The adventure of Dongzi Pan, a boy whose father left home for the Long March in the Red Army and whose mother was killed by gangster of the evil landlord Hu.
The People's Liberation Army and the Nationalists battle over Longwang Island in 1947.
Liberation of Shijiazhuang, a city in the center of north China. CCP army attacks the peripheral units to lure the Nationalist Party army in the city out and then destroys it.
Zhao Dongsheng is elected director of the local production team and institutes reforms that make his native village prosperous.