Heroic youth goes to the Taihang Mountains

Author: Lu Yunkui
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This is a long novel depicting the growth journey of several young people during the war years. In the tough years of the Anti-Japanese War, a group of 15-16-year-old young people were sent by the organization to study at Taihang Middle School, which was established by the Communist Party of China's Taihang Regional Committee and the Taihang Border Government. In this grand classroom of the Taihang Mountains, they experienced countless scorching summers and freezing winters. Under the harsh conditions of lack of clothing and food, they studied cultural knowledge diligently; at the same time, they practiced self-reliance and implemented production self-rescue; while also mastering the skills of fighting against the enemy in the actual anti-"encirclement and suppression" battles. They went through the tempering of the flames and smoke of the Anti-Japanese War, plunged into the tide of the Liberation War, and set off from the Taihang Mountains to the battlefield of liberating the whole country, fighting for the establishment of a new China with blood. Finally, they reunited in the capital of the new China. The work vividly portrays the special learning, life, and combat experiences of these young people, as well as their sincere friendship and pure first love. This is a contemporary Chinese long novel that tells stories of the road, exams, fellow travelers, and in prison.