该剧以20世纪70年代初至80年代中期的军营生活为背景,展示了几位男女青年入伍后,在部队这个大熔炉里锻炼成长的过程。在那个特殊的年代,走进军营成了青年人最崇高的理想和追求。中原某山村,老残疾人的儿子赵海民费尽周折,终于和村支书的儿子李胜利一起,穿上了军装,来到了华北北部荒原上的一个野战师。这两人分别代表了农民军人的两种类型,前者为人正直,宽厚善良,坚强隐忍,他身上集中了农村兵的优秀品质。而后者小农意识强,精于算计而又缺乏真正的智慧,结果,两人的命运大为不同,赵海民逐步成长为优秀的职业军人,成为那一代军人里的佼佼者,李胜利虽挖空心思用尽手段,百般表现自己,提为干部,但仍没能在部队扎下根,最终在大裁军中转业。与上面两人同时来到部队的,还有以知青身份参军的城市兵马春光,大军区副司令员的女儿刘越,柔弱善良的孤儿方敏,以及某省革委会副主任的女儿胡小梅,父母被关进“牛棚”的高干子弟黄小川等。马春光思想活跃,恃才傲物。是城市兵的一个典型。他与赵海民所代表的农村军人起初的矛盾与最终的融合,使他们建立了深厚的战友情谊。刘越的父亲和黄小川的父亲是老战友,黄父落难之后,刘父在边 The play, based on the barracks life from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, shows how several young men and women joined the army and trained to grow up in this melting pot of troops. In that particular era, entering the barracks became the most noble ideal and pursuit of young people. In a mountain village in the Central Plains, the son of the disabled person Zhao Haimin went through extremes and finally put on a military uniform with Li Shengli, the son of the village party secretary, and came to a field division on the northern North China wilderness. The two represented the two types of peasant soldiers, the former being honest, generous, and benevolent, and who concentrated on the excellent qualities of the rural soldiers. The latter has strong sense of small-farmers, good at calculation and lack of real wisdom. As a result, the fate of the two people is greatly different. Zhao Haimin gradually grew into an outstanding professional soldier and became the outstanding leader in that generation. Although Li Shengli , Behaved in every possible way, as cadres, but still failed to take root in the troops, and eventually in the big disarmament in the transfer. At the same time, the two men, who came to the army at the same time, joined the ranks of the armed forces of the army, including Ma Chun-kuang, the daughter of the deputy commander of the military region, Liu Yue, the frail orphaned Fang Min and daughter-in-law Hu Jintao, Xiaomei, parents were locked into “bullpen ” high dry children Huang Xiaochuan and so on. Ma Chunuang active thinking, arrogant pride. It is a typical urban soldier. The initial contradictions and eventual integration between him and the rural soldiers represented by Zhao Haimin have enabled them to establish a profound friendship between their comrades and friends. Liu Yue's father and Huang Xiaochuan's father is an old comrade-in-chief, after the failure of the Yellow Father, Liu father at the edge