Opposite Hua Rong, Everyone Held Back Their Voices

From 1938 to 1943, the waves in the Huarong section of the Yangtze River sobbed and beacon smoke locked on the shore. The Jiangbei position faces the pressure of the elite Japanese troops, while the Jiangnan enemy rear is full of undercurrents and dangers. When the mountains and rivers were shattered, the two teams of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party defended each other across the river and stood up for their lives in the face of danger. Amid suspicion and unity, confrontation and side by side, they held up the strongest barrier against the enemy along the river in eastern Hubei. This book takes the five-year Anti-Japanese War on both sides of the Yangtze River as the grand narrative line, and panoramically restores the brutal battle situation of frontal defense, deep plowing behind enemy lines, crossing the river for reinforcements, tactical flank attacks, and full-line counterattacks. The soldiers used flesh and blood as embankments and rivers as chasms to break through the Japanese blockades, open up desperate river routes, resolve the barriers between the north and the south, and build a unique joint defense front across the river. From passively holding on to taking the initiative to break the situation, from struggling alone to fighting the invaders together, countless ordinary soldiers fought with blood and fought to the death to defend their territory. The work focuses on the righteousness of family and country and the bond of life and death between soldiers and civilians in troubled times. It depicts faith and perseverance in the tragic war, witnesses the turbulent years when every inch of mountains and rivers are filled with blood, and composes an indomitable anti-war song on both sides of the Yangtze River.