Novels like Blood-Red Ballad
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Blood-Red Ballad, best match first.
- 51 Pillars of the Water Town 水乡脊梁 The Backbone of the Water Country tells the story of Chen Hai, from his growth as a fisherman to becoming a New Fourth Army soldier and commander. It depicts the distinctive waterside scenery and atmosphere of resistance in the Hongze Lake region, and brings to life a cast of brave and resourceful heroes who fought against the Japanese. The novel portrays the Chinese people’s spirit of standing together against a common enemy and being forged stronger through adversity. It is a stirring tribute 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 War Against Japan: The Road to Annihilation 抗日：灭国之路 Wei Mingyang: Special Operations Forces He vanished in front of his fellow soldiers while on a mission. After transmigrating to a battlefield, he began with a defensive campaign and wrote a blazing tale of war. 15Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 53 My Grandfather’s Extraordinary Life 我姥爷不平凡的一生 Ordinary people can create extraordinary lives! "San'er, get up and get to work!" "Third Brother, let's go!" "The strongest combat squad is here!" the terrified enemy cried. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 War of Resistance: With a Holographic Battle Map, I Lead the Sichuan Army to Victory 抗战：全息战图，我带川军杀疯了 [No female lead + cathartic resistance-war story + unbreakable brotherhood + victory against the odds + characters with brains] Peacekeeping soldier Gu Yan transmigrates to a battlefield in the War of Resistance against Japan and awakens a holographic battle map. As the Japanese launch their fifth assault, the company commander raises his gun and roars, “Sichuan-born soldiers die with their boots planted right here!” “Who says we can only sit here and wait to die?!” Once the holographic battle m 176Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Heroes of the Flames of War 战火雄魂 Two hot-blooded young brothers come of age in a time of chaos. After their homes are destroyed and their families killed, they flee in different directions and grow up apart: one joins the army, while the other becomes a bandit. Years later, they reunite on the battlefield against the Japanese... Great wars, massive armies, sweeping battle scenes, iron-blooded men and tender-hearted women: amid the flames and smoke of the war against Japan, a generation forges its heroic spirit and writes a trag 125Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 56 War of Resistance: The Fengtian Clique’s Most Defiant Man 抗战，奉系头号反骨人 [System Name: Powerful Fire Support System] [Core Function One: Strategic-Grade Supplies Support] [Function Details:] 1. Daily Random Rewards: At midnight each day, the System will assess the current state of the war and the Host's potential needs. It will randomly award several tons of combat or logistical supplies. These may include, but are not limited to, weapons and ammunition, medicine, food, clothing, engineering equipment, and more. 2. Guaranteed Monthly Grand Prize: At midnight on the f 957Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 A Nation's Shame and a Family's Feud: I Became Grandpa's Guard 国仇家恨：我当爷爷警卫员 [Patriotic spirit + war of resistance without a System + transmigration + spycraft + political career + face-slapping] Heroes have never vanished. They have simply chosen to stand beyond the light, hidden deep in history. Looking back at these stories, we see the immortal secret of a nation that grows stronger through every tribulation. Writing these stories, every stroke of the pen traces the spiritual totem of a nation that endures through the ages. When the motherland calls, they write their 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 My War of Resistance: From Huangpu to Nanjing 我的抗战：从黄埔到南京 In the autumn of 1936, Su Baiyu, a military theory enthusiast, transmigrates into the frail body of a first-year student at the Whampoa Military Academy’s 11th class. He disguises modern tactics as “insights from a family military manual” and distinguishes himself before German adviser Alexander von Falkenhausen and instructor Qian Zongze. When the War of Resistance breaks out, he leads a German-equipped platoon in a desperate defense of Shanghai and fights bloody battles in Nanjing, repeatedly 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 War of Resistance: Divine Disguise, I Empty the Japanese Banks 抗战：神级伪装，我搬空鬼子银行 1937. Shanghai has fallen! I’m Chen Jue, and I’ve transmigrated into the body of a trading house owner. From the start, an agent points a gun at my head: if I don’t pay back five thousand silver dollars in seven days, I’ll end up at the bottom of the Huangpu River! Fortunately, the [Quantum Exchange] System activates! I can trade this era’s gold and antiques for sparks of hope from the future! To kindle a spark on this scorched earth, I put on the mask of a traitor and walk a knife’s edge. From 1.4kReads6.1Score—Shelves
