He opens his eyes on the brink of death to find Qing soldiers about to violate his fiancée right in front of him!
Gao Wangbei, a doctoral student in sports human sciences at Beijing Sport University, opens his eyes to find himself reborn in the living hell of the twelfth year of the Kangxi era.
More than three hundred members of the Gao family have been slaughtered by Eight Banners troops for refusing to shave their heads and submit to the Qing!
A Qing soldier has knocked him unconscious with a punch, leaving him near death. His childhood sweetheart, Xu Guinan, is about to be assaulted, while three Tartars leer as they prepare to torture him to death!
At the brink of despair, his modern combat instincts, military tactics, and scientific training methods awaken in full!
He feigns death, then springs up to strike. A lock and a swift kill: in ten breaths, he cuts down three dogs in a burst of blood. In a ruined kiln, he swears a blood oath:
In this life, he will kill every last Eight Banners Tartar, reclaim the lands of the Han, and protect her for the rest of her life!
He has studied the military history of the late Ming inside and out, and knows that the Revolt of the Three Feudatories will end in failure. The fickle Wu Sangui is nothing but a pawn for him to use as a ladder to the heavens!
With Xu Guinan, who has cut her hair and disguised herself, he heads south to enlist. Starting in the cannon fodder battalion, he uses Wu Sangui's supplies and troops to build an invincible late-Ming army with modern science!
His advanced squad tactics cut through the Eight Banners' elite, and his scientific training system crushes the old-style armies. From an unknown nobody, he fights his way to become the Great Zhou army's greatest god of war!
But just as his achievements pile up, Xu Guinan's identity as a woman is exposed. In front of everyone, he cuts off his robe, disowns her, and drives her from the camp!
Has power made him heartless, or is this part of a double plan meant to deceive the world?
In this life, he will first exploit every advantage to topple the Qing iron hooves, then turn around and destroy the warlords who carved up the realm!
From a ruined kiln in the wilderness to the heights of the Forbidden City, wherever the Han banners point becomes his territory!
