Novels like The New Boss of Thirteen Provinces
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- 1 Be as Big as You Are, Don’t Be a Crybaby! 几大就几大，唔好做哀仔啊！ Battle of Shanghai + Defense of Nanjing + Battle of Xuzhou + mass troop deployment! The protagonist, Chen Chaoran, transmigrates into the body of a Guangdong Army soldier on the Shanghai battlefield! He fights to the bitter end to resist foreign aggression! 3kReads8.3Score199Shelves
- 2 Reborn to Fight in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea 重生之我在抗美援朝 Reborn: My Life in the War to Resist America and Aid Korea tells the story of Li Weiguo, a modern man who unexpectedly awakens reborn as Chen Feng, a Volunteer Army soldier. He heads to Korea with his unit and grows amid the raging battles and countless hardships of a brutal war. Holding fast to his convictions, he fights alongside his comrades and bears witness to sacrifice and glory as he battles for peace. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Era of the Yanhuang Empire 炎黄帝国时代 Zhang Ziwen transmigrates to a parallel world and, with the help of the System, builds a realm for the Yanhuang Empire. He tramples the little Japanese, tears the Stars and Stripes to shreds, and takes on anyone who dares to defy him. I've got the System. What have I got to fear? 123Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Fox of Hengyang 衡阳之狐 Zhang Wenyuan, a hitman in his previous life, was betrayed by his handler. Ambushed while on a mission, he somehow found himself transported back to the battlefield of the 1944 Defense of Hengyang. 343Reads6.6Score108Shelves
- 5 The System Sent Me to the Top 系统送我到巅峰 Wang Xiaolin was an utterly ordinary person. For no apparent reason, he got a somewhat zany System and, just as inexplicably, embarked on the pinnacle of life… 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The New War God of Southern Anhui 皖南新战神 He Dazhi is a directionless young man with no ambition, whose birthday banquet turns into a lavish feast. With the help of the System, he goes from an aimless nobody to a new God of War, making waves in a parallel world and taking southern Anhui by storm... 411Reads6.6Score103Shelves
- 7 How to Be a Tycoon 神豪的打开方式 Shen Yadong had always kept a low profile, but then he unexpectedly got a System. From that moment on, his life changed beyond recognition. This was how a tycoon lived the high life... 23Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 8 War of Resistance: The National Destiny System from the Start 抗战：开局觉醒国运系统 Important Notice: This story takes place in a fictional parallel world. All countries, organizations, character names, and historical events are artistic creations and have no connection to reality. The protagonist's actions and choices all serve the fictional plot, and are intended to portray an indomitable fighting spirit and intelligence. Readers are asked not to connect them to real history. Title: War of Resistance: The National Destiny System Awakens from the Start Synopsis: When elite sol 5Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 9 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. 301Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 10 War of Resistance: From the Start, I Rescue the Thirteen Beauties of Jinling 抗战：开局解救金陵十三钗 [Fighting the Japanese invaders + War of Resistance against Japan + ruthless and decisive] Jiang Xun thought his life was all about playing games and reading history, until he opened a war game called Kindling... and discovered that it was all real! From the start, it’s hell, and his teammates are his ancestors! While everyone else gets a god-tier loadout and beautiful women from the start, Jiang Xun’s opening... sends him back to Jinling in 1937, where he becomes a cannon-fodder replacement sol 379Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 1937: An Alternate Timeline, Defending the Homeland with Blood and Steel 1937平行时空：铁血守疆御外 In 1937, Lin Chen opens his eyes to find himself pinned beneath a corpse. Artillery fire, smoke, and a rout: he has transmigrated, landing on a battlefield about to fall. A squad of fleeing soldiers is waiting for him to take command. Seven rifles and fewer than twenty rounds of ammunition. An elite Japanese division lies ahead, and a raging river behind. He has no System, no golden finger, only the wilderness survival skills he picked up as a backpacker in his previous life. How is he supposed —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Lone