In recent years, our Chinese film industry has become stronger and stronger, and it is time to support filmmakers to make the most grand and shocking war films. So, we filmed the "Eight Hundred Heroes" who stick to the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai and got the "Eight Hundred".

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is finally coming.

In recent years, our Chinese film industry has become stronger and stronger, and it has come to the time to support filmmakers to make the most grand and shocking war films.

So, we filmed the "Eight Hundred Heroes" who stick to the Shanghai Sihang Warehouse and got " Eight Hundred ".

We filmed the bloody battle on the battlefield of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea Changjin Lake , three strikes on the Watergate Bridge, so we have - "Changjin Lake" and "Watergate Bridge".

The two movies won box offices of 5.775 billion and 4.066 billion respectively, ranking first and eighth in the total box office list of Chinese movies respectively.

is also the hot sale of these films, war films gradually took on the box office of the film market. The more the audience watches, the more enthusiastic they are for excellent war films, the more they want to see more stories worth shooting, and are brought to the screen.

Every time such a large-scale war movie is released, I will see the name of the same battle in the comment section, and there are always audiences asking: When will this heroic battle that shocks the world and makes ghosts cry? When should we aim the camera at these heroes of the Anti-Japanese War who defended the dangerous city to the death and beat the Japanese army to howl?

People describe this battle as China's " Moscow Defense War ". Yes, Hengyang Defense Battle .

Before the start of the battle, the senior leaders of the National Army estimated that Hengyang could be able to defend for up to seven days. Chiang Kai-shek also generated a power and said, "You just need to hold on to Hengyang for two weeks, and you will be completed."

In the end, Hengyang soldiers fought against hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops with 17,000 in a 47-day battle, resulting in more than 50,000 casualties in the Japanese army. In the end, more than 16,000 soldiers in Hengyang died, and most of the injured were injured.

Even the Japanese army had to say with admiration: "The 10th Army is the bravest army in the world, and General Fang Xianjue is the most amazing military strategist in the world."

This is a tragic battle in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and it is also a brilliant battle. A sentence that is defeated is still honorable, which is not enough to describe the magnificence of this battle.

Finally, a screenwriter born in Hengyang, Hunan in 1953 wrote this story, and the movie has also started filming and entered the shooting stage.

movie, called "Reinforcements Arrival Tomorrow".

This screenwriter who came from Yancheng is Liu Heping, who has served as the screenwriter of "Yongzheng Dynasty" and "No War in Peking".

actors participating in this work include Yu Hewei , Yang Yang , Yin Fang , Wang Jinsong , Wan Qian , Li Guangjie , etc.

Yu Hewei will play General Fang Xianjue.

undoubtedly, this is a movie that wants to cry when you hear the name. It is also the first time that Chinese movies have made such a big production and invested in the form of war blockbusters to present the "Hengyang Defense War".

I dare to assert now that once the film is released, it will definitely become the king of the new war movie.

But king is just a part of the value of the movie.

The greater significance is that the movie will use scenes to restore the vast and magnificent legend of the Anti-Japanese War in history, and bring the audience back to 1944, the famous city of Hengyang, which was bombed by the Japanese army and left only scorched earth.

1. Story: Why is this "Moscow Defense War" in China so amazing?

How great is the battle in Hengyang? Chairman Mao Zedong personally wrote an article after the battle, saying highly that "the defenders who stood firm in Hengyang were brave and the people of Hengyang made great sacrifices."

So, how did Chairman Mao fight the "heroic Hengyang soldiers" fight to the point where the Japanese army was puzzled? Why did the Japanese army deliberately downplay the impact of the Hengyang Battle? How did the Hengyang Battle affect the overall situation of the War of Resistance, and why did Hengyang soldiers be respectful?

1944 was at the end of their strength. They lost one after another in Pacific battlefield . In order to compete for the initiative in the battlefield, they gathered 500,000 troops to launch the "Operation 1" plan . The core goal is to first capture the southern section of the Pinghan Railway, then open up the Hunan-Guangxi and Guangdong-Han Railway lines, and destroy the Sino-US air force base.

This is the largest attack launched by the Japanese army in the history of invasion of China.Because the Japanese army placed its main offensive forces in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, it is also called " Henan, Hunan and Guangxi Battle ".

