The Late Ming! Starting in the Mountains of Hunan, Jiangxi, and Hubei to Restore Han Rule

This novel follows the authentic clan order of ancient southern mountain communities, without borrowing the northern model of official rule or the contrived tropes of films and fiction. Southern rural life centers on clans and local gentry governing themselves, and every conflict follows realistic village customs. Not a formulaic power fantasy + southern clans + detailed combat + historical allegory In the eighteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, Li Zicheng was defeated at Jiugong Mountain, and his remnants and their families drifted to the western countryside of Ningzhou, Jiangxi. Yan Yu transmigrates into the body of a wounded soldier from the Great Shun, and the moment he opens his eyes, he must face reprisals from the gentry and the turmoil of a chaotic age. With no System or cheat abilities, he relies only on the knowledge and battlefield experience of two lifetimes to establish himself in the Xiang-Gan mountains, where clans are everywhere and local militias abound. The suspicions of the Leng clan, struggles over military command, and the lives and deaths of his neighbors: he proceeds cautiously, without pretending to be virtuous or acting like a saint. Making Mount Mufu his base, he trains troops, forges weapons, and protects the land and its people. Caught between the local gentry, the Southern Ming, and the Qing army, he fights his way to survival and builds a battle-hardened force to defend home and country, vowing not to let China suffer another century of humiliation.