I, Yan Jiefang, will live to 2025 in this courtyard house.

Even with the school's strict semi-military management and tight schedule, Yan Jiefang still managed to squeeze out spare moments to continue writing.

Before entering the school, he had already finalized the creation plan for his third revolutionary novel and was officially preparing for his new work, "The Mission That Must Be Completed".

This book is adapted from a classic anti-Japanese war film that Yan Jiefang had seen in his previous life.

In his youth, he was deeply moved by the young soldiers in the story who sacrificed their lives for righteousness.

Having been reborn into the arduous 1960s, I personally experienced the difficulties of building the nation and read a large number of related books.

Looking back on those years of war, his respect for them grew even stronger.

He decided to rely on the core plot of the original work and combine it with his own mature writing style to make this tragic and passionate anti-Japanese war story more in line with the current red literature and art tone, and more infectious and empathetic.

My previous work, "Little Hero Gangzi," received a letter of praise from the editor.

In the letter, he also mentioned that the editorial department had received a large number of letters from readers expressing their resentment towards the villain Yi Zhongjiang and his two brothers.

I hope the author will give these two traitors a good beating in the next installment of the novel.

Unfortunately, Yan Jiefang had not yet seen the letters from readers when he wrote the second book, "Bloodstained Bugle Call".

Therefore, they have little understanding of the readers' resentment towards these two guys.

In the third installment, Yan Jiefang has decided, at the request of readers, to give special attention to the two traitorous villains, Yi Zhonghe and Yi Zhonghu.

It not only explained the origins of the four brothers, but also emphasized their viciousness and inhumanity.

The four Yi brothers were similar in nature, all pursuing profit and abandoning righteousness, with no bottom line for family or country. They were typical opportunistic villains in the chaotic world.

In the mid-1920s, warlords fought amongst themselves and the political situation was turbulent.

The Yi brothers were shrewd and calculating. In order to protect themselves and advance their future, they deliberately made a split arrangement:

The youngest son, the fourth, was secretly placed in a courtyard house in Beijing to avoid trouble, allowing him to work and live like an ordinary person, thus ensuring his future.

The three brothers, Yi Zhongjiang, Yi Zhonghe, and Yi Zhonghu, joined the warlord Chu Yuping and fought alongside him across the north and south.

After years of fighting, the three men amassed their fortune through robbery and murder, their hands stained with the blood of innocent civilians.

In 1928, Chu Yuping's power was completely destroyed, and the three brothers, having lost their backing, dared not stand outside.

He then went into hiding, living in seclusion in Beijing and relying on the wealth he had accumulated in his early years.

However, the three men had long been addicted to extravagance and could not bear poverty. Living off their savings was not a long-term solution.

In the 1930s, through the connections of Liu Haiping, a former soldier and scoundrel, they joined forces with the notorious traitor Wang Kemin and resumed their evil deeds.

From then on, the three ran rampant in the 49-city area, extorting money from the people, bullying men and women, and the people suffered greatly, but dared not speak out.

Although the fourth son of the Yi family, who stayed in the city, did not join the army, he relied on the power of his three older brothers to bully the weak and run rampant in the countryside. He had a long list of bad deeds and was no good person.

In 1937, the Japanese invaders occupied Beijing, causing the country to fall and the people to suffer.

When the nation was in peril, the four Yi brothers showed no national integrity, were cowardly and opportunistic, and immediately surrendered to the Japanese army, becoming lackeys of the puppet army.

In order to gain the trust of the Japanese army and consolidate their own power, the three men completely lost their humanity and willingly became the weapons to slaughter their compatriots.

They actively cooperated with the Japanese army in its sweeping operations, brutally suppressing anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians behind enemy lines, their hands stained with the blood of martyrs and ordinary people.

What's even more despicable is that the three were skilled at disguise and infiltration, often posing as patriotic and progressive youths to infiltrate anti-Japanese forces.

They secretly gathered intelligence and betrayed the organization, causing multiple enemy-occupied squads to be surrounded and wiped out, with all members killed. Their actions were despicable and vicious, worse than animals.

In the previous work, "Little Hero Gangzi", the evil gang leader Yi Zhongjiang, who had committed many years of evil deeds, had been executed. He was killed by the young hero Gangzi, who perished in a sea of ​​fire, thus ending his evil life.

In the opening of "The Mission That Must Be Completed", Yi Zhonghe and Yi Zhonghu witness their elder brother's death.

