Late Ming: Seventeen Years in Liaodong

Name: Late Ming: Seventeen Years in Liaodong
Author: Early Hours

明未：辽东十七年

by Early Hours (早时)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 413k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Historical & Ancient
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[History + War + Political Intrigue + Tragedy] In the forty-sixth year of the Wanli reign, Qinghe City fell. Seventeen-year-old Lin Yuanzhi’s father shoved him into a cellar. Through a crack in the floorboards, he watched his entire family die. A Han bannerman looting the bodies found him. Their eyes met, but the man set down the straw mat and silently walked away. That fleeting compassion was the last spark of humanity left unextinguished in Liaodong. After the disastrous defeat at Sarhu, the Ming army’s firearms became useless when their gunpowder got damp. Amid the fleeing soldiers, Lin Yuanzhi fired the first arrow of revenge, piercing the eye of a White Armor soldier of the Eight Banners. He thought that as long as he mastered bow and horse, he could defend this broken land. But he was wrong. Over the next seventeen years, he defended isolated cities, captured spies, and trained new troops, rising from junior officer to assistant regional commander. He watched Xiong Tingbi’s head paraded through the Nine Frontiers, and heard his widow lament, “My husband did not die at the hands of the Manchu invaders, but at the hands of the imperial court.” He knelt outside the Meridian Gate and watched Yuan Chonghuan suffer three thousand six hundred cuts, while the people of the capital scrambled to buy and eat his flesh. At that moment, the words “loyal to the emperor” shattered in his heart. When disaster struck in the Jiashen year, the Chongzhen Emperor died for his country and Wu Sangui shaved his head and surrendered to the Qing. Lin Yuanzhi led his remaining troops across a thousand miles, only to see the Southern Ming court still tearing itself apart...

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