Lan Xiaolong's new work "Winter and the Lion" was published, telling the story of the Battle of Chosin Lake in the "Seventh Company of Steel"

The famous writer Lan Xiaolong's latest novel ,"Winter and the Lion", was recently published by the People's Literature Publishing House, telling the story of the "Seventh Company of Steel" in the Korean War at the Battle of Chosin Lake. Wu Qianli, Wu Wanli, Mei Sheng, Tan Ziwei, Lei Gong, Yu Congrong, Pinghe... "Winter and the Lion" shows the cruelty and greatness of the Battle of Chosin Lake with the character group portraits, interpreting the brotherhood, comradeship, and family conditions of the birth and death, in order to pay tribute to the most lovely people.

It is worth noting that Lan Xiaolong is one of the screenwriters of the movie "Chosin Lake". According to reports, the TV series "Winter and the Lion" has completed the full script and is scheduled to start at the end of this year. The drama is after "Soldier Assault" and "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", director Kang Honglei and screenwriter Lan Xiaolong have joined forces again after many years.

Shaping the "lion" who guarded the gate of the country with his flesh in the Battle of Chosin Lake

The main setting of the story of Winter and the Lion is the Battle of Chosin Lake on the Eastern Front of the Second Battle of the Korean War. At the turn of the autumn and winter of 1950, the Ninth Corps, where the Seventh Penetration Company was originally stationed in East China, was urgently requisitioned to the Chosin Lake Battlefield in Korea. Because there was uninterrupted air reconnaissance by the US army during the day, in order to avoid exposure, the soldiers of the Ninth Corps traveled for three weeks in the extreme cold of nearly minus 40 degrees Celsius, completing the division and encirclement of the US army. Before the 100,000 volunteer soldiers launched a general offensive, the American army was unaware... In the end, our volunteer army relied on great sacrifice spirit and war wisdom to defeat the Ace Unit of the US Army, the First Marine Division. "Winter and the Lion" leads the reader to feel the greatness and indomitability of the volunteer soldiers in this war through the description of the seventh interspersed connection.

In the novel, Wu Qianli, the commander of the Seventh Company, is a character of the backbone of the nation, with both the courage of a hero, the wisdom of a commanding officer, and a moving responsibility. He fought with his eldest brother so that his younger brother's generation could not have to fight.

Mei Sheng, the instructor of the Seventh Company, has a deep attachment to his wife and daughter, and he is probably the person who is most eager to "go home" in the Seventh Company, so when the Seventh Company has reached the end of one-fifth of the personnel, he will also roar: "We only want to go home with the broken ship!" Every single one! Every one! However, in the most critical moment, he rushed into the smoke with his beloved bicycle towing explosives.

Lei Gong, the commander of the artillery platoon, was recognized by the whole company as a father-like "Lei Dad". The severe cold of Chosin Lake made the only heavy weapon mortar of the Seventh Company freeze to the chest, the shells could not be loaded, and the battle situation was extremely tight, Lei Gong roared angrily, "Can't shoot out the shells, Lao Tzu himself is a shell", grabbed the shovel and went to block the bullets for his comrades.

"Lions don't belong to winter, but lions in winter are still lions." This group of warriors of the Seventh Company is the "lion" who guards the gate of the country with his flesh. In the chosin lake battlefield, they relied on three or eight large covers to resist the aircraft and tanks of the US army, and fought against the cold of minus forty degrees with thin cotton uniforms, "almost frozen to death, but still in pursuit"... Such a war needs to be understood, such a sacrifice needs to be proved, and "Winter and the Lion" is such a "understanding" and "proof".

Lan Xiaolong's father participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea as a military doctor

In the preface to "Winter and the Lion", Lan Xiaolong revealed that his father had participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea as a military doctor, but he had always lacked a deep understanding of the true meaning of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

By chance, Lan Xiaolong saw a photo of an eighteen-year-old warrior, "he held an orange (maybe a pastry), holding on to the music, a little ignorant, full of life, a little jumpy", and then was poked, resulting in a strong desire to create. Lan Xiaolong sighed, "He is really young, they are really young." ”

"Winter and the Lion" created such an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old teenager - Wu Wanli. Wu Wanli was originally a naughty teenager, a little naughty, a little ignorant, and joined the army with his second brother Wu Qianli for "longer out of breath". On the military column rushing to Korea, Qianli told Wanli about the past of the company and the mountains and rivers of the motherland, and Wanli's sense of responsibility for his homeland was awakened little by little. On the battlefield of Chosin Lake, the firepower between China and the United States is very different, and There are Wanli who have the ability to fight water and drift, and accidentally transform into a human version of the mortar, and repeatedly win by surprise. However, every time he jumped up and threw, there must be comrades-in-arms to cover and sacrifice him with their flesh... In the mutual assistance and sacrifice again and again, in the second brother Qianli's entrustment voice of "I cover you, my life is in your hands, your life is in my hands", Wanli more and more understood where the passion flowing on the second brother and comrades-in-arms came from.

A prequel to "Soldier Assault" about the "Seventh Company of Steel" entering the Dprk

Fifteen years ago, Lan Xiaolong's screenwriting work "Soldier Assault" was launched, and the image of Xu Sanduo, Shi Jin, Gao Cheng, Wu Liuyi and other soldiers created in the play, as well as the battle song of "Seven Companies of Steel", "A thunderbolt and a sword, a group of fierce tigers and seven companies of steel; the will of steel, iron blood to defend the country and protect the homeland..." has touched countless audiences.

At the ceremony of joining the company in many places, Wu Liuyi once introduced the history of the "Seventh Company of Steel": "During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost all of the Seventh Company of Steel was killed and cancelled, but the three soldiers who were covered by all the company people returned with nine deaths. They brought back the last wish of one hundred and seven martyrs: to rebuild the Seven Companies of Steel on these three young men with an average age of seventeen! Since then, the Seventh Company of Steel has lived with their martyrs forever! And "Winter and the Lion" writes the history of the bloody battle of the "Seventh Company of Steel" in the Korean battlefield.

In "Winter and the Lion", Wu Qianli, the 162nd soldier of the Seventh Company, Wu Wanli, the 677th soldier, Mei Sheng, the 135th soldier, Lei Gong, the 17th soldier, Yu Congrong, the 305th soldier, Pinghe, the 623rd soldier, and tanzi, the close comrades-in-arms encountered by the Seventh Company in the battle, will appear one by one, and the battle song of "Seventh Company of Steel" will sound on the battlefield of Chosin Lake in North Korea, and the theme of "I will take you home" will continue again.

Winter and the Lion also accompanies the book with an excerpt from Lan Xiaolong's forthcoming new work, War and Ritual. "Winter and the Lion" depicts the Battle of Chosin Lake, while "War and Worship" depicts the tenacity and forbearance, indomitability and resistance of the Chinese people on many fronts during the Korean War, from military to diplomatic, and reproduces the twists and turns of international politics in the 1950s.

Source Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Li Li

Edited by Jin Liwei

Process Editor Wu Yue