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.
Steelworkers in Anshan adopt a new way of making a furnace during the Great Leap Forward.
Set in the war of liberation, base area of guerrilla forces in north Guangdong. A CPC meets the outlaws and persuade them to take part in the revolution.