"To pledge one's life to the country is to bury one's heart in the sea of fire; only that touch of begonia red is the only weakness and the way back in my iron-blooded career."
Where the gun smoke fills the air, begonias are blood red.
In 1937, the city of Jinling was destroyed and its prosperity disappeared.
He is Xiao Jingyu, an iron-blooded major general who graduated from Whampoa Military Academy, fighting his way through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood;
She is the frail but tenacious war reporter Su Haitang, who uses her pen as a gun to record the backbone of the nation.
Eight years of war of resistance, life and death depended on each other.
From the scorched earth of Songhu to the sea of fire in Changsha, from the desperate defense of Hengyang to the decisive battle of Xuefeng Mountain.
In order to protect her, he ruthlessly pushed her to survive; but she went upstream, looking for traces of her lover amidst the hail of bullets.
"If there is no road in this world, I will pave it for you with my flesh and blood."
"If it is difficult to see the light in this long night, I will use my life to light a lamp for you."
Facing the crazy pursuit of Lu Ziye, their former classmate and current traitor, and the iron hoofs of foreign enemies, they supported each other and lived towards death.
When the sunset falls into the stars, when the trumpet of victory finally sounds.
Can the promise about "flowers blooming in the south of the Yangtze River" still be fulfilled?
A magnificent epic of the Anti-Japanese War and a soul-stirring song of family and country.
This book pays tribute to those heroic sons and daughters who sacrificed their lives for the country in the darkest moments.
