Black Crow Prequel: Oath of the North

Three hundred years before the tragic song of revenge in "The Jackdaw Tribulation" was heard, there was an almost mythical name circulating in the North - the Black Crow Legion. This is not a story about the rise of a hero, but an elegy that witnesses how a monument went from its foundation to its collapse. The border was in raging war, and the imperial armament was in disrepair. Lu Zheng, the son of a general who was not born into a distinguished family, used his passion and outstanding military ability to gather exiled border residents and military heroes, and forged the Black Crow Army in the wind and sand of the Gobi, which frightened the northern barbarians. He regards the army as a pure force to resist foreign aggression and protect his country. He has many powerful generals under his command. The most dazzling one is Bai Lingfeng, a young general who he regards as his nephew and has high hopes for him. During the Battle of Black Mountain, the Black Crow Legion became famous all over the world and became an immortal legend in the North. However, beneath the fame, shadows quietly grew. The court's suspicion was like maggots in the tarsal bones, food and salary were withheld, and hidden arrows fired from the capital were hard to guard against. Within the army, veteran Wei Kang's desire for power and dissatisfaction grew day by day, forming cliques, and the seeds of division were quietly planted. Lu Zheng adheres to the original intention of founding the army, trying to find a balance between the military order and the friendship of the army, but he is struggling in the face of ruthless political strife and the subtleties of human nature. And Bai Lingfeng, a former young talent, after witnessing the cruelty of reality and the temptation of power, the balance of his loyalty began to tilt irreversibly. When Beilu showed unprecedented resourcefulness, when his loyal subordinates shed blood to protect the truth, when the last trust was placed on a "Black Crow Order" with hidden secrets... The tragic bloody battle under the Lone Eagle Castle was not so much a victory as it sounded the death knell of the Black Crow Legion's destruction.