In October 1937, during the all-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a case occurred in Yan 'an where Huang Kegong (played by Wang Kai),[Expand All]
In October 1937, during the all-out War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a case occurred in Yan 'an where Huang Kegong (played by Wang Kai), the captain of the Sixth Team of the anti-Japanese Military and Political University, shot and killed a young woman for forcing her to marry. The murderer, Huang Kegong, was a meritorious soldier of the Red Army's regimental commander. The victim was Liu Xi (played by Ma Weiwei), a 16-year-old female youth who fled from Taiyuan to Yan 'an to join the revolution. How was Huang Kegong tried? The Higher People's Court of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, which was established only two months ago, has its president absent, and the heavy responsibility has fallen on the presiding judge Lei Jingtian (played by Cheng Taishen). Lei Jingtian once participated in the Nanchang Uprising, the Guangzhou Uprising and the Baise Uprising, and walked the Long March together with Huang Kegong. A Red Army judge was to try a Red Army general. The humble border court had never experienced such a major case before. Facing public opinion both at home and abroad, angry students and civilians, and the requests of the old Red Army soldiers, Lei Jingtian, under pressure from all sides, tried the case through a public trial and democratic judgment. [Collapse]