Reborn as an abandoned prince on the frontier? Three moves are all it takes to teach Eunuch Cao a lesson!
After transmigrating and becoming a low-ranking soldier at a lonely desert pass, he opened his eyes to three deadly crises: fifty thousand barbarian cavalry were carrying “wolf-fire” torches to burn down the city, the court had sent Eunuch Cao to stage a fake surrender and absorb his troops, and even the veteran general guarding the pass was about to be killed with a single transfer order!
Is this game over? Think bigger!
He put his chemistry knowledge to work, brewing liquor from potatoes to make gunpowder and turning the desert into a mobile arsenal. He radically revised The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, building rapid-fire BFGs, then led the refugees in digging a deadly maze of “bunkers and tunnels”! A forged poem, “The Sage Poet Who Resisted the Barbarians,” called The War Chariot Song, fired the troops and civilians into a frenzy. Even the enemy princess charged out of the dungeon shouting, “Give me a weapon. I’ll fight alongside you!”
Eunuch Cao wanted to play dirty? He forged a secret imperial edict summoning reinforcements, turning all of Cao’s lackeys into double agents! At the handover ceremony, Xiao Zhan cleaved the training grounds with his broken blade, Shen Yanbing used secret messages written in alum water to destroy the intelligence network, and Su Yinniang had already planted deadly traps with her poison-smoke bombs!
When the barbarian khan walked into the “retreat” trap I’d set for him, I smiled wickedly from the tunnels and lit the potato mines! What could the grassland’s wolf-fire do against chain explosions powerful enough to blow apart his royal tent?
Most exciting of all, the mysterious Yun Niang, who always wore a veil, had a handkerchief embroidered with a six-petaled snow plum blossom, exactly like one of my mother’s keepsakes! Is she friend or foe?
From farming to becoming an arms tycoon, from crushing cold weapons with firearms to cutting through court intrigue with ease! Every chapter brings a counterattack, and every one will get your blood pumping! Come see how an ordinary man fights his way through heaven and earth!
In a word: In this brutal age, my firearms will always be one step faster than any scheme!
