Don't Bother Recommending Stories That Pretend to Be Real Army-building Novels but Aren't, and That Summon Talented Generals. They're Just Infuriating. 没有真暴兵流挂羊头卖狗肉召唤将才的就别来恶心人

1. 1 港 Hong Kong Crossover: From the Start, I’m the First Chinese Chief Superintendent 港综，开局成为华人第一位警司 Only Music Can Please the Dantian唯曲悦丹田Male-Channel Fanfiction227k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a Hong Kong TV-drama universe, Lu Chuan drew a police station from the start and became the first Chinese police superintendent in the Hong Kong Island Police Force! From the moment he drew that police station, he ran wild, throwing his weight around and acting as if no law applied to him! 3.7kReads7.0Score105Shelves

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   They're all about mass-producing troops; the first book updates too slowly.

2. 2 大 The Founder of the Great Zhou 大周缔造者 Carefree and Irresponsible吊里个郎当Historical1.3M WordsCompleted Synopsis: Great Warlord + Crushing the Foreign Powers + System + Raising an Army + Conquering the World [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully drawn the fully organized German Fourth Panzer Army.] [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully drawn an Iowa-class battleship!] [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully drawn a Super Arsenal, capable of producing Cold War equipment.] Ma Jin was a modern man who happened to transmigrate to another world: the Great 22.3kReads9.0Score1.7kShelves
3. 3 死EN Necromancer? No, Call Me Archaeologist 死灵法师：不，请叫我考古学者 That Year, That Summer, Those Cicadas那年那夏那蝉Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Necromancer+Lord+Farming+Skeletal Tide+Sainthood Through Archaeology] Mediwen was a renowned archaeologist on Earth. After a car accident, he is reborn in a fantastical world. Thanks to the blessing of the God of Light, necromancers are a cursed profession in this world, regarded by everyone as the scum of society. In this world, Mediwen becomes a necromancer and awakens a strange talent for archaeology. History is knowledge, and time is power! “This is a human skeleton that is 137 years old. I 8kReads8.1Score690Shelves

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   This is a true mass-production strategy.

4. 4 爆 Raise an Army and Sweep All Before Me: Building an Everlasting Great Xia 爆兵横推：打造大夏日不落 Zhou Xiguang in a Flurry纷纷扬扬的周西光Urban339k WordsOngoing [Invincible]+ [Sweeping All Before Him]+ [Mass Troop Recruitment] He transmigrates to Yingtian City on December 13, where he faces hellish difficulty from the start. Then he raises an army and sweeps all before him. Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the rivers flow, all is Xia land. We only want to reclaim the territory that has belonged to us since ancient times. We just want to grow vegetables, and while we're at it, plant anyone who dares disturb Great Xia's gardening in the ground. 42Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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   There's bound to be one you'll like.

