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- 101 Bloodbath at Jinling: The Soldier King Uses a System to Crush the Japanese Army 浴血金陵：兵王带系统痛击日军 1937. On the eve of Nanjing's fall, I, Zhu Chi, am reborn! In my previous life, I bled to death at Yuhuatai, and every man under my command in the 262nd Brigade died for the nation. I descended to the grave with my hatred unresolved. In this life, the memories of a top modern special forces soldier awaken in my mind, and the body of an iron-blooded brigade commander comes alive in my hands! "Ding! Anti-Japanese System successfully bound: kill enemies to grow stronger!" Japanese devils, this time 462Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 102 Genshin Impact: I Pulled the Hydro Archon, and Got Aqua!!! 原神，抽卡出水神，阿库娅！！！ [Genshin Impact][Aqua][Comedy] It was a sunny afternoon. Beneath the holy radiance, a truck carrying the scent of freedom came flying toward his window. “Young man, it’s time to be reincarnated.” “I’d like to make sure one more time: after I’m reincarnated, will I become a powerful hero admired by everyone, with a strong blue-haired goddess as my support, a blonde beauty as my tank, and a tsundere, chuunibyou little girl as another teammate?” “Of course!” “Can you guarantee this will be a normal 930Reads6.8Score11814d adds
- 103 Lost in Love and Greed 《爱与贪婪的迷途》 The Lost Path of Love and Greed 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 The War God Rises in the War Against Japan 抗日之战神崛起 Amid the flames of war, smoke rises on every side, and the Chinese nation stands on the brink of ruin. Yuan Zhiwen, newly returned from his studies in Germany, is driven by a desire to serve his country. With a heart full of fervor, he fights the enemy and drives out the Japanese, eventually becoming a legendary god of war! 1.1kReads8.7Score10214d adds
- 105 Anti-Japanese Warlord: A Great Wall Built of Flesh and Blood 抗日军阀：血肉铸就的长城 [No System, One Female Lead] This isn't a wish-fulfillment novel. It's a tribute to the veterans who truly fought with their blood on the battlefields of the War of Resistance Against Japan. I hope to transmigrate through time and, using knowledge from my past life and a more advanced understanding of the future, fight shoulder to shoulder with them, kill more Japanese invaders, and protect more Chinese civilians. Note: The Japanese soldiers in this book are highly capable, not stupid, and know 253Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 106 Espionage: The Ultimate Undercover Agent, Night Hawk of the Military Intelligence Bureau 谍战：最牛潜伏，军统夜鹰 [Original Characters + Intelligence + Assassinations + Sweeping Through Shanghai’s Foreign Concessions] Zhao Haifan transmigrates to Shanghai during the isolated-island era and becomes a Juntong agent, codename Night Hawk... The story strives for realism, and most characters are based on historical figures. The ten great female agents of Juntong, the ten female fiends of the 76th, and the Imperial Flowers of Japan’s Tokko. A heroine who supplies the Nationalist Army with vital resources. Chinese 9Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 107 Snow Leopard: I Am Yan Shuangying 雪豹之我是燕双鹰 Middle school student Qin Feng is bullied by a group of thugs on the playground. He expects things to go as they always have, but this time he transmigrates, possessing the body of Yan Shuangying. He also transmigrates into Zhou Weiguo’s world. Because of his arrival, Xiao Ya and Fan Xiaoyu survive and join the Falcon Assassination Squad he forms. Fang Shengli survives too, becoming the captain of the Snow Leopard Special Forces. 412Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 I Transmigrate into War Movies and Can Resurrect Infinitely 穿越抗战电影之我能无限复活 War of Resistance + Battle of Songhu + System minimap + leveling and upgrades + wish fulfillment + spin-off of film and television works + no female lead “An omniscient minimap! Data-driven aiming, level-ups and full upgrades for every enemy killed, and resurrection after death! This System is pretty comprehensive!” A surge of excitement welled up inside Lin Feng, as if his bloodline had suddenly awakened. When he opened his eyes again, they gleamed with murderous intent. “Kill the Japanese! Lev 758Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 109 War of Resistance: Killing Enemies Drops Gear, and I Become the Grim Reaper of the Japanese and Their Collaborators 抗战：杀敌就爆装，我成日伪死神 Special forces soldier Han Lin dies on a mission and transmigrates to the War of Resistance period, becoming an ordinary soldier. He's trapped in a deadly situation from the start. Surrounded by Japanese and puppet troops with several times his numbers and far better equipment, he watches his comrades fall one by one. Looking at the only weapon in his hands, an antique Hanyang rifle, and the last bullet in his palm, Han Lin recites every curse he knows. Just when he is about to despair... [Ding! 14.7kReads7.7Score1.4k14d adds
