The Warriors was directed by Ning Haiqiang whose oeuvre includes 2015s The Hundred Regiments Offensive is set in 1935 and follows a regiment of the Peoples Liberation Army then known simply as the Red Army led by Commander Huang Kaixiang Ethan Li and including Sergeant Yang Zhengwei Nie Yuan as it races towards a key bridge that has to be taken in order to stop the Kuomintang troups progress in the region