- 60 War of Resistance: The Shanghai System Arms Me from the Start to Defend the Nation 抗战：开局淞沪系统爆装守国门 Liao Fan transmigrates to 1937 and receives the Nation-Defending System. He throws himself into completing missions, earning points, and claiming System rewards. Ding! Congratulations, Host, on completing the mission. Rewards: ammunition, shells, weapons and equipment, artillery, military-industrial machinery... Ding! Congratulations, Host, on completing the mission. Rewards: reconnaissance aircraft, radar... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 War of Resistance: Bloodbath in 1937 抗战之血战1937 [Alternate-history fiction, no System, and no golden fingers.] If an ordinary person who knows nothing transmigrated to the 1937 Battle of Shanghai, could he survive against well-equipped, well-trained Japanese soldiers and their coordinated assaults by land, sea, and air? What did he go through as he went from thinking only of escape to fighting desperately in the bloodshed? This novel aims to stay close to history and be as realistic as possible. Please don't nitpick the locations or names. Th 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Fighting My Way Out of 1937, I Became an Unknown Name on a Memorial 从1937杀出，终成无名碑 The Battle of Xinkou + the Taihang Mountains Campaign + the Hundred Regiments Offensive + battles of all sizes + the lives of ordinary people + no System: During the Battle of Xinkou, Qi Hang transmigrates into a new recruit in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, thrown into a sea of corpses from the start! No System, no romance. Relying only on hazy memories of the future and his knowledge of terrain and guerrilla warfare, he finds a way through. He experiences real battles, from ambushes large and small 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Grandpa's Military Uniform 外公的军装 A hundred-year-old Sichuan Army veteran has passed away. In a wooden trunk, an old uniform reveals two stories from the fires of war. At twenty, he was seized for military service. Wearing straw sandals, he left Sichuan and fought in the War of Resistance. Before the smoke had cleared, he was sent to Korea. Everyone called him a fearless hero. Only Grandpa admitted that on the battlefield, he was scared out of his wits. Knowing fear to the bone, why did he still risk his life and press forward? 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Great Victory at Pingxing Pass 平型关大捷 The victory at Pingxingguan refers to the battle in which the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army ambushed the supply convoy of the 21st Brigade of Japan’s 5th Division near Pingxingguan on September 25, 1937, during the War of Resistance against Japan, killing more than a thousand enemy soldiers. It was the first decisive victory won by the Chinese side since the war between China and Japan began. This victory shattered the myth of the Japanese army’s invincibility, lifted the nation’s spir 1.4kReads9.5Score119Shelves
- 65 Thirty Thousand Elves [30K]: The Night Before Dawn 精灵三万年【30K】：黎明前夜 [War + Western fantasy + elves + industry + rule of law + World War I + Soviet-German War] [PS: This has nothing to do with Warhammer (I'm sure of it).] Powerful enemies surround us, while the humans who were once ignorant have now entered the industrial age. Our once-mighty elven people are gradually falling into decline. At home, entrenched nobles and traditionalists are holding back our progress. Even as our nation crumbles and our people perish, they'd rather cling to their useless positions —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 War of Resistance: My 1943 Player Army 抗战：1943我的玩家军团 "Slow-paced, not a conventional power fantasy, ensemble cast, somewhat realistic" When Lin Yan opened his eyes, he discovered he had become the second-in-command of a bandit stronghold in northern Hunan in 1943. His sworn elder brother had just died. Guo Mazi was making a play for power, and the Japanese were less than twenty li from the stronghold. A System had been implanted in his mind, allowing him to summon “players” from the future into this era. When the first batch of beta testers arrive 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Tales of the Anti-Japanese Resistance at Xuanyang Post Station 宣阳驿抗日烽火录 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 War of Resistance: Heaven's Wrath 抗战之天怒 After a traitor sells them out, the newly formed Seventh Platoon is nearly wiped out. Having narrowly escaped death, Qin Feng investigates the truth while organizing armed resistance against Japan and joining the war. He faces the enemy in one deadly struggle after another... 975Reads8.8Score114Shelves
- 69 Bloodbath in the Taihang Mountains: Anti-Japanese Special Forces 浴血太行之抗日特种兵 A special operations instructor at a military academy on a manor estate transmigrates to a household deep in the Taihang Mountains in the 1930s after saving a boy from drowning. He then joins the War of Resistance... 1.3kReads7.1Score100Shelves
