The Winds of Xiang'e West

After a traitor betrayed He Xianggu's guerrilla unit, Zhang Chaowu, the Kuomintang security regiment commander stationed in Shadao, gathered security forces from several counties along the Hubei-Hunan border and surrounded them in Taiping, Hefeng.

To cover the others' retreat, He Xianggu and her comrades fought bravely and died in battle. Dong Dazhong, commander of the Fourth Company's First Platoon, lost contact with his unit during the retreat. After being wounded, he was pursued by the security regiment to Qinjiashan, on the border between Hefeng and Xuan'en. In a moment of crisis, he was rescued by Zhao Yan, a young man gathering medicinal herbs.

Though Dong Dazhong had lost contact with his unit, his revolutionary spirit did not falter. Instead, he rebuilt the Red Army guerrilla unit. Under his guidance, Zhao Yan and other comrades gradually grew into steadfast communist fighters. Later, acting on instructions from Comrades He Long and Liao Hansheng, this isolated force operating along the Hubei-Hunan border remained near Shadao to rally the people and establish a base. In the struggle against Zhang Chaowu and other Kuomintang reactionaries, Zhao Yan discovered a group of mysterious people who were surveying the mountains along the Hubei-Hunan border under the guise of conducting research, while drawing precise maps... (A key project supported by the China Writers Association's 2016 literary program for ethnic minorities.)