Steel Guns in Northwest Shanxi

The Japanese army ravaged North China, turning the peaceful mountain villages in northwestern Shanxi into hell on earth. Li Tiezhu, an ordinary farmer, was brutally raided by the Japanese invaders. His home was destroyed, his relatives were killed, and his family was destroyed overnight. Among the devastated ruins, he picked up a rifle left by a martyr, turned his grief and anger into the courage to kill the enemy, and resolutely joined the Eighth Route Army guerrillas. From a grassroots man who could only hide in the mountains and shoot black guns, to a guerrilla fighter who crawled and rolled in the flames of war, Li Tiezhu grew up rapidly in the rain of bullets with the tenacity endowed by the Loess Plateau. He followed the team through the high mountains of northwest Shanxi, learning tactics, practicing courage, and gathering people's hearts. He successively participated in countless battles such as ambushing Japanese transport teams, uprooting enemy strongholds, counterattacking brutal sweeps, and attacking railway transportation lines. Every bullet in the gun barrel is poured towards the invaders; every hold in the trenches is to protect the homeland behind them. He has seen the blood and tears of his comrades sacrificed, endured the pressure of breaking out of desperate situations, lost his youthfulness and recklessness in the test of life and death, and grown into an anti-Japanese battalion commander who can stand alone and frighten the enemy. From 1937 to 1945, during the eight-year war journey, he personally experienced the most difficult years of the Chinese nation's war of resistance. A steel gun, a body of blood, a group of brothers who share life and death, a legend of bloody battles. Based on the growth trajectory of grassroots warriors, this book restores the flames of the Anti-Japanese War in northwestern Shanxi, writes about the awakening and resistance of ordinary Chinese people in the face of national crisis, and integrates the righteousness of family and country, iron-blooded friendship and bloody battlefields.