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- 1 War of Resistance: Becoming a Corps Commander in 1937 抗战：从1937开始当军长 The protagonist commands 88,000 German-equipped troops, totaling 96,000 personnel: three infantry divisions, one heavy artillery brigade, two air defense brigades, one armored brigade, one special forces battalion, and one aviation group. 445Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 2 In Bright Sword, I Loot the Japanese Army and Sweep Them Away 人在亮剑，爆装横扫鬼子 After transmigrating into the world of Bright Sword, Li Minghua gets a cheat that gives him equipment whenever he kills an enemy. He loves laying down overwhelming firepower, pounding the battlefield with artillery! Even a stray dog passing by gets a few rapid-fire barrages! He has more weapons and supplies than he could ever use, and is always handing huge batches of weapons over to his superiors! Even the three great powers of northwestern Shanxi have to do what I say! 35.8kReads7.9Score2.5k14d adds
- 3 From the Start of the War: Reborn in Jinling to Crush the Japanese Devils! 抗战开局：魂穿金陵暴虐小鬼子！ Chen Yang was the top marksman of the Fourth Company, Iron Fist Regiment, in the Southeast Military Region of Great Xia. While on leave, he went to see the latest movie, Jinling Photo Studio. On his way back to the unit, he came across an out-of-control heavy truck. He rushed to save a little boy on the crosswalk, but the truck sent him flying more than ten meters. He fell into a pool of blood! When Chen Yang woke up again, he found himself back in Jinling in 1937, now the commander of the First 562Reads7.7Score12014d adds
- 4 Ruling Southeast Asia from Burma, 1928 1928从缅甸开始称霸南洋 Chen Guoping transmigrates into a small Chinese family in Mandalay, Burma. Starting in 1928, he begins laying the groundwork to dominate Southeast Asia and the Nanyang. When an uprising breaks out in southern Burma, he raises the banner of revolt and founds a country in northern Burma... 2.2kReads8.0Score10014d adds
- 5 So This Is Where Our Fate Ends, Book 15 原来缘尽啊第15本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 475Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 6 Reborn as Li Yunlong: From the Start, I Led an Army on an Expedition to Lake Changjin 重生李云龙，开局率军远征长津湖 Reborn as Li Yunlong, he leads his army to the Changjin Lake battlefield from the start. And he immediately runs into the enemy’s elite troops? The Polar Bear Regiment? The First Marine Division? Li Yunlong: “Elite troops? I make a living beating elite troops!” 10.4kReads8.2Score67314d adds
- 7 War of Resistance: Whampoa's Rising Star, From the Start I Subdued Li Yunlong 抗战：黄埔将星，开局降服李云龙 Su Changqing transmigrates into the world of a TV drama, arriving just as Li Yunlong is demoted to cook for letting his troops seize grain. In a moment of crisis, Su Changqing is appointed commander of Li Yunlong’s regiment, takes control of the entire unit, and brings Li Yunlong to heel. He successfully activates the System. Ordered to prepare for the war against Japan, Su Changqing sets out to develop independently and establish a base area. With the System’s help, he recruits talent, develops 407Reads7.6Score11014d adds
- 8 War of Resistance: A Katyusha from the Start, and You Call That Food Delivery? 抗战：开局喀秋莎，这叫送外卖？ [Farming]+ [Troop Building]+ [Fast-Paced] (Already expanded to 300,000 words, so feel free to jump in) Qin Yue transmigrates to a parallel world during the War of Resistance and finds himself in the Battle of Cangyun Ridge. At a critical moment, the System activates. Complete missions to earn rewards. “Choice One: Provide Li Yunlong with artillery support. Reward: Multiple rocket launcher!” “Choice Two: Turn and run. Reward: Cowardly Deserter title!” And so, all of northwest Shanxi is thrown int 6.7kReads8.6Score37514d adds
- 9 From the Long March to Lake Changjin, I’m a Tiger Who Sweeps Across the Land 从长征到长津湖，我气吞万里如虎 His soul transmigrates to 1934, and from the start he finds himself a rear guard trapped in a desperate encirclement. Short on food and clothes? He has the skills of a wilderness survival encyclopedia. The enemy’s firepower is overwhelming? He knows the tactics and formations of every modern war. From snow-capped mountains and grasslands, he fights his way all the way to Lake Changjin. 138.6kReads8.1Score11.9k14d adds
- 10 Starting in the Savage Mountains, I Lead Bandits in the Fight Against the Japanese 从野人山开始，带着土匪打鬼子 [War of Resistance] [Jungle Special Operations] [No Golden Finger] [No System] A rocket blast hurls Wu Shanfeng, commander of a special operations company, sixty years into the past. He transmigrates into the body of a wounded platoon leader in the expeditionary force. Surrounded and cut off by the Japanese, short on food and ammunition and without medicine, he faces the harsh natural environment with just twenty-two brothers at his side, and rises to prominence. From then on, a commander who ha 7.2kReads8.2Score51414d adds
