Ironblood: Pacifying the North in the Late Ming

Anyone who tries to stop me from farming will get planted in the ground themselves! In the 40th year of the Wanli era, war fires have already engulfed Liaodong, and the garrisons of Dengzhou have rotted to the core. Li Dingbei, the son of a fallen military family, inherits his father's post. He bears the empty title of a squad commander, with only a dozen elderly, sickly soldiers and a few thin fields seized by local tyrants to his name, while his widowed mother and young sister go hungry. Fortunately, a transmigrated soul comes with memories of technology from a later age, as well as a gift for sensing killing intent on the battlefield. He improves black powder and mass-produces flintlock rifles. Starting with thirty old and infirm men, he tempers an iron army amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He rescues routed soldiers in Liaodong, puts down rebellions in Dengzhou and Laizhou, pacifies refugees in the Central Plains, breaks the rebel army at Shanhaiguan, and destroys Later Jin in the Changbai Mountains. He inherits Li Dingguo's iron will and benevolent heart, enforcing the rule that his soldiers would rather freeze than dismantle a house, and starve than plunder. He marries a maritime merchant's daughter and adopts a boy who shares his name. When Chongzhen hangs himself at Coal Hill and the realm falls into chaos, Li Dingbei leads his troops south, ends the age of turmoil, and founds the Hua dynasty. This time, there will be no ten days of slaughter in Yangzhou, no massacre of Jiading. This time, Han cavalry will ride across the land, spreading the flame of Chinese civilization throughout the world.