Hero: From Nanjing to Tokyo 孤胆英雄：从南京到东京 His grandfather was a founding general, his father a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War, and his uncle a secret agent. He himself was a martyr, but he never truly became one, because he transmigrated! He transmigrated to the war-torn years of the Resistance Against Japan! He is a lone hero with flesh, blood, and feelings! He walks the line between life and death, and to kill the Japanese invaders, he’ll venture alone into enemy territory and stop at nothing! In short, he’s an action hero in the 5Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 13 Revenge and Retribution on the Shanghai Bund 快意恩仇上海滩 Li Tianhu, a nationally certified master fitter, gets drunk at a business dinner and ends up in 1930s Shanghai in a parallel world. He becomes an ordinary blacksmith from the lower classes and, with the help of his System and golden finger, grows stronger step by step as he pursues his own brand of justice across Shanghai. 199Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Building a Reputation in Republican China 我在民国刷声望 Synopsis: When Gu Zhangge opened his eyes, he had become a fourteen-year-old raw recruit amid a hail of bullets atop Nanchang’s city walls. His comrades were on the brink of death, and the charge signal sounded shrill and piercing. At this desperate moment, the “Battlefield Prestige System” suddenly activated. The braver he performed, the higher his prestige and the better his rewards! But the System was stingy and brutally practical: want a first-aid kit? Earn enough prestige first! Want a good 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A Deserter in the Flames of War: Sacrifice for the Greater Good 烽火逃兵之舍生取义 [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 1.6kReads7.0Score115Shelves
- 16 Reincarnated in 1937: Infinite Death Loops from the Start 魂穿1937：开局无限死亡循环 “Transmigrating into the War of Resistance? No, this is civilization's ultimate trial for those who have forgotten. I, Chen Yang, was dragged into Nanjing in 1937 by a blood-red diary. Here, death isn't the end. It's a lesson. Pain is transmitted at 100%, and life is the only currency. They taught me how to dodge bullets, fight with bayonets, and… how to stand tall at the edge of a cliff when your fall is inevitable. When I returned to the modern world, covered in scars and carrying bloodstained —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 War of Resistance: My Shells Are Unlimited, and the Japanese Are All in Tears 抗战：我的炮弹无限，鬼子全都哭 “Zhang Zhenhua! You rascal, you’re still alive after all!” “The King of Hell said the Japanese blood on me smelled too foul, so he wouldn’t take me.” The 90-year-old veteran of the War of Resistance, Zhang Zhenhua, is reborn in 1939 at the Xinqiang River defensive line, inhabiting the body of a second lieutenant who returned from West Point. Surrounded by enemy troops as his allies flee, he awakens the Iron-Blooded Arsenal System and unleashes a crushing technological advantage! [You killed a Ja 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 War of Resistance: The Growth of a System Wholesaler 抗战：系统批发商的成长之路 [War of Resistance, from the start at Shanghai, System, artificial intelligence, technology, time travel, ruthless action] Not far from the summit of Cathead Mountain in the Wuliang Mountains lay a hidden, deep cave. A strange rift appeared inside the cave. A human-shaped object was thrown out of it. Duan Qingshan woke up, murmuring slowly: “Wasn’t I on the Luodian battlefield? How did I end up here? Xiaohuzi… Hey, that foolish kid, protecting me…” “I wonder how the troops are doing.” 450Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 War of Resistance: Bloodbath at Zhongtiao Mountain, with a Star on My Shoulder! 抗战：血战中条山，肩扛将星！ He transmigrates to the War of Resistance era, where Wang Zhen becomes a brigade commander. The Zhongtiao Mountain battlefield! A regiment can be wiped out in just an hour on this meat grinder of a battlefield! Facing a defeat that seems inevitable, retreating means becoming a deserter and bringing shame on the nation! Fighting to the death means certain death all the same! Driven to desperation, Wang Zhen decides to stake everything on one last fight! Better to die standing than live on his kne 193Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 20 War of Resistance: Sniping Through the Flames of 1937 抗战：1937烽火狙击 Synopsis: In 1937, by the Marco Polo Bridge, the land was shattered and the nation faced disaster! The Japanese invaders advanced relentlessly, and Beiping stood on the brink of falling! Liu Ziye, China’s finest sniper, returns without hesitation at this moment of national peril. With a lone city as his battlefield, he vows to fight the invaders to the bitter end! No supplies. No reinforcements. Only the rifle in his hands and a heart burning with patriotism! From the streets and alleyways to t 350Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 21 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! 662Reads8.8Score115Shelves
