Please Recommend Books with Realistic Military Knowledge. No More AK-47s and 98Ks Popping Up Everywhere 推荐一下有军事常识的书，别动不动就是AK47、98K
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Crimson Smoke from the Cooking Fires: My Mercenary Career! 血色炊烟：我的佣兵生涯！
Hardcore military fiction + No System + Marksman + Mercenary Mercenary? Chef? In his previous life, he was a marksman and small-arms expert hiding in the mess hall of a rapid-response unit in Huaxia! A gun in one hand, a wok in the other! He died in an exercise while saving a new recruit who had wandered into the blast zone! When he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn on a smoke-filled battlefield in a parallel world! This time, he had a cleaver in his left hand and a gun in his righ
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The Undertaker: The Strongest Mercenary on Land 送葬者：陆上最强雇佣军
My name is Tang Feng. I'm a member of the Undertaker Mercenary Corps, a cold-blooded, merciless war machine. I long for the light, yet fight in the shadows. I bathe in holy light, yet can't wash the evil from my body. I have nothing but my brothers. I want nothing but the one I love. Do we fight for money? No! We fight to survive, and for the little bit of loyalty we have left. If we die on the battlefield, bury us together.
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Sector 65 65号地区
[Nuclear-Wasteland] [Hardcore Military] [Alternate Cold War] [Red Ideals] [Dark Humor] Tell me, do you think transmigration is supposed to be serious? Chen Mo is a casual sort of guy, just like his name. He has a casual job, writing web novels, and has never amounted to anything in his life. Then, one inexplicable day, an alien who said he was looking for a little fun sent him to another world. There are no swords and magic here, no anime girls, only dead ideals and a wasteland left behind by n
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Surviving in Another World: An Apocalypse Fantasy Game 异世界生存，末世幻想游戏
[Arena Breakout + Girls’ Frontline + Delta Force + Military Apocalypse + No System + Cthulhu Mythos] The game Apocalypse Fantasy descends upon the real world. Ling Feng thought that after suffering for so many years in “Longyuan,” he could finally settle down and live a carefree life. Unfortunately, fate had other plans. The frenzied dragon inside him awakens and goes on a killing spree. Countless anime characters break through the fourth wall, and all-out war erupts. He must travel to one world
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Wolfpack Operation 狼群行动
No matter how strong a wolf is, it is still vulnerable. A pack of wolves, however, can tear through anything. For the sake of vengeance and Longguo's peace, he picked up his gun again. Like a lone wolf, he returned to the pack once more. (PS: This story does not take place on Earth, but in a parallel universe. None of the armies mentioned in the novel exist in reality. They are entirely fictional and belong to a parallel universe created by the author. Please keep this in mind.)
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Enlisting as a Military Policeman: Do I Need to Retire Early? 入伍当纠察，需要提前退伍？
[Modern Military + No System] Jiang Xiaolong had just transmigrated when he found himself in a recruit camp. He had planned to lie flat for two years, then inherit the family business, but unexpectedly, he was assigned to the military police... “Brother Long, where’s a good place for new recruits to be assigned after training?” “Logistics, the motor company, or the maintenance unit would all be fine. Just don’t get assigned to the military police.” “Why not?” “Never heard that the military polic
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The Veteran Never Falls 老兵不陨
A military historical novel based on real history, with no transmigration and no wish fulfillment. This is the story of a Chinese soldier's personal growth! It also vividly portrays the rise and expansion of the People's Army and the great Chinese nation reclaiming its former glory. Centered on the brothers Zhao Sheng and Zhao Yu, the novel follows several young people from northern Jiangsu whose lives take very different paths. The story begins in the turbulent years of the War of Resistance
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Sailing an 022, I Return to the Spice Islands to Become a Pirate 开着022，回到香料群岛当海盗
[Parallel world + battleships and big guns + no System + industrial research] A modified Type 022 patrol boat accidentally transmigrates to the pinnacle of a parallel world’s Age of Sail! Lin Wenlong and eight comrades bring modern cutting-edge technology to these unfamiliar waters and embark on a journey to defy fate! Colonial cargo ships? Seize them! Brutal pirates? Take them down! Oppressed slaves? Set them free! Indigenous islanders? Help them! You’ve got 120-millimeter guns behind armored
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National Fate: Survival Against All Odds 国运，绝境求生
“What meaning does any of this have?” Ma Chao asked, his face smeared with dirt in the trench. “I don't know. But there's nothing wrong with wiping out every last enemy combatant. Staying alive comes first,” Wang Yanbing replied, then went back to loading bullets into his magazine. An Ke sat to one side, took off his gloves, tore open a chocolate wrapper, and stuffed the chocolate into his mouth.
