Lin Wu, a special forces soldier, dies in a modern counterterrorism battle. When he opens his eyes again, he is a death-row prisoner in Yangzhou in the second year of the Deyou era of the Southern Song.
This is the year the Mongol cavalry rides south and the realm falls apart. As he is bound to the city wall, envoys of the Yuan dynasty arrive to demand surrender.
The officials throughout the city tremble and prepare to kneel, but Lin Wu just smiles.
Surrender?
In his era, Chinese soldiers die fighting. They do not kneel.
On the city tower, he seizes a blade and cuts down the Yuan envoy, splashing blood across the flag bearing the character "Song." Facing a hundred thousand Mongol troops below, he has no martial arts manual or System shop, only a military tablet that came with him and has just 1% battery left.
And stored on that tablet is the location of a signal flare he never got to fire.
This is a simple story: a modern soldier uses everything he knows to show the invaders of seven hundred years ago what Chinese soldiers are made of.
And when the final signal flare lights up, will anyone come to take him home?
Old soldiers never die. They just slowly fade away.
But whenever their country needs them, they always appear right where they are needed most.
