Soldier

Episode 1

Some monks become rebels, so soldiers attack the village near the monastery those monks came from. The villagers try to flee while the monks try to protect the village, but in the end, the ones who did survive are taken prisoners and interrogated.

Episode 2

Mu Sang, now Kim Joon, is sentenced to hard labor at the construction site because of his "runaway" slave status and Wol Ah is sent to the Do Bang.

Episode 3

Episode 4

Kim In Joon decides to join the "game" and he is given a crash course on the basics since there's only a day left till it begins. The game starts...

Episode 5

Kim Joon gets badly hurt while competing, but even though the physician has ordered him to stay put, he still wants to stay in the competition.

Episode 6

Kim Joon convinces Song Yi to let him stay in the competition and she does everything she can to help him get through the coming second round.

Episode 7

Episode 8

Third day of the competition. Hapha dismisses his chess-player companion and wishes for Song I to marry before he dies. In the arena, the fight is fierce and unexpected.

Episode 9

Surprising everyone, Kim Jun wishes for Wol A to go back to Ku-Sunim's side but she doesn't want to. Song I's mother suspects a blooming love between the two and wants to help them to get married. Song I's father is invited by his brother to visit him, he knows the danger of going but still goes.

Episode 10

When Choi Woo arrives at his brother's residence the real reason why he wanted Kim Jun to come along is revealed. He wants Kim Jun to join him. Choi Woo's brother also gives Choi Woo a warning. Kim Joon is given his first task as a private soldier. He finds out Wol Ah refuses to leave Do Bang.

Episode 11

Kim Joon finds out his wedding to Wol Ah is being planned. Meanwhile Choi Hang is preparing to attack his older brother before their father dies and Mongol envoys meet the king. Choi U's teacher also comes to the city and he plans to meet him before he leaves.

Episode 12

Park Song Bi realizes what kind of person Gim Jun is. Lord Choe U, defenseless, is attacked and Gim Jun saves him. Hapha is on the verge of dying. War is about to burst between the two brothers.

Episode 13

Choi Woo's brother keeps sending people to bring Choi Woo to assist Hapha's last instants. As war is about to burst between the two brothers, Hapha suddendly becomes healthy again.

Episode 14

The confrontation between the two brothers finally is at its term. Choi Woo manages to gain Hapha's recognition as this latter meets his demise. For they are too successful and lucky : from all sides, hatred and jealousy arises towards Gim Jun and Wol A.

Episode 15

Chun Sim, brokenhearted, plots against Wol A to take revenge. Wedding preparations are all over. Gim Jun and Wol A's but also Song I and Yak Seon's. Hovewer, Song I doesn't want this marriage and makes an unexpected request to Gim Jun.

Episode 16

Wol A is brought to the young master Man Jong. After Song I's warning, Gim Jun desesperatly searches for Wol A, only to find her hours later in an horrible state. Hapha gives his orders : arrest everyone involved.

Episode 17

Song I confesses to her father that she wants Kim Joon for herself. Hapha is so angered, he threatens that if Kim Joon's name comes out of her mouth again it will be his death sentence. Kim Joon is sent to work in another area after Song I's confession.

Episode 18

Song I leaves Do Bang early in the morning with Gim Jun, pretending to go to the temple. She, in fact, wants to run away with Gim Jun, but he refuses to. The two finally go back to Do Bang where Song I is to be married and Gim Jun exiled.

Episode 19

Six years later, Songi is married and has two children but she still dreams of Kim Jun.

Episode 20

The Mongols attack the Cheolju Fortress. Even though the fortress has barely 2.5k men, they are able to withstand the attack of the enemy for a little over ten days. Generals Yi Won Jeung and Yi Hui Jeok, lock their families, and those of the soldiers, in a storeroom and burn it down. One of the generals gives Kim Joon his last order: go back to the capital city and report all he has seen on the front lines. The remaining soldiers of the Cheolju fortress open the gates and attack the Mongols.

Episode 21

Sartai admits he has underestimated the Goryeo soldiers because the Hansijin fortress was defeated so easily. General Kim and Kim Joon plan and execute a 12 men suicide mission to lower the moral of the Mongol troops.

Episode 22

Kim Joon is ordered back to the city, even though the Gwiju fortress is still being attacked. The troop Sartai sends to attack the capital city, burns down all villages and kills all living creatures they find on their way as a warning should they decide to stand their ground and not surrender. They also burn down the Buddhist temple near the city.

Episode 23

Hapha, pressured by the ministers, decides to surrender to avoid an attack on the capital city. Once Kim Joon is back, Hapha makes him his assistant. Emissaries are sent to the Gwiju and Jaju fortresses to convince the generals defending it to surrender. At first both fortresses refused, but Gwiju after receiving a second visit from a member of the royal family raised the white flag to protect the king.

Episode 24

Jaju fortress surrenders after the king's representative pleads with its general. The general is tied up and taken away by the Mongol troops. There's a banquet to welcome the Mongols and celebrate the end of the war. Sartai publicly declares if more generals were like General Kim, they wouldn't have been able to take over Goryeo. Hapha, after seeing how much the commoners are suffering because of the demands made by the Mongols, asks Kim Joon what he thinks.