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and we consumed a large amount of munitions.

All the soldiers in 3rd Company are dead.

Facing the enemy's attack tomorrow,

I don't know if we will be able to hold.

Here, collect the munitions!

And those too!

Go! Retreat!

Report! 1st Army has landed at Shizian

and is in pursuit.

They will drive straight to Longhukeng!

You're in charge here.

Go!

Fire!

Report! 1st Regiment was ambushed at Longhukeng!

Report! 3rd Regiment has reached east bank

and is driving straight to main position!

2nd Regiment has begun their offensive!

Attack!

Grenade!

The machine-gun is silent! The machine-gun!

I'll go!

Grenade!

Gather all the weapons and munitions,

disarm the captives and take them away!

Yes, sir!

Hurry! Another assault is coming! Move!

Pick up the ammo!

Save the injured! Hurry!

Now we are down to less than two thousand men

and all the ambush positions have been exposed.

There is still one more day to hold.

What the hell should I do?

Nobody!

Commander Qian,

is it okay? How about this?

Comrades,

we have been fighting alone these past few days.

Many of our brothers have been sacrificed.

Facing our fallen brothers today

I, Zhu De, am filled with guilt.

However,

the precious time bought with our lives

grants the surviving opportunities

for our main force.

Tell me,

is it worth it or not?

Yes!

The blocking mission is complete

and we are retreating from Sanheba.

On the opposite bank, Qian Dajun

is not going to let us out of here easily.

So I have decided

that 200 men will stay behind

to make our final stand against Qian Dajun

to help more people get out alive.

There is little hope for survival

for those that stay.

Therefore,

if both father and son serve in the army,

the son leaves with the rest of the team.

If both older and younger brothers serve

in the army,

the older brother stays.

Everyone, remember.

The revolutionary road is long

and we are here to leave seeds

for China's revolution.

I am the 11th Army, 25th Division,

73rd Regiment,

3rd Battalion Commander, Cai Qingchuan.

I request to stay.

11th Army, 24th Division,

72nd Regiment Commander,

Sun Shucheng,

is willing to stay and make a final stand.

Chen Yi, political director,

will stay and fight!

Report!

I am an orphan

and I am willing to stay!

I will stay!

I want to stay!

I should stay!

Brother!

I will stay!

Sit down!

We will all stay and fight!

Go back!

Listen to me,

you must preserve your lives!

The revolutionary needs you.

You are the hope for a new China!

Understand?

Be a warrior

but not a martyr!

Return alive!

Yes, sir!

Salute!

Send my order. Capture Sanheba within one hour!

Comrades, we have only one mission.

Hold Sanheba to buy time

for the main force to retreat.

Heaven is waiting for you!

Get ready!

Yes, sir!

Kill!

Be a warrior

but not a martyr!

Be a warrior

but not a martyr!

Be a warrior

but not a martyr!

Liu Song!

Hurry!

The detonator!

Right turn!

Salute!

Give everyone from Huangpu

an elaborate funeral.

You the 73rd Regiment?

You the 73rd Regiment?

Su Yu,

you are late.

Sanheba...

You didn't see...

How is it on your side?

Our main force was ambushed

in the Chaozhou-Shantou region.

So many men

were killed this way?

What happened?

Where is the main force now?

There were just too many of them.

We fired every single bullet we had.

Commander Ye Ting and He Long

both broke through and are now missing.

Comrade Zhou Enlai became very ill

and was sent to Hong Kong.

We have failed.

Someday,

we will avenge all the martyrs we have lost.

I promise you that I will seize Nanjing

and destroy our enemies.

Su Yu, return to your unit!

Yes, sir!

73rd Regiment, assemble!

Attention!

Comrades,

Chiang Kai-shek has betrayed the revolution

and has slaughtered the revolutionaries.

Now we have no choice

but to launch this revolt.

The Nanchang Insurrection

is proof to the entire world

that we are still alive.

Constant fighting has caused

our once great army of 20,000 strong,

to be reduced to 800.

These souls baptized by fire,

will merge with people's destiny.

From now on, people will believe us,

support us

and fight together for the establishment

of a new China.

In the past,

I was a Nationalist lieutenant general

From today

I am just like you,

a new soldier of the revolutionary army.

Everything we do today

is with the highest honor!

Yes!

Zhu De disappeared.

Mao Zedong vanished.

Zhou Enlai, He Long,

Ye Ting... nearly all of them

are nowhere to be found.

Music.

Even if they are still alive,

they are like wandering ghosts

and their days are numbered.

The Party members' reinvestigation,

how is it going?

The report says it's going very smoothly.

Before the purging,

we had more than 1 million members

and after re-registration we have 700,000.

When did those Communist dogs gain

300,000 new members?

Not that many.

Quite a few old members did not register again.

So in other words, they were automatically

withdrawn from the Nationalist Party.

Commander in Chief,

Madam, water.

According to the report,

nearly half all members have quit the party

and new members

from various places have filled in.

What kind of people are they?

Local tyrants, evil gentry, bandits and despots.

Mao Zedong, a peasant.

Zhu De, an army riffraff.

Zhou Enlai, an intellectual.

What do they have to rival me?

In 10 years,

let's see which side still

has its flag waving high!

Mr. Zhou,

Madam Deng has commanded

that you must take time to rest.

Zhu De finally broke through several blockades

and is leading his troops

to the boundary of Hu'nan and Jiangxi

to meet Mao Zedong's troops.

Mao Zedong has troops as well?

Over the past few years

Mao Zedong has traveled through Hu'nan's villages

studying China's conditions.

After leaving Wuhan,

he went to the border of Hu'nan and Jiangxi

and established an armed force

of workers and peasants.

Now they are together

and a hope is born for China's future.

China's revolution

still depends on you.

It depends on many people.

Zhu De, He Long, Ye Ting,

and thousands of generals and soldiers.

Well, this body of mine has failed me.

At this critical moment

I must recuperate in Hong Kong.

During the Huangma Uprising, Pan Zhongru,

Cao Xuekai and others

fought and won a little piece of heaven on earth.

I hear He Long is doing quite well

in western Hu'nan.

It's impressive.

In the New Year's eve uprising in South Hu'nan,

Commander Zhu gathered a force

of more than 10,000 men.

Xu Xiangqian led the workers' red guards

and joined an uprising in Guangzhou.

Peng Dehuai is also planning an uprising

in Pingjiang County, Hu'nan.

I heard that

Zhu De is leading his troops

to come to Jinggangshan.

That's right.

I can hardly wait.

Commissioner Mao,

the comrades who joined the uprising

in South Hu'nan are here.

Zhu De is here as well.

Come, let us welcome them!

Comrade Zhu De,

after the failure

in the Chaozhou-Shantou Region,

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