Liao Shisan

Northeast China, 1932. The wind cuts like a knife, and the land runs red with blood.

Zhang Dacheng, an Oroqen hunter, is swept into the tide of resistance against Japan after a chance encounter on a snowy night. A Liaoning No. 13 rifle bearing the emblem of the Fengtian Arsenal propels him from the dense forests of the Greater Khingan Mountains onto a battlefield of iron and fire. The Japanese military’s Ice River Project sinks its poisonous fangs into the depths of the Songhua River. Unit 731’s human experiments ravage the black soil, while Harbin, shrouded in the shadow of the puppet state of Manchukuo, seethes with spies and gunfire.

From hunter on the snowfields to commander of the Resistance Army’s Blood Blade Special Forces, Zhang Dacheng is forged under the tutelage of instructor Li Canglan into a blade aimed at the heart of the Kwantung Army. They blow up submarines, hijack military trains, and foil poison plots. In the forests and snowy wilderness at forty degrees below zero, they write a legend against all odds with modified firearms and the wisdom of the underworld.

As love quietly takes root amid the flames of war and comrades fall bloodied on the ice in blizzards, Zhang Dacheng bears not only the grudges of his family and the hatred of his country, but also the backbone of a nation in its darkest hour. From the defense of Waitou Mountain to the advance into the Greater Khingan Mountains, from the surprise raid on the Harbin Bank to the deadly sniper duel on the snowfields, Liaoning No. 13 uses a cold steel barrel as its pen and the white mountains and black waters as its canvas, composing a long song of resistance woven from iron will and tenderness.