“Brothers, dying is easy. Getting you out alive is the hard part!”
Lu Cheng brings the System back to the blood-soaked meat grinder of southern Shandong, defies fate, and saves the Sichuan Army’s last spark, which was destined to perish for the nation.
From a ragged battalion of routs armed with Hanyang rifles to a heavily equipped division rolling on tanks and coordinating infantry with artillery, he leads these veterans across the Taihang Mountains and the Yalu River, seeing off his fallen brothers with the enemy’s own shells.
Looking back at the banks of the Yalu, he runs a hand over his bloodstained insignia. “Old Huang, Zhuzi, look at this prosperous age. The foreign powers would never dare bully our China again!”