Zheng Yinghao, a reporter for Tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao", was hunted down for reporting on Japanese atrocities in North China. He fled to his mother's hometown of Baiyangdian and joined the Yanling Team. He used the reporter's intelligence-gathering ability to participate in battles such as night attacks on Japanese transport ships and the removal of watchtowers on the water; at the same time, happy Guiying, the president of the Women's Salvation Association of Taohua Village in Taihang Mountains (her husband was killed by the Japanese), Baiyangdian fisherman Xiao Xiulian (Zheng Yinghao's childhood playmate), Peking female teacher Lin Wanping (cousin of Zheng Yinghao) and other women grew from ordinary people to the backbone of the Anti-Japanese War - happy Guiying led women to make military shoes and rescue the wounded, Xiao Xiulian passed on information as a fisherwoman, and Lin Wanping ran an anti-Japanese primary school in Taihang Mountain and passed on codes through textbooks. The protagonist connects the Baiyangdian Yanling Team's water guerrilla warfare with the Taihang Mountain women's "thousands of needles and threads" movement, and integrates real historical events such as "The Yanling Team blew up the Japanese munitions ship" and "The Taihang Mountain Women's Salvation Association supported the Hundred Regiments War" to show the heroism and growth of civilians during World War II.
