Three Thousand Mountains

1938, Changsha. 267 Teachers and students walked 3,500 miles through bandit-infested areas in western Hunan to Kunming. No guns, no food, just a box of books. The bandits' knives were held to their necks while they were still solving physics problems. This is not a "bandits are converted" story. This is a story about the confusion of barbarism in the face of civilization—— And a group of people who were almost crushed by the times, How to find ourselves in each other. Three thousand five hundred miles of mountain road, sixty-eight days of death. Some people have left and some people have stayed. Those who stayed behind became the people who later held up the country. This story is purely fictional, and some of the characters and plots are literary creations.