第一章 ：溃卒 

Defeated soldiers

Two hundred and fifty-seven years after the reign of the Li family, the once glorious Tang Dynasty, which had been the cradle of all nations, stumbled into the winter solstice of the first year of the Qianfu era. That winter, only three months remained until the fall of the Tang Dynasty, and only thirty-three years until the reign of King Wang and Huang Liqi. That same winter, while the officials of Chang'an were still basking in the afterglow of the golden age, the small Nanzhao Kingdom in the southwest of the empire once again invaded Xichuan. …In the first battle, the Tang army was defeated at the Dadu River, its routed troops fleeing to Qiongzhou, and the Nanzhao army advanced directly towards Chengdu. Meanwhile, outside the Dadu River, on a battlefield of carnage, a young Tang soldier opened his eyes. He pushed aside the corpses covering him, his eyes filled with the setting sun and the impending doom of the world. This was the first year of the Qianfu era. The Tang Dynasty had not yet collapsed, but the world was already a scene of ruins. Our story begins in the winter of that year, with the Nanzhao War.

命符传李氏二百五十七年后。昔日万国朝宗的煌煌天唐跌跌撞撞地走到了干符元年的冬至。这年冬，距离王、黄立旗只有三月，距离大唐覆灭也仅剩三十三年。也是这年冬，长安的公卿们依旧沉湎在盛世的余晖，而在帝国的西南方，蕞尔南诏却再次进犯西川。……初战，唐军兵败大渡河，溃众奔邛州，南诏兵锋直指成都。与此同时，大渡河外，修罗战场。一名年轻的唐军甲兵睁开了眼，他推开了身上的尸体，满目斜阳末日。这就是干符元年，大唐天厦未倾，可天下早已是一片断壁残垣。我们的故事就是从这年的冬天，那一场南诏战争开始。