Late Ming: The Empire Rises

I suggest the author read the history of the Communist Party, especially the section on Yan'an, which is particularly insightful. In fact, the Kuomintang's defeat began in Yan'an. People say our Eighth Route Army soldiers were unsophisticated, but that's not true. During the Yan'an period, our soldiers fared much better than the Kuomintang soldiers.

Seeing the military training copied from modern armies was embarrassing to watch. I think most of the soldiers who came to enlist will probably run away. And what about the bandits who came with them? Are you trying to regulate them with modern moral standards? Who can stand it? They'll probably all run away and do their own thing, instead of serving the protagonist. It would be more effective to tell them to rob money, food, and women.

The protagonist's protagonist halo seems a bit too strong. He escaped to Shu with almost no danger and infiltrated the Shu King's mansion quite easily. It's so unrealistic, they might as well have included a smaller cheat.

China has a history of five thousand years, and the ancients had a knack for cold weapon warfare. You don't have modern firearms, so if you try to copy modern formations, you'll die without even knowing how. Do you know about cavalry? One charge and they'll scatter you. To defend against cavalry, you need chariots; otherwise, your formation will definitely fall apart.

Seeing the reconnaissance battalion, the women's medical battalion, and the ranks ranging from general to colonel, is your training based on the novel "Xu Sanduo"? It's truly speechless. Those are products of the development of productive forces and the combination of the times. To directly use them is like picking the fruit without planting the tree—it's far too simplistic.

The training method should be based on the type of weapon used. It's unrealistic to use modern training manuals if you don't have modern weapons.

Is the protagonist a warlord? Why would an honest official be attacked over a mere soldier, let alone one who killed someone? Whether the soldier killed for his mother or for some other reason, even if his sister-in-law mistreated his mother, you could have beaten her up and taken his mother away—no problem. But he chose to kill her, and now look what happened. His mother has no one to care for her, and he's gone too.

The beginning was quite amazing—the first kill of hundreds of guards from the Prince's mansion—and then that was it? Are you kidding me? Those hundreds of people were followed by at least hundreds or thousands of households. Do you think no one would question it? Second, after killing people, you immediately start training troops? What kind of training is that, 50,000? Do you think this is pig farming?

Times are different. During the Han and Tang dynasties, popular support was somewhat useful. After all, that era was martial. In the Han dynasty, it was a crime for three people to drink together. The root cause was the fierce social atmosphere. With landlords or wandering knights leading the way, people dared to rebel. This shows that popular support could be used. See Liu Bang for an example.

Author, don't let others lead you astray! So far, I'm thoroughly enjoying it! Writing a novel is all about staying within the historical framework, avoiding unnecessary whitewashing or vilification of historical figures, and ensuring the reader enjoys the story. We're here to read a novel, not to study history and insist on getting to the bottom of things!