The late Eastern Han was a time of chaos.
In the autumn of Zhongping's sixth year, a boy from Zhending, Changshan, gripped a spear for the first time on a long street where people fought over grain.
That day, he was only delivering medicine for his elder brother. The village entrance was burning. A dead man by the threshold clutched half a soggy bun. From beside the cart shaft, he picked up a wooden tablet carved with the character "Huang." From that moment on, he could never turn back.
He escorted grain, defended cities, helped guard the frontier, then left home to join the army. At Pan River, he held off Wen Chou, a famous general of Hebei. At White Horse Camp, he was given command of five cavalrymen for the first time. He witnessed Gongsun Zan's downfall, and saw Liu Bei look over at him from across half the drill field.
He didn't yet know that on the night of Changban Slope, he would charge through a million enemy troops seven times, fighting his way out with his lord's young son in his arms. He didn't know that by the Han River, he would use an empty camp to drive off the pursuing army. He didn't know that many years later, he would return to Changshan the old spear he had received from his second uncle.
At this moment, he was sixteen, wounded in the shoulder, and the little grain his family had might not be safe.
This is the life of Zhao Yun: from a boy in Changshan to the man whose name would be remembered by generations to come.
