The Backbone of the Great Song

In the second year of the Xuanhe era, at Xunyang Tower in Jiangzhou.

A soul from the twenty-first century crashes into Song Jiang’s body. He tears up the “treasonous poem” on the wall, the one destined to change his fate, and replaces “I dare laugh that Huang Chao was no true man” with “I will not ask Kaifeng for a declaration of war.”

As a PhD in history, he knows what is coming:

Four years from now, the Jin armies will invade south. In seven years, Kaifeng will fall, and the emperors Huizong and Qinzong will be taken north. Three hundred years of civilization in the Central Plains will be destroyed.

Yet at this very moment, the Song court is jubilantly forging the “Alliance on the Sea” with the Jin, convinced that reclaiming the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun is just around the corner.

Song Jiang decides he will not accept amnesty.

He does not intend to rebel. Before the Jin sweep south, he will mend the backbone of a dynasty rotten to its core. Starting from the marshes of Liangshan, he will gather heroes, train troops, stockpile grain, and build defenses. While the court officials still argue over who holds Yanyun on paper, he will turn the Sixteen Prefectures into an unshakable Great Wall for the Chinese people before the Jin cavalry tramples the Central Plains.

The 108 heroes will not die in vain on the battlefield against Fang La. They will live to stand at the nation’s true gates and face its true enemy.

This is the story of a transmigrator who brings the answers of history back to the starting point of a tragedy and joins forces with a band of loyal, righteous heroes to rewrite the fate of the nation. It is also the story of how one man, in the most desperate of times, becomes the backbone of his age...