Romance of the Remaining Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties

This is an epic masterpiece with the theme of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The novel begins with Zhu Wen's usurpation of the Tang Dynasty and ends with Song Taizong's destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty. Over the past seventy years, eight surnames and fourteen emperors, ten kingdoms stood side by side, and blood and fire intertwined. It panoramically reproduces the most broken, complex, and dramatic period in Chinese history. The novel unfolds in a six-volume structure: the first volume "The Struggle between Liang and Jin" tells the story of the feud between Zhu Wen and Li Key for more than twenty years, and the establishment and fall of the Later Liang Dynasty; the second volume "The Surprise in the Tang Palace" depicts the end of the hero Li Cunxu and the rise and decline of the Later Tang Dynasty; the third volume "Hu Chen's Southern Invasion" tells the story of Shi Jingtang's capture of Yanyun and the Khitan's invasion of the Central Plains. , The humiliation of the later Jin Dynasty and the short life of the later Han Dynasty; the fourth volume "The Road to the British Lord" depicts Guo Wei laying the foundation, Chai Rong's rise, and the early rise of the later Zhou Dynasty; the fifth volume "Unrewarded Ambition" describes Chai Rong's three expeditions to the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, and died young; the sixth volume "The Setting Sun Is Like Blood" ends with the Chenqiao mutiny, the return of the ten kingdoms to the Song Dynasty, and the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The novel not only contains the panoramic view of war - the snow battle in Baixiang, the blood and fire in Gaoping, the water battle in Huainan, and the beacon smoke in Yanyun - but also the power game in the depths of the palace - the interaction between the harem and the former dynasty, the fate of women in troubled times, and the profound questioning of war and human nature. The surprise attack on a snowy night in the Battle of Baixiang, the victory of the greater number with less in the Battle of Gaoping, the "fight at the dead end" in the siege of Chuzhou, and the eternal tears of tears in the destruction of the city of Jinling - every battle is a vivid footnote to the principles of the art of war, and every character is a complex presentation of the spectrum of human nature. Fifty-three years of rise and fall, eight surnames and fourteen emperors, thousands of lives were ruined, and countless beauties were shed in tears. This is an epic about troubled times, heroes, power, love and destiny. It is an elegy of civilization and a mirror that reflects the past and present.