Satisfying War Stories That Don’t Insult Your Intelligence: Proper War Stories! 抗战爽文，不辱智商！正常的抗战爽文！

1. 351 在 In the ’80s, Pretending to Be a Returnee Tycoon 在八零，伪装归国神豪 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Urban237k WordsOngoing Su Tianci, an overworked office drone in 2026, accidentally transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1980s. Fortunately, he can still return to 2026. Two vastly different eras now lie before him. 85Reads—Score127Shelves

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2. 352 亮 Bright Sword: After Transmigrating into Ding Wei, I Make Li Yunlong Lose His Cool 亮剑：穿越丁伟后，老李心态炸了 Madman Tianxing疯子天行Urban168k WordsCompleted You hear about Li Yunlong every day. Today, it’s finally my turn, Old Ding. I’ll take Li Yunlong’s road and leave him nowhere to go. I’ll steal his wife and make him a bachelor for life. Li Yunlong cursed furiously, “Damn it! The biggest mistake I ever made was getting to know you, Old Ding!” But the very next second, his expression changed completely. “Sister-in-law Tian Yu, please tell Old Ding to equip our Old Li with two more divisions’ worth of those Type 81 rifles!” 133Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The traditional war of resistance is systemless and brainless!

3. 353 女 Smoke Over Daughter's Village 女儿寨烽烟 The Witty Lever杠杆笑匠Urban423k WordsCompleted In 1938, the Japanese Army’s Cherry Blossom Task Force infiltrates the Wuling Mountains, coveting a secret map of the southwest’s defenses. The isolated Daughter’s Stockade is plunged overnight into a deadly world of espionage. The thousand-year-old stockade, guarded entirely by women, is suddenly breached by a young man carrying the secret map. Military Intelligence agents lie in wait, while a traitor within the stockade secretly colludes with the enemy. Poisonous fog, assassination, sowing dis 2.9kReads—Score344Shelves

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   The thousand-year-old ancient village isolated from the world turned into a spy war field overnight. The lurkers of the military command, the traitors in the village, and the top soldiers of the Japanese army were all fighting in chaos, but no one could have expected that the girls guarding the village were the most ruthless hunters.

4. 354 双 Two People Transmigrate to 1949, and from the Start We Meet Lou Zhenhua 双穿一九四九，开局遇到娄振华 Trying to Stay Alive2努力活着2Male-Channel Fanfiction150k WordsOngoing Forget personal standards and enjoy a shameless life. No more emotional self-torment; when something happens, just lose it: better to inconvenience others than make yourself suffer. That was Su Tianci in 2026. By chance, he transmigrated to Beiping just after its liberation. He also awakened a pocket dimension that could take him back to 2026. The economically booming year 2026 and the war-torn year 1949, two vastly different eras, now lay before him. 932Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Lord Yuanfang, take action now

5. 355 凤 The Phoenix-Eyed Agent: I Tear My Rotten Enemies Apart in Republican-Era China 凤眼女特工：我在民国手撕渣敌 Tomato Ketchup Stir-Fried with Tomato Juice番茄酱炒番茄汁Urban371k WordsCompleted I, Su Wanqing, am a small-time female thug at the bottom of the heap at Jiangcheng Wharf. My only talent is hearing other people’s thoughts. For three years, I used that ability to dodge countless assassination attempts, until I met a coachman who was nearly beaten to death. My heart skipped a beat: this man’s thoughts were actually pure. 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The White Widow No. 76 Claims that no one can see through her heart. I tried it once, but her spirit backfired and I had a nosebleed. But this further proved my suspicion: there was a big secret hidden in her heart, and this secret was the key to me bringing her down, and also the key to uncovering the truth about my mother's death.

6. 356 铁 Three Thousand Miles of Steel: A Machine Gunner’s Wartime Years 铁流三千里：机枪手的烽火岁月 All vv全vvUrban427k WordsOngoing In 1936, the Japanese captured him. In 1949, he picked up a machine gun and fought the enemy. In 1950, he crossed the Yalu River and used a machine gun to take on tanks. In 1997, leaning on a cane, he stood outside the county government offices for five days. In 2020, he brought Made in China to the world and crushed a century-old American company. Jin Yonghao's collar tabs, Li Xiangyang's glasses, Chen Shitou's certificate of merit: he took them all to his grave. Then he woke up and discovered 7Reads7.3Score—Shelves

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   There is no deified protagonist, only ordinary people who learn to fight under artillery fire and realize their original intention through sacrifice. The author wrote the battle of Bamian Mountain to suppress bandits in western Hunan really well!

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