I Became a Japanese Army Officer and Bled the Invaders Dry

[Subversive Wish-Fulfillment, Corrupt Official, Creative Bookkeeping, Dark Humor]

The good news: I transmigrated and got into an army academy.

The bad news: I transmigrated into a bottom-ranked Japanese cadet, and in seven days I'll be sent to the front to fill the trenches!

With no way out, Kuroda Rokuro, known as "Oni Roku," decides to put his family's time-honored skills to use and fleece these people for every last penny from the inside!

Skimp on the rations, collect pay for nonexistent soldiers, traffic in arms, and burn down the granary to cover the books!

As long as I'm greedy enough and balance the books fast enough, we can all get rich and lie flat.

Anyone who dares to get in the way of our money-making will be sent into an ambush to die, then shot in the back.

These officers won't just be too afraid to investigate me. They'll fight each other to promote me and award me medals!

The slack-off-and-swindle culture spreads rapidly, and Japanese soldiers die in droves after falling into one trap after another.

From an academy slacker who nearly got expelled to the legendary book-balancer who pulls all the strings at Imperial General Headquarters.

He tricks the Japanese army into taking on the Americans early. He embezzles so much that an entire division is reduced to an empty shell, forced to flee with clubs for weapons.

Even the Emperor, living frugally in faraway Japan, is moved to tears by the embezzlement:

"I could've sworn I had a whole division here."

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