Transmigrated into the body of a dying ninth-rank garrison soldier at Dakou, Shen Lie only wants to survive until the Jurchen break through the pass.
But the moment he makes it through alive, he's stunned. This Ming dynasty is completely insane!
In the Forbidden City, Chongzhen has spent seventeen years dreaming of his bloody death on Coal Hill. Reborn, he flips the table! He summons Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Bi Maokang to the capital five years early, then launches a bloody purge with red-rimmed eyes. "I've died once already. Anyone who lets me down will have their entire clan executed!"
In a camp beyond the pass, the 17-year-old Dorgon is reborn with the Hound System. He farms Western plate armor and flintlock guns on the black market, plots to poison Huangtaiji, and vows to become the demon emperor of the Great Qing!
On the barren lands of northern Shaanxi, the future rebel king Li Zicheng awakens the instincts of a beast. With his heaven-defying luck and ability to survive against all odds, he becomes an unkillable nightmare of famine!
A reborn tyrant, a System-backed warlord, a beast of destiny... Everyone thinks they hold the ultimate script and that the world is in the palm of their hand.
Until they run into Shen Lie.
"You all think you're the protagonist? I've got a life-and-death simulator from the start, and I'm here to chop down every fate-blessed cheater!"
[Tactical Simulation: Identify the weak point and split a Baya guard, armor and all, with a direct blow!]
[God of War Sign-In Critical Hit: refined sulfa drugs, coke-fired blast furnaces, self-igniting flintlock guns, rifled exploding shells, hand-cranked Gatling guns...]
When the heavily armored Eight Banners collide with the wall of fire from modern volley guns, and battlefield medicine from a higher technological era meets grievous, festering wounds...
Dorgon spits blood, stunned: "Where the hell did he get modern military industry?!"
Chongzhen cries out in disbelief: "In my previous life, over seventeen years, when did the Ming ever have such an invincible God of War?!"
Shen Lie sits tall in the saddle, a single blade in hand, as ten thousand heavy cannons roar behind him.
"The script's been scrapped? Then we'll start over by my industrial rules!"
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Chart of a Hundred Lives: I Can Return to My Past Lives and Seize Their Fortunes
The Tang Dynasty's Traitor: Starting with a Switcheroo at Mawei Slope
A Poor Scholar's Prodigy: My Sisters Are Rich Now!
Starting with Twenty-Three Men, I Was Hailed as the World's Greatest Warlord
Great Ming: I, the Hongguang Emperor, Refuse to Be a Pig
Jingkang: Besieged City from the Start? I Refuse to Be a King Who Loses His Country