The towering mountains of Yimeng bear witness to the years of war; the monument on Menglianggu is engraved with the immortal soul of loyalty.
In 1938, the iron hoofs of the Japanese army shattered the tranquility of Yimeng. After his home was destroyed and his relatives suffered, Shi Gensheng, a young man from Taipingzhuang, resolutely joined the anti-Japanese torrent and grew from a poor farmer to a brave warrior. His wife Li Xiulian led the Yimeng women to sew military uniforms, rescue the wounded, deliver military rations, and support the world behind them with their weak shoulders. The mute Sister-in-law Ming Deying rescued the wounded with her breast milk, Father Shi risked his life to send intelligence, and thousands of Yimeng children used their flesh and blood to build the Great Wall of Steel for the unity of the army and the people.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the outbreak of civil war, the Kuomintang's ace 74th Division went deep into Yimeng alone. The East China Field Army "taken the rank of general out of a million troops", and the Battle of Menglianggu was earth-shattering. Shi Gensheng fought bloody battles, and Li Xiulian led 32 women to jump into the glacier and build a shocking live bridge. The people in front of the army fought one after another, and the heroic soldiers sacrificed their lives and finally turned the tide of the war with a great victory.
The novel uses small characters to witness big history, and writes a heroic epic in which Yimeng's soldiers and civilians live in harmony and share life and death, so that the feelings of family and country and the loyalty of a child during the war years will forever be engraved between the Guding Mountains and Rivers.
Reader comments
Good book, worth reading!
It's very real and very interesting. It's rare to come across such a good book. I hope the author will work hard and write better, updated and true books.
It's good to watch, but some plot points could be cut out.
Good book, worth reading!
It's very real and very interesting. It's rare to come across such a good book. I hope the author will work hard and write better, updated and true books.
It's good to watch, but some plot points could be cut out.