The Savvy Little Soldier

Name: The Savvy Little Soldier
Author: Cavalry in a Sea of Flowers

小兵油子

by Cavalry in a Sea of Flowers (骑兵花海)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 696k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: War & Espionage
Updated: 20h ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

Beacon Bones Beyond the Great Wall: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting Japanese Invaders on the Grasslands

[Warlords, War of Resistance, Searching for Family, No Overpowered Cheats, Spy Warfare, Logic and Intelligence, Ruthless]

1921–1945: The land is in turmoil, and China is engulfed in endless flames of war.

Adopted as a child by a top undercover spy, the young man is meticulously trained for over a decade to become his other hand.

There is no System and no mindless overpowered cheat. Every struggle is won through blood, grit, and cunning.

To uncover the truth behind his parents’ disappearance, he leaves his homeland and ventures alone into the maelstrom of a chaotic age.

Starting out among the roughnecks of a county town, he gathers forces from across the region and rises to become a warlord in his own right;

He navigates between the Military Statistics Bureau, Japanese spies, and factions of every stripe, gathering top-secret intelligence and rooting out enemy agents.

On one side is the undercover foster father who raised him, with the two of them constantly testing and maneuvering against each other;

On the other are the captivating women who accompany him through the chaos, as feelings simmer along several intertwined paths. He is decisive and peerless in his schemes, rejecting saintly self-sacrifice and needless inner conflict.

From a lonely young man who only wanted to find his family to a warlord ruling his own corner of the land, he ultimately breaks free of personal grudges, takes up the cause of his people, and becomes a revolutionary willing to die for his country. This is the path his birth parents left for him!

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