琵琶魂

Early life of Senior General Geng Chen of the People's Liberation Army

First part of the two series about Senior General Gen Chen of the People's Liberation Army

1950, PLA scout Tai Zeng disguises himself as a Taiwan agent to defeat the bandits in West Guangxi province.

After being swindled out of his land by a local landlord in 1930s China, a grandfather commits suicide. His son burns down the landlord's house in a fit of rage, then escapes to join the PLA. His grandson later joins the PLA too in the 1940s to avenge his father, grandfather and mother.

Pan Yun, director of the Fushun War Criminal Management Centre, discovers that his adopted daughter is the child of a war criminal. Although he raised her for many years, he entrusts a friend to reunite her with her birth mother.

1943, the Japanese Army is falling back to the Pacific, leaving only collaborationist troops. Commissar Yang Xiaodong is sent to inflitrate the provincial capital.