Towards the end of the Tang dynasty, Li Ke-yung, ruler of Sha To State, and his thirteen sons, set out to suppress rebels that capture the imperial Capital Changan. The youngest son, Li Tsun-hsiao,...

Towards the end of the Tang dynasty, Li Ke-yung, ruler of Sha To State, and his thirteen sons, set out to suppress rebels that capture the imperial Capital Changan. The youngest son, Li Tsun-hsiao, captures a rebel general. Another son, Li Tsun-hsin, wants to lead the troops into storming the rebel stronghold. When his father is unwilling to trust him with this task and turns the responsibility over to Li Tsun-hsiao, the seeds of dissension are sown between the sons. No screen team was more triumphant in the 'Golden Age' of kung-fu cinema than the 'iron triangle' of director Chang Cheh and his prots David Chiang and Ti Lung. This is their quintessential historical epic, set during the waning years of the Tang Dynasty. It's literally brother against brother as Chiang and Lung display their remarkable marital-arts prowess - battling insiders and outsiders in a duel to the death for the fate of China.