The Last Bullet

In 1950, except for western Sichuan, the entire mainland of China had been liberated. When the liberation army marched towards Xichang, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Hu Zongnan to defend western Sichuan and wait for changes in the international situation. As a result, Tianmeng Mountain, the first natural danger in western Sichuan, became a battleground between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Because he has an older brother who is an officer of the Kuomintang, Ma Yiwu, a cultural instructor in a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army, has been in the army for five years but has never been able to join the party. When following the troops to march to Xichang, the cultural work team was collectively captured by the Chiang Army. Just when they were shot, a Kuomintang officer released all the cultural work team because of Ma Yiwu. This incident aroused great suspicion in the cultural work team about Ma Yiwu's true identity. At this time, a certain unit of the People's Liberation Army was frustrated when attacking the Kuomintang 183rd Division entrenched in Tianmeng Mountain in western Sichuan. When the military sent Division Commander Mei Dashui to lead his troops for reinforcements, Mei Dashui learned that the commander of the 183rd Division was Ma Yiwen, the eldest son of the Ma family who had worked as a long-term worker, and the second son of the Ma family happened to be a cultural instructor in the People's Liberation Army Cultural Work Team. Through Ma Yiwen's act of letting go of Ma Yiwu, Mei Dashui believed that Ma Yiwen valued brotherhood, so he decided to let Ma Yiwu use family ties to go to the front line to persuade his brother to surrender. When Mei Dashui told Ma Yiwu the task of persuading him to surrender, Ma Yiwu was unwilling to go...(Read the full text