The Wei River is quietly flowing

Author: Wang Huatang
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Publishing Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Our army established a special leadership body to direct the fight against the enemy along the Wei River. By utilizing various contradictions and adopting an internal-external combined approach, they infiltrated the enemy's ranks, controlled some puppet troops, not only opening a secret passage to the Taihang Mountains but also coordinating with the base area's anti-cleaning operations, achieving several significant victories. They also swiftly destroyed the ten-county joint force of Japanese and puppet troops, connecting the two major anti-Japanese base areas of JiLuYu and JiNan. In the end, they successfully persuaded a Japanese and puppet army commander and a large number of officers to defect, completely breaking the enemy's Wei River blockade line and making major contributions to the restoration and expansion of the anti-Japanese base areas in the rear.
This novel features around 80 characters, including senior commanders of our army, leaders who infiltrated enemy ranks, senior officials of the Japanese intelligence agency, puppet army commanders and division leaders, senior Kuomintang generals, major bandit chiefs, leaders of secret societies, upper-class democratic figures, and numerous patriotic youth in the local area. The struggle depicted in the novel is intricate and thrilling. The author himself is a witness to this struggle. The main characters in the novel all have their prototypes, and important plots have their backgrounds. Some are based on the author's firsthand observations, experiences, or encounters, but they have been refined and processed—different from historical records, after all, novels are literary creations. The author writes with a commitment to historical accuracy, preferring to be perceived as straightforward rather than resorting to fanciful storytelling. Moreover, at the age of eighty-four, the author lacks the passion and imagination to fabricate stories. This is the author's genuine reflection upon revising the book more than ten years after its publication and a principle they still adhere to.