Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter learned from the People's Literature Publishing House that Lan Xiaolong's latest work "Winter and the Lion" will be launched by the society recently. "Winter and the Lion" tells the battle of Chosin Lake of the Seventh Company of Steel, and the book is also known as the prequel to "Soldier Assault", telling the bloody story of Wu Qianli and Wu Wanli brothers.
In 1950, just after coming down from the battlefield where the smoke was billowing, Company Commander Wu Qianli took Wu Baili's ashes back to his hometown and returned to the team quickly, and the Seventh Company had to cross the Yalu River to fight this time. The story of Winter and the Lion begins here: it is an extremely cold battlefield, and the thinly clothed and poorly equipped Chinese soldiers will face a devastating modern three-dimensional attack on land, sea and air. Eighteen-year-old brother Wu Wanli followed his brother to the military column, the battlefield of Chosin Lake, is "almost frozen to death, but still in pursuit", witnessing his brother and comrades-in-arms with human lives to push out of zero distance, the flesh as a cannonball, Wanli experienced the desperate despair of running out of ammunition and finding it difficult to return home... What kind of soul baptism will he undergo? Can Qianli take him "home"?
Previously, Lan Xiaolong created a series of military-themed works, representative works such as "Soldier Assault", "My Regiment Leader My Regiment", "Life and Death Line", and "Good Guys", all of which were highly recognized by readers and audiences. Talking about the creation of "Winter and the Lion", Lan Xiaolong wrote in the preface that at first he saw a vivid photo of a young soldier before his sacrifice on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, "behind him was the ancient and young world that he defended with his eighteen-year-old life", and he hoped to create a novel with it.
"Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, like you, I attach importance to the last four words, to defend the family and defend the country." To resist US aggression and aid Korea, like you, I don't understand. Lan Xiaolong entered the battlefield of creation, "When you really want to understand, (war) is an expectation that has no upper limit and cannot be achieved." "He walked step by step to the battlefield, like peeling oranges, making the whole story three-dimensional and making the characters full." The seventh interspersed company is like this, the seventh reconnaissance company is like this, the loaded reconnaissance company is like this, the Sichuan Army is like this, and the cannon fodder regiment is still like this. Like you and me, and so different. Lan Xiaolong wrote.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Zhiyi
Editor/Cui Wei