Feathered Letters

This book contains two short stories.The protagonist of Feathered Letter is the young hero Haiwa. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Haiwa, the leader of a children's militia, encounters the enemy while delivering an urgent feathered letter. With wit and courage, he outsmarts his foes by attaching the letter to a sheep's rear and luring the enemy into an ambush set by the Eighth Route Army.Five Heroes of Langya Mountain chronicles the epic, blood-soaked sacrifice of five Eighth Route Army heroes-Ma Baoyu, Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai. Facing overwhelming odds, they fought valiantly, When their ammunition ran out, they fought back with stones. Facing the advancing enemy, they chose death over surrender, destroyed their weapons, and leaped without hesitation from a cliff dozens of meters deep.These two short stories represent Hua Shan's finest works.