Late Ming: Rising in the Southwest and Sweeping All the Way to the Capital

After transmigrating to the final years of the Ming dynasty, Xu Zhen knew better than anyone what lay ahead: Plague, famine, warfare, thousands of miles of barren land, and corpses strewn across the countryside. The Later Jin Tartars entrenched beyond the passes were steadily draining the Ming court of its elite troops. Bands of rebels ravaging the land were throwing much of the country into turmoil. The civil officials endlessly attacked one another, while the military commanders grew increasingly unruly, adding fuel to the flames of this turbulent age. In just over twenty years, the Ming dynasty would fall... He had to start now: read the situation, make allies wherever he could, and build an iron-blooded army of his own in the pestilent lands of the southwestern frontier, wedged between rival powers. He had to carve out a secure rear base. Only then could he pursue his enemies and claim the throne in the coming chaos!