Northeast China now thrives on a booming ice-snow economy, where people crave freezing winds and fresh snow. But 80 years back, this same land saw soldiers of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army enduring a bitter cold they never could have wanted or foreseen. In the frigid 1930s, figures like General Yang Jingyu led them through 14 years of guerrilla warfare, where their struggle defied the elements and their resolve never once wavered.