Peng Dehuai's Legend

Author: Liu Bingrong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Hunan Province has a county named Xiangtan. Southwest of Xiangtan County stands a mountain called Wushi Peak. At the foot of Wushi Peak lies a village named Wushi Fortress. On the tenth day of the ninth lunar month in the ninth year of the Guangxu reign (1898), Peng Dehuai was born in Pengjiawei, Wushi Fortress. This book introduces readers to his starving childhood, his withdrawal from Pingjiang, his quest to reach Jinggangshan, his daring assault on Changsha, his mistakenly attacking Ganzhou, and the phrase "The Great Pass is truly like iron."