- 22 War of Resistance: A Huangpu Graduate Who Fights to the End 抗战：黄埔出身，打满全场 [Bright Sword] [Snow Leopard] [System] [Large-Scale Warfare] Chen Cheng transmigrates back to the War of Resistance era, born into a prominent family. Watch as he rises from regimental commander to the very top. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 1937: Reborn as Tang Shengzhi, How Can I Save the Nation? 1937，重生唐生智，如何救国 [Nanjing + War of Resistance + System (not a System-dominates-all story)] In December 1937, a young man from the modern era transmigrates by accident and becomes one of Nanjing's people as the city teeters on the brink. 8Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 24 The Iron-Blooded Divine Marksman in the War of Resistance 抗日之铁血神枪 During a military exercise, modern special forces soldier Wang Yuan accidentally transmigrates to the 1937 battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan, becoming a Nationalist Army platoon leader who graduated from Whampoa Military Academy. He inherits the original host's military expertise and also gains a mysterious spatial ability that lets him store and retrieve unlimited weapons, ammunition, medical supplies, and other resources. With his marksmanship and exceptional command skills, W 234Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 The Blade-Wielding Werewolf 刀客狼人 Born into a time of chaos, the boy watches his entire village fall to the Japanese invaders. He flees a thousand miles, determined to one day ride into battle with blade in hand, avenge his country and family, drive the Japanese pirates back beyond the seas, and cut down their commanders. 2.1kReads8.6Score199Shelves
- 27 I Transmigrate to Republican-Era China, Starting with My Expulsion from Military Academy 穿越民国，从被军校除名开始 [You’ve just transmigrated, and the military academy has already expelled you?] [You’ve barely set out for home when enemy warships ram and sink your ferry?] [The little Japanese devils have brought out their tanks?] [Where will you get the money to buy weapons and supplies? Your spatial storage is piled high with gold and silver!] He turns the wealth and supplies he accumulated in modern-day Daxia into wartime resources and sends them to Daxia in the modern era, strengthening the country’s defe 123Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 28 The War of Resistance: Reborn as a New Fourth Army Soldier 抗战之重生当新四军 Li Zhenhua, a man from the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrates to the era of the War of Resistance. Through a twist of fate, he becomes a New Fourth Army soldier. Drawing on his knowledge of history and his advanced ideas and expertise, he helps the New Fourth Army grow stronger than it was in history and achieve greater victories in the war. 1kReads7.3Score—Shelves
- 29 Bright Sword: Building an Iron Torrent Through Independent Development 亮剑：独立发展打造钢铁洪流 Zhao Bugang transmigrates into Bright Sword and activates the Kill-to-Loot System, which lets him earn gear by killing enemies. After turning the enemy's plot against them and killing the traitor, he leads the 359th Regiment into battle, earning gear with every kill. From the Hu Ting stronghold to Cangyun Ridge and Ping'an County, Zhao Bugang is everywhere. An unstoppable steel army gradually takes shape. The world first learns about blitzkrieg on the Eastern Front, where flanking maneuvers, enc 40Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 30 War of Resistance: Super Arms Dealer 抗战：超级军火商 I transmigrated to the Republic of China era and became the biggest arms dealer. In the foreign concessions, I thrive on both sides of every deal, the compradore most beloved by the foreigners. On the battlefield, I lead my battalion into the fray, a god of death whose name makes the Japanese invaders tremble. Li wants to attack Ping'an County? I'll take Taiyuan first! Having lived two lives, I have only one mission: wipe out the invaders! 1.9kReads6.7Score116Shelves
