The Red Jacket Bandit

At the beginning of the thirteenth century, Shandong was in turmoil. Rebellious peasant armies rose up against the Jin, known as the Red-Coat Army. At the same time, the Mongols were rapidly growing powerful in the north. The Jin dynasty was like a centipede that could keep crawling even after death, while the Song dynasty remained lost in the last, false bloom of prosperity. The protagonist, Li Cong, grows up amid this chaos. As he contends with the Song, Jin, Mongols, and other forces, he builds his strength and strives to find a righteous path to save Chinese civilization and all the people of the realm...