Hardcore! Hardcore! Nothing but Hardcore Military Fiction! Dark Zone Stories Are Fine Too! 硬核！硬核！还是硬核的军事文！暗区的也行！

1. 151 两 Crossing Between Two Worlds: 1949 两界穿梭之一九四九 Good Luck Keeps Coming好运不断Urban361k WordsOngoing Drop the pretense of being a decent person and enjoy a shameless life. Refuse to waste your energy on inner turmoil; if something’s wrong, just lose it. Rather than make yourself suffer, make life difficult for someone else. That’s Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrates to Beiping on the eve of liberation. The booming economy of 2026 and the war-torn year of 1949: two vastly different eras lie before him. 5kReads5.8Score216Shelves
2. 152 双 Traveling Between Two Worlds to Fight in Korea, I Beat Up the Americans 双穿抗美援朝，我暴打美国佬 Trying to Stay Alive 999努力活着999Historical632k WordsOngoing In 2026, overworked wage slave Su Tianci gets his writing royalties. He plans to go out for a foot massage with the full-service treatment, as a reward for himself. But he never expects to open his eyes and transmigrate to a battlefield engulfed in war. There’s no water, medicine, or food. Fortunately, he can return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 24.7kReads7.2Score1.7kShelves
3. 153 老 The Veteran Never Falls 老兵不陨 San Shi, Scattered Immortal三石散仙Urban561k WordsCompleted 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 756Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Hardcore, realistic, and detailed—a rare find among Tomato's authentic military history novels, a veteran's coming-of-age story!

4. 154 大 Qing Dynasty Captain: Remaking the Laiyuan Online 大清舰长，在线魔改来远 Flowers Flying Through the Century世纪飞花Urban791k WordsCompleted Zhiyuan sinks, Jingyuan burns, and Dingyuan takes a hit. History is following that blood-soaked script toward a crushing defeat. Behind him are more than two hundred young sailors about to be added to the casualty lists, and an empire's last barrier at sea. 95Reads7.1Score100Shelves

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   I recommend this book.

5. 155 卡 Card Battle 卡战 The Hardworking Rabbit-Cow奋斗的兔子牛Urban913k WordsOngoing This is the story of a reborn man who enters a world of cards, uses them to fight back against the invaders, and kills the Japanese devils. No System, no over-the-top heroics, just an ensemble cast and a story full of passion and brutality. The opening is a little heartbreaking, enough to bring tears to your eyes. As the story unfolds, it gets tighter, more gripping, and more exciting. - When he opens his eyes, Long Sheng sees the enemy trying to kill him. A Dragon Nation soldier dies alongside 175Reads8.6Score—Shelves

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   This is a heart-wrenching, tear-jerking novel about the War of Resistance against Japan. The premise is unique: the protagonist is reborn into a world of cards and uses them to fight the Japanese invaders. There's no system, it's not a fantasy novel, and it features an ensemble cast. As the plot unfolds, it becomes increasingly gripping and engaging – a truly exciting and enjoyable read!

6. 156 半 The Peninsula Crisis: Dawn of Fire 半岛危机：炮火黎明 Assistant Deputy副差Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Winter 2030. A massive battle erupted on the East Asian peninsula, nearly igniting World War III. History would call it the Peninsula War. The players fought and maneuvered like chess masters, while their pawns struggled to distinguish themselves and become the new masters of history. Every nation had its own hidden agenda. How events would unfold, and who would win or lose, would be left to history to judge. An alternate history. 130Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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   This is barely acceptable.

7. 157 绝 300 Days of Survival Against the Odds 绝境求生300天 Red Wolf火红的狼Urban1.6M WordsOngoing During the fifth campaign of the Korean War, the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army’s 180th Division is trapped with no way out. Liang Baoqing, an operations officer on a regiment’s staff, leads a small breakout squad and cleverly escapes behind enemy lines. There, they attack enemy supply convoys and arm themselves with captured weapons. They blow up trains and bridges, fight desperately against an elite American special operations unit, and battle the enemy in the freezing snow, struggling to sur 70.1kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves

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   A novel about special operations showdowns, set on the enemy's rear battlefield during the Korean War, featuring life-or-death struggles and thrilling action, where an ordinary person takes on an elite US special forces team.

