"Special Soldiers" spans from 1978 to 2026, with the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam as the core anchor, breaking through the narrative model of traditional military literature. In the winter of 1978, the situation on the Sino-Vietnamese border was critical. Shen Weidong, a veteran of the Shenyang Military Region, lost his younger brother. He followed his father's secret order to form an elite special training company and went to southern Xinjiang. A group of passionate soldiers who were bound by their family and country gathered on the front line, abandoned their love for their children, and joined the battlefield. The soldiers crossed mountains and rivers and fought in the rain forests of southern Xinjiang. They went through many fierce battles such as ambushes, night battles, and canyon blocks. They defended the country with their flesh and blood and fulfilled their military mission. After the war, some people were buried in southern Xinjiang. The survivors carried the last wishes of their comrades and remained true to their hearts for decades, paying tribute to the heroes year after year. The work abandons the deliberate exaggeration of killing and the elevation of heroes, and uses the long period of time as a brush stroke to integrate the life and death game, youthful fall and inheritance of character of soldiers into human fireworks. Relying on poetic writing, oriental aesthetics and profound insights into human nature, it blends tragedy and tenderness, connects individual destiny and the current of the times, and reconstructs the humanistic pattern of military literature. It is not only a record of the times that remembers the sacrifices of soldiers, but also a masterpiece of military literature that carries the beliefs of the family and country and has great benchmark significance.
