On March 19, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the city of Beijing was destroyed, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan Mountain. On the same day, thousands of miles away, outside the Ningwu Pass, Ming Dynasty General Lu Yan led 8,000 remnant troops to fight the Qing army for three days, and finally the entire army was annihilated. Lu Yan was exhausted and captured, and was escorted to Shengjing. He suffered the pain of Ling Chi for the crime of "losing his teacher and losing his land", and died in the severe pain of thousands of arrows piercing his heart.
However, when Lu Yan opened his eyes again, he found that he had returned to three years ago - the eve of the Battle of Songjin in the 14th year of Chongzhen. At that time, he was the high-spirited commander-in-chief of Jizhen, with 20,000 elite soldiers at his disposal. At that time, although the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil, it still had half of the country.
Lu Yan, who had resurrected his life, knew the direction of history better than anyone else: the Ming army was defeated in the Battle of Songjin, Hong Chengchou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zu Dashou was trapped in Jinzhou, and all the elites from the nine sides were lost; in the next three years, the Qing army entered the fortress five times, and the Central Plains was eroded; in the end, Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed.
This time, he was no longer the foolish and loyal general in mourning. What he wants to rewrite is not only the outcome of a battle, but the national destiny of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Faced with the suspicious Chongzhen, his colleagues with ulterior motives, the eyeing Qing army, and the upcoming Jiashen National Revolution, Lu Yan had no choice but to climb out of the sea of blood and corpses and re-weld the crumbling country bit by bit.
Lu Yan: The protagonist was the commander-in-chief of Jizhen in the Ming Dynasty in his previous life. After the Battle of Songjin, he was sentenced to Lingchi because the entire army was wiped out. Reborn and returned to three years ago, carrying the memories of the Qing army's tactics, party struggles and historical trends, he was determined to change his fate against the odds.
Wang Zhong: Lu Yan's personal soldier captain and his life and death brother who has followed Lu Yan for many years. Born into a poor family, illiterate but extremely loyal and brave, he is Lu Yan's most trusted confidant.
