Grand Commander of Bashu: The Story of Liu Xiang, King of Sichuan

“Take up arms in chaotic times. Defend your home, defend Sichuan!” Eight words, one young man, and a century of upheaval in western Sichuan.

In the late Qing and early Republican era, imperial rule crumbled, sworn brotherhoods ran rampant across Sichuan, and warlords carved up the land.

Liu Xiang, the son of a well-to-do family in Dayi, tore up his Four Books and Five Classics and walked into a military academy with only a few pieces of silver in his pocket.

On his first day, he shattered a bully’s kneecap and made a fearsome name for himself;

after carrying a forty-jin load on a ten-mile cross-country march, he was handpicked by the drill instructor known as the King of Hell to become a blade in the dark.

He didn’t rely on his family connections. He relied on his own grit! Faced with foreign infiltration and warlord rivalries, Liu Xiang threw himself into the fray.

With his own hands, he navigated teahouses, docks, and remote mountains in Jianchang, dealing with sworn-brotherhood bosses, the female bandit chief Ghost Mother, and warlord tyrants.

He pulled off impossible schemes and, in the depths of despair, used a captured mountain cannon to carve out territory of his own.

“Rules matter, but they can’t be the government’s rules. They have to be my rules, Liu Xiang’s rules!”

Witness how a self-made warlord, armed with nothing but an ordinary man’s body, fights his way up the iron throne through the meat grinder of warlord warfare!