The WW2 Army that Sacrificed its Homeland

Under the heat of a 1940 Chinese summer night, a covert team of Communist soldiers slid silently across the arduous terrain. Their daring objective was as dangerous as it was audacious: to sabotage and dismantle railway lines pulsing with troops and endless supplies, the lifeblood of Japan's mighty war machine.

While thousands of miles away Nazi Germany was unleashing a destructive blitzkrieg, China's recognized government, the Nationalists, found themselves ensnared in an internal two-pronged conflict: battling the tsunami of Japanese imperialism encroaching from one side while struggling to extinguish the fiery uprisings of an internal Communist revolution from the other.

Amid this chaos, General Peng Dehuai was fuelled by the need to shift the balance in this merciless, all-consuming war, even if he risked the ire of Mao Zedong himself…

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