Since January this year, the domestic spy war game "Invisible Guardian" has become popular. This live-action interactive stills/film and television decryption game tells the story of Xiao Tu lurking in Japanese and puppet institutions during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Of course, the overall level of this game is very good , but the author, a military enthusiast, couldn't help but pick out some mistakes in props, and also felt that is worthy of forgiveness of - most of it is due to limited funding and borrowing existing props. In addition, it is also clarified that some of the props criticized by netizens are actually correct.
National Army and Puppet Army Military Uniforms
There is a plot in the game where Wu Mingda, an intelligence officer of the Military Affairs Bureau, rebelled, and Wang Puppet Army and spies held a banquet to welcome him. At that time, Wang Jingwei surrendered to Japan and established the Nanjing puppet government, in order to promote himself as orthodox, he deliberately basically followed the style of the military uniform of the national army. But there is one difference, that is, the hat badge has been changed from the blue sky and white sun to the outside of the blue sky and white sun, as shown in the figure below:
Wang Puppet Hat badge style
, and Wu Mingda and the puppet troops present still wear the blue sky and white sun hat badge, so it is wrong, as shown in the figure below:
Wu Mingda special
Let’s talk about the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal worn by Wu Mingda. Of course, this kind of medal is very recognizable because of its style, but as the highest honor, it is far less generous than the awards of the United States, the Soviet Union’s Venus Medal and the German Knight Cross. By 1945, only 141 were awarded, and most of them were awarded to generals and pilots. As for the middle-level officials of the Military Control Commission, there was no chance to obtain it at all, so this setting was very unreasonable.
The Blue Sky White Sun Medal, which was awarded for its meritorious service in the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1946, was either a general or a ministerial level. Therefore, in the story line of the Military Control Commission, Xiao Tu and Gao Yuan were unlikely to receive the Blue Sky White Sun Medal.
Xiao Tu and Gao Yuan received medals
Another mistake is that Xiao Tu's military uniform badge in the Military Control Commission story line was given a close-up, as shown in the figure below:
Xiao Tu's badge
obviously is the badge of the Military Control Commission organization, but it is indeed the number of the Sixth Army, and it is not clearly written which year it is used. This error is actually a bit low-level.
Japanese military uniform
Japanese consul Shio Muto often wears the uniform of a Japanese military officer invading China. Let’s consider him as an officer with his consular identity as a cover. Some people may question his big-brimmed hat , but is actually the right . He wore the Japanese "Four-Five Style" military cap - a style formulated in Meiji in 1912 (1912), and it was used until the end of World War II.
Mutou Shio's military uniform
1943, the Japanese army changed the 98-style military uniform and changed it to a three-style military uniform. The characteristic of the three-style military uniform is that the collar seal is slightly larger than the 98-style. The stars on the collar seal are nailed by the collar, and an armband is added to indicate the military rank. However, at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Shio Muto appeared in a 98-style military uniform, and cannot be considered wrong.
The collar of the three-type military uniform
The reason is that it can be seen from some historical photos that the Japanese army did not actually strictly implement the dress-up. For example, when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Anti-Fascist Alliance on the battleship "Missouri" on September 2, 1945, some were wearing style 98 uniforms, some were wearing style 3 uniforms, and some were wearing style 1940 tropical uniforms (characterized by lapels and completely exposed shirt collars). This is the case with the middle and lower-level officers.
Unconditionally surrendered Japanese army, it can be seen that an officer has a military uniform
Muto Shio actually had a mistake in dressing in his operation to lead his troops to rescue his daughter Junko Muto, that is, he still wears a big-brimmed hat. According to the regulations, he should change into a slightly hat, which is commonly known as the Japanese combat hat.