- 11 War of Resistance: The Rise of Nanyang Begins with Sign-In Rewards 抗战：南洋崛起从签到开始 Transmigrated to 1942, into the Wild Man’s Land, the deathtrap where the retreating expeditionary force met its doom. When Chu Ming opens his eyes, there are starving corpses beside him and pursuers behind him. In this desperate situation, the “Iron-Blooded Revival” System activates: the entire map is revealed, daily sign-ins, and blueprints of his choice. It starts with his first self-designed rifle: A straggler says, “Brother, with a gun, we’ve got a chance to survive!” An overseas Chinese man 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Republican Era: Transmigrating to Manchuria, Unmatched with Gun and Horse 民国：穿越关东，枪马无双 In the Northeast in 1916, the fifth year of the Republic of China, Old Zhang commanded Fengtian Province, sharpening his blades as he set his sights on unifying the three northeastern provinces. The Royalist Party plotted to divide Manchuria and Mongolia and restore the Qing dynasty. The Japanese were ambitious, the Russians greedy and overbearing, and the British Empire was at the height of its power. In the capital, the power struggle between the Beiyang government and the presidential adminis 4.8kReads8.7Score29714d adds
- 13 Nanyang, 1933 南洋1933 Transmigrates to the Republican era, develops agriculture and industry overseas, and builds settlements for immigrants. There are also military strategies, and the timeline is historically accurate. He does not return to develop the Central Plains. In 2012, 24-year-old Zi Baozhong transmigrated. He brought the Barefoot Doctor's Handbook, the Militia Training Manual, and the Farmland Irrigation and Water Conservancy Handbook with him to northern Myanmar in 1932. In this turbulent era, Zi Baozhong 6.4kReads8.8Score21414d adds
- 14 War of Resistance: Transferred to Lead a Regiment with Li Yunlong Under My Command! 抗战：调任团长，手下李云龙！ After transmigrating into a world at war with Japan, Lu Chuan is reassigned as commander of the New Second Regiment and gains upgradeable traits: [Tactical Master] (Gold), [Deadeye] (Gold), [Master Inventor] (Gold), [Morale Boost] (Gold), and more... From then on, he wins every battle, fighting from northwest Shanxi all the way to the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Lu Chuan is either earning merit or on his way to earning more. When they crossed the grasslands, he was just a junior Red Army squad l 48.1kReads8.1Score3k14d adds
- 15 War of Resistance: The Greatest Kong Erleng 抗战：天下第一孔二楞 Reborn into the world of Bright Sword, Kong Jie begins his resistance-war career when he's ordered to take up a post in Yang Village. First he fights the Japanese, then Chiang Kai-shek. After Chiang, he takes on the Americans. He has no System, no radar-like field of vision. Suffering from a fear of insufficient firepower, all he can do is bring together every light and heavy weapon at his disposal and use them as one. Through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and after enduring countless 17.7kReads8.7Score90814d adds
- 16 Starting Out with the Guangxi Clique, I’m Heading to Nanyang 开局桂系，我要下南洋 He woke up to find himself the young master of the Li family of the Guangxi clique. It was late 1948, and the tide of history was impossible to resist. As the red flag swept across the mainland, he had already established a base in the Red River Delta. He chose to forge a new path, leading a million soldiers and civilians south to build a new world. This time, in this fertile land where rice could be harvested three times a year, he would establish a vast domain of his own. 293.9kReads8.9Score26.3k14d adds
- 17 Bright Sword: Is It Really Reasonable for My Regiment to Attack Taiyuan? 亮剑：我一个团打太原很合理吧？ The protagonist, Lin Zhong, transmigrates into the world of "Drawing Sword" and becomes the commander of the New First Regiment! The New First Regiment is short on soldiers and officers. In less than a year, Lin Zhong blows up blockhouses, captures supplies, and orders each battalion to develop independently. All four battalion commanders become forces to be reckoned with! First Battalion Commander Zhang Dabiao, the god of infantry! Second Battalion Commander Wang Chengzhu, Huang Zhong reborn! T 23.3kReads8.6Score1.4k14d adds
