"Iron Wings of Dawn" is a group epic set on the fictional war-torn continent. Through the lens and notes of Weilusi field reporter A Chen, it records the criss-crossing fate of a war of faith.
The work uses cold and fiery brushstrokes to build a world full of metallic texture and spiritual light: from the pilot Zhai Xing who drives a fighter plane to tear through the clouds, to the medical soldier Qiao Yanxin who uses a scalpel as a sword among the ruins; from the revolution with strategic maps and folk wisdom in his hands. From a man who makes a mast, to the young officer Li Bufan who forges broken bones into a machete in a foundry; from Jiang Anxun, who tolerates the diplomatic front, to the painter Wang Chongde who uses paint to preserve the fire of civilization in a cave - every character is a sample of life growing out of the cracks of the times.
The whole book is like a broken and reunited lens, reflecting the multi-dimensional truth of war: it is not only about artillery and territory, but also about how language is weaponized, how memory is fought for, and how human nature is tempered and shaped under extreme pressure. When journalist Ah Chen's "objective lens" is gradually imprinted by the temperature of a pair of gray-blue eyes, and when the principle of neutrality is shaken at the moment when a child plants wild chrysanthemums with bullet casings, this work eventually becomes a profound questioning of "witness" itself: At the burning point of history, is the recorder observing the storm, or has he already become part of the eye of the storm?
Intention: war