With the Chu River as the Border, I Am the King

Xiang Li, a strategy instructor at the National Defense University, wakes from a dream to find himself the last disciple of Fan Zeng, the adviser to the King of Western Chu. On the eve of the Feast at Hong Gate, the wheels of history are already turning. Armed with modern military theory and a keen understanding of strategy, Xiang Li vows to defy fate and change history! He proposes the divisive “Bashu fiefdom” scheme, lays a psychological warfare trap with false intelligence from Chencang, and uses wargame simulations and the Lanchester equations to persuade the King of Chu to keep Han Xin by his side as a guard. Rather than forcibly overturning history, he turns the Chu-Han frontier into a strategic buffer zone and establishes the first council for the feudal lords to debate alliances and rivalries, using institutions to reshape the nature of warfare. See how Xiang Li wields strategy as a blade and institutions as a shield in the crucible of the Chu-Han conflict, writing an epic tale of a master strategist.