In August 1937, under an agreement reached between the Communist and Nationalist parties, more than forty thousand soldiers of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army were reorganized as the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. Its 115th, 120th, and 129th Divisions soon set out for the front lines of the war against Japan. The 120th Division, formed from the Second Front Army, the 27th and 28th Armies of the Northern Shaanxi Red Army, the 1st and 2nd Independent Divisions, the Headquarters Special Service Regiment, and other units, won great victories against the Japanese in northwestern Shanxi under the leadership of He Long and Guan Xiangying. With epic candor and passion, this book recreates the most vivid and authentic scenes from the 120th Division’s wartime history.
