Fighting in Troubled Times: from a Border Soldier to a Hero Fighting for Hegemony

As soon as Chen Yuan opened his eyes, he became a pawn in the rebellion of the Six Towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty, with a mountain of military orders from Er Zhu Zhao above his head. With a modern soul, he relied on the art of making ice with saltpeter to survive in the wounded camp, used Qi Jiguang's tactics to train the squad of dead soldiers, and even used mathematics to help the quartermaster make false accounts. On the eve of Er Zhuzhao's sudden death, he led a surprise attack on the border town of Wuchuan with fifty special forces and established his own company. When the refugee army shouted "Living King of Hell" and defected, he was smelting the first batch of steel in a traditional blast furnace. Gao Huan sent a letter to recruit him, and he rewarded him with a cart of fine steel Mo knives: "This knife is specially designed to kill national traitors!" On the eve of the decisive battle, the spies urgently reported: "A mysterious aide appeared in Gao Huan's army, claiming that 'history shouldn't be like this'..."