The main story background of the full text: Chu Tianxiong (codenamed "Lone Wolf"), an elite instructor of modern Chinese special forces, encountered an explosion during a border anti-terrorism mission and traveled to the Hankou Pier in 1895 (the 21st year of Guangxu). With modern special operations concepts, military knowledge and historical prophetic perspective, he started as a dock coolie and rose up in Wuhan, the thoroughfare of nine provinces. He personally experienced the changes, love and hatred, and the dilemma of family and country in the half century from the late Qing Dynasty to the Liberation War.