Five Veterans Drive into the Seventeenth Year of Chongzhen

[Hardcore History] [Limited Supplies] [Military Ensemble Cast] [A Fierce Fight to Save the Nation]

On a stormy night, five retired soldiers were transporting disaster relief supplies when they slammed on the brakes and crashed, vehicle and all, through Desheng Gate into the eighteenth day of the third month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen!

Outside the vehicle: an outbreak of the Black Death, rebel forces breaching the city, and the Eight Banners' iron cavalry due to enter the pass in just over ten days.

Inside: everything they owned, a five-ton armored Mengshi vehicle, eight thousand liters of diesel, two Type 97 shotguns, three hundred rounds of ammunition, forty boxes of antibiotics, and a small machine tool.

No infinite ammo, no pocket dimension! Every shot fired is one less, every liter burned is one less!

The veteran scout and squad leader pulled out a ledger. "If you don't want to die at the end of the Ming, from now on, every drop of fuel and every spent casing gets recorded!"

And so, just as the Ming emperor was kicking his legs on a crooked tree on Coal Hill, a blinding pair of headlights cut through the darkness over the Forbidden City...