In troubled times, heroes and bandits emerge. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, banditry was rampant in western Hunan. Zhang Yunqing was born in poverty, but because of his nature he did not want to be an obedient citizen who could be bullied by others, so he became a bandit. After joining the green forest, he used his ruthlessness and insidiousness to raise a team of bandits. With the support of the rich man Mei Maniang, he grew stronger step by step... In that era of warlords' melee, due to the conflicts and competitions of various interest groups, Zhang Yunqing finally stood out and became a generation of bandit kings who dominated the western Hunan region...