8. 158 太 The Chariot of the Sun 太阳战车 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Sci-Fi & Apocalypse202k WordsCompleted Everyone has someone they can't forget, or something they can't let go of, whether it's love or a career. When faced with a life-or-death choice, how should you decide? This is the story of Yang Ruofeng, who sets off for Titan aboard a solar sail ship on a mission from the Dragon Kingdom. There, he discovers alien ruins and pits his wits against the lurking space pirates. The story follows two main threads: the protagonist's romance and his scientific expedition. Across the vast reaches of inter 26Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Galactic Wars, Parallel Universes, Time Magic

9. 159 泰 The Titan Chronicles: The Stardust War 泰坦战记：星尘之战 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Sci-Fi & Apocalypse266k WordsCompleted Reni, a Martian, meets Amanda, the queen of motorbikes, at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Together, they take part in the colonization of the stars and a mission to combat space pirates. But then mysterious time hunters launch a killing spree. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 160 来 Greetings from Planet E 来自e星的问候 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Sci-Fi & Apocalypse181k WordsCompleted Whenever I look up at the sky, the dark insectoid mothership looms across the horizon. Greetings from Planet E is a grand extraterrestrial adventure starring Yang Mo. As he builds a business and uncovers a rebellion plot among Planet E's factions, Yang Mo uses his wits to foil the conspirators and the insectoid race, winning the love of the Swan Princess and the Dragonfish Princess. The Solar Chariot tells the story of Yang Mo, the son of Yang Ruo, who arrives on Planet E a thousand years later 22Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 161 别 Don’t Mess with That Recruit, He’s an SSS-Rank Cheat 别惹那个新兵，他是SSS级挂逼 Tree God树神Urban1.4M WordsCompleted Li Jie is reborn in the year 2000 and becomes a recruit once more. He successfully activates the “Top-Tier Life” System, which automatically grants him a top-tier skill every day. Day One: “You broke the world record in the hundred-meter dash, and you call that ‘running just a little fast’?” Day Two: “You broke the world record in the 3,000 meters, too?” Day Three: “All five bullets hit the bull's-eye and stacked on top of one another. Was that really your first time handling a gun?” Day Four: “ 1.6kReads8.7Score223Shelves

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    Recommended by seasoned bookworms, these are all excellent books, classics among classics, especially the last one.

12. 162 狙 Sniper Prodigy 狙击天才 Ye Bing野兵Urban199k WordsCompleted Sima Yun, a killer known as the world’s greatest sniper, takes on the identity of Wang Hai, a cook in a grassroots military unit. From then on, the lowly army cook begins an incredible rise, overcoming one obstacle after another as he takes part in the special forces selection process, on the verge of becoming an honored special forces soldier. But the killer organization refuses to let him go, repeatedly sending assassins to hunt him down and swearing to kill him, leaving him no choice but to f 2.7kReads9.1Score326Shelves
13. 163 野 The Wild Soldier God of War Series (Complete in 11 Volumes) 野兵战神系列（全十一册） Ye Bing野兵Urban1.9M WordsCompleted Li Liang had been taken by his father into the deep mountains as a child to learn all kinds of survival skills. As keen as a wild beast, he had superhuman marksmanship and could instantly take down a target hundreds of meters away without a scope. But when he took the military enlistment exam at eighteen, a twist of fate led him to be recruited by one of the world’s top mercenary organizations. A misunderstanding also branded him a murderer, and the military issued a kill order against him. Ever 1.6kReads9.5Score255Shelves
14. 164 勇 The Brave Always Win 勇者必胜 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Urban179k WordsCompleted Will Golland and his girlfriend, Aminni, joined the SBS and SAS, the British commandos, one after the other. They were born to fight the war against fascism. Raiding behind enemy lines, they struck fear into the hearts of Nazi demons. Their footsteps carried them across France, Norway, and the battlefields of North Africa. They wore green berets, and their name was the Commandos. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The Soviet-German negotiations failed, and Operation Barbarossa began.

15. 165 夜 Heroes Without Regrets in Shanghai by Night 夜上海之英雄无悔 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Urban282k WordsCompleted Lin Ge is a pilot. While flying along the Hump Route, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Shanghai in 1936. He fights against Japan’s ambitions of aggression, reunites with the woman he loves, Bai Wei, and becomes entangled in complicated romantic relationships with the wealthy daughters of Shanghai’s elite. Lin Ge comes from 2036, but after transmigrating to the Shanghai of 1936, he encounters a host of time travelers lying low. The currents are rising, and the fate of the nation is shifting. 207Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 166 地 The Gates of Hell: A Journey to Another World 地狱之门：异世界征途 Shehai畬海Eastern Fantasy413k WordsCompleted #NoFemaleLead #NoHarem ##War ##Organization ##Conquest ##Hardcore ##Governance A soul from another world arrives here, carrying the generation menu from the game Gates of Hell and a longing for Conquest Mode. He sets off a war in this otherworld and establishes the Rhine Federation. “From this day forward, Rocktown is under full wartime mobilization!” “We will begin a total wartime mobilization! All work will give way to the war, all resources will serve the war, and everyone will fight to defen 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A World War II book, a story about leading German soldiers in another world, it's quite good. The author updates regularly. I'm recruiting filler characters locally. I'll use my 6000 hours of reading time to guarantee it's good, please rate and watch. I'm scared because no one's interacting with me playing it offline.

