On the Eve of the Fire at the Linked Camps, I Tied Up Liu Bei

[Political intrigue] [Transmigration] [Power struggles] [Wits and strategy] [Family and country] [No System] [Lighthearted comedy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Ancient setting] [Hardcore history] [Political power struggles] [A lingering regret for Shu Han]

In the twenty-seventh year of Jian'an, on the eve of the Battle of Yiling, Chen Yuan transmigrates as a cannon-fodder foot soldier in Shu Han's 80,000-strong army. He looks up at the camps stretching across the hills and knows that in just a few days, Lu Xun's raging inferno will turn this place into a living hell. He has no System, no magic, only a head full of modern military theory and the entire Records of the Three Kingdoms committed to memory. To stay alive, he kicks open the central command tent and shouts at Liu Bei: “Big-Eared Bandit, are you trying to drag 80,000 of our brothers to their deaths with this lousy formation?!”

From improving the repeating crossbow and working out battlefield strategies on a sand table, to proposing a “protracted war” and “economic blockade” to crush the enemy with superior methods; from turning the desperate inferno at the linked camps into a counterattack, to joining Zhuge Liang on his six northern campaigns, Chen Yuan uses modern ingenuity to carve out a path to survival in the treacherous chaos of the Three Kingdoms. The great clans see him as a thorn in their side, Sima Yi exclaims, “This man's strategic brilliance far surpasses Kongming's,” and Liu Bei takes his hand, vowing to share the realm with him.

As the combined Wei and Wu armies close in on the city, Chen Yuan produces the gunpowder blueprints he spent all night drawing up. This time, can Shu Han's red banners truly fly across all of China?