The Japanese army adopted the method of "strengthening troops and heavy attacks" and quickly occupied Zhengzhou in April 1944, and in May Luoyang and Xuchang were also lost one after another.

html Changsha fell in mid-June. According to this history, director Kong Sheng once filmed a classic anti-Japanese drama, " Fighting Changsha ".

In the play, Fang Xianjue is Li Peiming .

Changsha lost, and the Japanese army directly pointed to Hengyang. The battle to defend Hengyang is about to break out. On the eve of the war, the Japanese commander Hengshan Yong swore: "You can take Hengyang effortlessly."

On June 1, 1944, Fang Xianjue, the commander of the 10th Army, led his troops to Hengyang City, and immediately set out to let residents inside and outside Hengyang City evacuate from Hengyang by train, and then accelerated the pace to build a semi-permanent large-scale fortification group in Hengyang City. Fang Xianjue's moat was built at that time.

At this time, Hengyang has become an isolated city. The Japanese army will pay an unexpected price in this battle and launch three huge offensive operations through repeated increase in troops.

htmlOn June 25, the 68th Division crossed the Xiangjiang River in Dongyang, and the 116th Division arrived in the western suburbs of Hengyang on June 27 and 28. The support force also entered the northern part of Hengyang on the 27th. Hengyang is surrounded in the southwest, west and east. The Japanese army not only invested in the Kwantung Army's elite, but also transferred two mechanized divisions in the future, determined to win.

The first place where the battle started was Wuguiling outside Hengyang City. The Japanese army sent cannons and planes to bombard them in turn. A shell fell to the gate of the defending command post. Fortunately, the dud . The Chief of Staff proposed that the command post should retreat to a safer place, but Fang Xianjue said: "We cannot retreat, we must live and die with the position."

Starting from June 28, the Japanese army began to formally attack Hengyang, and violently bombed Hengyang's West Bus Station, West Railway Station, and the main position of Wuguiling in Hengyang, and used any means to use poison gas bombs and incendiary bombs.

The result is that the division commander and chief of staff of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army were seriously injured. The division commander Lieutenant General Saku died during the transport. The 10th Army guarding Hengyang was destroyed and remained unmoved.

htmlOn July 11, Japanese reinforcements launched a second attack on Hengyang after arriving on the battlefield.

This time, the Japanese invaders added four heavy artillery brigades and two mortar brigades, and concentrated on destroying 140 aircraft from our side. Then a large number of shells were poured into Hengyang. The entire Hengyang turned into a sea of ​​fire, and countless houses collapsed in an instant, and the number of casualties of the 10th Army was close to 4,000.

But after several days and nights of melee, the defenders still destroyed more than 8,000 Japanese troops, and almost all the middle-level commanders of the Japanese army were replaced.

The battle was shocking and the world was so heartbroken that the Japanese army threatened to "capture Hengyang in three days", but the more difficult it was to fight, and the more troops they were, the more they were, the more they were. The more they were injured and half of the defenders in Hengyang City suffered casualties. Not only did they have enough ammunition and rescue, but they even had a problem with the supply for food, but they remained unmoved.

On August 2, 1944, the Japanese army began its third general attack, investing a total of 110,000 troops, while the Hengyang defenders had only more than 7,000 people, and most of them were wounded. But every time the Japanese army captured a place, they suffered heavy losses.

In the end, the Chinese army resisted the 110,000 well-equipped Japanese troops with 17,000 soldiers and more than 4,000 Hengyang people, and held on for 47 days.

The Battle of Hengyang has become the longest battle for the city in the eight years of the War of Resistance against Japan, with the largest casualties between the enemy and us, and the most tragic battle.

Because the Japanese army fought in a very embarrassing battle in Hengyang, the original combat plan could not be completed at all, exacerbating the crisis of Japanese cabinet , and Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo was forced to step down.

Although Hengyang was eventually lost, this is not a crime of war. In the absence of any advantage in all aspects. The Hengyang Defense War not only defended the dignity of Chinese soldiers, but also boosted the morale of the War of Resistance.

