The era is from 1933 to 1945. The region focuses on the southern Hebei Plain (fictitious Guangping, Pingxiang, Guangfu City, Nangong County, etc.). The main plot revolves around three generations of the Yin family gang (Yin Lanzhu, Yin Xiaokun, and Yin Sanlang) who committed evil and were eventually eliminated by the National Army and the Eighth Route Army. Following the launch of the Qing Dynasty, it is interspersed with plots such as bandit annexation, Japanese invasion of China, and the rise of anti-Japanese forces. It maintains Shan Tianfang's style of "strong language, intensive conflicts, judgments of good and evil, and returns and deductions" to suit male readers' preferences for iron blood, rivers and lakes, and family and country.
