Reborn: The Rise of the German Empire

On the streets of Hamburg in 2025, former Navy special forces soldier Tang Wei is savoring the rich aroma of German beer and dreaming about the legend of the Bismarck when an out-of-control truck sends him plunging into endless darkness. When he opens his eyes again, he has transmigrated to the German Empire of 1899 and become Hank von Adalbert, a naval ensign. History remembers him as an obscure second son of a noble family who was gravely wounded after taking a bullet for Tirpitz.

Bearing a gunshot wound and armed with ship-design knowledge a century ahead of its time, Hank knows that Germany will suffer a crushing defeat in World War I fifteen years from now, and its entire navy will be wiped out. To survive and change his destined fate, he faces doubts that he is a mere "parachute appointment" and draws plans for a revolutionary cruiser from his hospital bed. The designs astonish Tirpitz and even earn him a personal audience with Kaiser Wilhelm II.

From improving steelmaking techniques to solve the problem of brittle fractures in low temperatures, to pushing for shipyard expansions; from designing Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers to outclass Britain, to secretly developing steam turbines to make ships faster; from dealing with British spies watching him to deftly navigating the arms race among nations, Hank uses his knowledge of modern marine engineering to transform the German navy step by step into the master of the Atlantic.

But the wheels of fate never stop turning. The Russo-Japanese War breaks out, Britain's Dreadnought appears on the scene, America covets his designs, and even the Morgan financial empire wants to recruit him. As Hank maneuvers among the royal family, the military, and the nobility, he also accelerates construction of high-speed battleships capable of changing the course of war. He vows that before 1914 arrives, Germany's ironclads will become a force capable of reshaping the world!