- 70 Brothers in Special Operations: Slaying Japanese Invaders in the War of Resistance 抗战之特战兄弟斩日寇 Ou Wen, Ji Han, Hu Lei, and Su Yuanshan are members of a special operations unit in a Chinese military force. During an overseas operation, they are surrounded by a drug cartel. They detonate a bomb, dying alongside the traffickers. They then transmigrate to northeastern China in 1935, when the country is fighting the War of Resistance. The four brothers decide to join the fight against the Japanese. 313Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 71 War of Resistance: Seven Against All Odds, and You Airdrop a German-Armed Division? 抗战：绝境七人，你空投德械师？ The rating has only just come in, so it's low for now. It'll go up, so read with confidence. [War of Resistance] + [Airdrops] + [Special Forces] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Supplies] Transmigrate to the War of Resistance, with only five bullets from the start? Don't panic, a German-equipped division just dropped from the sky! The Shanghai battlefield, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Lin Feng opened his eyes to find himself a defeated-army company commander with only five bullets and s 9.2kReads7.7Score760Shelves
- 72 The Juntong Agency: Tales of Beiping 军统之北平往事 The story follows Lin Hai, an intelligence agent with the Kuomintang's Military Statistics Bureau. During the War of Resistance against Japan, he goes undercover in occupied Beiping, Nanjing, and other places, using various professions as cover while assassinating Japanese invaders, puppet troops, and traitors. 199Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Fix Bayonets 上刺刀 A country boy is seized for forced military service and sent to the Songhu battlefield. After narrowly escaping with his life, he makes it back to his hometown, only to find his home burned to ashes. From then on, the young farmer takes up the fight against the Japanese, first joining the Northwest Army and later the Eighth Route Army. Faced with the fierce Japanese invaders, he lets out a furious roar: “Fix bayonets!” 193Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 74 War of Resistance: Starting with the Battle of Shanghai 抗战：从沪上战役开始 [Shanghai from the Start] + [System Gacha] + [Head-On Clashes] + [Mass Troop Recruitment] + [The Advantage Is Ours] Old Wang's surname was Wang, and his given name was Qiang. While helping the landlady next door clear her drain, he was misunderstood by her husband, who came home unexpectedly, and died an innocent man. But when he opened his eyes again, he had become a member of the Shanghai Security Corps in a parallel world. Wang Qiang was a hawkish sort. Just as he was preparing to use his sev 3.3kReads8.5Score115Shelves
- 75 War of Resistance: The Strongest Chinese-Equipped Division 抗战：最强中械师 This isn't a mindless power fantasy, and the early chapters won't be especially gratifying either. The focus is on development and building up resources. There is quite a lot of detail about weapon performance, but it's important to advancing the plot. The story emphasizes artillery above all else, and later there will also be armored vehicles, aircraft, and great voyages, so it won't devote too many resources to small arms early on. 13.2kReads7.8Score876Shelves
- 76 The Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Squad 抗日别动队 Mo Di, a former special forces soldier who had joined the public security system after retiring, made a mistake during a mission and was buried alive by criminals. His soul then transmigrated into the body of Mo Di, a hot-blooded young man being beaten up in 1937. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a scene that set his blood racing, driving him into a frenzy. He killed four Japanese samurai in a counterattack and rescued the woman who had spoken up for him. Just after escaping danger, Mo Di c 536Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 77 War of Resistance: From the Start, I Have a German-Equipped Battalion 抗战：开局一个德械营 In 1937, China faces an existential crisis, and Wang Xiang transmigrates to that era, where he acquires a mission System. One German-equipped battalion can’t change the situation. But what about a German-equipped division, an army, or an entire corps? 877Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 78 War of Resistance: The Liberation of China Begins in Shanxi 抗战：解放全国从山西开始 Yang Fan transmigrated to the War of Resistance era and became the eldest son of a landowning family in northwestern Shanxi. With his father's help, he raised an army and established the Lüliang Mountain base area and the Taihang Mountain base area, one to the east and one to the west. After successfully capturing half of Shanxi, he suddenly realized that something about this world was off. Yang Fan: “I've already taken half of Shanxi, and now you're telling me this is the world of Drawing Sword 143Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 79 Battlefield Vanguard: I Became an Instructor in Bright Sword 战地尖兵之我在亮剑当教官 Battlefield Vanguard: I’m an Instructor in Liangjian Chen Yan wakes up during the Battle of Cangyun Ridge as a routed soldier from the Central Army. As the comrades around him fall one after another, his special forces instincts help him evade the storm of bullets. While crawling forward, he suddenly grabs the platoon leader by the ankle. “Don’t move! There’s an impact point at your three o’clock!” The platoon leader is still looking doubtful when a shell lands exactly where Chen predicted. Thro 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 From Fighting in Northwest Shanxi to the 38th Parallel 从晋西北杀到三八线 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 10.2kReads5.7Score455Shelves
