Forged in the Flames of the Fallen Ming

When history student Chen Yuan opens his eyes in the dying days of the Ming Dynasty, he's no longer a scholar—he's a starving refugee with a death sentence hanging over his head. The year is 1640, and China is tearing itself apart. Famine devours the land. Rebellions ignite like wildfire. To survive, Chen must do the unthinkable: raise his own banner and transform desperate, skeletal outcasts into an army. From raiding grain convoys to storming fortified cities, he'll wield modern tactical knowledge as his secret weapon against imperial generals who see him as nothing more than "mud-legged" sc…