Scout Shen Mo

In the seventh year of Yongping, the Tatar army went south and Shuozhou City was destroyed. Sixteen-year-old scout Shen Mo climbed out of the mountain of corpses and walked through the occupied city carrying an unknown burned boy on his back. He was just a border soldier - uneducated, illiterate, had no background, and couldn't even write his own name. All his skills are those he learned from the veteran Zhao Tiezhu in three years: how to read the terrain, how to tell the wind direction, and how to judge how far away the pursuer is from the horse's hoof prints. On the eve of the city's fall, Zhao Tiezhu took five men to burn the Tatars' food and grass. The six men killed more than forty Tatar cavalry. After the arrows were shot, the swords were cut and curled, and they died standing against a dead tree. From that day on, Shen Mo was alone. But he survived. And more than just surviving. From Shuozhou to Yingchou Ridge, from Yingchou Ridge to Chang'an, and from Chang'an back to the north - he burned the Tatar supplies, ambushed 2,000 enemy troops with 300 men at Langkou Gorge, sneaked into Chang'an across the entire Hebei Province with twelve secret letters, and blocked the vanguard of 5,000 rebels with 300 remaining soldiers outside Qingshi Town. The Minister of War personally recruited him into the Secret Intelligence Department and gave him a captain's badge, but he still couldn't read all the characters on the badge. This is a story about survival. There are no adventures from the sky, no masters passing on skills - every time you become stronger, you have to sacrifice your life, and every victory is achieved inch by inch with a knife.