- 18 War of Resistance: I Rise in Southeast Asia, Starting with the Expeditionary Force 抗战：从远征军开始在东南亚崛起 He transmigrates to 1942 and becomes a regimental commander in the expeditionary force. Step by step, he rises to become a figure who shapes the tides of world events. P.S. I'm not good at writing introductions. Please read the story itself. 13.1kReads8.3Score66914d adds
- 19 Warlord: I’m from Fenghua, So What If I Become President? 军阀：我奉化人，当个总统怎么了 In the nineteenth year of the Republic, Li Xuewen, county magistrate in Fujian Province, was forced to flee overseas to Nanyang after offending the Song family. He led eight hundred elite members of his security corps across the sea to Borneo, planning to restore the Lan Fang Republic and establish a nation abroad. President Li says, “No one understands nation-building better than I do.” Is nation-building difficult in its early stages? No matter. There will naturally be fools eager to come to t 298.7kReads9.0Score32.2k14d adds
- 20 War of Resistance: Starting in Songhu, I Fight in Every Battle 抗战：从淞沪开始打满全场 In 1937, the Japanese launched a full-scale invasion of China. Though I, Little Commander Li, came from humble beginnings, the most distinguished thing in my family was that my grandfather had once worked as a clerk at the Chiang family’s salt shop in Xikou Town, Fenghua. And though I started out with no high rank, I was merely a battalion commander in the army’s first mechanized unit, the Armored Corps. But through my own efforts, I made a brief appearance on the Songhu battlefield and caught t 4.4kReads8.8Score18614d adds
- 21 Huangpu’s Loyal Souls: From Shanghai to Northern Burma 黄埔忠魂：从淞沪到缅北 He transmigrated onto a battlefield torn by gunfire and became a captain commanding a company in the 254th Regiment of the 88th Division. As the Japanese launched a fierce assault, Luo Ying led his company in a desperate resistance, embarking on a long campaign that would take the Huangpu soldiers across the land... 15.2kReads9.1Score84414d adds
- 22 1912: Sweep Through a Chaotic Era with My Arsenal 1912：我靠军火库横扫乱世 Late Qing dynasty, the third year of Xuantong, Rong County, Sichuan. Gunfire echoes across the land. A world in turmoil is coming, and the nation is on the brink of collapse. Chen Feng, a soldier in the Jiaolong Special Operations Assault Team, opens his eyes to find that he has transmigrated into this turbulent era, where human life is worth less than grass. Bandits run rampant within the country, and mutinous soldiers burn and slaughter. The Qing court is corrupt, while foreign powers circle l 19.7kReads6.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 23 War Thunder: A Guerrilla in Myanmar, I Found My Own Nation 战雷：人在缅甸游击，我独立建国 [Burma Expeditionary Force]+ [War Thunder System]+ [Pocket Dimension]+ [Building an Independent Faction]+ [Tank Corps]+ [Fighting Japan Alone] From World War II to the Cold War. After more than 500 chapters of fighting the Japanese, the story has now reached the founding of a nation in the South Seas and will continue into the Cold War. Zhang Chi transmigrates by accident to the Burmese battlefield in 1942 with the War Thunder System, becoming one of the retreating soldiers in the Expeditionar 34.7kReads8.9Score1.7k14d adds
- 24 Nanjing Photo Studio: I Won't Take This Kind of Crap 南京照相馆：劳资不受窝囊气 [System Conquest] [Alternate World War II] [Founding a Nation Overseas] = [An Emperor Unifies the World] On the eve of World War II, Su Lie transmigrates and activates the War Replication System! Copy skills, armies, weapons, and industry! While everyone else fights tooth and nail in World War II, he quietly establishes a nation overseas and crowns himself emperor! He stays out of the chaos and reaps the rewards! With the System's power, he sweeps aside all opposition, subdues the great powers, 564Reads7.2Score3914d adds
- 25 Bright Sword: The Iron-Blooded Expedition in the War Against Japan 亮剑：抗日之铁血远征 Napoleon once said: “When the lion is asleep, even flies dare to land on its face and buzz. China is a sleeping lion. Once awakened, it will shake the world.” In Chu Xiong’s eyes, the Japanese pirates were those foolhardy flies. They were the ones who woke the sleeping lion of the East! This is a story about the War of Resistance that has no System and no Li Yunlong. The resistance was the work of millions of people. There is no System or Li Yunlong here, and I hope everyone will still show this 18.7kReads9.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 26 Bright Sword: Why Did You Capture So Much Loot? 