War-Torn Times: I Build a Great Clan with Modern Weapons

Special operations staff officer Lu Yuan opens his eyes to a hopeless situation: an armored jeep has overturned and caught fire, and everyone has regressed physically to the age of eighteen. Outside the window, a barbarian's curved blade tears through the metal and thrusts toward his brow!

This is the Taixi era of the Great Yong dynasty, when the commoners and aristocrats are worlds apart and the frontier defenses have fallen into ruin. The Hu horsemen raid the passes and slaughter villages, refugees resort to eating their own children, border generals kill innocents to claim military glory, and the aristocratic clans at court care only about family pedigrees, not people.

Modern bullets cannot be replaced. Every shot is one less. Against savage barbarian cavalry and suspicious officers, an unregistered nobody with no household record faces certain death!

In this dead end, Lu Yuan raises his assault rifle and picks off the enemy chieftain. Then, with his flawless pronunciation of elegant Middle Chinese Luoyang speech and his astonishing mastery of the nine-rank official system, he bluffs his way into posing as the eldest legitimate son of the greatest clan in the land, the Pingyuan Lu family!

Tactical marksmanship lets him slaughter the enemy with overwhelming ease, while frontier folk revere modern wound treatment as divine. He wields clan customs and ritual law like a surgeon's knife, manipulating corrupt officers in the palm of his hand.

Beginning at a bloody fortress beyond Duanma Pass, he uses limited firearms to tear open a path through the chaotic age and forges a new private army with military engineering and metallurgy. Step by step, he rises from a fake aristocrat to the supreme ruler of the world!