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In the late Yuan Dynasty, class conflicts intensified, coupled with frequent natural disasters, the desperate poor farmers rose up in resistance and took the risk to launch a peasant uprising war. In May of the eleventh year of Zhizheng (1351), Han Shantong and Liu Futong rose up in Yingzhou. The soldiers wrapped their heads in red scarves, known as the "Red Scarf Army", and promoted Han Shantong as the Ming King. Then, Xu Shouhui started in Qizhou, and Li Er, Peng Da, and Zhao Junyong started in Xuzhou. On the eleventh day of the first lunar month of the following year, Dingyuan local tycoon Guo Zixing joined forces with Sun Deya and others to raise troops, and tens of thousands of people responded. Guo Zixing gathered people to burn incense and became the leader of the local White Lotus Society. On February 27, after the rebel army captured Haozhou, Guo Zixing claimed to be marshal. This novel focuses on describing how Li Er, Peng Da, and Zhao Jun used a group of grass bandits to attack Xuzhou and start the chaos in Xuzhou. This also unfolds the tortuous story of Fan Ermao, a Taoist veteran, Bao Wude, a reckless bandit, and Zhu Huanchen, the prefect, who restored the Han Dynasty.