亮剑：为什么你的缴获这么多 Zhang Yun, a staff member at a New Era War of Resistance Memorial Hall, carries a game cheat that boosts captured loot by 0.5 times as he transmigrates into the world of "Drawing Sword" and becomes a member of the Eighth Route Army. See how he uses this golden finger to fight the Japanese invaders alongside regiment commanders like Li Yunlong and Kong Jie. A carefully researched novel with a moderate golden finger, and no weapons that exceed their era! 34.6kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 27 The 1949 Southern Campaign in Southeast Asia: Founding a Nation Overseas 1949南征东南亚，海外建国 [Guangxi Clique] [Transmigration] [Founding a Nation Overseas] [Cold War] [Nanyang] [Feudal Enfeoffment] Li Chongwen transmigrates into the body of a Guangxi Clique general. On the eve of crossing the Yangtze, he leads a hundred thousand Guangxi troops south and seizes French Indochina. That is, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Milk the United States for all it is worth, snatch colonies from Britain and France, and found a nation in Nanyang. Redistribute land taken from local landlords, relocate the 98.2kReads8.3Score5.4k14d adds
- 28 War of Resistance: I Can Grant Traits to My Soldiers 抗战：我能赋予小兵词条 [Traits] + [Sign-In] + [Steamrolling] (Already commanding five groups and 150,000 troops, so dive right in.) After transmigrating to the War of Resistance era, Qin Feng becomes a Jin-Sui Army regiment commander. At the same time, he activates the Sign-In Trait System. As long as he signs in every day, he gets trait rewards that can be bestowed upon his officers and soldiers. [Tiger General: Greatly improves aircraft handling and equipment development, but increases the chance of disobeying o 23.6kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 29 Reborn in the Flames: From a World in Chaos to Glory 浴火重生：从乱世走向辉煌 The rating has just come in, and it will rise later. Rebirth + alternate history + no System + resistance-war espionage A hundred-year-old man, Wang Anqing, dies alone amid the chaos of war... Reborn in the resistance-war era, he must start over from scratch. Watch how this teenage boy grows step by step, makes up for the regrets of his previous life, and ultimately rewrites his fate and history. 6.9kReads9.2Score48014d adds
- 30 I Transmigrated as the German Emperor: I'll Restore Germany to Glory! 穿越德皇：我重振德意志！ Zhao Zheng, a PhD in history, wakes up to find that he has taken over the body of Wilhelm II, Germany’s last emperor, in 1918! He has only two days before his abdication! Berlin is in turmoil, mutinous sailors seize power, and the Entente powers mass their troops at the border. The once-glorious Second Reich is on the brink of collapse! But armed with a century of historical knowledge, Zhao Zheng refuses to repeat the tragedy! He kicks the arrogant powerbroker Ludendorff aside and seizes iron-fi 46.5kReads8.0Score4.3k14d adds
- 31 War of Resistance: Starting an All-Out War from the Northeast Army 抗战：从东北军开始全面战争 That day, he was reborn in 1932, having been a member of the Chinese Army’s special forces! The nation had fallen, and the Northeast was on the brink of collapse! He rose up to resist foreign invaders alongside the heroes of his country! He entered politics to serve as a provincial governor; He joined the military to become his enemies’ nightmare! He led a million-strong army to guard the borders, all for the sake of peaceful homes and safe days for everyone! 18kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 32 Bright Sword: Following Kong Guoyin, I Build the Strongest Military Industry 亮剑：追随孔过瘾，打造最强军工 [Military production + War of Resistance + Special operations + No female lead + Li Yunlong + Independent Regiment] While on a mission, Kong Hao is ambushed by spies from Sakura Country and unexpectedly transmigrates to the turbulent years of the War of Resistance. The land is overrun, and the people are slaughtered. A Chinese man from the future vows to defy the odds and lessen his people's suffering. Short on heavy artillery? He builds a devastating spigot mortar. Worried about enemy planes ru 16kReads8.3Score87314d adds
- 33 My Sect Ordered Me to Marry, So I Activated an Infinite Exchange System 宗门强令娶妻，激活无限兑换系统 [“Good-for-nothing’s comeback” + “System exchange” + “Marriage and growth” + “Play the pig to eat the tiger”] The sect orders an old man in his seventies to take a wife, and he activates the Marriage and Longevity System! A different kind of System, a different kind of thrill! While everyone else has to grovel to survive and grow, the protagonist insists on fighting back, soaring through the skies on his sword. Immortality is no longer a dream. 3.6kReads6.4Score34114d adds
