I Am a Member of the Red Army, Requesting to Return to the Army

"I am the Red Army, Please Return to the Army" takes the legendary experience of Guo Tianming, a soldier of the Western Route Army as the main line, and plays a life song about faith and perseverance. In 1934, when the Kuomintang launched heavy troops to "encircle and suppress" the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area, Guo Tianming was ordered to march westward with the 269th Red Regiment. He tearfully bid farewell to his hometown and embarked on an unknown journey. During the breakout battle in the Qilian Mountains in 1937, as the deputy battalion commander of the 30th Red Army, he was injured by a shell and was completely separated from the team. From then on, he fell into hard labor in chains and a desperate escape in the Gobi Desert. The faded red five-star and the notebook of his comrades hidden close to him became the only light in the dark night. His obsession to "find the team" was engraved in his bones and blood. During twenty-two years of wandering, he traveled from Liu'an, Anhui Province to the northwest wilderness, chewing tree bark and sleeping in caves. Even though he was reduced to a disabled homeless man begging on the street, the red five-star clenched in his palm was always hot. When the news came that the People's Liberation Army had liberated Xining, he hobbled on the windy and sandy Gobi with a broken crutch and "worshiping Buddha" as a cover, stepping on blood, tears and hope with every step. In the market town square in 1951, a heart-wrenching "I am a Red Army" resounded through the sky, and after being separated for fourteen years, he finally fell into the arms of the long-awaited team; when he returned to his hometown in 1956, his father touched his empty sleeves tremblingly, and his tears fell on his brand-new military uniform. The novel reflects the great times with the fate of a small character. It not only reproduces the tragic journey of the Western Route Army and the vicissitudes of the northwest land, but also allows readers to understand the loyalty that Guo Tianming interprets with blood and tears, and understand how the faith that has passed through the years of war and the test of life and death can shine with immortal light in ordinary lives.