honors and was sent to the front line of Xixia. In the desolate western frontier "Iron Wall Pass", Ye Sheng started from the lowest level of the garrison. With his extraordinary courage and the unique skills of Yelang mountain hunters, he saw through the Xixia reconnaissance several times and gradually showed his talents.
During a border encounter, he accidentally rescued an injured girl who claimed to be a caravan guard - in fact, she was Li Weiyang, the thirteenth princess of Xixia. The two fell in love with each other in adversity, and Wei Young was attracted by Ye Sheng's benevolence, bravery and wisdom that transcended national boundaries, and secretly helped each other many times.
Ye Sheng had insight into the tactical weaknesses of the Xixia cavalry, combined with Yelang's mountain warfare methods, and proposed to Shangfeng the formation of a special mountain combat unit. After being approved, he secretly trained a three-hundred-person "Shadow Wolf Guard" who were good at night raids, mountain detours and intelligence espionage. This team defeated many with a small number many times on the Xixia border, and its reputation gradually grew.
At the same time, the relationship between Ye Sheng and Princess Weiyang became deeper and deeper in the border war, but it was full of contradictions and struggles due to the hostile stance of the two countries. Weiyang revealed the struggle between the main war faction and the peace faction in Xixia, as well as the true intentions of her father (Li Yuanhao, Jingzong of Xixia).
Seven years later, the Northern Song Dynasty and Xixia signed a peace agreement...
