A Border City from the Start: I Slaughter My Way Through the Northern Barbarians

Xu An transmigrates and becomes a county magistrate in the Great Yong. The Northern Barbarians' cavalry is at the gates.

There are fewer than two hundred old and wounded soldiers in the city, the granary holds only eight days' worth of food, and the county deputy and powerful clans are secretly collaborating with the enemy, preparing to surrender the city in exchange for favor.

It's a desperate situation with no way out.

But Xu An sees a way to survive.

He uses the city gate to set an ambush, uses the powerful clans to fund his army, trades military achievements for land, and relies on merchant routes to replenish his provisions.

He takes in refugees, trains a new army, opens workshops, and builds formidable defenses, turning a border city everyone once avoided into an iron wall the Northern Barbarians cannot breach.

Later, when a hundred thousand Northern Barbarian troops march south, every court official urges him to abandon the city.

But Xu An leads his battle-hardened army and crosses the border for the first time.

“Defend the city?”

“No.”

“Starting today, the tables have turned.”