Every inch of land destroyed by Japanese artillery fire has become a footnote to the spirit of the Chinese soldiers' war of resistance.

undoubtedly, the protagonist of the story is not an individual, but a collective, which is what the screenwriter said, "We named this movie "Reinforcements Arrival Tomorrow", using this battle example to vividly interpret the great patriotic spirit of the Chinese people for the dignity of the Chinese nation, "using our flesh and blood to build our new Great Wall" ."

Yes, this is a story that is enough to achieve a great war movie. Next, let's look at the screenwriter, Liu Heping.

2. Screenwriter: As long as Liu Heping, a native of Hengyang, performs normally, it will be the ceiling of domestic war films

. In this city that created the great history of the War of Resistance Against Japan, how many stories did Liu Heping, in his youth, heard about that battle, and how everything in that battle affected this future screenwriter of domestic historical dramas?

The only thing that is certain is that after completing at least three top works of domestic historical dramas, Liu Heping finally felt that it was time to write the story of this hometown.

Many people know that Liu Heping is a national first-class screenwriter and has won numerous awards, but in fact he is also a historian. He grew up in a theater and his first history book he studied was "Imperial Criticism Zizhi Tongjian". It is precisely because his screenwriter always truly learns from history that his historical dramas reveal a unique sense of heaviness and depth.

His long historical drama "Yongzheng Dynasty", which he served as the screenwriter of a film and television drama for the first time, caused a sensation across the country and stood at the peak of domestic historical dramas.

" Ming Dynasty 1566" cooperating with Zhang Li is still a top-notch work recognized by national dramas.

Although the modern historical drama "No War in Peking" written by him is average, it is also a high-scoring drama. Liu Heping used his strength to prove his profound understanding of modern history, which is definitely not comparable to ordinary domestic dramas.

But he spent four years writing scripts.

Although there is no way to see the true appearance of the script now, it is certain that with Liu Heping's style, he will definitely break through the "box office victory secret" of the war wonder created by domestic war films in the past with the war fire created by the sequel to the sky.

In this story, you must fight, you must fight. But you have to play accurately and beautifully.

Do you still remember Instructor Li in " Jinling Thirteen Flowers "?

In order to save the female student, he brought more than ten remaining brothers to ambush. Each shot was aimed at the Japanese army's vital points.

But the core of war movies is often not the guns and cannons that are shot out, but the emotions that rush in the heart.

The battle to defend Hengyang is not only impressive, but also burning passion.

There are many feats of sacrifice for justice.

For example, the Battle of Dragon and Tiger Mountain. In order to fight quickly, the Japanese invaders, who were crazy at that time, rushed to Longhu Mountain position in the suburbs of Hengyang with thick artillery fire and a large amount of poison gas as assists. In the end, the Japanese invaders were annihilated by our army. At the end of the battle, Zang Xiaoxia's company was infected with poisonous gas, and there were only 30 people left in the company. Every time the Japanese army took a heavy price to take a step forward, they had to suspend the attack.

Another example is the Chinese defending positions photographed by battlefield reporter . Hengyang officers and soldiers fought bravely to fight against the enemy in these simple fortifications made of blocks of soil and wood, making Hengyang the "Stalingrad of China."

For example, Fang Xianjue sent the "last signal" from the Hengyang defense battlefield. After the publication of " Ta Kung Pao ", it greatly encouraged the hundreds of millions of soldiers and civilians of the Allied countries that were struggling to support at that time: "After the enemy broke into the north of the city this morning, he launched a street battle in the city. My officers and soldiers were all injured and killed, and there was no more soldiers to block the attack. The vowing to repay the party and the country with one death, and to do their duty as a soldier, and never let down the great wish of the great master to be educated in his life. This signal may be the last signal, goodbye to the next life."

Undoubtedly, Liu Heping will never waste all of the above.

This ace screenwriter has always understood that only the sincere emotions of the characters are the most surging artillery fire in war works.

is a truly good war movie that can conquer the hearts of the audience with stories.

How will Liu Heping show these tragic and heroic scenes in history? Why not recall "No War in Peking".

Cui Zhongshi A life of death. When he first met Fang Mengao , he gave him nine simplest words, "Comrade Meng Ao, on behalf of the party and the organization, I will send you a wish - the flowers will grow well, the moon will be full, and people will live long."

