Bloodstained Return—Fang Zhimin and the Northern Expeditionary Force for Anti-Japanese War

Author: Cheng Xiaobo
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Features: How did Fang Zhi Minh and the Anti-Japanese Advance Corps fight for 20 days in Huaiyu Mountain? How were Fang Zhi Minh's prison writings sent out? How did Mao Zedong praise and remember Fang Zhi Minh? How did Fang Zhi Minh self-criticize for military setbacks?
Cheng Xiaobo's hometown is Nanyuan Village in Zhangcun Town, located at the foot of Huaiyu Mountain. Since childhood, he had heard adults talk about a Red Army unit that once came to the nearby Huaiyu Mountain, and the leader of this unit was Fang Zhi Minh. Starting in 1999, he embarked on his "Journey of Frugality Across Ten Thousand Li," funding the trip himself. From the place where Fang Zhi Minh was captured—Longshou in Yushan—through four years of arduous and rainy journeys, he overcame various difficulties and traveled across the areas where Fang Zhi Minh had established and developed the revolutionary bases in northern Jiangxi and southern Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi, as well as the battlefields of the Anti-Japanese Advance Corps. He collected a wealth of materials; he extensively interviewed elderly participants in the revolutionary struggles who were still alive, listening to their firsthand accounts and stories they had heard or witnessed. Based on this, he painstakingly wrote this battle chronicle, Bloodstained Return: Fang Zhi Minh and the Anti-Japanese Advance Corps, recreating the spirit of countless revolutionary predecessors, including Fang Zhi Minh and his comrades, who, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, bravely advanced, fell one after another, and fearlessly sacrificed for the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation. This book serves as an excellent read for learning history and inheriting and promoting the glorious revolutionary tradition. The book is written in simple, fluent, and moving prose, using Fang Zhi Minh's prison writings as its text and the stories of the participants as its main content. The historical materials are well-documented, and the emotions expressed are sincere and heartfelt. It is a book written with the spirit of frugality and a book written with genuine feelings and a rigorous attitude.