The Marquis of Dingbei's heir, Lin Beiye, is framed and convicted, then exiled to Black Beacon Fort on the northern frontier. Starting out as a condemned soldier on the brink of death, he relies on memories from his previous life and the mysterious "Fenghua Chronicle" System to build the Fenghua Battalion in the face of certain doom. Outnumbered but undaunted, he repeatedly routs the Northern Rong armies. From cutting down a hundred enemies at Rocky Beach, to burning a thousand cavalrymen at Soulbreak Ridge, to holding a lone fort with just six hundred men and turning the tables to capture the Southern Court's commander-in-chief, he gradually clears his family's name and forges a legend on the northern frontier. Yet even with the foreign threat subdued, the hidden blades and open attacks in the imperial court are only just beginning...
