The movie " Changjin Lake " based on the Eastern Front of the Second Battle to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Battle of Changjin Lake has received rave reviews since its release.
"Changjin Lake" is directed by Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, Lin Chaoxian, led by Wu Jing, Yi Yan Qianxi Hu Jun, and Hu Jun_, the main actors Zhu Yawen, Duan Yihong, etc., and the attentive audience found that the screenwriter of this movie, is 兰晓龙.
Many well-known excellent military works were made by Lan Xiaolong. Among them, the most famous are undoubtedly "The Line of Life and Death", " My Commander My Group " and "Soldier Assault".
Lan Xiaolong’s works have one characteristic: the story lines of each work are independent and connected to each other. The fake leader in "My Leader My Group" is called Dragon Article , and "Life and Death Line" "There is also a dragon article.
The dragon article in "Head of the Head" has been strayed throughout his life. After hearing the anti-Japanese story of "Dragon Article" (the dragon article in "The Line of Life and Death"), he decided to become a soldier and changed his name to Long Article.
And "My Captain, My Group" has a certain connection with "Soldier Assault". The TV drama version of "My Captain, My Group" ended abruptly after the battle of Nantianmen , but In the original novel, the story does not end there.The head of the group was killed, Milong was killed, he broke his leg to beg home, and Ah Yi committed suicide. Most of the "cannon fodder" ended up not very well.
Compared with these difficult brothers, the "little grandfather" Meng annoyed has a relatively better ending. He was captured by Niu Tengyun, a small soldier of the seven company in the Liberation War, and became the 600th " steel seven company" This soldier was tired of fighting with the Seventh Company. After the war, he returned to Zenda where he lived with his brothers in the "Cannon Fodder Regiment" but survived.
Then in "Soldier Assault", and Xu Sanduo also joined the "seventh steel company" and became the 4956th soldier.
In the movie "Changjin Lake", the company where the protagonist is located is also called "Seven Company", and each soldier will report that he is the soldier in the Seventh Company. This is the same as "My Regiment" and " The seven companies in "Soldier Assault" are consistent.
According to the timeline of "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", Mengfan joined the Seventh Company after being captured. The specific time when he became the 600th soldier of the Seventh Company was not written, but when Mengfan was captured, the Kuomintang army had already Shows a look of defeat. From this point of view, this time should be the end of 1948 or the beginning of 1949.
And Wu Qianli joined the Seventh Company and became the 677th soldier to participate in the second battle of to resist US aggression and aid Korea was at the end of 1950. On the timeline, it happened to be the 600th soldier Mengfan and the 677th soldier Wu Wanli. Corresponds well enough.
From the director Lan Xiaolong, to the title of "Seven Lian", to the correspondence on the timeline to the overlap of various details, the story of "Changjin Lake" is hard not to let people compare it with "The Line of Life and Death" Linked with "My Team Leader, My Team".
From "The Line of Life and Death" to "My Commander, My Regiment", and then to "Soldier Assault", Lan Xiaolong's works show readers a group of Chinese soldiers who have been in Struggling in the confusion, the final process of transformation.
But from a series of emotions such as "decadence, confusion, unity, rising, disillusionment" in "My Commander, My Group" to "Non Abandon, Don't Give Up" in "Soldier Assault",This change is a bit abrupt, and it feels like something is missing, but now, this missing part is precisely supplemented by "Changjin Lake".
Chinese soldiers
From "Life and Death Line" to "My Regiment Commander", to "Changjin Lake", and then to "Soldiers Assault", this line runs through almost the entire 20 In the timeline of the century, these stories told by Lan Xiaolong revolved around one core: Chinese soldiers.
Among these stories, the timeline of "Life and Death Line" is the most advanced, in 1938. "Life and Death Line" tells the story of some people who took up arms and fought with the Japanese army after their homes were occupied by the Japanese army. When the Japanese army came, the people in the story were soldiers, teachers, farmers, and coachmen. After their homes were invaded, their relatives and friends were slaughtered, they gathered to fight against the Japanese army. At this moment, they acquired a new identity: Chinese soldiers. .
