They’ve Reached Chang’an, and You Still Call Them Foot Soldiers?

He transmigrates into an alternate history and becomes a garrison soldier in Shazhou. He had hoped to live a quiet, honest life, but his relatives try to take everything from him. His kin want him dead. The local hooligans want him dead. Even the Tibetan bandits to the south hate him to the bone. So do the heroes of the land. Zhao Mang is panicking, but not entirely. If no one wants him to live in peace, then he'll flip the table and quit playing by their rules. Starting as a common soldier and making Shazhou his base, he charges straight ahead, from Shazhou to Lanzhou, from the provinces to the imperial court, from the borderlands to Lingnan, making a fearsome name for himself. By the time everyone realizes what's happening, he's surrounded by famous generals, commands a million troops, and has declared himself king.