1944, Hengyang.
Eight thousand remaining soldiers fought against the siege of 100,000 Japanese troops for forty-seven days.
No reinforcements, no supplies. When they were hungry, they gnawed tree bark and ate mice, and their wounds were infested with maggots. Some people rushed into the enemy group with explosive packs and shouted back: "Company Commander, I'm not afraid anymore!"
Zhao Tie is just a company commander who wants to save money to buy land, and Lin Heng is a student soldier who can't hold a pen. Shangfeng said that reinforcements would arrive soon, and they had been waiting for forty-seven days.
What was waiting was the news that the friendly forces had fired a few rounds and then withdrew, and what was waiting was the expired saline solution in the medicine box.
Someone used a bayonet to carve words in the air-raid shelter, and wrote "Mother" crookedly.
Zhao Tie said: Behind you is Hengyang, whoever retreats will be your grandson.
Forty-seven days later, the city fell.
Some people bury their bones in the green mountains, some people disappear into the night, and some people spend their whole lives carving those names on stones.
This book is based on the true history of the Battle of Hengyang and describes how a lone army used flesh and blood to survive in a desperate situation and become a monument.