At the beginning of the story of "Life and Death" in 1938, the famous Chinese historian Mr. Lei Haizong published a book called " Chinese Culture and Chinese Soldiers ".
At that time, the Anti-Japanese War broke out and the anti-Japanese national united front was established. On the battlefield, the Japanese army still had the advantage, but in certain battles, the Chinese army could also defeat the Japanese army, such as Pingxingguan, Taierzhuang, Wanjialing, etc.
China and Japan are in a stalemate, and the Chinese army can sometimes fight a good battle, but at this time the Chinese army gives people a feeling: 's combat effectiveness is extremely unstable.
Faced with the iron feet of the Japanese invaders and the repeated defeats of the Chinese military in foreign warfare since the Opium War, Mr. Lei Haizong used this book "Chinese Culture and Chinese Soldiers" to try to give it a lesson from the perspective of culture and military system. Since modern times, and even in many times in ancient times, the reason for the decline of the Chinese army's combat effectiveness.
Lei Haizong’s writings are more about the dynasty of ancient China. During the period, various restrictions on the army by the ruling class caused the overall decline of the Chinese army’s combat effectiveness.As a master of the feudal dynasty, the Qing Empire’s combat effectiveness has been on the decline since entering the Pass. Emperor Qianlong completely and pacified Junggar. There has been no war in the Qing Empire for decades, and its military battles have accelerated. However, the world is different. At one end, the European powers formed their own set of military theory while completing the industrial revolution. When the corrupt Qing imperial army encountered such a Western army, the result was undoubtedly a complete defeat.
With the disintegration of the Qing empire, civilian armed forces rose up in various places, and people of all kinds formed a variety of armed forces. The composition of these armed personnel was uneven, so the combat effectiveness of each armed force was also different, which made it at that time China presents a situation in which the civilians have "adequate military ethics", but the army is not fully organized, and the entire country cannot form a stable combat effectiveness.
When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, China did not achieve unification. There were many large and small armed forces on the land of China. These armed forces have different positions, but most of them can achieve unification on national justice issues such as fighting the Japanese invaders. This is the "Life and Death". The status quo of China and Chinese soldiers (some even called "soldiers") in Thread: Faced with the iron shoes of the Japanese invaders, all kinds of people took up all kinds of weapons and went in a variety of ways. To resist the invaders, in such armed struggles, they have formed various tactics and theories, but most of these armed forces are very loose. Although there is blood, it is difficult to condense into an overly powerful combat force.
"The Line of Life and Death" shows the first face of the Chinese soldiers.
Confusion, chaos, rise and disillusion
The opening of "The Line of Life and Death" introduces a relatively quiet town, which was later broken by the Japanese invasion, and then people of all colors took up weapons to fight. Japanese invaders.
And "My Team Leader, My Team" showed a kind of chaos from the beginning. In the small town called Zenda in the southwest, a group of defeated soldiers gathered in the same way as the line of life and death. The group of people who were originally engaged in various jobs and took up arms to resist after the invaders arrived are different. From a legal point of view, these people can all be called "soldiers". They have military ranks and original troops, but they are the first Debut,Except for Ayi, no one is like a soldier (but Linyi is the only one of these people who have never fought): Toma often finds people to fight, not to bet on money all day long, and the business of Milong is well-established. At the beginning, Hao Junyi could not save a person and was ridiculed as a veterinarian.
And the "little grandfather" who later became the 600th soldier of the Seventh Company, Meng Fan, was originally a patriotic student who wanted to fight the Japanese invaders with a passion. After a long period of defeat and loss, he became extremely decadent, but behind The story tells us that his patriotic enthusiasm has not been completely killed by reality, what he lacks is only that hope.
This group of soldiers who had become numb in the long war was thrown in a foreign country. When they arrived in Burma, the British army and Chinese Expeditionary Force had already begun to retreat, and no one cared about them.
They were thrown to a place where there is no hope, and there are many soldiers who are hopeless like them.
In such a desperate situation, a person who claimed to be their "group leader" suddenly walked out. He organized the group of rout soldiers in an absurdly incredible way, but more importantly, he gave these People hope.
