General Lan Yu: Defending Hongdu for 108 Days

The Fierce General Lan Yu: Defending Hongdu for 108 Days [Transmigration Version] Synopsis

When the soul of a modern special forces instructor transmigrates into the body of Lan Yu, a renowned general from the end of the Yuan dynasty, the gears of history grind with a piercing screech atop the walls of Hongdu. The city is already under the shadow of Chen Youliang's six-hundred-thousand-strong army, while Zhu Yuanzhang's plea for aid is still a thousand miles away. This is a desperate situation destined to rewrite the history books, and a brutal battlefield where a modern man will forge the name of a “fierce general” anew with iron will and ingenuity.

[Called to Duty in a Crisis: A Bloody Start]

From the moment Lan Yu rose and slammed his hand on the table in Zhu Yuanzhang's tent, he knew that the historic defense of Hongdu, which had belonged to Zhu Wenzheng, had now become his destiny. With eight thousand battered troops and thirty days' worth of provisions, he made an example of a fleeing general on a rainy night, conscripted able-bodied civilians, and mobilized women and children, turning a terrified, isolated city into a war machine. When the first enemy assault was swept away by a flood in the moat, and he hung the enemy's severed ears on the city walls, he understood: this battle was not about defending the city, but defending the people's hearts.

[A Slaughter of Flesh and Blood: The Madness of a Thousand-Day Siege]

Chen Youliang's “River-Subduing Dragon” warships smashed through half the city wall, but could not break the line Lan Yu had built with his own body. He improved the “hanging basket tactic” to set enemy ships ablaze, poured molten metal to drive back the rattan-armored troops as they climbed, and planted a fire ox formation in the tunnels, showing the enemy in the flames what it meant to repay blood with blood. But more terrifying than the enemy outside was the collapse within the city: when the food ran out, he slaughtered warhorses for meat and chewed grass roots himself; when his nephews died on the walls, he bit through a bloodied arrow shaft and roared, “There are no cowards in the Lan family”; when his beloved concubine killed herself to save food, he took the last bowl of