From Border Guard Death Row Inmate to Sweeping the Roman Legions

Archaeologist Zhang Che transmigrates into a condemned criminal sent to guard the Han frontier. Using his modern knowledge, he saves a commandant, helps Huo Qubing launch a surprise attack on the Hexi Corridor, and invents steelmaking techniques that revolutionize the Han army. But then he spots Roman silver coins circulating in the Western Regions: has Crassus's legion brought Greek fire and infiltrated the Silk Road? Leading armored cavalry west, he builds a city in the Pamirs with concrete, burns the Seleucid war elephants, and floods the Roman legions in Syria. Yet papyrus discovered underground records the history of Chu and Han. When a translation of the Dao De Jing turns up in Constantinople's underground palace, and the diary of Cleopatra predicts that the Han dragon banner will fly atop the pyramids, he finally realizes that the space-time rift is spiraling out of control. On the night of the decisive battle in the Apennines, he melts the dragon banner and eagle standard together to forge a monument to Earth, and a bronze compass suddenly appears: he is, in fact, a quantum error corrector! A thousand years later, a Latin-inscribed ring-pommel saber excavated from the tomb of the Marquis of Haihun bears a map of the world in a hidden compartment in its hilt, marked with modern borders. Is this campaign a clash of civilizations, or a bloody experiment conducted by higher-dimensional beings?

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