The Empire's Iron Cavalry: Chronicles of the Five Barbarians' Campaigns

In the sixth year of Yongjia in the Eastern Jin dynasty, the horrors of Jie ruler Shi Le's massacres and cannibalism are about to happen again. Then Liu You, a transmigrator bearing a mysterious totem that can summon the civilization of the Age of Empires, arrives. Starting from an abandoned fortified village at the foot of the Taihang Mountains, he uses the System to build mills and secure an endless supply of grain. He uses logging camps to cultivate fast-growing ironwood for making long-handled sabers, and unlocks the lost blueprints for Zhuge repeating crossbows through an academy. While the Hu cavalry are still showing off their stirrups, Liu You's black-armored heavy cavalry already have the full set of three saddle components. While the Xiongnu aristocrats revel in wine and excess, his military farms are revolutionizing agriculture with curved-iron plows. From the five hundred elite troops who raid the Jie camp at night to the hundred thousand Iron Pagoda cavalry at the Battle of Fei River, this transmigrator, holding the Essentials of the People in one hand and an eight-ox crossbow in the other, vows to forge the glory of the Han anew across the lands of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarians with a tide of steel and gunpowder.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.