- 81 War of Resistance: I Just Want to Survive 抗战：我只想活下去 No System, not reborn. This is not the legend of a hero, but the story of someone who only wants to survive, making it through the flames and blood of World War II. The War of Resistance: I Just Want to Survive 115Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 82 I Am the Star General: Starting from the Chishui River 我将星：从赤水河开始 The story of how I, a distinguished military researcher, transmigrated to 1934 and had to work my way up from the bottom. At first, I only wanted to survive. Later, I wanted a few more of my comrades by my side to survive, too. Before I knew it, from the vanguard of the Long March to a renowned general in the War of Resistance Against Japan, from the banners of liberation to the flames of war on the Korean Peninsula, my presence ran through every major chapter in our army’s history. I lost a gre 79Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 83 The Beacon-Fire Plains 烽火平原 The twenty-sixth year of the Republic, by the Yong'an River in eastern Henan. A time of chaos is coming. Japanese invaders draw ever closer, the country lies in ruins, and the people in the countryside struggle to survive from one day to the next. Sixteen-year-old Chen Zhe is an ordinary village boy who tends sheep by the river. But when the nightmare of war arrives, he watches his homeland trampled and his neighbors abused. Every man has a duty, and even a commoner dares to take up a blade. Wit 1.5kReads6.9Score129Shelves
- 84 Through the Smoke of War, the Wolf Soldiers March North 战火硝烟狼兵北上 The Wolf Soldiers of the Guangxi Army: A Journey of Blood and Iron In 1937, as Japan launched its full-scale invasion of China, brave soldiers from Guangxi stepped forward and resolutely headed north. The Wolf Soldiers never backed down. With fearless courage and unyielding determination, they fought the enemy to the death, defending their homeland’s dignity with their blood and lives and making an indelible contribution to the War of Resistance Against Japan. Seen through the eyes of a group o 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 War of Resistance: In Shanghai from the Start, I Use a Lucky Draw to Fight the Japanese! 抗战：开局淞沪我靠抽奖打鬼子！ [From the Start in Shanghai] + [War of Resistance] + [Sign-In] + [Lottery System] Huo Linchuan, an extra, transmigrates to Shanghai in 1937 in a parallel world. With the bloody Battle of Shanghai about to erupt, he knows history well and understands that if the battle is lost, Nanjing will fall too. Determined to keep that painful chapter of history from repeating itself, and to ensure that the people of this land will never again suffer the invaders’ oppression and abuse, he uses the [Lottery S 78Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 86 Shanhe Column 山河纵队 I transmigrated to the rout at Shanghai in 1937 and became a second lieutenant staff officer in the 88th Division, with death seeming inevitable. Japanese bayonets were at my back, and panicked, scattered soldiers fled all around me. No one knew I was an undercover Communist Party member, let alone that my mind held the entire history of World War II and The Art of War. While everyone else fled, I struck back! I led thirty battered survivors into Wolf Valley. In our first battle, we wiped out a 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 The Let's Work Together to Kill the Japanese Series 我们一起努力杀鬼子系列 We’ll Work Together to Kill the Japanese. Synopsis. In the autumn of 1934, on the eve of the Central Red Army’s Long March, Fu Biyuan, a son of western Fujian, is ordered to lead his troops in holding off the pursuing Kuomintang forces at Songmaoling. These Red Army commanders, who rose through the ranks during peasant uprisings, form an iron triangle with Fu Shuncai, a former bookkeeper, and Fu Bijin, a dockworker. They fight for seven days and nights, buying precious time for the main force to 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Let’s Work Together to Kill the Japanese: The Shanxi Story 我们一起努力杀鬼子系列之山西篇 My new work is out! Feel free to head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Diao Bing Mantun 刁兵满囤 He crawled out of a cesspit, and nothing could kill him. The Japanese invaders’ lives were less durable than his manure fork. A farmer, an iron fork, and a blood-soaked path. No transmigration, no cheat powers. The Japanese killed his whole family, so he’ll make sure their line dies out. 212Reads—Score124Shelves
