Duan is a creative figure in film and television dramas. His prototype is Duan Haizhou, a strange man in the Republic of China. He used to be the commander of the Youth Anti-Japanese Volunteers, then surrendered to the Eighth Route Army as the political commissar of the brigade, then joined the National Army as a teacher, and finally rebelled on the battlefield and died in 1990.

For a "party-state" soldier, birth is extremely important. For example, those who were born in Huangpu and graduated from Luda University often have a bright future. If you add native Zhejiang, it will be more developed. For those soldiers from miscellaneous brands, such as the Northwest Army, Jin Sui Army, Northeast Army, or Southwest Warlords, their careers are not so smooth, let alone those from military schools.

However, the world is full of miracles. There happened to be a literate man, not from a military school, who started with six people and used to be a military cadre of the Eighth Route Army. Through his own struggle, he became a senior general of the regular army of the National Government and finally enjoyed the life of an uprising general. This is really a miracle. He is Duan Haizhou.