From 1046 BC to 263 AD, the Cong people sang and danced as they routed five thousand Shang vanguard troops with just three hundred men, suffering no casualties. They helped Liu Bang launch a surprise attack along a hidden road and reclaim the Three Qins. Three thousand Ban Dun warriors smashed a thirty-thousand-strong Qiang cavalry rebellion, earning the title “Divine Soldiers.” Five thousand Ban Dun warriors used the Dragon-Trapping Formation to shatter an army of a hundred thousand Wei soldiers. At last, three hundred Ban Dun warriors fought to the death at Mianzhu, until their entire force was wiped out.
The Ban Dun Man were the world’s first special forces. They waged war for 1,300 years with their distinctive tactics and skills, yet history recorded little more than a few lines about them.
Three thousand years later, an archaeologist touches rock art on Shelong Mountain, now Sh long Mountain south of Guang’an City, and awakens an echo of the war dance. He enters the bodies of his ancestors and experiences firsthand 1,300 years of blood-soaked special-forces history, glossed over in the official records.
300, 3,000, 5,000, 300. Each number represents the courage and fervor of a Cong special-forces unit.
360,000 words, 66 chapters, and more than 20 explosive battles. This is not cultivation fantasy, nor is it about transmigration. It is the true war legend of humanity’s first special-forces unit.