Japanese military strategist
By the way, the prototype of Muto Shio is a Japanese diplomat and spy Iwai Hideichi. He has no military position. His daughter is Jun Iwai. The name Muto Junko is not casually named, but she has never been to China.The character Junko Muto is very popular, probably because it imitates the classic plot of ancient vernacular novels: our handsome young man in white robe fights with the beautiful female general of the Fan country. The female general falls in love with our young man at first sight and finally gets married. The masses are happy about this.
Mutou Junko
Pistol
A very popular character in "Invisible Guardian", netizens gave Zhuang Xiaoman, nicknamed "Bad Woman", lurking in the Wang Puppet Secret Service. Some netizens questioned that she was not using a Japanese pistol or a retort gun. Is it a wrong setting?
In fact, this is exactly what the production team is trying to do. The old Chinese pistol models are complicated, and many famous pistols have flowed into China. All forces have not had a hard unified pistol model. Therefore, Zhuang Xiaoman uses the Browning M1900 pistol of Belgian FN, which is completely reasonable.
Zhuang Xiaoman's pistol
There are more controversies about Xiao Tu's pistol. Some netizens commented, is Xiao Tu's gun equipped with a modern pistol? It seems to resemble a domestic Type 54 pistol? However, the author believes that he should be using the M1903 pistol of Belgium FN/US Colt, which was imported from foreign countries in large quantities.
Xiaotu's pistol
And interestingly, Zhuang Xiaoman's M1900 pistol nicknamed Gunpiaozi - named after the unique pistol logo on the pistol, and Xiaotu's M1903 pistol nicknamed Continental Ruzi - named after the horse logo, which happened to be one and two horses in the old Chinese pistol rumor "One shot, two horses, three flower mouths".
M1903 pistol
Instead of questioning Xiao Tu's pistol, it is better to question Xiao Tu's gun skills. Why is Xiao Tu in most plots:
is impossible to shoot a gun, and you lose the gun with anyone, and the blade is good, and then you have no chance to use it most of the time. Only by pulling out the gun to save the heroine can you maintain a lurking appearance.
But in the last chapter, he was so good at shooting skills that he killed all directions.
Cuckold joke
The game has a cuckold story line. The main content is: Deputy Director Zheng of the Military Control Commission has a mistress, Liu Shishi, a spy agent of the Military Control Commission. In order to cover up, Xiao Tu, who was renamed Zheng Tu, was arranged to marry Liu Shishi, but in fact, Deputy Director Zheng and Liu Shishi live together. Faced with criticism from everyone, Zheng Tu spoke a classic line:
My wife, pure and clean
My father, selfless and close to women
I, Zheng Tu, did not cuckold!
Then I put on the cuckold, with a black sense of humor, and now I have been copied and pasted by netizens everywhere.
Liu Shishi
This is not a joke made up by Hu. It is indeed true in history. The prototype characters of happen to be from the Military Control Commission, including:
Deputy Director Zheng corresponds to the Military Control Commission leader Dai Li ;
Zheng Tu corresponds to the Military Control Commission general Mao Renfeng;
Liu Shishi corresponds to the military command female spy Xiang Yingxin ;
Dai Li, Mao Renfeng and Xiang Yingxin
Xiang Yingxin and Dai Li have an ambiguous relationship. Later, Dai Li arranged to marry Mao Renfeng, but still had contact with Dai Li after the marriage. Mao Renfeng endured it, but instead pretended to be generous when facing criticism that Xiang Yingxin had no apology. However, after Dai Li died in a mysterious plane accident, he began to take revenge on Xiang Yingxin and took advantage of her to see the cold and put her in a mental hospital.
Moreover, among the officials of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Dai Li, the one who succeeded Dai Li, was Zheng Jiemin, who had the same surname as Deputy Director Zheng, and might be an Easter egg hidden in the production team.
Finally, the author still believes that "The Invisible Guardian" is a masterpiece. Although there are some errors in props, it is mainly due to limited funding. After all, military history is a complex knowledge system. Even the great director Spielberg 's " Save the Soldier Ryan " and "Brothers" have many mistakes, but they do not affect the overall evaluation of these works.
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