- 31 War Against Japan: Infinite Ammo, Revenge in 1937 抗日：无限子弹，复仇1937 [War of Resistance] [Leveling Up] [Revenge] [Wish-Fulfillment] [Killing Japanese Soldiers] Chen Feng, a 21st-century young man who had chosen to lie flat, unexpectedly transmigrates to Nanjing in 1937. After killing a Japanese soldier, he unexpectedly awakens the [Slaughter System]. I remember now?! I remember everything. I'm not some useless wage slave. I'm a successor to socialism. 5.9kReads7.3Score453Shelves
- 32 War of Resistance: I Started as a Division Commander and Became the Strongest Warlord 抗战：开局师长，我成最强军阀 Chen Wen transmigrates to a world equipped with World War I-era technology and becomes a division commander from the start, awakening a Warlord System! Faced with the threat of the “Sato” Empire, he summons elite forces of every kind: World War II infantry divisions, modern army air assault divisions, heavy combined-arms brigades, strategic missile forces, and more. With his technological advantage, he crushes every enemy in his path! He trounces the little “Sato,” conquers the world, and become 389Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 War of Resistance: Rising to General with a Bearish Female Officer 抗战：带毛熊女军官混成将军 Chen Feng transmigrates to the War of Resistance period and becomes a soldier in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, where he awakens the “Strongest Warrior on Earth System.” On the vast stage of World War II, he puts on a performance all his own. In 1940, as conditions grow increasingly harsh for the Anti-Japanese United Army and the Japanese tighten their blockade, the army is forced to retreat into Soviet territory. There, Chen Feng meets his “Renata.” Together, they leave behind a legen 1kReads6.8Score107Shelves
- 34 The Battle of Changsha: Xue Yue's Elite Battalion Sweeps Away 100,000 Japanese Troops 长沙会战薛岳虎贲营横扫十万日军 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 War of Resistance: Flames Across the Snowy Plains 抗战之雪原烽火 After experiencing a massive earthquake and a stock market crash, modern-day Lin Haisheng couldn't take it anymore. He leapt from the 66th floor of a high-rise, only to unexpectedly have his soul transported to Guandong in 1931. What? His parents were killed by bandits? Then should he avenge his family? What? The Japanese have already occupied Guandong? Those damn “little sunshines”! Just watch me deal with you. Open chapter one and see how Lin Haisheng fights his way up from nothing: killing Ja 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 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
- 37 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
- 38 Reborn in 2002, I Get a Zero-Cost Instant-Kill System 重生2002，获得零元秒杀系统 Reborn + $0 Instant Kill System + Entrepreneurship + Richest Person + Pure Power Fantasy Lin Bei is reborn in 2002, on the eve of the college entrance exams. Ancient martial arts secrets, immortal pills and medicines, spiritual weapons and divine artifacts: everything is available for an instant kill at zero cost. In 2002, stocks, real estate, major internet companies, and smart electronics are all booming. Armed with memories from 2025 and the Zero-Cost Instant Kill System, Lin Bei is reborn in 975Reads7.6Score100Shelves
- 39 War of Resistance: A German-Equipped Company from the Start, Building China's Elite Force 抗战：开局德械连，打造国之劲旅 Gu Chenzhou, a first-year student at the National University of Defense Technology, transmigrates to the Republican Era during his university’s opening ceremony and becomes a cadet in the tenth class of the Central Military Academy. After graduation, he is assigned as a company commander in the renowned 88th Division, a German-equipped unit. As Japanese invaders from across the sea encroach on China, the nation and its people are pushed to the point where retreat is no longer possible. Starting 75.5kReads7.8Score6kShelves
- 40 Reincarnation from the Start: I, Tang Shengzhi, Will Defend Nanjing to the Death 轮回开局，我唐生智，死守南京城 89Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 41 Bright Sword: Building a Jingguan with the Enemy's Heads 亮剑：拿鬼子的狗头筑京观 A modern special forces soldier transmigrates into the world of Bright Sword and becomes a new recruit in the Xinyi Regiment, where he activates a System that makes him stronger with every enemy he kills. He bombards the Japanese invaders, wins Li Yunlong over, and makes his mark across northwest Shanxi, becoming the Grim Reaper of the battlefield! He takes the Japanese invaders' heads, builds monuments from their corpses, and brings honor to the nation. 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 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
