Iron-Blooded Wing King: From the Start, I Turned the Dadu River Into My Destiny

Chen Rui, a history editor long worn down by office politics, unexpectedly transmigrates into Shi Dakai at the desperate crossing of the Dadu River in 1863. With food gone, reinforcements cut off, the Qing army closing in, and his wife and children having thrown themselves into the water, he tears up the false-surrender agreement and uses modern political strategy to defy fate. On a stormy night, he launches a surprise attack on a chieftain’s camp, wins over his sworn enemy Ling Cheng’en with a Yi silver bracelet, seizes the supply route, and blows up the landslide dam. Seven thousand surviving troops spill blood across Zidadi!

He takes western Sichuan, smelts steel and manufactures gunpowder, then uses the Land Law to draw a million refugees to his cause, setting his sights on Chengdu and founding the “Western Shu Heavenly Kingdom”!

He conquers the Qing in a northern campaign. His firearms battalions crush the Xiang Army’s navy, he drives a wedge between Zuo Zongtang and the Qing court, and captures the Tongzhi Emperor alive beneath the Forbidden City. As Zeng Guofan binds himself and begs to surrender, he asks with a trembling voice, “Could you truly be... a demon star sent from heaven?”