Silent Mountains
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A novel with the main theme of the Anti-Japanese War. The novel tells the story of the difficult years when teachers and students of Heyue University (the prototype of Henan University) migrated to Longtan Town in Funiu Mountain in western Henan during the war. The school has opened a school hospital, experimental fields, etc., As well as primary and secondary schools, and farmers' literacy classes, opening up people's wisdom and greatly changing the rural atmosphere. However, all the good things were destroyed in the ensuing war. During the Battle of Western Henan in 1944, the Japanese army made a sneak attack and the university retreated. Liu Zhenxian and her fiancé Wu Pengju died to protect others. Zhang Zhuowu, dean of the medical school, took the initiative to greet the Japanese in order to protect the fleeing students. Liu Jing first and other girls carried a local pregnant village woman to escape, and delivered three babies on the way. At the critical moment, Liu Jing first sang to call the police and led the Japs to the waterfall. When she was about to jump into the lake, the Japs were shot to death. Bloodshed, sacrifice, and resistance, the novel shows the tragic process of teachers and students interpreting civilization, dignity and nobility with sacrifice in the flames of war, and interprets the brilliant chapter of the university teachers and students in the history of the war of blood and fire.
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