ongoingWest to Yiwu, east to Lingwu: more than four thousand li of land regained, a million households in its registers — the mountains and rivers of six commanderies, returned as if they had never been lost. The Guiyi Army: an unavoidable chapter of the late-Tang northwest. Zhang Yichao: a hero who should never have been buried by the yellow sands of history. But now it is the second year of Changxing under the Later Tang of the Five Dynasties. The Great Tang is gone, and Zhang Yichao has been dead for decades. How are the descendants of that lone loyal garrison of the northwest to survive, ringed by wolves on every side? Can a soul from a later age, in the body of Zhang Yichao's great-grandson, raise the banner of righteousness in the northwest once more — and turn back the tide before it swallows everything?