Beacon Fire Iron Spine

In 1937, smoke swept across North China. Peiping fell, and the Japanese army crushed the mountains and rivers with their iron hoofs. Chen Tiesheng, a young blacksmith from Chenjia'ao, originally wanted to live a stable life at his ancestral iron shop. However, disaster struck suddenly, and the Japanese army massacred the mountain village in order to plunder metal supplies. The father, who regarded the blacksmith's inheritance as his life, died tragically under the sword of the Japanese invaders while protecting the ancestral anvil. With his family ruined and his own life hanging by a thread, Chen Tiesheng managed to escape under the cover of mysterious gunfire, leaving only deep-rooted family hatred and burning anger in his heart. On the way to escape, he came across the "Qingfeng Opera Troupe" which was banned for performing anti-Japanese plays and was forced to flee Peking, and met Lin Xiuer, a clever and courageous actress in Tsing Yi. The theater troupe took him in who was seriously injured, and Chen Tiesheng's skills in turning iron into steel and repairing all things soon became the survival of this small escape team. At the same time, Second Lieutenant Osamu Fujiwara, the cultural consultant of the Japanese army, is obsessed with using "cultural conquest" to coordinate military aggression. The skilled blacksmith in Chenjia'ao who was able to escape from the imperial army's gun, as well as the "folk craft" that could forge sophisticated resistance weapons, aroused his great interest, and a targeted pursuit quietly began. From using his skills to repair equipment and transform tools for his companions, to proactively designing traps and forging self-defense weapons for survival, the hammer in Chen Tiesheng's hand no longer only rings for food and clothing, but sparks of resistance burst out with every strike. Driven by the hatred of family and country and the friendship between his companions, he gradually awakened from a commoner who only wanted to protect himself, and determined to use his hands that could only make farm tools to forge an unyielding backbone for the broken mountains and rivers.