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Look, a group of machine gunners'' joy and hatred; listen, the sound of machine guns beating with their hearts; taste, a group of Chinese soldiers'' cunning; understand, the pure character of Chinese people! At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, after the defeat of the Shanghai-Hangzhou War, a machine gun regiment of the National Army retreated and was ambushed by Japanese aircraft in a mountain valley, killing and wounding half of them. The entire regiment''s machine guns and ammunition were hidden in a cave on the mountain wall, leaving behind Squad Leader Zhan Biao to guard with one squad of machine gunners.The next day, they encountered a Japanese machine gun battalion desecrating graves in the mountain valley. Zhan Biao led his men in anger and took revenge by opening fire... From then on, Zhan Biao and nine brave Chinese men started a mysterious machine gun storm behind enemy lines.Zhan Biao was an honest and stubborn Chinese peasant who led eight machine gunners to form a guerrilla squad behind enemy lines with their innate sense of good and evil. In battle, they gradually gathered the elite of the Chinese people, including the Nine Tigers, Nine Leopards, and Nine Phoenixes, using their machine guns to fight against the Japanese army.They assisted the New Fourth Army, rescued civilians, and attacked Japanese special forces. They fought from mountain tops to valleys, from land to water, and from tanks to planes. They had no party disputes, resisted internal conflicts, dared to disobey orders, and created a spirit of loyalty, righteousness, and trustworthiness.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhan Biao refused the Nationalist government''s request for him to return to the military and instead disbanded his troops, destroyed their weapons, and returned home to farm. During the successive political movements after the founding of the People''s Republic, Zhan Biao repeatedly stood up to protect his former comrades-in-arms, struggling and rushing about in protest.With the spirit of the machine gunners, he persevered until China''s reform and opening-up, when he led the descendants of his anti-Japanese guerrilla squad to participate in economic development...