Late Ming: Guerrilla Warfare with 800 Broken Soldiers

In the autumn of the third year of Yongli, Rong Yi, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences, transmigrated into a seventh-rank military officer in Chenzhou City at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Outside the city, there were 1,500 Qing cavalry; inside, 800 defeated soldiers with less than a month's food. History records clearly—three months later, the city would fall, with no survivors. But he didn't just study how the Southern Ming lost; he studied how our military thought won. 'Seeking truth from facts' is not a slogan—it's squatting at the ferry to see every inch of mud; 'concentrating superior forces' is not a slogan—it's aiming the only three rifled muskets at the Qing messenger; 'soldiers and civilians are the foundation of victory' is not a slogan—it's making the women weaving bamboo cages, the old craftsmen repairing muskets, and the widow managing grain accounts all part of the war. Bamboo cages were sunk to block the ferry. Hunters were positioned high to snipe officers. The number of stove pits deceived enemy scouts. After a year of fighting, the 800 broken soldiers, through real tactical drills, grew inch by inch into an iron army. From the isolated city of Chenzhou to the recovery of Changsha, it took him ten years. Three Qing governors of Huguang came and went, all defeated by him. After the war, he had to answer one final question—what kind of world to build. — Description from novelcodex.org