5. 5 军 Warlord: I Just Made a Little Money, I Didn't Really Found a Nation 军阀：就发了点小财，真没建国 Web Novel Newbie网文小咖Urban1.3M WordsCompleted If you were an ordinary wage earner who transmigrated to another world and gained a powerful father with influence over everything, an only son who was doted on to no end, what kind of person would you become? Would you let the evil in your heart grow, or unleash the justice within you? Welcome to a world at war. War is one way humans interact, and this world is full of exciting stories. Build an immortal empire, make up for the regrets in your heart, and create the super Blue Star of your dream 29.8kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
6. 6 末 Red Alert in the Apocalypse: The Rise of the Empire 末世红警之帝国的崛起 Wind and Snow Ice City风雪冰城Sci-Fi & Apocalypse370k WordsCompleted A Red Alert and Rusted Warfare troop-spam novel featuring a battle-hardened military leader. Global strategy, not some small-time town champion: an iron tide of machines smashes through zombies and fights the insectoid horde. In his previous life, the bio-apocalypse began. Humanity struggled for a year and barely held on, only to face an invasion by the insectoids. Faced with a sea of insects blotting out the sky, humanity fell into despair. Huang Quan gave his life for his country in the final 488Reads7.4Score—Shelves
7. 7 骑 Mount & Blade: Late Ming, Starting by Maxing Out My Stats 骑砍明末：从刷满面板开始 Chasing the Wind, Big and Fat追风大肥Historical830k WordsCompleted [Light System + pseudo-Mount & Blade + invincible hero + making up for a few regrets] The man standing before you now is: The pillar of the Ming dynasty, who saved a tottering empire and made sure that even if the world fell, the Ming would endure. The Qing dynasty's greatest warrior, who slaughtered the Eight Banners like dogs and swept through their lands 132 times. The bane of the Donglin faction, who wielded a long blade in political struggles and settled cases in the imperial prison. Qin Sh 9.7kReads8.8Score596Shelves
8. 8 成 After Cultivating as a Demon for Ten Thousand Years, My True Form Made the Class Teacher Cry 成妖修行万年，本体吓哭女班主任 Brushstrokes of Blue Ink执笔落青墨Urban1.4M WordsCompleted Blue Star has entered the Federal Era. Humanity faces threats from extraterrestrial demons and ancient beasts, while cults wreak havoc from within. My name is Jiang Ming. I'm a student about to graduate, but I'm not worried in the slightest. That's because part of my consciousness can reincarnate endlessly in a mythological world. It's just that my reincarnation choices seem a little off. Every time, I become a different kind of monster. In my sixth life, I became a bear demon, the overlord of a 5.6kReads7.6Score526Shelves

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   If I don't like any of the books, I'll just delete my account!