- 110 An Old Master from the Start, Forced to Become a Cultivation Maniac 开局老爷爷，我被迫成了传功狂魔 This book has no female lead. It's lighthearted, funny, and cheerful, with no angst at all, and follows a comedic route. The old man will never become younger. The plot moves at a moderate pace, neither too fast nor too slow. Since the protagonist starts out at a high level, his cultivation will advance somewhat quickly in the early stages. 132Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 111 The Lone Wolf of Espionage 谍战之孤狼 A lone wolf is weak, ten wolves are strong, and a hundred wolves rule as kings. 328Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 112 A Republic-Era Iron-Blooded Young Marshal? I'll Fight the War of Resistance to the End! 民国铁血少帅？我奉军抗战到底！ Another world, an ordinary world, souls transmigrated into other bodies From Feng to Ping, from Tai to Sui, from the south to the east, forces from every side vie for power across this chessboard. Tags: Republic of China, War of Resistance, political intrigue, espionage, passionate, multiple female leads 20.6kReads—Score1.2k14d adds
- 113 The Steel Storm Regiment in the War to Resist America and Aid Korea 抗美援朝之钢铁风暴连 524Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Eight Outer Sects’ War of Resistance: The Merciless Reaper 【外八门的抗战史】索命无情 A handful of people, a handful of chessboards, all entangled in a deadly game. They fight until their eyes are bloodshot, with only one goal: to win! That is the War of Resistance! Our protagonist is named Wang Ermao. In Shanghainese, Ermao is just a nickname, practically the same as having no name at all, but that doesn't stop him from becoming a true hero. I believe that in those turbulent years, every Shanghainese might have been called Wang Ermao... 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Truth Hidden Behind the Scenes 《隐藏在背后的真相》 The Truth Hidden Behind the Scenes 12Reads—Score114d adds
- 116 A Night at Wanjiazhai 《夜宿万家寨》 A Night at Wanjia Village 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 War of Resistance: The District Squad with a Few Hundred Million Soldiers! 抗战：兵有亿点多的区小队！ By a stroke of luck, Qin Long transmigrated to the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan and obtained the strongest logistics System. As long as he killed Japanese soldiers, he earned points, which he could then use to buy all kinds of advanced equipment and supplies. Just like that, Qin Long built a local militia unit that started with a single gun and three bullets into a force of more than a hundred thousand... Qin Long's militia drove Type 99 tanks and sent the Japanese tin cans runn 82Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 118 War of Resistance: Liberating Ping'an City from the Start! 抗战：开局光复平安城！ A routine military training exercise reborn Zhou Weimin in a parallel world populated by shows like "Drawing Sword", "Snow Leopard", and "My Chief and My Regiment". He still finds himself in the role of a puppet soldier. As a hot-blooded patriot, how can he accept that? He has to fight the Japanese. He has to fight them! First, he takes Ping'an City and builds his own army, growing stronger as he wages war across the country. Before he knows it, Zhou Weimin has become a figure with the power 18Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 119 Code Name: The Super County Brigade 番号：超级县大队 [The Immortal Number + characters from the War of Resistance dramas + System + reclaiming lost territory + founding a country overseas] Though this is a power fantasy, it isn't mindless. The protagonist travels alone, and battlefield conditions are described according to the terrain. Troop movements take time; they won't all magically appear at once. Nor will planes, tanks, and other equipment simply be ready to use without a second thought. Pilots, tank crews, and artillerymen all need time to 111Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 120 War of Resistance: Sweeping All Before Me with a Tank System 抗战：带着坦克系统横扫一切 China’s industrial base was extremely weak during the War of Resistance, and couldn’t support the logistics of a powerful tank force. But what if someone had a Tank System, and the crew had repair skills, so major overhauls could be completed directly within the system? “Major, the enemy’s tanks can’t be penetrated.” “Bad news, Major. You’ve been killed by an enemy tank.” “A renowned