When he finally sacrificed, there was only a bare pile of stones, which had not been repaired, and no name.

My wife was in front of the grave and her hands were trembling several times before she wiped the match. The young child asked in confusion, who is this?

The wife could only resist the grief and answer, "This is...our relative."

When Peiping was liberated and immersed in the illusion, his daughter, who was cruelly killed by the authorities at the last moment before dawn, appeared in his eyes. It was almost the only time in the whole show that it smiled from the bottom of its heart.

At this time, the whole play ends, and a few lines of subtitles are slowly released at the end of the film: I would like to dedicate this film to the unsung heroes who sacrificed their sacrifices for the liberation and independence of the Chinese nation.

The heroic feeling of war comes to your face and is loud and loud.

Finally, the audience should still see Liu Heping’s consistent reflection on history.

The title of the video is "Reinforcements Arrival Tomorrow", but why can't Hengyang reinforcements arrive?

Although the strategic point of view of the National Army was invested in the east, south, west, and northwest directions, and was reinforcing Hengyang, because the command of the National Army was not unified and their own selfish intentions, it was unable to break through the Japanese army's blocking line. In addition, the Hunan-Guizhou Line, which ensured Hengyang's combat operations, was cut off by the Japanese army, resulting in the exhaustion of food and ammunition in Hengyang City. Fang Xianjue and his subordinate generals sent the last telegram in Hengyang, preparing to serve the country with death.

I believe that under Liu Heping's writing, this film will surely condense a deep emotional density and allow the audience's emotions to experience roller coaster ups and downs.

So many moving details and historical sighs are destined to trigger a crying storm.

My expectation is that the film will present two styles, one is a tragic and tragic battle.

A blood that is fresh and will not be covered by artillery fire and time.

What Liu Heping is best at is not to extract the thickness of history through the moment of life.

3. Actor: Yu Hewei plays Fang Xianjue, Wan Qian plays Gu Zhuyun, Wang Jinsong's acting skills are stable

If domestic war film screenwriters often worry about the audience in the past, then this should be the least worrying link.

Then next, let’s see the actors.

The first person to be hit is Yu Hewei. I believe everyone is looking forward to him playing Fang Xianjue.

Yu Hewei is good at acting in the theme of the Anti-Japanese War. Before he became famous, he had performed well in many anti-Japanese war dramas and spy war dramas.

He has performed all kinds of war dramas and military dramas.

In " Awakening Era ", he played Chen Duxiu and was excited. " On the Cliff ", his interpretation of Zhou Yi is full of magical strokes.

He will play the role of the commander of the 10th Army. This veteran who participated in the Northern Expedition, the Central Plains War, the Taierzhuang Battle, and the Changsha Battle is the most suitable.

Hengyang Defense War was the most tragic time, someone suggested to Fang Xianjue: "Commander, break through, it's still time!" Fang Xianjue said: "You can't break through. If we leave, what should the wounded soldiers do? What should the people do? The Japanese devils do not abide by the International Convention , and they will massacre the city!"

Is there a picture of Yu Hewei in your mind?

is Wang Jinsong, and this time the veteran actor plays the Hengyang defender Liu Biao.

Wang Jinsong has played the role of villain in the past, and

also played Chiang Kai-shek.

But how explosive is his acting skills in the anti-Japanese war drama? You can take a look at Ling Wenyue, a professor who played the patriotic and people-loving university. A scene before the character died heroically had a super long monologue of 17 minutes and 40 seconds.

He drew Southern Song map on the blackboard, explained oracle bone inscriptions, and finally said loudly, "I, Ling Wenyue, was born in Lanling and buried in China, I am not afraid of death!" 54-year-old Wang Jinsong, whose emotional explosive power is like a rush. With the output of powerful power, my heart was suddenly hit and I instantly got goosebumps.

17 minutes and 40 seconds of the scene, one shot passed by, and the performance was full of standing ovation.

My only expectation is his play, the more the better.

See two young actors, Yang Yang and Yin Fang. After watching Yang Yang's " Special Battle Glory ", Yin Fang's "Operation Red Sea" can be assured of their action scenes.

Finally, Wan Qian.

