[No System] [No Cheats] [No Transmigration] [Late Ming Dynasty] [Common Soldier] [Survival] [Protection]
At sixteen, Zhao Chengyuan wanted only to give his mother a full meal, keep his little sister from being bullied, and make sure the brothers who followed him didn't die on the battlefield.
But the garrison gave him no way to survive.
His father's compensation money was withheld, his family's ancestral military token was demanded as payment for a debt, and military gear and provisions were whittled away at every level. He couldn't even afford a decent padded coat.
Starting as a squad leader, he defended Ningyuan, fought his way out of Sarhu, saved the dying scholar Su Wenqing, and took in an orphan who would later become a renowned general.
Some called him nothing but a border soldier who didn't know when to back down.
Others said he would eventually die in the imperial prison for protecting his own and disobeying orders.
Zhao Chengyuan did not argue.
He simply led troops, reclaimed farmland, built cannons, and gathered refugees, then step by step drove the rotten Ming Dynasty to the edge of a cliff.
When he became the founding emperor of the Hua Dynasty, he still had only three of his most battered possessions by his side.
An old saber, a piece of broken silver, and a burst gun barrel.
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