A Pawn in the Game
马前卒
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- Completed
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- 6.5M Words
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- Historical
- Subgenre
- Alternate History
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- 7y ago
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In Xiang Yu's battles of Julu and Pengcheng, the Qin army was outnumbered by more than tenfold. At Julu, the Qin army, having won a major victory, was at the peak of its strength and morale. Xiang Yu's Chu army, with its "destruction of the cauldrons and sinking of the boats," utterly defeated the Qin army. After the battle, onlookers on the walls knelt and crawled to pay their respects.
To put it simply, the protagonist's subordinate betrayed him, causing the deaths of over 1500 brothers and personally torturing a pregnant woman to death. Then, to showcase the brilliance of humanity, the author spared the subordinate's life.
[Comment] The main character is clearly Qin Feng, but look at Cheng Gaoyuan! I'm so confused!
The main character is clearly Qin Feng, but look at Cheng Gaoyuan! I'm so confused!
[Comment] Keep it up, author!
Keep it up, author! Please release more chapters after it's published!
Report the book "Total War: Conquest".
Chapters 370 to 394 are all insults to the foot soldiers.
It's always the same routine, it's really boring.
It's always the same old story: they develop firearms, and then the enemy becomes weaklings. There are way too many time-travel novels on Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform) written like this; it's a blatant case of everyone copying each other. It's really boring. Can't you write something more exciting? It's always just about crushing enemies with weapons, it's so dull.
Please send me a map; the geography is getting more and more confusing.
Is Wuzhou located by the sea? How exactly were the four prefectures south of the Yangtze River and the six prefectures in the east arranged? Could someone please draw a diagram? Thanks!
Halfway through, it suddenly occurred to me that the four states of Ming, Qi, Chu, and Qin each bordered the other three. Is that even possible? This map just doesn't look right!
I read one chapter, and it was almost entirely modern vocabulary. Reading ancient historical novels with modern terms is just too agonizing. Would ancient people really greet each other with "What are you doing?" Like that?
Was this written by the Ma Qianzu Studio on Bilibili?