9. 9 赛 The Cyber Chuunibyou Wants to Make Humanity Great Again 赛博中二病要让人类再度伟大 Papaya Calm Soup木瓜淡定汤Sci-Fi & Apocalypse555k WordsOngoing [Cyberpunk + supernatural powers in another world + founding an organization + plot-driven + multiple anime-style heroines] Also known as Creating a Chuunibyou Organization: All My Admirers Are Undercover! "I'm not the one who's wrong. The world is!" "With the sun and moon in my hands and stars at my fingertips, there's no one like me under heaven!" Xiao Li, whose chuunibyou is off the charts, creates a website and fills it with all the ideas he'd come up with during his chuunibyou phase. After 131Reads8.7Score—Shelves
10. 10 哥 Goblins in Another World: Conquering with Guns, Cannons, and Swords 哥布林与异世界，争霸枪炮与刀剑 Ah, Life啊，生活Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsOngoing [Western fantasy, goblins, conquest, Mount & Blade System, tech-tree progression, Total War] Li Qinwu transmigrates into a goblin and gains the Mount & Blade System. He recruits soldiers, upgrades fortresses, climbs the tech tree, fights in World War I and World War II, colors in the map, rules the world, and enslaves all races, giving this world a gritty feel. 105.4kReads9.1Score14.1kShelves
11. 11 召 Weak Summons? Then I Have a Sect You Can't Blow Up 召唤弱？那我有一座宗门你不炸了 Can't Handle Any Spice吃不了一点辣Urban352k WordsOngoing (Urban high-martial arts and cultivation setting) (Single or no female lead) (Golden finger) “What? S-rank summoner talent is the weakest?” “The summoning talent class is garbage?” “Sorry, I summon cultivators. Because I have a sect!” I can’t understand a word you’re saying. Take it up with my summoned cultivators! “Want to surround me?” “Go talk to the whole crowd of summons behind me!” This isn’t Earth. It’s a battlefield for all races... I’m Xu Yang. By the time you hear my name, my summoned 4Reads6.4Score—Shelves
12. 12 重 Reborn as a Monkey, I Rule Mount Emei 重生成猴，我在峨眉山上当大王 Hua Ersan画二三Urban1.1M WordsOngoing An unexpected [Reward] reborn Sun Liu as a monkey on Mount Emei. He had barely been born when both his parents died, leaving him the target of bullying by the troop. Just as he was on the verge of death, a beautiful caretaker appeared. She took Sun Liu home and cared for him devotedly. Sun Liu also awakened a Strength Growth System. [Ding! Consumed milk. Strength +0.1, +0.1...] [Consumed a whole roast chicken. Strength +10] The monkeys on Mount Emei are also known as Tibetan macaques. Once his s 20.2kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
13. 13 卡 Card World: Awakening Absolute Luck from the Start 卡牌世界，开局觉醒绝对幸运 Diligent Angry Laugh努力的怒笑Urban1.0M WordsCompleted In the world of cards, fusion is widely recognized as the best way to upgrade cards, but it’s also the riskiest. Before awakening absolute luck: The main card, Yellow Turban Soldier, combined with Bull’s Strength and a Recovery Card, has a 12.5% chance of successful fusion. A successful fusion has a 1% chance of upgrading the card, while a failed fusion has a 97% chance of destroying the original card. After awakening: The success rate is 100%, and the chance of upgrading the card is 100%! 12.4kReads8.0Score943Shelves
14. 14 觉 Awakened the Worst Talent? My Clones Can Simulate! 觉醒最烂天赋？我的分身能模拟！ Who Says I Can't Do It?谁说我不行Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Wish fulfillment + mastermind behind the scenes + thrilling!] What would it be like if you awakened a clone talent, and your clones were bound to a simulation System that could give them the strength an ordinary person would gain over a lifetime, all in just a few minutes inside a simulated world? Lin Ke glanced at his pitifully weak stats panel. Then he looked at the dazzling figures before him, his clones who had already become the Grand Marshal, Prime Minister, and Great General of the Human 586Reads8.8Score104Shelves
15. 15 每 One More Escort Guard Every Day, and the Emperor Panics 每天增加一个镖师，皇帝慌了 Little Marquis of Huaiyin淮阴小小侯Historical1.5M WordsCompleted Emperor: Zhou Qing, don't you run an escort agency? Why do you have so many men? Zhou Qing: It's perfectly normal for an escort agency to have “a tiny little” number of escorts, right? Emperor: Zhou Qing, don't you run an escort agency? Why do you have so many warhorses? Even the horses kept by the imperial court don't match the number at your agency! Zhou Qing: An escort agency needs “a tiny little” number of horses to transport its goods, doesn't it? This is the story of a modern man who t 23.9kReads7.5Score2.1kShelves
16. 16 没 Are You Sick? Why Talk About Kindness with a Man-Eating Demon? 没病吧？你和食人魔谈什么善良？ Wang Wugen王五棍Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + invincible hero + food + farming + keeps his distance from humans + no do-gooder heroine + survival + everyone] How does an ogre usually eat? Step one: Find a desert monster. Step two: Hit it. Step three: Beat it up. Step four: Throw it into a pot. Step five: Simmer it over low heat for two hours. Gorkin had transmigrated to this endless desert world twenty years ago, but he was an ogre with a huge, burly build. He had finally become a chief, and now all the people of Blue Star 31.7kReads9.1Score3.5kShelves
17. 17 从 From Spider to Ruler of the World 从蜘蛛到世界支配者 Can't Think of a Name, So Anything Goes不会起名随便来Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Behind-the-Scenes Style] [Evolution] [Creating Monsters] At first, he focuses on growing bigger, breaking world records, and collecting powers. Later, he starts creating monsters and takes the behind-the-scenes route. Fang Ming is reborn as a pet spider. All he has to do is keep molting and growing. With a leg span of 26 centimeters, he breaks the world record. With a leg span of 30 centimeters, he sends the scientific community into an uproar. With a leg span of 40 centimeters, he overturns ev 15.9kReads7.8Score1.7kShelves
18. 18 末 Zombie Tide in the Apocalypse: I Command One Hundred Thousand Lickers 末世尸潮：我坐拥十万舔舐者 Book, Concrete Surface书扎水泥面Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsCompleted [This story does not take humanity’s side, will not save the world, and the protagonist will not become human or suddenly turn evil. Read with caution if that bothers you.] A bioweapon virus from the apocalypse appeared in an empire in the desert! A gigantic biohazard hospital was built to research and contain the virus. But this place, considered the most rigorously protected against biological threats and stocked with the most medicine, was also home to the largest number of infected. It was c 940Reads7.1Score105Shelves
19. 19 魔 Magic: I’m a Wolf, Not a Pet! 魔法：狼爷我，才不当宠物呢！ A Gou阿钩Urban3.1M WordsOngoing [System + Magic + Magical Beasts + Tamed as a Beast] On Blue Star, a parallel world, magic reigns supreme! Wind, fire, lightning, thunder, earth, wood, ice... Elemental mages can move mountains and calm seas. They can do anything. Young people will do whatever it takes to become mages. Gu Lang transmigrates to this world and becomes a wolf cub. As a descendant of the Wolf God, he has powerful bloodline abilities and an absolute affinity for magic. But... He looks almost exactly like a husky pup 12.4kReads7.5Score789Shelves
20. 20 全 Global Awakening: The Necromancer Is a One-Person Calamity 全民：亡灵召唤师，一人即天灾 Leng Leng Mumua冷冷木木吖Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The era of universal class changes had arrived. Wei Xiaosu awakened the hidden class of Necromancer and gained the SSS talent skill Immortal Glory, along with his signature equipment, the shovel: Grief of the Departed. “Damn you! You’re the most shameless human I’ve ever met, Your Majesty. Have the guts to fight me one-on-one!” “One-on-one? Sure. How about you take on a hundred million of us by yourself?” “Hey, you’re the Shadow Dragon, right? Are you going to jump into this pit and bury you 2.6kReads7.5Score245Shelves

