Location: Culai Mountain, Shandong Province, the Fourth Detachment of the Eighth Route Army Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force.
"Report, urgent call from the Provincial Party Committee."
The confidential secretary hurriedly broke into the detachment leader's office with a telegram in hand.
The detachment leader quickly looked away from the documents on the desk: "Read."
The secretary read loudly——
At nine o'clock that morning, the Ando Brigade of the Linshui Regiment of the Japanese Army occupied Qiaonan County. They burned down more than 300 houses, raped and killed more than 120 women, and mutilated more than 300 people.
The Provincial Party Committee instructed your ministry to quickly send capable personnel to Qiaonan to form a Qiaonan anti-Japanese team.
After reading the telegram in one breath, the detachment leader stood up and didn't say a word for a long time.
Two days later in the afternoon, reconnaissance battalion commander Wang Zikai was ordered to rush to the detachment leader's office.
Wang Zikai, nicknamed Iron Tornado, was named after his extraordinary martial arts skills. He mysteriously disappeared from his hometown five years ago and has been in the army for six years.
Anyone familiar with it knows that Tie Xuanfeng never had a nickname until he was nineteen years old. Later, he was named Wang Zikai on the recommendation of the army chief.
However, Wang Zikai has a bad temper. Regardless of his age, whether he is an official or a subordinate, he always likes to be called by his nickname - Shanzi.
Although Shanzi is only twenty-five years old, he has experienced hundreds of battles and has made many military exploits with his extraordinary ability to kill enemies. He is from Qiaonan.
At nine o'clock in the evening, ten commanders and soldiers, including Tie Xuanfeng, dressed in civilian clothes, gathered at the detachment headquarters.
According to the instructions of the Provincial Party Committee, the four detachments temporarily established the Wind and Thunder Task Force, with Tie Xuanfeng as the captain and Zhao Danian, the former guard company commander, as the deputy captain.
The mission of the task force is to go to Qiaonan and form the Qiaonan Anti-Japanese Independent Battalion.
In front of the detachment leader and political commissar, Tie Xuanfeng and his comrades lined up and swore -
When I live, my country will perish, and when I die, my country will survive. I would rather fight to the death than be a slave to the country's subjugation. I will use my last strength, shed my last drop of blood, and fight to the end, unswervingly.