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The Great Ming Marines 大明海兵
On July 8, 538 of the Ming calendar, amid the thunderous cannon fire as the armored cruiser squadron clashed with the Japanese pirate fleet, Lieutenant General Zhu Xianqian, commander of the Central Fleet's Third Fleet, stood on the tactical bridge of the battleship Luzhou. He gazed at the Great Ming dragon banner flying proudly at the bow and declared, “Gentlemen, courage, the courage to press ever forward, is the greatest strength that keeps the Great Ming Navy thriving and undefeated!”
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She Followed Her Husband to the Battlefield and Became a Sharpshooter 陪郎上战场，童养媳成了神枪手
Chen Dani, a child bride, has one greatest wish: to farm the two fine acres handed down through her husband Zhou Tieshuan’s family and live a happy life together, with him farming and her weaving. But with tyrannical landlords running rampant, Japanese invaders wreaking havoc, and the reactionaries ruling in darkness, she has no choice but to take up arms and go to war alongside her husband. She fights the tyrants, battles the Japanese, joins the War of Liberation, and finally goes to resist Ame
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Bad Soldier, Good Soldier, Mercenary 孬兵，好兵，雇佣兵
“I’m Razor, a private military contractor operator. You could also call me a company-employed mercenary. I like using a Fairbairn-Sykes dagger to strike at the enemy’s vital points...” Told from the rare perspective of a first-person narrator, this novel follows the inner journey of Razor, a mercenary. After graduating with an uncertain future ahead of him, Wang Rui chooses to enlist and gain some life experience. He joins an army unit as a shiftless coward, but eventually transforms into a good
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Operation Borderline 边界行动
A Chinese version of Operation Brave! An A-Team made up of one agent and eight Chinese special forces soldiers enters a neighboring country to carry out a special mission. After overcoming numerous setbacks and completing the mission, the team is ambushed on the way out by a furious counterattack from local armed groups. In the fierce, sustained fighting against mercenaries and members of the armed groups, the A-Team suffers heavy casualties. After enduring one hardship after another, the survi
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Tactical Game 战术游戏
What’s the most important concept in close-quarters battle when clearing a room? The fatal funnel, of course. How do you zero an 85 sniper rifle before using it? So you have to pull back the hammer on an anti-tank rocket launcher before firing it… The Mi-17’s power cart has broken down. How are we supposed to take off? In the Sicilian Campaign, how did Bradley, a lifelong good guy, screw over his allies? Though, to be fair, there was a good reason. Who was the real hero of the Jingkang humiliati
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A Glance at Modern Naval Warfare 现代海战的回眸
The military is a symbol of a nation’s strength and stability, and plays a pivotal role in national life. The rise and fall of a country is everyone’s responsibility. Thoroughly and systematically mastering military knowledge is both an honorable responsibility and duty for each of us, as well as a central part of national defense education. Military knowledge covers an incredibly broad range of subjects. Only by learning about them and mastering them one field at a time can we gain a comprehens
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The Battle of Jutland: The Ultimate Clash of Big-Gun Battleships 日德兰海战——大炮巨舰主义终极之战
In late June 1950, a PLA unit captured four islands off eastern Zhejiang. But with the naval forces of the two sides so unequal, the unit was frequently attacked by Nationalist warships and forced to withdraw. In November 1952, seeking to strengthen the outer defenses of both Dachen Islands, the Nationalists sent their “Anti-Communist Guerrilla Army” to occupy the four islands. Working in coordination with enemy forces on Nanlu and Pishan, they controlled the north-south sea lanes and blockaded
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The Fierce U.S.-Japan Battles in the Pacific 美日激战太平洋
The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. On this occasion, China will join Russia and other countries that once suffered fascist invasion and devastation, as well as peace-loving people around the world, in solemnly commemorating this great victory for the Chinese nation and the cause of justice for all humanity. This commemoration is of great contemporary and historical significa
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Germany's Unrestricted Submarine Warfare 德国无限制潜艇战
