Eternal Blood Vengeance

Eternal Blood Vengeance is a long historical military novel by the web author Tiaomianwo, belonging to the War of Resistance genre. It began serialization on 17K Novel Network in December 2015 and was completed in April 2019. The book runs about three to four million characters and over a thousand chapters, and has been divided into several volumes including "Historical Deviation," "Strategic Layout," and "Burning the Pacific." It has been listed by online reading communities in "historical military/war fantasy" booklists. The story begins in Northeast China in the 1930s: a young man from 2009 is reborn near the mass grave of the Fushun coal mine, taking over the body of a local youth with the same name. He wakes to a scene of piled bones and the misery of abducted miners. Before departing, his master Lin Hei'er entrusts him with final matters; he kneels before the bones to take his leave and from then on swears a blood oath to "repay in kind." The story follows him as he gathers poor people who have escaped from the coal mine, Fengtian, and elsewhere, starting with military posture, physical training, and marksmanship, gradually building a poorly armed but daring unit, struggling and fighting against Japanese and puppet forces, mine foremen, and traitors, and growing from a "core group" of a few dozen into a formed anti-Japanese armed force. As the war progresses, the threads extend from the Northeast mining area to the broader War of Resistance, involving Manchukuo, KMT-CCP relations, and the international situation, with the author also unfolding grander plotlines such as "strategic layout" and "strategic defense." The "eternal blood vengeance" in the title refers to the national trauma left by the bones of the mining disaster and the atrocities of invasion; the book advocates remembering national humiliation and yielding not an inch of land. In the opening and synopsis, the author specifically states that names in the text are partly real and partly false, and the plot is partly factual and partly fictional, and it should not be read as a history textbook.