The New Army of the Late Ming

When a modern military mind falls into the fading embers of the Ming Dynasty.

Lin Feng, a 28-year-old former reconnaissance soldier, is accidentally transported back to Nanjing in the first year of the Chongzhen reign. He intends to use his knowledge of the future to buy a house in this splendid city and live in peace, watching events unfold.

But the tides of history have no mercy on bystanders. From the grain-barge docks of the Qinhuai River to the anti-bandit front lines on the Jianghuai Plain, and then to the blood-soaked battlefields of Liaodong, he is forced time and again to take up his blade and ride into battle.

He trains the first modern army, the Jianghuai Battalion, reshaping its spirit with a staff system and ideological education. He granulates gunpowder, allowing Ming firearms to overwhelm the barbarian cavalry for the first time. Amid suspicion at court and enemies closing in, he establishes overseas the beginnings of an ideal nation called Huaxing Prefecture.

From a small house in Nanjing to the heights of power over all under heaven; from a transmigrator who only wanted to keep to himself to a general, a marshal, and ultimately the founder of a new order, shaped by the times.

There is no turning back. He must face not only the cavalry beyond the passes and the rebels within the country, but also the crushing shackles of an entire rotten age.

When he forcibly pries the wheels of history off their course, he ultimately chooses not to become another Zhu Yuanzhang, but to launch an unprecedented experiment in civilization.