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The Bone of the Beacon Fires: A Defeated Soldier's Tale
[No System] + [Defeated Soldier from the Start] + [Realistic] + [Narrative Fiction] + [Both Sides Are Smart] Winter, 1937. On the road of retreat after Baoding falls, Hu Lai digs a Mauser pistol and half a frozen corn cake out of a pile of corpses, becoming one of the scattered, straggling soldiers. In an abandoned village, he dodges the guns of Japanese cavalry and encounters a remnant unit of thirty-seven men led by Officer Li Maocai: wounded soldiers, stragglers, pursuers lurking unseen, and
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A Deserter in the Flames of War: Sacrifice for the Greater Good
[No System] + [deserter from the start] + [realistic] + [narrative fiction] + [both sides are intelligent] + [no heroine] My name is Hu Lai. Hu as in muddleheaded, Lai as in “there's always tomorrow.” I used to be nothing but a farmer, until that year of chaos, when they tied me up with a rope and threw me onto the battlefield. I fought at Shanghai and defended Nanjing. I was the last living seed of the 87th Division. I saw flesh and blood fly. I saw my brothers fall in droves. I saw the water
1.9kReads6.9Score165Shelves