"Bashan Beacon" is a novel about the Sichuan Army's Anti-Japanese War. The book has 280 chapters and about 600,000 words. Taking the Battle of Songhu as the starting point and the fate of Sichuan Army Battalion Commander Qin Shixun as the main line, it runs through the frontal battlefield and guerrillas behind enemy lines, and ends with the journey home after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.
In the autumn of 1937, Qin Shixun, who graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu, led the Second Battalion of the Sichuan Army to Songhu. Being held accountable for disobeying the order to "burn the village", he led the remaining troops to retreat westward, sheltering stragglers and protecting the people along the way, and retreated into southern Anhui. He reunited with his sister in southern Anhui and joined forces with the guerrillas to conduct guerrilla operations deep behind enemy lines. The eighteen-day tug-of-war at Hongyangshuwei, the ambush at Cao Xie Ridge, and the night attack on Qingyi River—his right arm was seriously injured and he received seven stitches, and he led his team to defend the entire defense line in the rain and snow.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the troops were reorganized. Qin Shixun wrote "go home" on the registration book and walked back to Dazhu, Sichuan, carrying a formal rifle on his back. The osmanthus tree in the old house is still there, and Chen Zhaodi opened a "Zhaodi Woodworking" shop in the west of the town. The last scene in the book: He pushed open the courtyard door, and there was a man sitting under the laurel tree, lowering his head to plan the board. The sawdust fell on his feet like a thin layer of snow.
The weapon models and battle processes are based on historical facts, the Sichuan dialect is used throughout, and the emotions are restrained and restrained. The theme is how a person remains "human" in war - not burning the village, not leaving the wounded behind, not forgetting the names of fallen brothers, and returning home after the war to live a happy life. Pay tribute to the martyrs, remember history, and never forget the national humiliation!
