War of Resistance: I’m an Ordnance Expert, So Why Am I Using a Donkey to Pull a Machine Tool?

The moment he opened his eyes, Lin Huai had gone from a modern weapons laboratory to the blood-soaked battlefield of 1937. Japanese machine guns shredded positions. Soldiers charged with dud grenades clutched to their chests, while Hanyang rifles blew up and wounded their own men first. Other transmigrators got guns and cannons handed to them. Lin Huai was bound to the Great Nation Heavy Industry System, but his first mission was to make 300 working hand grenades and 100 homemade landmines in a month. No machine tools? No electricity? No steel? All he had was a half-collapsed courtyard, a clay furnace, five old blacksmiths, and a lame donkey! Lin Huai tossed out the old rules: melt down every spent shell, reformulate the substandard explosives, redesign the furnace's air channels, and use the donkey to power an industrial machine tool! From the first grenade capable of killing a Japanese soldier, to minefields tearing apart search-and-destroy units, to the roar of a mountain-gully munitions factory coming to life. The Japanese thought the Eighth Route Army had nothing but fire sticks. Then they discovered that every explosion on the front lines was rewriting the industrial destiny of the age. But just as the first donkey-powered industrial machine tool began running successfully, the System unlocked an even more terrifying blueprint...