- 43 War Game: Tianpeng Fights from the Pigsty to the Surrender Platform 战争游戏：天蓬从猪圈杀到受降台 [Invincible protagonist + satisfying resistance-war story + undercover missions + tactical warfare, not mindless + a resistance novel let down by its title] He is Tianpeng. After receiving an edict demoting him, he landed from the start in a pigsty somewhere in northern China. Witnessing the Japanese army’s massacres and the devastation of all living things, he decided to step forward. As the foremost of the Four Sages of the North Pole and commander of the eighty thousand sailors of the Cel 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Battle of Shanghai: How Did Defending Baoshan Turn Me into a General? 淞沪会战：守宝山，咋就成了将军 (A story filled with passion and one that has long gone untold. It honors history and those who came before us.) (From Songhu to Nanjing, the bloody battle at Kunmou Pass, and the four campaigns in Changsha: one legendary battle after another comes vividly to life.) Five hundred warriors died for their country. China has far more heroes than Tian Heng. This is a little-known story of tragic heroism, buried in the long river of history. Heroes fear nothing, and go to their graves wrapped in their 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The War of Resistance: Starting by Wiping Out an Entire Japanese Battalion 抗战，从全歼鬼子大队开始 No System, no golden finger, no brainless wish fulfillment!!! On the snowbound Xuefeng Mountain in western Hunan, flames of war rage and shrapnel tears through the sky. Xiao Weiguo, a young man from modern times, transmigrates through time and becomes a second lieutenant platoon leader in the 74th Army. Leading a remnant force, he holds the last pass against the Japanese invaders. “When the bullets run out, fight with bayonets! When the bayonets break, bite them with your teeth!” On a battlefiel 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 I Used Structural Mechanics to Blast My Way Through All of World War II 我用结构力学，炸穿了整个二战 A civil engineering graduate signs a life-or-death trial contract worth tens of millions, then enters a full-immersion historical simulation dungeon. He has 72 hours to clear a World War II battlefield, and losing means being forcibly powered down into an endless sleep. Dropped into Baoshan, Songhu, in 1937, he faces Japanese forces and their overlapping fields of fire from a fortified building. While others charge forward with guns, he pulls out three packs of explosives and precisely blasts th 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 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 457Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 48 Welcome to the Absurd Twentieth Century 欢迎来到荒唐的20世纪 (Female protagonist) (Solo heroine) (Alternate setting) (Note: Since Order Disease causes infected people to behave absurdly, the book includes many unrealistic strategies, plot developments, and weapons research.) The absurd becomes reasonable: Order Disease, also known as "Hysteria," reached its most severe outbreak in the 20th century. Devouring corpses and bones, drinking blood and flesh: on the battlefield, these were all too common. It is a form of hysteria caused by desire expanding wildl 171Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 49 War of Resistance: Starting Out in Sichuan 抗战：从出川开始！ (No System + no golden finger + War of Resistance + brutal and tragic + heroes + blood and fire + a rising nation) Dear readers, never forget history, never forget national humiliation! As the land is shattered and the flames of war spread, a bloody battle for the survival of a nation begins. Su Ye, a soul from the future, transmigrates to China in 1937. He has no System, no heaven-defying golden finger, only his knowledge of history and a pure heart. He is destined not to be a savior who turns 5.8kReads7.6Score388Shelves
- 50 Reborn in 1935: National Hatred and Family Feud 重生1935国仇家恨 A foreign-language translator is reborn in Northeast China in 1935. After watching his entire family die at the hands of the Japanese, he sets out on a path of revenge. Of course, he has to have a cheat: a Sumeru space that grows alongside him. 90Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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