[Transmigration + technological farming + power fantasy about unifying the realm, fast-paced, no female lead, read with confidence]
At Gaixia, surrounded on all sides and trapped in an ambush, Yu Ji is dead, and only twenty-eight of Xiang Yu's eight thousand men remain.
As songs of Chu rise all around him, Xiao Yuan, a modern military engineer, transmigrates into the body of Xiang Yu, a man on the brink of defeat.
Everyone knows the Hegemon is destined to die today. Liu Bang's army has surrounded the Wu River.
But they don't know one thing:
This Xiang Yu carries two thousand years of knowledge in his mind.
With cement, glass, refined salt, and papermaking, he brings modern workshops to Jiangdong. With repeating crossbows, long-handled sabers, gunpowder, and cannons, he fast-forwards the age of cold weapons straight into the age of firearms.
Han Xin thinks he is still the same brawny fool, all brawn and no brains. Liu Bang thinks he is still the same arrogant and stubborn Hegemon. Peng Yue and Ying Bu think he has nowhere left to turn and that they need only wait to divide up Chu.
Only when the first ranks of musketeers form in Jiangdong, when bombs blast open the allied forces' camps, and when the man who should have died at the Wu River rides his black steed back onto the Central Plains do they understand:
This Xiang Yu is no longer the Xiang Yu they knew.
This is a story about defying fate and rewriting one's destiny. From the desperate trap at Gaixia to becoming a ruler through military industry, from twenty-eight horsemen to a million-strong army, from taking his own life at the Wu River to unifying the realm.
This time, I will write history myself.
