Interstellar Scrapheap

Lin Mo is the useless young master of a Huaxia family. He is thrown into the expeditionary army and put in charge of a marine platoon made up entirely of good-for-nothings: the Useless Platoon. No one expects them to survive their first battle. Yet this very platoon holds its ground for three years on an icebound planet, using their own flesh and blood to hold back an enemy a hundred times their number.