TV Series: My团长 My团 Plot Introduction
In 1942, in a place called Chanda not far from the China-Myanmar border, a group of soldiers from all over gathered at the reception station: Beijinger Meng Fanliao, military doctor Hao, Hunan soldier Bulaji, Northeastern man Midlong, Doubing, Yaoma, Shepangzi, Kangya... They hated each other yet depended on each other for survival, with not starving or getting sick becoming their highest daily goal.
Yu Xiaqing brought his main elite force to Chanda and reorganized the scattered soldiers at the reception station into a Sichuan regiment that had already been wiped out. They were air-dropped into Myanmar to participate in the first Yunnan-Myanmar war. However, the reality was that the newly landed Sichuan regiment just caught up with the retreat in Myanmar. The only American pilot who knew their location was dead. About a hundred people were weaponless, naked, surrounded by Japanese troops in a burning warehouse, like lambs waiting to be slaughtered... Suddenly, a man burst into the smoke-filled area. This mysterious man, who claimed to be the deputy commander of the Sichuan regiment, Long Wenzhang, had killed five Japanese soldiers outside the warehouse using cunning tricks!
Long Wenzhang, who was not trusted, led everyone naked through the jungle and accidentally entered an unprepared Japanese position. The Japanese were torturing the Chinese and British armies they had surrounded, and the ghost-like Sichuan regiment, emerging from the jungle mist, was mistaken for spirits by the Japanese, easily achieving victory! ... The Sichuan regiment continued to appear like ghosts,... gathering various remnants of soldiers, relieving the besieged British airport by Japanese troops. Unexpectedly, the British army refused to provide support for the Sichuan regiment, citing that the real Sichuan regiment was led by Colonel Yu Xiaqing and was now at the China-Myanmar border. Long Wenzhang decided to lead everyone home to follow Yu Xiaqing.
The group slowly retreated across the China-Myanmar border, separated from Chanda by only a mountain called Nantianmen and a river called Nujiang. The Tian Du ferry crossing the Nujiang River was overcrowded, so Long Wenzhang directed everyone to build a cable ferry pulled by hand. The Japanese pursued them, and Long Wenzhang cut off the ferry cable in a desperate move, leading everyone to fight the pursuing Japanese on Mount Nantianmen! Due to the tenacious resistance of the Sichuan regiment, the eastern bank defense line of the Nujiang River was rebuilt in time, overturning the possibility of the Japanese sweeping across the river and directly attacking Chongqing with their high-ground advantage. After a fierce battle, Long Wenzhang led his men to cross the Nujiang River under the cover of artillery fire on the eastern front, and among the thousand-strong force, only twenty-two managed to "go home."
Chanda did not welcome the returning heroes. Long Wenzhang was arrested by the military police, as it turned out he was not a colonel but just a captain who had taken the rank of the deceased deputy commander after his death. The others were detained at the reception station. Just as everyone speculated that the extremely unfortunate Long Wenzhang had already been executed, news came that the new division commander, Yu Xiaqing, officially appointed Long Wenzhang as the commander of the Sichuan regiment...