小八路

In the sixth year of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese invaders, in their death throes, launched an autumn mopping-up campaign in North China. The local heroes and their children engaged in an arduous struggle against the Japanese invaders and the puppet troops. Under the cover of the Eighth Route Army’s armed working team, the anti-Japanese civilians braved dangers and hardships to seize grain right under the enemy’s noses. Huzi, the clever and brave leader of the children’s corps in Zaolin Village, cut the enemy’s telephone lines, making a significant contribution to the grain seizure. Huzi longed to become a glorious Little Eighth Route soldier, but he was too young and repeatedly failed to gain approval from Captain Yang. Furious, the Japanese invaders launched successive mopping-up operations against the villages. Huzi and the militia quickly relocated the grain, but his younger sister Lingling was injured by the Japanese soldiers. Filled with rage, Huzi vowed to avenge his sister. Overestimating his own strength, he attempted to take down the Japanese invaders and traitors single-handedly. In the critical moment, he was rescued by Captain Yang. As the Japanese invaders’ mopping-up campaigns came one after another, Huzi gradually grew into a true Little Eighth Route soldier...