The War of Resistance Begins with Zhou Weiguo

Just finished with Li Lei, and now here comes Chen Lei... Next book: My Brother is Landmine!

A regimental-level staff officer working as a private? Holy crap, that's awesome!

He died from poisoning; he had absolutely no common sense. You were on a mission. Anyone could order you around. You would have died on the battlefield long ago.

Why are anti-Japanese war novels so ridiculous these days? The highest rank the protagonist can reach is regimental commander, and they can't even write about anything? Aren't those things historical? Many anti-Japanese war novels used to be censored, but now Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform) is supporting them through comics and other media. It's pathetic.

That's too cruel. Let's not even talk about how easily the protagonist kills Japanese soldiers. The protagonist was sent on a mission, and instead of carrying it out, he lets himself be recruited? Recruiting is one thing, but the protagonist is a regimental staff officer, usually a captain, while Zhou Weiguo is only a battalion commander at this point, typically a major, only one rank higher than…

That's absolutely outrageous! A regimental-level operations staff officer got recruited by a squad leader! 😒😒

All the anti-Japanese war novels on Qidian are frustrating to read. They drag out the story with powerful systems or bases, artificially inflating the Japanese strength to highlight the incompetence of the protagonist. With powerful systems and bases, how could a small country withstand the onslaught of a protagonist with massively increased troops and weapons? The Japanese are human, not gods.

I gave up after the second chapter. It's the same old trope: a sharpshooter who hits every shot without adjusting the sights or doing a test fire. You have to understand, every gun, even every single gun, has its own unique ballistics. Just when the army was getting the Type 95 rifle, countless sergeants were driven to despair. Digging foxholes in Shanghai?

When you're sitting here writing a book, you should at least do some research. You need to know that the Japanese army's standard infantry gun regiment only had two guns, with occasional reinforcements of four. So, a battalion only had a maximum of four infantry guns. A regiment only had 12 to 14 guns. If you capture 12 guns from a battalion, wouldn't you capture 72 guns from a regiment? And if you capture a brigade, you'd capture three or four hundred guns.

I forced myself to read six chapters, but it was just too toxic. Goodbye.