- 90 War of Resistance: From the Start, I Land a Critical Hit on a Japanese Bitch 抗战：开局暴击女八嘎 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Bloodbath at the Liu Family Stronghold 血洗刘家寨 Deep in the Taihang Mountains, more than fifty households and a hundred or two people from Liu Family Village fought a desperate battle against a Japanese army company. This is the tragic and heroic story of their final stand, in which both sides perished. How can we put love before vengeance for our families and our country? We fear neither life nor death. We fight only to reclaim our land. 326Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 92 Before the 1936 Battle of Shanghai 1936年淞沪会战前 An ordinary modern man steps into a grove to relieve himself. When he comes back out, everything has changed. He has transmigrated to the outskirts of Shanghai in 1936, just as the full-scale war of resistance is about to begin. What should he do? As a modern man, he won't hesitate to use his knowledge to strike at the Japanese invaders... 323Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 93 War of Resistance: One Penny to Instantly Kill, Commander-in-Chief of the Sichuan Army! 抗战：一分钱秒杀，川军总司令！ Li Feng transmigrates to the War of Resistance era and becomes a member of a Sichuan Army unit. He has a one-cent instant-purchase System that refreshes six items every day. Day One’s instant-purchase items: 1. Max-level physical enhancement. 2. Max-level battlefield skills. 3. Max-level command abilities for the army, navy, and air force. 4. A full battlefield map with a holographic view. 5. System storage. 6. Fifty crates of grenades. … Day Two’s instant-purchase items: 1. Three hundred Zhong 13.9kReads7.8Score1.2kShelves
- 94 From the Jiang Family Estate to a Retirement Home at Gongdelin: My War of Resistance 抗战从蒋家大院直达功德林养老 The buildup is fairly long. If you want to get straight to the main plot, it's recommended that you start after Chapter 88. The protagonist is reborn in the Republican era. He graduated from a prestigious military academy and is Nikolai's childhood friend. At first, he grovels to the brigade commander while quietly building up his strength. Then, well, we'll talk about that after a few hundred chapters. 748Reads7.3Score120Shelves
- 95 War of Resistance: The Ironblood Flying Eagle 抗战之铁血飞鹰 With the heavens’ power, wipe out the Japanese devils! After Tang Dingshan encounters the Japanese nuclear wastewater incident, he returns to the Songhu battlefield with a tactical sniper rifle and gets dragged into the meat grinder at Luodian. What else is there to say? Load armor-piercing rounds: one shot, one Japanese machine gunner; one shot, one Japanese tank; one shot, one Japanese aircraft… Whatever lies within my sights, I’ll kill the strong and crush the weak! 705Reads8.8Score115Shelves
- 96 War of Resistance: I, Li Laifu, the New King of Liaodong 抗战：我李来福新任辽东王 The setup takes a little while, so if you can't wait, jump straight to Chapter 73. I'll take Liaodong, punch the Japanese in the face, kick the Russians to the curb, and become the King of Liaodong. Who's against it? Who's in favor? Look me in the eyes. 399Reads—Score119Shelves
- 97 Blood and Fire Across Three Thousand Worlds: The Battle of Songhu 淞沪血火三千界 In 2030, four patriotic young men, Li Longhao, Zeng Hongqing, Xiao Zhenhou, and Chen Mu, accidentally transmigrated to the battlefield of the 1937 Battle of Shanghai. They had Systems that let them earn “national destiny points” by killing the enemy and exchange them for supplies, but soon discovered they could do far more than that. From the first battle at Bazi Bridge to the bloody meat grinder at Luodian, from Sihang Warehouse to the retreat from Nanjing, from the Battle of Wuhan to the resis 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 In the War of Resistance, Serving One's Country Is a Blessing 抗战，丈夫许国实为幸事 On a rainy night in Nanjing in 1931, Lu Chengzhou grips a rusted pocket watch tightly. In the twenty-first century, he took apart countless bridge blueprints. Now he must personally drive this city into the pivotal points of history. Steel piles for a cascade hydropower station lie beneath the Yangtze’s hidden channels. Scrap metal from the Hanyang Arsenal is tempered in molds into rifling. Even the ruts left by rickshaws conceal the coordinates of wartime railways. Some laugh and call him mad, 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Arrow of Justice 正义之箭 In early 1940, during the Battle of Chengde, Xu Yihang, Xu Erhang, Xu Jinchuan, Rong Shi, and the others took down Shimizu Niju-san and continued on the path of resistance against Japan, fighting all the way to final victory! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 War of Resistance: My Merit Points Shop 抗战：我的战功商城 Transmigration | War of Resistance | System Shop | A Crooked Merchant's Ways | Play the pig to eat the tiger | Growth Story In 1937, Li Mancang, a burned-out office worker, opens his eyes on a battlefield in the Taihang Mountains. The roof beams glow red with fire, and across from him are Japanese soldiers holding bayonets. Worse still, he can barely hold a gun steady. All he ever learned in the modern world was how to make PowerPoint slides. Just when all seems lost, a Battle Merit Shop opens i 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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