17. 167 无 Endless Highway: The War Thunder System Evolves into a BMPT 无尽公路：战雷系统进化BMPT Wild Traveler from North of the River江北野客Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsOngoing I’m the kind of person who gets struck by lightning. I love novels about endless roads, and I hope I can write a road novel that’ll get me struck by lightning too. Thanks, everyone. Friends, let’s summon some thunder together! Let’s fire up the BMPTs and blow the other side to smithereens with Su-30SM2s. 200Reads—Score120Shelves

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    It's hardcore, so hardcore that it's meticulous.

18. 168 二 Second Life: The Bracelet That Conquers the Universe 二生：手环之纵横宇宙 Crouching Dragon, Thunderous Sky潜龙轰天1.9M WordsOngoing What lies behind the world-shaking, epic rescue mission to avert a crisis across the multiverse, where the fates of three individuals are entwined? While so much science fiction still focuses on starships, journeys across light-years, and time travel, a mysterious bracelet appears. It can teleport its wearer, control people’s minds, and switch between eras. When consciousness, rather than matter, determines reality, these intertwined destinies lead not only to battles across the multiverse and t 61Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The "Two Lives, Three Incarnations" trilogy: Live 1 (campus growth) + Live 2 (multiverse science fiction) + Live 3 (a collection of modern urban romance stories), featuring novel themes and multiple interconnected storylines! 🍇🥭🍉🍓🥝🍒👍👍🥭🍇

19. 169 三 Three Lifetimes: Love Bewitching the Mortal World 三生，，之情惑人间 Crouching Dragon, Thunderous Sky潜龙轰天Modern Romance254k WordsCompleted A collection of modern love and marriage stories. Read this alongside its companion works, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden” and “Two Lives: The Wristband Conquers the Universe.” The storylines intertwine and unfold across multiple threads, bringing together the century-spanning journey of Century Longteng through “Two Lives and Three Incarnations”! (For various reasons, the first book in this series, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden,” and “Root Prisoner: 101 Illusory Loves” are not be 16Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 170 纯 A Pure Heart: A Life-or-Death Game 纯净的心：生死牌局 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我9k WordsCompleted A Pure Heart: The Life-and-Death Card Game 432Reads—Score—Shelves

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    In Tomato's short story "Across the Ocean," I left the Buenos Aires icon and traveled north along the Tierra del Fuego icon and the Ushuaia icon, all the way to the Vancouver icon in North America, where I met Lanxia in Chinatown.

21. 171 月 Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cloudtop City 月海花亭：云顶城市 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我7k WordsCompleted Moonsea Flower Pavilion: Cities Above the Clouds 60Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 172 你 You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 你是别样的风景 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted You Are a Different Kind of Scenery 91Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 173 白 A Kiss from the Clouds 白云之吻 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted A Kiss from the White Clouds 41Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 174 大 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我7k WordsCompleted Across the Ocean 61Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 175 东 Dreams of Tokyo: Love Through the Four Seasons 东京梦华：爱有四季 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我Marriage & Romance8k WordsCompleted Tokyo Dreams: Love Through the Seasons 80Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 176 云 Sunset on Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 云顶落霞：幽灵骑士 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted Sunset on the Cloud Peak: The Ghost Rider 38Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 177 踏 Walking Beneath the Moon: The Age of Machines 踏月而行：机械纪元 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我8k WordsCompleted Walking Beneath the Moon: The Mechanical Era 103Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 178 时 The Compass of Time 时光罗盘 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我6k WordsCompleted The Time Compass 37Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 179 花 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 花海月宫 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我7k WordsCompleted The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 35Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 180 紫 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 The Qin's Music Keeps Me Company琴音伴我7k WordsCompleted A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 27Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 181 不 I Will Not Kneel: 1937 不跪：1937 Cultivate Goodness Like Water修善若水Urban119k WordsOngoing [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! 1Reads—Score116Shelves

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    The new anti-Japanese war novel, "Never Kneel: 1937," is written in a cinematic narrative style, creating the feel of a war epic. It details the performance of weapons and equipment, and unfolds battles and campaigns. It doesn't portray the Japanese army as stupid; it's a smart and enjoyable anti-Japanese war novel without piling on weapons, equipment, and supplies. Military enthusiasts, those who enjoy war epics, and those who are tired of mindless wish-fulfillment novels are cordially invited to read it. However, those who prefer easy and overwhelming plots should proceed with caution.

