Border Army: Starting With Recruiting Convicted Women, I Conquer the World

Crossing into the borderlands is not a dream of waking up to power over the world, but a struggle with one’s head hanging by a thread.

Honeycomb coal, large sabers, and high-quality steel—technologies that can enrich a state and strengthen an army—are in troubled times not only sources of wealth, but also fuses that attract deadly trouble.

In this world where only blades have a voice, if you want to survive, you must either be a dog that kneels and begs for life, or a wolf that kills with a knife in hand.

Zhou Qi wakes from a pile of corpses and, before he can even catch his breath, runs into the border army’s most absurd “wife distribution” at camp.

The whole camp is full of soldier-scoundrels frantically fighting over capable women, while he walks toward the frailest, most beautiful daughter of a convicted official in the corner and lifts her chin.

“Can you still walk? Come with me.”

The Ning Dynasty has stood for two hundred years, already outwardly strong but inwardly hollow. In the north, the Heavenly Wolf iron cavalry raid every year; within, noble clans and meritorious families bleed the border armies dry.

When a soul with special-operations experience opens its eyes in this chaotic age where order has collapsed...

Zhou Qi rests a hand on his saber and looks at those lofty nobles with a dark smile:

“This world is rotten to the core. Since you’re sitting on the latrine and not shitting, then the money and grain, the territory, and even your... wives—I’ll take them all over.”