In the spring of 1979, war broke out in southern Xinjiang.
Reconnaissance platoon leader Xu Weiguo led his troops to storm the No. 7 Highland held by the Vietnamese army, repeatedly seeing off amid heavy rain and artillery fire. The trembling muzzles of the recruits, the unsent letters home from the deputy platoon leader, the blood and mud under the lens of the female soldiers from the art troupe... When the red flag was planted on the main peak, only half of the platoon was left. And deeper behind the mountains, bigger storms are gathering.
This is a war novel with no super-soldiers, only flesh-and-blood mortals.
About a group of ordinary people gritting their teeth and moving forward in the iron flow of history——
About how fear coexists with courage, how sacrifice coexists with hope,
About those names buried in grand narratives,
How to carve the weight of the word "mountain and river" with life on the red soil of southern Xinjiang.
