Chapter 1: The Past Is Nothing

Wei Jichen opened his eyes with some difficulty. What he saw was pitch black, and a nauseating smell entered his nose. He couldn't help but move his fingers slightly, and then twitched the corners of his mouth with some difficulty.

This is where?

Wei Jichen looked around blankly, and memories began to come flooding back. Wasn't he shot to death for murder?

How come you are here? It is somewhat similar to the death row where you were before being shot.

When his eyes began to slowly adapt to the darkness, Wei Jichen realized that he was not the only one lying in this 'cell', but there were many bodies lying motionless around him.

Wei Jichen stretched out his hand and touched one of them quietly. There was a warmth in his palm and a murmur from the body, indicating that this was not a corpse, but a sleeping body.

Where am I?

Wei Jichen began to frown and think hard.

I still remember the scene where my sister fell in a pool of blood! The car that was running like the wind ran over her white body. At that moment, she was still looking at him with a smile.

After that, in order to avoid medical expenses, the car owner ran over the car several times and then left quickly.

I still remember the first time I killed someone!

Because there is no evidence that the car owner repeatedly ran him over and the power of the other party, it can only be treated hastily as a traffic accident.

Wei Jichen was unwilling to give up. His parents had died since he was a child and he had been dependent on his sister. He resolutely embarked on the road of revenge. When the murderer finally lay motionless at his feet, Wei Jichen smiled and walked towards the execution ground with a smile.

The court sentenced Wei Jichen to death as quickly as possible! The moment the gun rang out, his heart stopped!

But the memory breaks and ends here. Wei Jichen has no memory of why he is here.

But what the hell is going on? Could it be that I didn’t die and was moved here by someone to do in vivo experiments? Wei Jichen carefully retracted his arm and began to think.

This thought didn't matter, but it gave him a splitting headache, unbearable pain, and his head felt like it was going to explode.

Wei Jichen's eyes turned white and he fainted!

The next morning!

Before Wei Jichen woke up, he felt someone gently tapping his face.

He had to open his eyes with a strange expression on his face, because he found that there were many more memories in his mind that were not his, and many more incredible things.

"Xiucai! Xiucai! Wake up quickly, it's time for breakfast."

Wei Jichen's eyes narrowed to a slit, and he saw a fluffy face only a few millimeters away from his own. The owner of the fluffy face was looking at him with a pair of anxious and nervous eyes, and kept shouting in his mouth.

Seeing Wei Jichen open his eyes, the man stopped slapping, and his face became slightly joyful.

"Huzi?" Wei Jichen said with some uncertainty.

"Thank God, Xiucai, you've woken up. Since yesterday, you started to have a high fever. Everyone was afraid that you would just pass away."

Wei Jichen opened his eyes completely, and then he saw several other soldiers wearing tattered military uniforms, with numb and relieved faces surrounding him.

What made Wei Jichen a little flustered was that the only other thing about these people was that each of them had a long pig tail trailing behind their head.

However, he quickly calmed down. In his previous life, he had been able to open a resource recycling company on his own. Wei Jichen had undoubtedly developed a temperament that was calm in situations of chaos.

Could such a ridiculous thing be true? Could it be that my soul really traveled through a hundred years and came to the Qing Dynasty during the Sino-Japanese War and possessed this person?

Wei Jichen calmly touched the back of his head, and sure enough, there was a whip on the back of his head. He then gently touched his face, which showed that it was fair and tender, and he must be much younger than his original self.

As soon as he woke up, Wei Jichen found that there was another person's memory in his mind. He didn't dare to believe it at first. Until now, when the facts were before his eyes, he had to be convinced.

Once he calmed down, Wei Jichen began to seriously examine the memories in his mind.

Coincidentally, the owner of this body is also named Wei Jichen, also known as Zijie, and he was a failed young scholar in the late Qing Dynasty.

After both parents died, the young scholar failed to gain fame and the road to the imperial examination was far away. In modern terms, he was like a rice bug, not distinguishing between grains and not working hard, just eating at home and waiting to die.

Although the child bride, who is five years younger than him and has not yet been married, has been diligent in running the house and selling tofu for a living, the family situation is still deteriorating from bad to worse. Although it is not impossible to open the pot or cook, two meals a day is still a problem.

Seeing that there was no way to continue like this, the young scholar had no choice but to throw away the four or five classics, write and join the army, and became a soldier in the barracks.

Fortunately, he knew some words, could understand some official documents and military documents, and had the reputation of being a scholar. A year later, he was promoted to a small sentry officer.