general’s flower has withered on the Taihang Mountains.” “Why are the Eighth Route Army driving the Empire’s late 137Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 121 A Steel-Blooded Messenger in Changsha: Secret Words Decide Life and Death 铁血长沙传令兵密语决生死 A hard-hitting story grounded in historical sources, recreating the real battlefield. No cheats, only soldiers who fight to the death and never retreat! If you're from Changsha or Hunan, this one's for you! See how Xue Yue's "Heavenly Furnace" strategy burned Japanese general Anami Korechika to ashes, and stopped the three arrows aimed at Changsha! Witness the fierce battle at Dayun Mountain, the tearful fighting at the Xinqiang River, the rout at Jinjing Town, and how the 74th Army was defeat 393Reads—Score10314d adds
- 122 The Regiment Commander: Robbing Mi Long from the Start! 团长：开局打劫迷龙！ Mielong’s supplies are mine! Yu Xiaoqing’s Sichuan Army Corps is mine too! The British supplies and the Japanese bastards’ lives are all mine! Mine! Mine! It’s all mine! With the [Robbery Is Awesome] System, Lin Yi beats up Western bandits and kicks the Japanese invaders to the curb! 152Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 123 Hanqing, 300,000 Fengtian Troops, and an Iron-Blooded Peak 汉卿，奉系三十万，铁血巅峰 “When an entire era weighs on your shoulders, you have no choice but to make yourself tougher than the times.” Three brothers stand side by side: one commands civil and police affairs, another handles espionage and intelligence. The women are no mere ornaments: among them are a noble heiress who controls the supply lines, a sworn brotherhood leader's daughter who roams the world, and an intelligence agent infiltrating enemy ranks. The spy war rages in the shadows, while flames of battle blaze in 12.4kReads—Score81114d adds
- 124 Sniper: Peacekeeper Elite 狙击手之和平精英 Li Yang was a top sniper in the modern-day game Peace Elite. During a game, a mysterious flash of light swept past, and he transmigrated to the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. As soon as he arrived, a group of Japanese soldiers began hunting him down. Relying on the outstanding sniping skills he'd honed in the game, Li Yang hid in the shadows and picked off several Japanese soldiers with pinpoint accuracy, successfully escaping the pursuit. 169Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Bright Sword: Are You Crazy? You Call This a Guerrilla Force? 亮剑：疯了吧，你管这叫游击队？ Special forces soldier Lin Feng transmigrates into a parallel world that combines several war-era television dramas, including The Bright Sword. He becomes the leader of a guerrilla squad! At this point, the Battle of Cangyun Ridge has yet to begin. Looking at his unit, which has only four old Hanyang rifles with one bullet per man, while everyone else has spears and broadswords, Lin Feng is completely dumbfounded! How is he supposed to fight the Japanese with a force like this? Fortunately, he 2kReads8.2Score11614d adds
- 126 There’s a Ghost Under the Bed 《床下有鬼》 There’s a Ghost Under the Bed 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 One Terrifying Night for a Haunted House Sleep Tester 《凶宅试睡员的惊魂一夜》 A Terrifying Night for a Haunted House Sleep Tester 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Sadako Returns 《贞子复活》 Sadako Comes Back to Life 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 The Price of My Wife’s Affair 《老婆出轨的代价》 The Price of My Wife’s Affair 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Awakening After the Affair 《出墙后的醒悟》 Awakening After the Affair 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 131 Northeast Tales: The Women of Guandong and the Bandits 东北往事•关东娘们儿与土匪 Original title: “Tales of the Northeast: The Mother of the Bastard” [Republican Era + Japanese Puppet State of Manchukuo + Notorious Bandits] [Period Setting + Underworld + Northeast Villages] [Ensemble Cast + Jianghu Feuds] [War of Resistance + Father and Son + Tough Guys] A 19-year-old bandit's young leader takes a bullet and tumbles into a willow grove. Feng Qiuyue, a 29-year-old prostitute, grabs him and says, “Big brother, why don't you come home with me for a while?” That one visit sets of 38.5kReads8.5Score2.7k14d adds
- 132 Endless Shadows of Espionage 谍影无涯 Back in an age torn apart by war, he must keep himself alive by navigating between powerful factions. Little by little, he becomes a capable soldier, hiding deep in the enemy’s heartland and turning into a sharp blade driven behind enemy lines. 1.5kReads6.9Score10514d adds
