Steam-Era Republic of China: From the Start, I Rise from Despair to Rule the Land

After transmigrating into the role of a border city commander, Lu Heng opened his eyes to find his cultivation crippled by poison, two thousand mounted bandits surrounding the isolated city, and his men nothing but old and weak soldiers. Lu Heng immediately activated the Overlord System. With the mind of a graduate student in military history and a System that could exchange points for steam-powered black technology, how could he lose? He executed traitors, wiped out the bandits, and picked them off with steam rifles from three hundred meters away! He defeated the governor’s son, took over seven counties, and faced hardened internal-force strikes head-on with steam-powered exoskeleton armor! He built workshops, laid railways, and mounted machine guns. The northern frontier was his to command! Wu Tianxiong? Han Sandao? Even those foreign devils dared to reach for his lands? In this war-torn age, steam would be his blade. Lu Heng was determined to fight for the realm!