The World at the End of the Ming Dynasty: Starting as a Lowly Watchtower Soldier

Zhao Jing transmigrated to Dengzhou and Laizhou during the Chongzhen era of the Ming dynasty, becoming an archer stationed at a beacon tower in Fushan County.

At the time, Kong Youde's rebel army had already been surrounded by government forces in Dengzhou. Hong Taiji of the Later Jin had just finished his campaign against Lin Dan Khan of the Chahar Mongols, while the peasant armies of Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, and others were active in places like Shanxi.

But all of that was a long way from Zhao Jing. Of course he had ambitions, but first he had to survive the deserters who had taken over the beacon tower...