- 133 Blood of the Land: Code of the Flames of War 山河血：烽火密码 In 1945, a Japanese military aircraft carrying a top-secret cipher machine crashes in the mountains of northern China. Liu Jiangong, a guerrilla commander; Shangguan Yufei, a female special envoy; and Lei Zifeng, a bandit chief, are three people with nothing in common, yet fate binds them together over a “black box.” They fight to seize, protect, and crack the secrets, going from distrust to fighting side by side, from a mountain stronghold to Tuancheng, and from a fake wedding to life-and-death 52Reads—Score514d adds
- 134 Espionage: I Have a Double Possession, and You Want Me to Be an Informant? 谍战：我双重附体，让我做线人？ [Humorous and funny] [No romance, no do-gooder heroine] [Self-interest above all] [Feel free to dive in] Gou Dadan is timid and afraid of trouble. The chaos of wartime turns him into a fastidious egoist. From the start, he transmigrates to Shanghai in 1937, just before the nationwide resistance against Japan begins, and becomes an ordinary soldier. [Early story] Forced to become a secret agent for the Military Statistics Bureau, he brings along his blind younger sister. Military Statistics Burea 36Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 135 Xiaojiu, the Warhound 烽火神犬小九 That blood-soaked mountain village became Bao Xiaojiu’s lifelong nightmare. It huddled among the dying embers in the stove, listening to the screams and wild laughter rising and falling outside, its warm body pressed tight against its mother’s corpse as it grew cold. The air reeked of blood, mixed with the unfamiliar, cold smell of rust and gunpowder. Just as terror nearly choked it, a pair of warm, slightly trembling hands gently brushed aside the ashes covering it. A blood-soaked young man sta 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 The Gunshots of the Republic of China 民国的枪声 The gunfire that rang out across the three towns of Wuhan in October 1911 tolled the death knell of the Qing Dynasty. Zhao Hu, from the Dragon Nation of a later age, grips the rifle in his hands. What will he choose? To remain an obscure nobody, or to ride the crest of a great era? Reclaim our lands and restore the golden age of the Han and Tang dynasties? 52.9kReads7.2Score4.2k14d adds
- 137 Republican-Era Spy War 民国谍战 "Need to move people or cargo? I'll fix up a manure cart for you. Short on medicine? The military police hospital is ready to help. Food? Got it! Guns and ammunition? Got them! A tank? Come on, are you kidding me? The Republican era is full of remarkable people, and the righteous lead the way. Watch Lu Xiao turn the tide and show what a true hero is made of." 1.6kReads9.0Score15914d adds
- 138 A Tycoon? I Want to Be a Warlord 首富？我要当军阀 Li Haoran was reborn in a parallel world as the son of Huaxia’s richest man. But this was an era of warlords and foreign powers running rampant. Without enough ability, even great wealth would make him no more than someone else’s wallet, and he would be nothing but a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. Li Haoran became the one holding the knife. 349Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 139 Bright Sword: No Guns, No Cannons? Just Come to Our Old Zhao 亮剑：没有枪没有炮，就找咱老赵 Li Yunlong: “The quality of these border-region guns is lousy. Sometimes they only explode into two pieces.” Zhao Gang: “Try these German M24 hand grenade replicas. I guarantee they’ll take out a whole crowd with one blast.” Li Yunlong: “The reloaded ammunition from the border-region arsenal always misfires.” “Then use the newly manufactured rounds. Look at these shiny brass bullets. Think each one can take out an enemy?” Zhao Gang shoves a bullet from the border-region arsenal in front of Li Yu 122Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 140 Special Forces Soldier in the World of Bright Sword 活在亮剑的特种兵 Zhang Zirong had served in the special forces for eighteen years. Now old and frail, he was no longer fit for intense training. When he retired, he got roaring drunk. After waking up, he found himself in a small county town during the Republican era. The streets were plastered with medicinal plasters, and every so often, little Japanese soldiers in mustard-yellow uniforms appeared. Their servile Chinese collaborators helped them oppress the people. Once he figured out he had transmigrated to the 2.4kReads8.4Score10414d adds
