Guarding the Mountains and Rivers: Defender of Yanmen

Of the nine great passes under heaven, Yanmenguan stands foremost.

Since Li Mu established the pass during the Warring States period, famous generals of the Han and Tang have guarded it. A thousand years of beacon fires have burned here.

Beneath the crumbling “golden age” of the Dayong dynasty, the Northern Tribes have renewed their ambitions, and fifty thousand cavalrymen are at the gates. The scholar Shen Yan earns a general’s rank with his Ten Strategies for Defending the Frontier. With just eight thousand frontier troops, he must guard the nation’s border for thousands of miles.

With military pay in arrears, weapons in short supply, and the court interfering at every turn, he searches for a way forward in desperate straits, drawing on the wisdom of the sages before him and using ingenious stratagems to defeat the enemy.

At Yanmenguan, amid wind and snow, swords clash and horses thunder. The land bears witness, and loyal souls never die.

Witness a legendary general continue the passionate tale of defending the homeland from atop this thousand-year-old pass.