Gunfire on Both Banks of the Ren River

Welcome, everyone. I hope you enjoy my work. The Ren River, which rises in Dayan Mountain in Chengkou, Chongqing, is a beautiful river that flows backward for eight li. Yet the land along its banks was once soaked in blood. Starting in 1919, banditry and warfare ran rampant, and gunfire rang out everywhere. When the Red 33rd Army of the Fourth Front Army arrived, soldiers, guerrillas, and ordinary people rose up to fight. After the Red Army moved north, bandits, local gentry, returning landlords, anti-Communist self-defense corps, and others launched a frenzied counterattack, wantonly burning, killing, and looting. The region was plunged into a reign of terror. But its people never gave up the struggle, fighting on until Liberation and the complete eradication of banditry. This book portrays those blood-soaked years. It opens with the final execution of a bandit chief, then uses a nonlinear narrative to depict the region’s Red Revolution. This is a work of fiction. All people and place names in the book are artistic creations, as are all the events. Readers should not regard it as historical material or assume that any characters or events refer to real people or places.