The Glory of Youth

A story about "Xia Zhuo" (Li Yifeng), a top-class college student, who won the world college student super brain competition but was framed; his roommate and rival "Ouyang Jun" (Chen Xingxu) was also disqualified from his degree for cheating; and Xia Zhuo's 2 buddies, "Lin Anbang" (Duan Bowen), and "Yi Zimeng" (Dong Chunhui). Chose to join the army and become soldiers for the rocket force. The four walked into the Rocket Army's ace troop-270 brigade. The brigade commander "An Lei" (Yu Bo) is determined to form a highly maneuverable troop, "Warblade Company". Mobilized the best recruits with the best veterans, the four elders of the 270 brigade "Lang Yongcheng" (Xiao Yang), "Chen Haofeng" (Jiang Tong), "Wang Xianmin" (Fan Lei), "Hou Jidong" (Chunyu Shanshan) to join this experimental troop. The changes between veterans and recruits are slowly taking place in the troop. The fusion between them has made this troop the whetstone of the entire Rocket Army. Under the leadership and inspiration of veterans with unique skills, this group of Rocket Army recruits experienced both physical and mental tempering, and eventually grew and transformed into the "Ace Trumpeter" of the Chinese Rocket Army.[2]

The overall production process of the play requires live shooting in a large number of military facilities. For this reason, the crew took several months to build a military defense center in the Dongfang Sunac Film Metropolis. On October 7, 2019, Filming was started in Qingdao and was finished in Jiangshan, Zhejiang on January 20, 2020

The television version weight on the military parts from the beginning. And there was an urgent edit before the broadcast, cause some parts of the story missing. So there's a special version that was later released on Youku.[3]

The series was picked up by RTHK in Hong Kong, as part of the new Chinese TV series strand on RTHK TV 31 in a bid to instill patriotism in Hong Kong people.[4]