Late Ming Dynasty: From the Start, I Slay the Tatars and Lead Refugees to Victory

In the eleventh year of the Chongzhen reign, Li Zicheng was besieged by Hong Chengchou at the South Plain of Tongguan, while Zhang Xianzhong pretended to surrender to Xiong Wencan in Gucheng. A new disaster was brewing for the Ming court.

In the eighth month of that year, the Qing army breached the Great Wall defenses, and an army of more than a hundred thousand plundered dozens of prefectures and counties in northern Zhili.

A modern wilderness rescue worker transmigrates into the body of Li Xin, a licentiate from Gaoyang. He has no System and no golden finger. When he opens his eyes, all is chaos: Manchu pursuers are behind him, and defeated Ming soldiers are looting ahead.

A dog travels a thousand miles and still eats filth; a wolf travels a thousand miles and still eats meat. This is a story about how knowledge is life, about a modern man using the simplest wisdom of survival to withstand the collapse of an era amid the ruins of the seventeenth century.