- 141 Blood and Intrigue 谍血风云 [Decisive and Ruthless] [Absolutely No Saintly Do-Gooder] [Fired with Passion] Returning to the war-torn Republic of China, the protagonist uses his slight head start to navigate between the various factions. On the secret front, every move is fraught with danger; between black and white, he repeatedly risks his life, earning achievements that no one will ever know about… 14Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 142 I Stockpiled Fifty Million Supplies and Went on a Rampage in Songhu 囤货五千万，我在淞沪杀疯了 Ten years of brotherhood turned out to be a setup. His wife had been cheating for three years, and his company went bankrupt. That day, the Beacon Fire System awakened: in 72 hours, he would transmigrate to Shanghai on August 12, 1937. He took out online loans and pawned the family home, scraping together fifty million. He stockpiled medicine, food, and equipment, and dug a twenty-million-yuan grave for the cheating pair. The day his creditors surrounded his home, he stood amid the ruins of Zhab 4kReads6.5Score19314d adds
- 143 Blood-Red Ballad 血色长歌 Transmigration changes nothing and overturns nothing. Set against the thirteen major battles in which the Sichuan Army took part, this novel stays true to history. Vivid battle scenes and characters based on real historical figures bring readers up close to the brutality of war and the courage of Sichuan’s soldiers. “When the nation faces peril and the Japanese invaders bare their fangs, the fate of the country rests on every man. I wished to enlist, but I am past the age. Fortunately, I have a 2.6kReads8.9Score23814d adds
- 144 War of Resistance: Blasting the Japanese Invaders to Pieces 抗战：烽火硝烟之打爆小鬼子 No System, no brainless characters, no rebirth, and a lightly ensemble cast! Xiao Hongya: An orphan adopted by the Independent Regiment, she belongs to the regiment and loves fighting the Japanese. All she knows is the smoke and fire of war, and her fate is inseparable from the battlefield. Zhao Heihu: A veteran of many years on the battlefield. He doesn’t want to fight, but he can’t escape the battlefield. All he wants is to put down his gun, yet fate forces him to pick it up again! Zhao Youcai 3.9kReads8.8Score26314d adds
- 145 War of Resistance: I Told You to Train Recruits, and You Turned Them All into Soldier Kings 抗战：让你练新兵，你全练成兵王 On the battlefield in 1938. Lin Feng: “Brothers! Put the word ‘professional’ on the screen!” Comrade: “Platoon leader, what's a screen?” Japanese soldier: “Bakayaro! Why does that enemy commander never fight by the rules? And what are those weird things he keeps saying that we can't understand?” Special forces king Lin Feng transmigrates to the War of Resistance. He not only turns warfare into an art, but also completely breaks the enemy's composure! One second, he's joking around with his comra 34Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 146 War of Resistance: Ballistics Leave No Trace 抗战：弹道无痕 Resistance War: The Invisible Bullet A lone rifle and a talking donkey write an immortal legend behind enemy lines. Synopsis: Li Gousheng, an international shooting champion, accidentally transmigrates to the Taihang Mountains in 1938. There, he discovers that he has the memories of a modern sniper and a mysterious Enemy-Hunting System. Dressed in camouflage and armed with a Kar98k sniper rifle, he becomes the “Ghost Gunner” feared by the Japanese army. His companion is Qingyun, a gray donkey wh 441Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 147 This Security Corps Is Way Too Good at Fighting the Japanese 这保安团，打鬼子太厉害了 Transmigrating to northeastern Shanxi in 1937, what should you do? Obviously, fight the Japanese invaders! If they don’t take my Security Regiment seriously, then it’s time to teach those Japanese devils a lesson! From then on, a mighty iron-blooded army that struck terror into the Japanese appeared across China, along with an undefeated god of war on the anti-Japanese battlefield. An armored battalion? What, Zhao Tianming has an armored battalion? He’s wiped out a whole Japanese tank company! 29.1kReads8.0Score2.4k14d adds
- 148 Hundredfold Returns: My Deadbeat System Can Lie Flat 百倍返还：我的冤种系统能躺平 My new work is out! 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! 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Math Underachiever 数学差生 Lin Meng has been beaten down by math a thousand times, yet she keeps coming back for more and losing again. She’s hopeless at math, having somehow dodged the genes of her accountant mother and her father, a senior high school math teacher, to become a student who can’t understand a thing about the subject. But when she meets Fang Congxin, a boy even more difficult to deal with than math, her world begins to change... 831Reads9.5Score12614d adds
- 150 The Strongest God of War in the Resistance Against Japan 抗战之最强军神 The strongest soldier, Su Yang, finds himself in the body of a man on the anti-Japanese battlefield. Japanese invaders are ravaging the land, the nation has fallen, and the country is on the brink of ruin. How could Su Yang just stand by and do nothing? 110Reads8.0Score—14d adds