- 34 From the Start, I Drew a Barren Field: I Rise by Slaying Insects 开局抽到废田：我靠杀虫逆袭宗门 [Cautious cultivation + farming + earning spirit stones + no System + no harem]. Important things bear repeating: this is a cautious cultivation story, a farming story, and the protagonist is the sort who will keep hiding and playing it safe until the end of time. If that's not your thing, please don't click in. The heavens collapse, countless realms sink into ruin, and all living beings are but ants swept along by the tides. Even the Supreme Immortal Emperor cannot escape the fate of being cons 2.7kReads—Score22514d adds
- 35 Arriving in Bright Sword, the System Urges Me to Repay a Debt of Gratitude 初到亮剑，系统催我去报恩 [Arms Dealer System + War of Resistance + Arsenal + Spycraft + Logistics + Behind-the-Scenes] What's the biggest thing in Bright Sword that left fans feeling it could have been better? Sun Desheng: “Regimental Commander, using Tiger tanks to take out those Japanese tin-can tanks is so satisfying. Shame we've got so few.” Li Yunlong: “No rush. Use these for now. Another 200 are already on the way.” Zhang Dabiao: “Regimental Commander, my First Battalion is nearly 5,000 men now. We can't fit any m 28.1kReads9.0Score1.6k14d adds
- 36 War of Resistance: I Help Li Yunlong of Bright Sword Defend Nanjing to the Death 抗战：我带亮剑李云龙死守南京城 War of Resistance + fighting the Japanese invaders + defending home and country + patriotism + Bright Sword + Li Yunlong + Chu Yunfei + Nanjing + Ding Wei + Kong Jie Li Xiaoyao was a border guard in the 21st century. During a joint international aid operation, he was tragically killed after stepping on a land mine while covering his allies’ retreat. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself a young soldier in the Red Fourth Front Army in 1935. The unfamiliar surroundings and body made him 6.3kReads6.4Score24314d adds
- 37 Iron-Blooded War of Resistance: The Spoiled Quartermaster Awakens a Divine Machine 铁血抗战：纨绔军需官觉醒神机 [“War of Resistance, 1937” + “Divine Machine System” + “Hardcore War Against Japan” + “Burma-Yunnan Front”] Every inch of land is soaked in blood! Antique shop owner Chu Yun transmigrates into Chen Jiaju, a quartermaster in the 69th Provisional Division. Though born a spoiled rich boy, he raises a force and joins the main battlefield of the war against Japan. Fighting alongside troops from all walks of life, they pit their flesh and blood against the Japanese army to the bitter end, turning ever 4.4kReads6.4Score31414d adds
- 38 War God Possessed: I Transmigrated to 1937 to Fight the Japanese 战神附体：穿越到1937打鬼子 “As long as Hunanese remain, China will never fall!” During the eight years of resistance against Japan, the Nationalist government conscripted about 14 million people nationwide. Hunan contributed nearly 2.1 million, or 15% of the total. More than 600,000 Hunanese soldiers on the front lines were killed, wounded, or went missing. About 300,000 were killed, accounting for one-quarter of all Nationalist soldiers killed on the front lines, the highest death toll of any province. Over the eight yea 3.4kReads5.9Score22514d adds
- 39 War of Resistance: Sending a Japanese Major to Meet Amaterasu from the Start 抗战：开局送鬼子少佐见天照大神 Lao Ma, an armored corps veteran, is caught in a temporal mishap and transmigrates to 1941, a year engulfed in war, landing right in the middle of a Japanese encirclement. Gunfire erupts all around him as the enemy’s footsteps and battle cries close in. Stranded in an unfamiliar era without the modern armored equipment he knows, he has only his past combat experience and a soldier’s iron will. In this desperate fight for survival, Lao Ma begins an unknown journey of resistance. 7.7kReads8.7Score66414d adds
- 40 Passing Myself Off as a Rich Returnee in the 1980s 在八零伪装回国土豪 Su Tianci, an ordinary working stiff for 25 years, spends his free time exploring the wilderness. By chance, he discovers a box full of U.S. dollars. Overjoyed, Su Tianci starts dreaming about where to go for a meat-stuffed flatbread. But before he can even celebrate, he slips and inexplicably tumbles off a cliff. When he comes to again, he has somehow arrived in an era full of opportunity… 7.9kReads5.8Score33814d adds
- 41 Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战 Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the 177Reads7.2Score2714d adds
- 42 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score10114d adds
- 43 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 497Reads7.7Score6114d adds
- 44 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The 1970s 两界穿梭之七零年代 Wu Xiaoyao is a working-class nobody, a corporate drudge who likes to unwind by grilling skewers and letting loose whenever he has a bit of free time. But an out-of-control dump truck sends him hurtling back to the fiery age of the 1970s. What surprises him is that he can travel back and forth between the seventies and 2025. Two completely different eras now lie before him. 131Reads7.6Score—14d adds
