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In early October 1934, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the launch of a general offensive against the Red Army's fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign in the central strategic area. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China led the Central Red Army to embark on the first step of the Long March. Due to mistakes in the guidance of Bogu and Li De, the Central Red Army was blocked by powerful enemies from crossing the Xiangjiang River in the west. Red Army generals such as Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao, and Dong Zhentang led their officers and soldiers in tragic and heroic bloody battles. Although the Central Red Army broke through the encirclement, it had lost more than half. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai turned the tide, and the Central Red Army arrived in Zunyi. At this step, the Central Committee's strategic guidance was wrong, the turbulent waves were cleared, powerful enemies were chasing and intercepting, and the material difficulties were surging. The Central Red Army fought tragically in these turbulent waves. Mao Zedong described it as "Five Ridges and Thin Waves", and the book unfolds in the first step that is both tragic and heroic.

After suffering heavy losses in the Battle of Xiangjiang River, the Central Red Army was in a serious crisis of being ambushed by a powerful enemy. This prompted the wise men within the party to demonstrate the party's courage and ability to self-correct with the common idea of ​​building the party for the public good and the political wisdom of unity and strategy. Transfer to Guizhou to avoid the current disaster; the Zunyi Conference corrected military strategic errors, promoted Mao Zedong to the leadership position of the Party and the Red Army, and fundamentally solved the problem of the correctness of the Party's leadership. After the Zunyi Conference, the enemy's pursuit and interception became more serious. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and their comrades-in-arms, with their extraordinary revolutionary courage and wisdom, based on reality, took advantage of the situation, battled wits and courage, sent their troops to fight and walk, crossed Chishui four times, crossed the Wujiang River south, threatened Guiyang, and basically got rid of the enemy's heavy encirclement and interception. Leaving Guizhou also emerged from the most dangerous stage of the struggle against the enemy since the Long March.