Blood and Iron Border Dust: The Journey of a Minor Ming Soldier

In the autumn of the second year of the Chongzhen reign, Hong Taiji led an army of more than one hundred thousand, bypassed Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and broke through the Great Wall passes west of Xifengkou—Da'an Pass, Longjing Pass, and Malanyu.

He captured Zunhua and pressed straight toward the imperial capital.

That same year, Qin Feng, a modern special forces soldier, transmigrated into the late Ming frontier and became a dying garrison soldier in Xuanfu.

In a desperate situation, he killed two Tatars and earned the position of squad leader through military merit.

At that time, the Great Ming was already on its last breath: famine was gnawing at its bones, rebel bands were swarming like locusts, the Jurchens beyond the pass were sharpening their blades, and political factional struggles in the court were still raging—the giant ship was already sailing toward the sinking foretold by history.