Xu Guixiang's masterpiece of military fiction won the Mao Dun Literature Award. The complex and changeable and ups and downs of the revolutionary history, the ordinary and glittering ordinary heroes. It recounts the life course of the generation represented by Jiang Daya and Chen Mohan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Cultural Revolution and the new period, truthfully depicts the complex and changeable revolutionary history of nearly half a century since the thirties of the 20th century, and creates a group of ordinary heroes with vivid personalities, respectable and touchable. On the way to greet Jiang Daya, he was bombed by the Japanese army at Lanqiao Port, and four young people escaped in the firelight. Jiang Daya, who wanted to join the National Army, was unexpectedly taken in by the New Fourth Army, but Chen Mohan, a fellow countryman who wanted to join the New Fourth Army, was arrested by the National Army. Because of the dislocation, each has its own unwillingness, so the novel is full of suspense.