The Bayonet Never Loses Its Edge

[Passionate Soldierly Spirit] + [Authentic War of Resistance] + [Grassroots Heroes] + [No System] + [No Transmigration]

In 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident breaks out, and North China is in danger.

Zhao Tiezhu, a platoon leader in the Northwest Army, refuses to carry out the order not to resist and is stripped of his rank and thrown in prison. As Japanese troops trample across the Great Wall, no one notices when the “soldierly hooligan” in the cell is released.

With no guns and no cannons, he leads nine ragged comrades in seizing their first crooked-handle machine gun from the Japanese. Others call him “Madman Zhao,” but he says, “I’m not crazy. I just want to kill the Japanese. Kill one and it’s worth it; kill two and I’ve made a profit!”

Over the next eight years, from the North China Plain to the Taihang Mountains, from guerrillas hiding in the sorghum fields to the “Iron Knife Regiment” that terrifies the enemy, Zhao Tiezhu uses his unorthodox tactics to deliver one “disaster” after another to Japanese headquarters in North China.

He pays no heed to military regulations and has no idea what it means to “hold out for reinforcements.” He believes in only one thing: war means risking your life. The one willing to go all in first is the one who survives to the end.

This is the story of a Great Wall built from flesh and blood by a band of common folk. Bayonets may bend, but their backs will never break.