Andrei Douglas transmigrates into the heir of a down-at-heel medieval baron. From the start, his situation is an absolute nightmare:
Six hundred serfs are barely fed, and none have even begun learning breathing techniques. His only fighting force is his knight father, who cannot support his family and knows nothing but brute-force charges.
While others use whips and hunger to rouse morale, he introduces modern military training based on "full meals and proper rest";
while others rely on knights charging head-on, he thinks outside the box and develops ancient Greek "long-pike phalanx" tactics, turning wooden poles into deadly barriers on the battlefield!
When the earl's call to arms arrives, a "new pike army" made up of serfs shocks the entire camp.
Amid the smoke and fire along the border of life and death, he builds his forces through war, crushing the arrogance of traditional knights with "discipline" and "tactical awareness."
From single-pole defense to advancing in formation, from individual assaults to unit-level command, Andrei brings modern military thinking to the Dark Middle Ages.
Watch him triumph over the strong from a position of weakness, using textbook tactical plans to rise from a lord of serfs into the kingdom's youngest god of war and commander, overturning the rules of the entire knightly class!
Part of it looks like I've seen it before