Northern Smoke of War

The Great Jing dynasty has lasted three hundred years, with a corrupt court, separatist warlords, and annual invasions by the northern nomadic tribe Shuoman. The northwestern stronghold Yunzhou is isolated, lacking court supplies and besieged by Shuoman cavalry. The incompetent commander endangers the entire city. Modern veteran scout Shen Yan transmigrates into the youngest son of a fallen soldier in Yunzhou. Taking over a ragtag army with broken weapons, he uses modern military thinking and battlefield experience to forge an iron-blooded border army, defending the frontier, defeating barbarians, and quelling internal strife, gradually rewriting the chaotic era.