Late Ming Dynasty: from Refugee to General

In the autumn of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, there was a great famine in Shaanxi and refugees blocked the roads. When Gu Jiming opened his eyes, he became a soldier who was about to starve to death. In his previous life, he had made cannonballs and led training; in this life, he had nothing but a brain to survive. To survive, we need food, food and land, and land and people. He dug wells in the fields, built water trucks, prepared gunpowder, and gathered a group of desperate refugees into a dilapidated fort, which he named Laoying. When soldiers from the Gaojiaying camp came, he fought them; when the bandits from the Ground Dragon came, he carried them; Sun Huzi from Chuang Zi Banner surrounded the fort, but he defended it, and some people died. The status is obtained by asking for it, and the path is forged. Twenty stones of grain were exchanged for a piece of rural bravery, and fifty young men followed him northward with the army. Troubled times are like a furnace fire that is about to go out. Someone is waiting for it to become cold, but he insists on adding a handful of firewood to the ashes. There is no system, no golden legs, only real natural disasters, man-made disasters, wars in the late Ming Dynasty, and a group of people who stake their lives on the road to survival.