Starting with the Yue Maiden Sword to Quell the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians

The Western Jin collapsed, the Five Barbarians invaded the south, and China fell into chaos. Across the northern lands, bones lay scattered in the open, and nine out of ten households stood empty.

A military-industrial engineer died unexpectedly and transmigrated into the body of a gravely wounded, unconscious boy in the Eastern Jin. The moment he crawled out of a mound of corpses, he swore to put an end to the chaos of the Five Barbarians. He started with a fortified village, brewing wine, making mirrors and producing soap to build up capital. He smelted iron, made saddles and developed grenades to forge a new army. After ten years in the making, he assembled a new force of ten thousand soldiers and three thousand modern cavalrymen.

When the iron cavalry of the Murong Xianbei swept across Hebei, Liu Che knew that the opportunity he had planned and waited ten years for had finally arrived.

This was no personal revenge. It was a civilization’s last-ditch counterattack.

He would turn the tide, pacify the Five Barbarians, unify the country and reclaim the Han dynasty’s ancestral lands. Then he would lead the world by a wide margin.