Unfortunately, the young scholar, like most people of this era, never expected that the war would come so quickly and that he would be so unlucky.

This year is the year of Jiawu - 1894.

Wei Jichen was shocked and realized why he was here. It turned out that he was captured by the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War.

On June 1, 1894, the North Korean "Dongxue Dao" peasant uprising army conquered the whole state. The King of North Korea asked the Qing government to send troops to help suppress it.

The Qing court sent Zhili Admiral Ye Zhichao and Nie Shicheng to lead an army of 2,500 people, departing from Shanhaiguan and Dagu respectively, to Korea by sea, and stationed in Yashan.

And this little scholar, now himself, was a small sentry under Nie Shicheng, and followed Nie Shicheng to Korea in the first batch.

The Qing army experienced the Battle of Chenghuan and the Battle of Pyongyang, and was defeated again and again, retreating again and again, all the way to the Sino-Korean border: the Yalu River.

And the little scholar also went with the flow, followed the pace of the large army, followed the speed of the commander of the army Ye Zhichao, ran 800 miles, and finally returned to the border.

Ye Zhichao was dismissed and investigated. Nie Shicheng returned to China to recruit soldiers before the Battle of Pyongyang, and handed over the army to Ye Zhichao.

Afterwards, the military orders changed again and again. He had not left Korea and had no time to recruit soldiers, but was ordered to go to the front line. However, most of Korea had already fallen at this time, so he had to change his route with the army to the Yalu River and take over his original army, which was the Gongzi Tenth Battalion where Wei Jichen was.

Before the war, the Qing court removed Ye Zhichao and appointed Song Qing as the commander-in-chief of all the generals to control the various armies. Nie Shicheng's army was under his command. Song Qing was originally the governor of Sichuan and was given a title of Shang. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, he was ordered to help manage the Beiyang military affairs and control the various armies.

Before taking office, Song Qing declared: "If this trip cannot achieve the merit of resisting the Japanese, the only way is to die to repay the country."

Ideals are full, but reality is skinny.

Although Song Qing said it with confidence and had some talents, the generals on the front line ignored him and did their own thing.

Because Song Qing was not from the direct line of the Huai Army, he could not command the troops at all. Nie Shicheng was okay, after all, he had worked under him before. When Liu Shengxiu and other veterans of the Ming Army were in a bad mood, they would not bother to pay attention to him.

In late October 1894, Song Qing dispatched his elite confidant Ma Jinxu to garrison Huer Mountain on the Yalu River.

He also ordered Nie Shicheng to lead his troops to garrison on the mountainside for assistance.

The fierce general Song Desheng provided guerrilla support.

In addition, the Ming Army Liu Shengxiu's troops stationed in Jiuliancheng not far from Huer Mountain, the defense line of the Yalu River seemed to be impregnable. If the Japanese wanted to break through, they would have to break a few front teeth.

However, the result of the war once again shocked and panicked the Qing Dynasty.

The Japanese army attacked Hushan in three directions. Although Nie Shicheng, Ma Jinxu, Song Desheng, and Ma Yukun's troops tried their best to resist and injured countless enemies, the rescue was delayed.

Liu Shengxiu's troops stationed in Jiuliancheng not only disobeyed Song Qing's military orders, but also watched from the sidelines and fired artillery shells that accidentally injured friendly troops.

The Japanese captured Huer Mountain and broke through the Yalu River defense line in one fell swoop. Seeing the fall of Huer Mountain, the rest of the Qing army had no will to fight and fled without a fight. The Japanese occupied Jiuliancheng and Andong County without firing a single shot, bringing the war to China.

Of course, the subsequent war had nothing to do with the young scholar. He was captured by the Japanese and became a prisoner in the battle of Huer Mountain because of the delay in retreat.

Fortunately, the young scholar was also a little smart. Seeing that he was about to be captured by the Japanese, he took off his sentry uniform, turned into a soldier, mixed in with the defeated soldiers, and asked his men to change their titles, so as not to expose the fact that he was a sentry officer and was imprisoned by the Japanese and the soldiers.

Wei Jichen took a long breath and showed a bitter smile on his face. Prisoner, I actually became a prisoner.

The original owner of this body really gave himself a difficult problem.

However, I, Wei Jichen, will not surrender so easily. Even if I die under the gun of the Japanese, I will not linger and work for the Japanese.

I, Wei Jichen, want to escape from here. Thinking of this, Wei Jichen clenched his fists involuntarily, and his eyes became firm.