Rebel of the Late Han

A professional underground fighter won a fortune, then was poisoned for refusing to throw a match at the behest of the capitalists. Somehow, he ended up at the scene of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. He watched Zhang Jue perform a ritual and rally the masses with a single cry. Tens of thousands of followers donned yellow turbans and swept across the provinces, killing officials, raiding granaries, massacring aristocratic clans, and destroying powerful families. In this chaotic age, human life was cheap as grass.

Ying Da Qian was just an ordinary man. Swept up in the surging tide of the Yellow Turbans, he grew from an ordinary Yellow Turban soldier into a Yellow Turban strongman. The imperial court struck back, Zhang Jue was defeated and killed, and though Ying Da Qian fought bravely, he couldn't overcome overwhelming odds. Dong Zhuo, appreciating his talent, let him break through the encirclement. From then on, alone and adrift in the mountains, he became a bandit, robbing the powerful and plundering merchant caravans, wreaking havoc wherever he went.

After meeting Lü Bu, he left banditry behind and joined the government forces. But then he followed Lü Bu into becoming a servant of three masters! He joined Dong Zhuo and fought at Hulao Pass, only to be toyed with by Li Ru. That was when he turned ruthless: My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven's. If you are weak and insult me, I will destroy you. He conquered the Wuhuan, fought the Xianbei, and rode down the Southern Xiongnu. He raided the northeast, wiped out the Three Han tribes, fought Gongsun Zan, crushed Yuan Shao, and waged a bloody war against Cao Mengde. He rejected Confucianism's benevolent, people-dulling doctrines, upheld Legalism's path of universal wisdom and the rule of kings and hegemons, established the civil service examination system to recruit talent, and opened the military examinations to select generals. Wherever the black banners of Northern Qin flew, the land became imperial territory of Great Qin!