The Machine Gun Squad

The fierce passion of a group of machine gunners, the hard-won vengeance of a generation of Chinese sons and daughters: Nine machine gunners, trapped behind enemy lines, hide their weapons in a cave and swear that as long as they live, their guns will remain with them. When Japanese troops dig up their comrades’ graves for amusement, they risk everything to avenge them. Using the terrain to their advantage, they wipe out an entire Japanese machine-gun company. From then on, armed with captured light and heavy machine guns, they call themselves the Anti-Japanese Machine-Gun Squad and strike from nowhere, unleashing waves of machine-gun fury behind enemy lines.

Throughout the eight-year war, the squad fights alongside the New Fourth Army, cleverly outmaneuvering wave after wave of Japanese troops. They use machine guns to take apart tanks, blockhouses, and speedboats, and defeat Japanese special forces, martial arts units, and germ warfare troops. They pay in blood and lives to forge the squad’s fearsome reputation. Their loyalty unto death and chivalrous courage bind together the bonds of the Nine Dragons, Nine Tigers, Nine Leopards, and Nine Phoenixes… These heroic men and women, whose unit is always called the Machine-Gun Squad, whether it grows from a squad to a company, battalion, or regiment, display even greater resolve and humanity through the postwar political movements. They and their children and grandchildren struggle to survive, taking part in the sweeping tide of reform and opening up.