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Chinese version of "War and Peace", an epic masterpiece by Luyao Literature Award winner He Dun! This is the legendary story of a group of resisters who are trapped by the great times, unable to control themselves, and whose identities are constantly changing. In 1938, twenty-year-old Huang Kangri escaped being captured, but did not escape his father's order and replaced his brother on the battlefield. He was afraid of and avoided fighting, but he fought from the three battles of Changsha, to the Battle of Anxiang, the Battle of Changde, the Defense of Hengyang, and the Battle of Huaishudian, until the end of the Liberation War... He was able to escape the bombardment, but failed to escape the Japanese patrols; he wanted to die on the battlefield, but was ordered by his superiors to surrender to the Japanese army; he was killed by the guerrillas He was captured but became the second in command; the recruit who taught him the wisdom of battlefield survival was shot in the head; the comrades who despised his timidity were frightened by the war; during the "Cultural Revolution", he was driven crazy by the rebels, but in his later years he revealed that he had a hidden agenda... He fought for eleven years and was captured four times by three different types of troops. This strange little man, in an era when everyone wants to be a hero, has developed unique survival wisdom: don't act like a hero, don't attract attention. He escaped more than a hundred battles and the capture of death in battles, and has been living tenaciously...
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