Mengshan Army

This book is an alternate history. It narrates the legendary rise of a surviving band of highwaymen in Shandong during the late Qing Dynasty. Witness their magnificent transformation from the Mongshan bandits to the Mongshan army, as they engage in a bloody drama on the grand stage of history, vanquishing domestic warlords, cleansing feudal filth, establishing a glorious republic, driving out the Russians and defeating the Japanese, and avenging the foreign humiliations suffered from the Opium War to the First Sino-Japanese War, thereby restoring the might of our China

This book presents not only grand and sweeping depictions of war but also the painful struggles of both prominent and ordinary individuals caught in the currents of history. Themes of family and country, power and wealth, beauty, loyalty and betrayal are explored, with each character facing difficult choices.