She should be the only one who plays Gu Zhuyun. It is indeed appropriate to play this heroine with Wan Qian's temperament. The only question is: how will Liu Heping balance the roles of several male and female protagonists.

4. Epic: To produce a new classic in the war film, we must first solve these three problems

There is a saying in the recruitment of actors in the film, "We must have service experience, and communication soldiers , artillery and engineers are given priority."

also made a special note, "Young Master is sick, don't bother with old fried dough sticks."

One sentence shows the crew's ambition to create a high-quality epic of the War of Resistance.

In the past, there were not many films that reflected the front battlefield of the National Army in the past that resisted Japan. The representative work was the movie " Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang " which performed " Taierzhuang " in 1986, directed by Yang Guangyuan, the director of the trilogy of " Decisive Battle of ".

videos respect history, objective evaluation, and are extremely artistic.

The Eight Hundred's box office in recent years has a total of 3.1 billion yuan, proving the audience's expectations for such films.

Another movie worth mentioning is " Bloody City " released in 2010, which tells the story of the Battle of Changde.

Many people remember a scene in the film now: Yu Chengwan General went to the field hospital to inspect and comfort the wounded, and wanted to shake hands with a soldier, but the result was trembling -

According to the experience of successful war films in the past, to shoot the Hengyang defense battle well, the film must solve these three problems:

first, how to shoot a big scene well.

For war films, fierce and tragic battle scenes are the common point of this type of film, especially in the Hengyang Defense Battle. How the film brings the audience back to the scene with a very persevering atmosphere. How to shoot game and decisive battles in

, present the overall situation on the battlefield, and fight in close combat, and shoot the suffocation of war, are the key points. In this regard, domestic war films have many successful precedents.

The second is how to take good photos of "little" characters.

If the video is moving, it should be shot. From the perspective of Hengyang soldiers, what will you see?

Then it depends on how directors Zhang Yang and Qin Tianzhu feel the passionate and iron will from the words, movements and expressions of the soldiers. In this regard, "Fighting Changsha" is also a good demonstration.

In addition to the determination to sacrifice one's life and to overcome all the steel will, they will also tremble their soft heartstrings in war.

Third, how to shoot the great patriotic spirit of "building our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood".

The battle of Hengyang made the Japanese confused for half a century. In 1994, when a Japanese veteran who participated in the Battle of Hengyang visited China, he asked Fang Xianjue’s subordinates: “Why are the highlands of Zhangjiashan and Wuguiling in Hengyang so difficult to attack?”

The veterans of the 10th Army smiled slightly: “You go and ask General Fang Xianjue!”

History has passed, and "Reinforcements Arrival Tomorrow" is to supplement the history engraved on the stone tablet to a more complete and richer one - there is such a group of people who were attacked by artillery fire, attacked by poisonous gas, besieged by enemies ten times their own, isolated and helpless, but they have never moved, because an inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood.

Fang Xianjue's sentence "This lightning may be the last lightning" was so resounding through the sky that the soldiers of the 10th Army who were sleeping in Hengyang could hear it, and we can also hear it 78 years later.

History will remember these heroes and their fearlessness and glory.

For a war film, all sacrifices, feats, and miracles cannot be just a high-profile one. It must be a realistic and shocking historical scene as the background board for the character's spirit.

Whether the audience can be impressed or not depends on whether the movie can present all kinds of thrilling moments in the story.

and how the movie is mined, the common memories and emotions of the Chinese people.

Some people stayed in Hengyang City in 1944 forever.

But the change of history is not about forgetting the past.

The Battle of Hengyang shows a national spirit and a spirit of fighting for the dignity of the Chinese nation.

The general died in hundreds of battles, the hero returned for ten years, and the martyrs sacrificed their lives for the country, and they also turned into speechless spring mud, transformed and reborn, forming a part of the spirit of the Chinese nation, .

tell the story well. Focus the lens on them.

Let the audience remember vivid and cute faces and see how a group of loyal and brave men built the Great Wall of the Chinese nation with their flesh and blood. That is the biggest victory of the film.

The battle for Hengyang defense, reinforcements never arrived, but Japan announced its surrender a year after this battle, and the Chinese nation continued.