32. 182 末 Wasteland Inferno: The Commander Ignites the Apocalypse 末世首长，让废土烈焰升腾 Zhang Min, Who Loves Scones爱吃司康饼的张敏Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.2M WordsOngoing (The rating just came in and will rise) Infinite troop deployment + Anton Star-style military industry + TFR: Blazing Inferno + epic battles + Blood Cross + slaughtering Blackwatch + GOC + Z-com. Shen Luo arrived at the high-speed rail station just as a once-in-a-million-years Blood Cross virus outbreak erupted. Surrounded by a mob of killers, he was forced to flee into the nursing room. The System arrived late, but it arrived. At the critical moment, the Xiangjian Special Forces squad fought it 2.8kReads7.9Score103Shelves

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    Don't worry, it's just been released, and the ratings are...

33. 183 我 My Germany Could Never Be This Adorable 我的D国不可能这么萌 Erika Erika艾莉卡ErikaEastern Fantasy450k WordsOngoing [Parallel World] [Another World] [Industrial Development] [Tech Progression] [Hardcore, Slow-Paced] [Farming] [Historical Leanings] William transmigrates to Germany 500 years in the past, ready to make his mark, only to discover that this world is not quite like the one he came from. It is a world both familiar and strange, seemingly parallel yet different. This is not a story about magic and swords, or at least, not entirely. Replace magic with steel, fervor with discipline, and use skills that 304Reads—Score223Shelves

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    I don't know if this counts as hardcore, but I still think I'm not really suited to writing military articles.

34. 184 新 The New Cold War: Invasion from Another World 新冷战：异界入侵 Proofreader Three校正三Urban882k WordsOngoing [A slightly alternate human world + no System + no golden finger + no one reborn] The Cold War has made the human world increasingly violent. Against a backdrop of nuclear fervor and universal militarization, Earth and a new world are about to intersect. Creatures from an unknown world appear amid the Antarctic Cold War, while a mountaintop passage leads to a whole new world humanity has never known. What happens when a Cold War world connects to a World War II world gone astray? What happens wh 161Reads7.6Score—Shelves

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    A world of madness during the Cold War, half a world of ongoing World War II, and half a world of rampant, super-creatures. With its insane equipment and grotesque technology, this book reaches the pinnacle of hardcore fiction. It features tanks weighing hundreds of tons exchanging nuclear bombardments, creatures thousands of meters tall enduring FAB 9000 attacks, and Abrams exchanging fire with T-90 tanks. Aside from its slow update schedule, this book has no flaws. If this book isn't hardcore, I'll just stick myself inside the 300mm main gun of a Harman Alliance R90 tank and launch myself.

35. 185 沉 The Silent Hunter 沉默的猎人 Varus of Ziyun Path紫云道的维鲁斯Urban503k WordsOngoing This is only a story. Real war is more brutal. The dead are gone, but are the living truly still alive? Do your best to hold on to your humanity in wartime. Do not let the beast of war drag you along into the abyss of hell. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 186 造 The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌 Xiu Ji休济Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsCompleted (This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles 238Reads9.0Score161Shelves

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    The war scenes are absolutely hardcore. The story begins with a UFO arrival triggering parallel worlds, higher-dimensional life, cyber hell, mechanical Cthulhu, a space pantheon, an AI revolution, the establishment of a mechanical empire, and a series of other events...

37. 187 赤 Project Red Eyes: Beneath the Sky That Belongs to the People 赤瞳计划，在那片属于人民的天空 Westward Hall往左堂Sci-Fi & Apocalypse234k WordsOngoing [Transmigration] [Gender Swap] [No System] [Hardcore] [Not Mindless] [Red] Also known as "Even as a Fox-Eared Girl, I Must Protect the People's Sky". Lin Ka died from working overtime, only to wake up as a fox girl. His greatest achievement in his previous life was ranking in the top ten worldwide in "Thunder War". In this life, she can't even control her fur from bristling. Before she had a chance to figure anything out, gunshots rang out. The political commissar reached out to her. “You're a v 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It reached a near-professional level in military aspects, with particularly detailed and realistic scenes and excellent character design. The protagonist is an adorable fox girl who eventually becomes a real, flesh-and-blood warrior.

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