The Warriors was directed by Ning Haiqiang (whose oeuvre includes 2015โs The Hundred Regiments Offensive), is set in 1935 and follows a regiment of the Peopleโs Liberation Army โ then known simply as the Red Army โ 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 troupsโ progress in the region.