In 1894 the Japanese Imperial Navy provokes the Chinese navy to test defenses. Some Chinese want to make concessions while others want to fight. When Japan invades, some naval officers put up a heroic resistance.
Gao Daquan organizes poor peasants into the first agricultural commune in the Tianmen area.
A spy is shot dead at the border of North China. Investigator believe that there must be another spy crossing the border elsewhere at the same time.
In 1948 a People's Liberation Army scout operates alone in the city of Hekou to destroy a troop withdrawal route for the Nationalist Army.