The Red Sun of Red Classic Books
Published by China Youth Publishing House 1957 by Wu Qiang. The Red Sun is an epic novel. It is based on the historical facts that the East China Field Army under the command of Chen Yi and Su Yu crushed the enemy's key attacks in the Shandong battlefield in the early days of the Liberation War. Taking a heroic army led by Shen Zhenxin, the commander of our army, as the main line, starting with the defeat of our army 1946 in the second Lianshui Campaign, the 74th Division of the Kuomintang's Wangpai Army was finally annihilated, and a magnificent war picture was launched. The outstanding achievement of The Red Sun is the successful creation of a series of fleshy artistic shapes. In artistic expression, The Red Sun also has distinctive features. It is an important milestone in the history of military literature creation in New China.