Set against the backdrop of Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare from March 1917 to August 1918, this book focuses on the important role played by the U.S. Navy as the German navy tried to blockade British ports and force Britain out of the war. It reveals the naval operations of European nations and the United States in the later stages of World War I, as well as the tangled interests between them. The book offers a detailed account of the naval strategies employed by Germany, Britain, the
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The Battle of Midway 死战中途岛
The Battle of Midway was a turning point in the war between Japan and the United States in the Pacific. The outnumbered US forces won a decisive victory over the Japanese. After the battle, the Americans gradually gained the initiative, while Japan’s defeat marked the beginning of its decline. What did Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who had hoped to crush the US Pacific Fleet once and for all and gain complete control of the western Pacific, do in the face of this crushing defeat? This book will reve
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Battles for Guadalcanal 鏖兵瓜岛
The Battle of Guadalcanal was Japan's second major defeat after Midway. After this battle, Japan no longer held the strategic advantage. Japan committed its full strength to an unprecedented struggle against American forces on land, at sea, and in the air. The book's sweeping scenes of warfare reveal the brutal reality of war. One of the books in the “Classic Battles of World War II” series. It brings vivid, realistic scenes of war to life and uncovers the truth of history amid layers of mystery
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Homeland 家园
During the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, a young boy from Shanggu in Hebei fled conscription and entered the vast grasslands. There he adopted a silver wolf, which the grassland tribes regarded as a sacred beast. He met Han Chinese people on the plains and learned archery, military strategy, and more from people from the Central Plains who had been stranded there. After offending the nobility, he returned to the Central Plains and joined the campaign against Goguryeo, where he won recognition!
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Japan’s Great Defeat (5-Book Set) 日本大败局（全5册）
Japan's Great Defeats is a five-volume series. The books recount the fateful clashes that profoundly shaped the course of World War II and the world order: “When the Kwantung Army Faced the Soviet Red Army,” “From Pearl Harbor to Midway,” “Bloodshed on Guadalcanal,” “Taking Down Yamamoto Isoroku,” and “The Occupation of Tokyo.” Their multifaceted comparisons of Japanese and American, and Japanese and Soviet, military strength still offer practical lessons for the military rivalry among today's g
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Eagles Breaking Through Northern Myanmar: The Chinese Expeditionary Force's Return Home, Compared Through Chinese and Japanese Historical Records 突破缅北的鹰：中日史料对照下的中国驻印军归国之路
On the Asian front of World War II, there were three battles the Japanese called “gyokusai battles,” in which the Japanese army was completely wiped out: the Tengchong Campaign, the Songshan Campaign, and the Myitkyina Campaign. All three took place during the Chinese Expeditionary Force's campaign to return home. In late 1943, the Chinese Expeditionary Force set out from Ledo, India, and began the campaign in northern Burma to open the China-India Road. Sasu, a scholar living in Japan, was the
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No Way Out of the Sea of Sand 沙海无门
In the first year of Jingyou under the Northern Song, east of the Kumtag Desert and west of Dunhuang lay a vast stretch of desert and Gobi known since the Tang Dynasty as the Great Calamity Ghost Mire. Zhang San, a Song soldier, flees westward. All he wants is to earn enough money to go home, buy five mu of poor farmland, and live an ordinary life with his wife and children. But fate brings him face-to-face with Li Yuanhao, the fallen founder of Western Xia. Two men, one horse, a waterskin, and
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The Mossad’s Top-Secret Operations in Israel 以色列摩萨德绝密行动
This work of narrative nonfiction uses thorough research and vivid storytelling to offer a sweeping portrait of the world's most mysterious intelligence agency, Mossad. Through accounts of its classic spy operations and brilliant agents, it vividly depicts Mossad's rise and fall, as well as its extraordinary contributions to protecting its country's interests. Richly illustrated with text and images, the book recreates Mossad's legendary history through a wealth of rare historical photographs.
