I'm with the Red Army. Requesting to Rejoin the Ranks

I Am a Red Army Soldier, Requesting to Rejoin the Ranks follows the extraordinary life of Guo Tianming, a soldier of the Western Route Army, and tells a stirring story of faith and perseverance. In 1934, as the Nationalist forces launched a massive campaign to encircle and suppress the E-Yu-Wan Soviet Area, Guo Tianming marched west with the Red Army's 269th Regiment. He tearfully bid farewell to his hometown and set off on an uncertain journey. During the 1937 breakout from the Qilian Mountains, he was serving as deputy battalion commander of the Red Army's 30th Army when a shell wounded him and left him completely separated from his unit. He was plunged into forced labor in chains and a desperate escape across the Gobi Desert. But the faded red star he kept close and his comrades' notebook became his only light in the dark. The determination to find his unit was etched into his very bones.

For twenty-two years, he wandered through a storm of hardship, traveling from Lu'an in Anhui to the barren northwest. He chewed tree bark and slept in caves. Even when he became a disabled vagrant begging in the streets, the red star clenched in his palm remained burning hot. When news arrived that the People's Liberation Army had liberated Xining, he used