During the War of Liberation, Communist forces planned to emancipate China by crossing the Yangtze River and capturing the Kuomintang (KMT) capital. Overnight, the city of Linjiang became a critical strategic location for both Communist and KMT forces. Linjiang's Commanding Officer Chen Huai Yuan, a valiant KMT general, must deal with deployed Communist troops and his own party's partisan conflicts as he straddles the fence between joining the Communists and remaining loyal to the KMT. The spies infiltrated in Linjiang would play crucial roles in the outcome.