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    Undead cannon fodder

21. 21 战 War System in the Apocalypse 战争系统在末世 Eagle of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau云贵高原的雄鹰Sci-Fi & Apocalypse4.2M WordsOngoing I Became the Commander-in-Chief in the Apocalypse Apocalypse + raising a massive army + hard-core stats + characters with brains Just as the apocalypse arrives, Gu Chengyuan obtains the War System and starts raising a massive army, sweeping through the apocalypse with an unstoppable tide of steel! The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story. 80.9kReads9.0Score5.3kShelves

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    The book revealed several army groups later on.

22. 22 我 I Use a Game Base to Raise an Army and Crush the Qing 我用游戏基地暴兵横推满清 Dawn Admiring the Green Pines朝霞慕青松Historical795k WordsCompleted Chen Ping transmigrates to the late Ming Dynasty and gets the Age of Empires System! What are we waiting for? Build an army! Build a massive army! I'm going to sweep across the land, conquer the world, and reach the very pinnacle of power! March, my soldiers! Crush every enemy for your commander! Stage One: Defeat the Qing, Southern Ming, Shun, and Xi and unify the country. Stage Two: Wage war without pause and unite the world. Stage Three: Transform the world and wage war against an undersea ci 6.3kReads7.6Score259Shelves

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    This is the only one that truly brute-forces a strategy; the rest are just a sham.

23. 23 爆 Troop-Building System: From the Start, I Killed the Empress in a Fit of Rage 爆兵系统之开局怒杀女帝 Chuunibyou Dreams中二之想Historical675k WordsCompleted Chu Ge had been a puppet emperor for twenty years. His Empress Dowager mother even wanted to depose him and proclaim herself empress. His beloved consort and the child she carried were murdered, and even his own imperial relatives betrayed him. It drove him completely mad and turned him into a tyrant! I once wanted to be a benevolent ruler, but now I am a tyrant! “Ding! Mission issued: Restore the court.” Mission Name: “Restore the court.” Mission Description: Reform the court and appoint new 3kReads8.1Score152Shelves

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    3️⃣ The male protagonist is intelligent and decisive. His life began tragically. He is not his father's son. His lover is gone. The system he's bound to has the power to defy fate. He summons troops and goes completely mad.

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