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The Master of Disguise (Complete in Two Volumes) 变脸师爷（全两册）
Shen Bai, a famous young gentleman from the capital, is sent to the obscure little city of Bian to serve as a low-ranking county magistrate. To keep life from getting too dull, he hires a strange young man who has piqued his curiosity, Lu Yuanqing, as his assistant at the county office. With Lu Yuanqing’s help, Shen Bai solves one strange case after another: a naked female corpse leads to two unsolved cases from years ago; a wildly popular book turns out to be linked to a series of murders; a re
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Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 2 苗疆蛊事2
"Witchcraft of Miaojiang II", also known as "Witchcraft of Miaojiang: The End of the World", is written by Nan Wu Jia Sha Li Ke Fo. The calamity of witchcraft has persisted for thousands of years, ever since the Western Han dynasty, despite repeated attempts to suppress it. Today, as traditional Chinese culture declines and public awareness grows, only country folk in this vast land of China still talk about it. Many people caught up in the affairs of the world don't even know it exists. Yet wi
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The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事
The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish…
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A Strange Man of the Republic 民国奇人
The Republic of China was an era of upheaval, teeming with extraordinary people. In those chaotic times, the martial world was vast. As the saying goes, “The heroes of our age emerge amid the world's turmoil; the seven extraordinary figures of the Republic are here.” But who were these seven? There was a Daoist priest who cried, “In prosperous times, Buddhist temples thrive on incense while Daoists hide away in mountain retreats. In troubled times, the Bodhisattvas turn a blind eye, so the Old L
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Kangxi’s Secret Agent 康熙密探
The crime-solving-obsessed young Shi Shilun gets caught up in a series of bizarre cases in Shuntian Prefecture while searching for Ye Yangsheng, the person who once saved his life and has now gone missing. Along the way, he meets the Kangxi Emperor, who is traveling incognito to select secret agents and investigate the empire's hidden cases. Shi Shilun gradually becomes a secret agent serving at the emperor's side. A family massacre, a string of murders, the theft of the imperial treasury, the i
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Iron-Blooded Monster Slayer! First, I’ll Take Out a Female Ghost 铁血打鬼子！我先灭个女鬼子
Lin Feng, a retired special forces soldier, transmigrated to 1938, landing in none other than the Japanese commander’s wife’s bedroom. He cuckolded the commander, then fled to the countryside to organize resistance forces.
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I Will Not Kneel: 1937 不跪：1937
[Cinematic Narrative Style]+ [One of a Kind]+ [History at the Core]+ [Blockbuster War-Movie Feel]+ [The Japanese Army Isn't Dumbed Down] Twenty thousand men. Only four hundred remained. They were called “deserters.” The Japanese were still on their heels. When Leng Feng came to, he was wearing a bulletproof vest, with night-vision goggles attached to his helmet. A voice sounded in his mind: System bound. He looked at the people being hunted down. Raised his gun. Took aim at the Japanese. “Bang!
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Wolves in the Northeast: The Young Sharpshooter 东北狼烟：少年枪神
With the nation in peril and the land shattered, young Zhang Fan, the top student at his school, is forced to take up arms amid the chaos of war. With his exceptional intelligence, calm demeanor, and incredible ability to learn, he gradually becomes a sharpshooter feared across the battlefield. The puppet troops are acting cocky? He puts them in their place on the spot! The Japanese invaders are running rampant? One shot, one kill! The traitors are up to no good? He shows no mercy! From a frail
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Black Knight: The Memoirs of a Mercenary 黑武士：来自一位雇佣兵的自传
[Mercenaries] + [Sniper] + [Hardcore] + [Realistic War] “War is a dirty game. As a player forced into it against my will, I had no choice.” My name is Ji Qing, callsign: Knight. I serve in the Black Warrior Special Operations Company, and I’m a sniper feared by all. Decades ago, I was just a student in the physical education department of Baptist University. A plane with only one person left aboard, a one-way journey, and a breathtaking killing spree took me from my peaceful life to a battlefi
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