Lao Tzu's Team Faces the Sun

Name: Lao Tzu's Team Faces the Sun
Author: Gao Zhengyun

by Gao Zhengyun

ongoing Military WWII / Anti-Japanese War Male Lead

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105Kwords27chapters

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Ch. 27 — Zhao Laohan Secretly Ordered

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About This Novel

The most touching thing about "Laozi's Troops Facing the Sun" is that it breaks away from the heroic narrative of "Gao Daquan" and uses rough brushstrokes with a loess flavor to outline a group of "imperfect" but extremely vivid warriors. Zhao Laohan scolded the recruits as "waste", but secretly handed him plaster. Liu Daguo was furious over a bowl of rice, but he always gave the hot soup to his comrades. Wang Xiaobao would be paralyzed to the ground with fear, and he could also block the gun for his brother. Li Jianjun transformed from a "sour scholar" who was afraid of hardship and fatigue to a tough guy who dared to smash Japanese enemies. These characters do not have a gorgeous aura, are full of foul language, are afraid and cry, but they look like real people who came down from the slopes of the Anti-Japanese War. The author does not shy away from the embarrassment and vulnerability in war, but is better at hiding warmth in the details. The novel is not about "history", but about "people living in history". He is a recruit who is afraid of Japanese but more afraid of harming his brothers, a deputy squad leader who would rather die than to be cut off, and a cook who runs two hundred miles with a big pot on his back. They are not numbers in history books, but ordinary people who feel pain, cry, and miss their mother. But it is these ordinary people who bear the suffering with their rough shoulders and hold on to hope with their simple beliefs. When Wang Tiezhu shouted, "Take brothers toward the sun," what the readers saw was not a symbolic hero, but an ordinary person who couldn't let go of his brothers and the people. This "imperfection" just made the hero's sacrifice heavier and made the belief in " toward the sun" more powerful.