Reborn in the Early Years of the Republic of China

Xu Yong, a business elite in the 21st century, was involved in a car accident after drinking with a client on his 40th birthday night. When he woke up, he found himself lying on a hard bed at the Baoding Military Academy in 1905 and became an ordinary Beiyang New Army officer. With knowledge and vision beyond the times, he emerged in the anti-bandit campaign and met Wu Peifu, who had just graduated from the Beiyang Rapid Arms Academy. Under the city of Wuchang, he witnessed the flames of revolution and the collapse of the old era; at the beginning of the Republic of China, he held a regiment of troops to survive in troubled times. During the War to Protect the Country, he defected to fight against Yuan. In the Second Revolution, he fought with both sides. During the period of warlord chaos, he finally occupied the northwest province and became his own faction when Beiyang was divided and all the heroes came together. When the iron current of the Northern Expedition swept across the Central Plains, and when Zhang Xueliang changed his banner in the Northeast, he also completed formal unification under the banner of the Nanjing government. However, this motley military general, whom Chiang Kai-shek called the "Rock of the Northwest," was secretly in contact with the CCP, walking a tightrope between the cave dwellings in Yan'an and the official residence in Nanjing. The gunfire of September 18th awakened the mountains and rivers, and the gunshots of the Xi'an Incident shocked the government and the public. When the anti-Japanese war rages across China, and when the Kuomintang and the Communist Party break apart again, this soul from the future will make its own choice at the crossroads of history. This is a story of a small person struggling to survive in a big era and making progress step by step. It is also a story of a modern soul looking for a destination in a century of changes.