Xiangxi refers to 28 counties in western Hunan, with criss-crossing gullies, dense streams and rivers, undulating peaks and continuous caves. There are more than 1 counties bordering the four provinces of Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou and Guangxi, all of which belonged to weak ruling areas in the past dynasties. The land is barren, natural disasters are frequent, and the economy and culture are very backward. Since the Song Dynasty, bandits have never stopped. In the period of the Republic of China, bandits in western Hunan were particularly harmful. Many bandits took advantage of the dangerous mountain and river situation in western Hunan to divide one side, claiming hegemony, setting fires in the high winds, killing people in the dark of the month, looting homes, raping and looting, and bringing endless disasters to the people of western Hunan.

success in fighting bandits

In mid-September, 1949, the 38th Army of the People's Liberation Army advanced from Changde to Xiangxi, and successively liberated more than ten counties in Xiangxi. In late September, the 47th Army, the 136th Division of the 46th Army and the 114th Division of the 38th Army were ordered to enter Xiangxi to suppress bandits. Up to February 47, 1951, when the 47th Army went to the DPRK to participate in the war, 92,81 bandits were wiped out and a large number of guns and ammunition were seized. Later, after two years of arduous struggle, the soldiers and civilians in Xiangxi wiped out more than 2, disabled bandits, and hundreds of years of bandits in Xiangxi came to an end. The movie "Anti-bandits in Xiangxi" and the TV series "Anti-bandits in Wulongshan" describe some touching stories in the process of anti-bandits in Xiangxi.

The film was shot in Zhangjiajie, known as "fairyland on earth".