But they showed no remorse whatsoever; instead, they were blinded by their violent hatred.

Under the protection of the Japanese army, they found the young body of the hero Gangzi and, in a fit of rage, dismembered it.

Finally, they even used sacks to pack up the mangled remains and dumped them in the wilderness, leaving them to be devoured and desecrated by wolves. Their methods were extremely cruel and their sins were heinous.

Evil deeds are not yet finished, and greed and wickedness will not cease.

The two volunteered to join the Japanese army, and relying on their familiarity with the terrain around Beiping and guerrilla tactics, they led a team to pursue a small group of teenagers who were on a top-secret mission, determined to completely disrupt our combat plan.

This team, tasked with a death mission, consisted entirely of young, inexperienced soldiers.

The team included Xiao Hao, who was familiar with landmine warfare; the naive and innocent blind Cao'er; and the gentle and kind young members of the cultural troupe.

There is also Da Long, a veteran who joined the War of Resistance against Japan at the age of sixteen and has been fighting for seven years.

The youngest member, Cao'er, is only a little over 7 years old.

They were tasked with a dying mission: to traverse the treacherous and dilapidated Great Wall defenses, launch a long-distance raid behind enemy lines, destroy Japanese poison gas bombs, military transport convoys, and key transportation tunnels, cut off the enemy's supply lines, and clear obstacles for the main force.

At that time, the Great Wall was lined with biting winds and treacherous mountain roads, and the pursuers behind them were closing in relentlessly.

These young people, who should have been carefree, resolutely shouldered the heavy responsibility of protecting their homeland. Braving the wind and snow, they trekked along the Great Wall, facing bullets and shells with their tender and frail bodies, and engaged in a life-or-death struggle with the brutal Japanese army and the insidious traitors.

The entire mission was fraught with peril, with countless sacrifices and a tragic atmosphere permeating the entire process.

To cover their teammates' escape, the young cultural troupe detonated grenades to attract the enemy's attention, and fell off a cliff to their deaths;

Without supplies, the grass starved to death.

In order to dig up more landmines to fight the enemy, Xiao Hao unfortunately stepped on a landmine and died heroically.

In order to destroy the Japanese supply trucks and passages with the limited number of landmines, Da Long detonated all the landmines and perished together with the Japanese soldiers at the tunnel entrance.

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Every desperate situation and every heavy sacrifice was inseparable from the malicious scheming and precise guidance of Yi Zhonghe and Yi Zhonghu.

The two men were well-versed in our guerrilla tactics and familiar with the terrain.

They repeatedly offered strategies to the Japanese army to encircle and block the retreat of the youth squad.

This act of repeatedly putting these children in life-or-death situations and causing them unnecessary casualties is utterly abhorrent.

Despite the successive sacrifices of his comrades and his own numerous injuries, the surviving youth never forgot his patriotism and the mission he carried.

Despite their grief, they fought valiantly and broke through the encirclement in dire straits, destroying the Japanese poison gas transport vehicles and key transportation tunnels on time, thus completing this mission with no way out without fail.

The mission was finally completed, and the enemy's supply line was completely paralyzed. However, behind the victory was an extremely tragic price to pay.

The wicked Yi Zhonghe and Yi Zhonghu were also wiped out in the fierce battle, their evil deeds finally bringing them bitter fruit.

But almost all of that dozen or so young daredevils perished at the Great Wall, their blood staining the mountains and rivers.

In the end, only three members of this hastily assembled youth team survived.

Fifteen, ten and a half years old, nurse.

The sincere and fearless young martyrs, the utterly depraved traitors and lackeys, their selfless sacrifices, and their burning patriotism intertwine to form this tragic and moving story of war.

Yan Jiefang sat at his desk, deep in thought, reviewing the entire plot over and over again, his heart filled with mixed emotions.

In times of chaos, countless children shouldered the heavy responsibility of their country with their tender flesh and blood, and protected the peace of the land with their lives. They deserve to be remembered by the times forever.

This was the norm at the time.

In places like Chu, there was a banquet for 10-year-olds.

It means that once you turn 10, you can go to the battlefield!

Similar customs exist in other places, all to commemorate those martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country.

He poured his heart and soul into polishing the plot and crafting the characters, both good and evil, so that readers could see the cruelty of war, the purity of faith, and the sincerity of youth through the words, and understand how hard-won the peaceful years we enjoy today are.