Modern military engineer Lin Che accidentally transmigrates to the coastal region of Zhejiang during the Jiajing era, becoming a low-ranking officer in a branch of the Qi family army on the brink of annihilation. Faced with ruthless, cunning Japanese pirates, a corrupt court riven by infighting, and outdated military technology, he uses his knowledge from beyond the age to transform matchlock guns and, step by step, build the “Divine Machine Battalion,” a force that strikes fear into the pirates. But when he discovers that an astonishing secret spanning time and space lies behind the pirate raids, an epic showdown over the fate of the Great Ming and the ethics of modern technology quietly begins...