As the plot unfolds later, the "leader" of the Dragon article is fake (in fact, the name is also fake), and the hope he brought to the "cannon fodder group" is true or not, and there is no definite answer. Dragon article I was bored with the "little grandfather" Meng and there was no hope of discussing it many times, but each time there was no result.
Long article organizes these people in his own way, so that they can become an army again, and it is a force that can truly fight against the Japanese invaders.
They regained their courage through the coaxing of the head of the dragon and the hopeless hope, and they became life and death brothers in the mocking and scolding between each other. They are brave, they are witty, they are united, and they are tough, They made great achievements in the battle of Nantianmen.
The TV drama version of "My Leader My Group" came to an abrupt end after the Battle of Nantianmen, and the ending in the novel was even more cruel.After the First World War in Nantianmen, Milong eagerly killed a nephew of an official and was executed. The head of the regiment died because he refused to fight the civil war. During the battle, Bu La was blown off his leg. He begged for food while jumping back to Hunan. Hometown.
"The old lady" Meng Fan was captured in the Civil War and became the 600th soldier of the Seventh Company. When he acted with the Seventh Company, there was a fortress that could not be attacked for a long time. When he went to persuade him to surrender, Ah Yi ordered his subordinates to surrender, but he shot himself.
The cannon fodder regiment and their experience is another epitome of China and Chinese soldiers of that era. It was difficult for the Chinese government of that era to organize Chinese soldiers efficiently. The quality of Chinese soldiers and their combat effectiveness depend to a large extent. For their commander, encountering an excellent commander like Long Wen, the Chinese soldiers can also explode with strong combat effectiveness, but after the death of the regiment commander, the cannon fodder regiment was also scattered.
"My Regiment Commander, My Regiment" tells the story of another Chinese soldier: , a fake commander and a cannon fodder regiment.
The setting of the characters in "The Commander" is particularly ingenious: the commander who gives hope to the desperate soldiers and leads them to fight the invaders is a fake. In real history, there are tens of thousands of Chinese expeditionary soldiers. There was no team leader (either true or false) in Burial Savage Mountain that said to them: "Go, I will take you home" , and there was no one in the subsequent Battle of Songshan (the prototype of the Nantianmen Battle) The advance team blew up the enemy command post to gain an opportunity for the follow-up troops to attack. The tragic degree of the Matsuyama battle was rare in the world. The ratio of casualties between the Chinese and Japanese armies exceeded 10:1.
Long article, the setting of the identity of the false head also reflects the absurdity of the social environment at that time.
At that time, China and Chinese military personnel also showed such a state in general: they lacked unified leadership and organization (even if they existed, they were very inefficient, and even existed in name only), and people formed small communities. If these small communities The leader of the company is excellent. This small community can also do a good job, but all of this is extremely unstable. It is difficult for the power of these small communities to really converge in one place.Form a torrent.
This is the Chinese society at that time: long-term chaos and disorder coexist with occasional splendor. The cannon fodder regiment is also the epitome of Chinese soldiers at that time: They are brave, but they are confused. They can be inspired by hope, true or false. Great courage and strength erupted, and then went through disillusionment and continued to be confused.
And the second male number of the story, the man who was later responsible for the connection and became the 600th soldier of the Seventh Company, was bored. His name itself has a certain meaning. At that time, both Chinese and Chinese soldiers, , were tired of it. With this kind of life, they have long been bored.
Transformation
The time span between "Soldier Assault" and "My Commander, My Regiment" spans half a century. The Seventh Company only flashed past in "The Commander", but "Soldier Assault" mainly Started around Qilian.
In a sense, "Soldier Assault" tells a story of transformation: Soldier Xu Sanduo has transformed from an inferior peasant child into an excellent soldier. There are many factors that help him complete this transformation. Spirit: Not abandoning, not giving up is one of them.
But if you connect "My Captain, My Regiment" and "Soldier Assault", you will find that more than a dozen companies have completed the transformation, and there are also seven companies and all the Chinese soldiers it represents.
In "The Captain", the emotional background of each character in the story is confused. They are brave and they are good at fighting, but most of them don’t know why they want to fight. The fake leader often says: " I just want to make things the way they should be".
But what is supposed to be, the Long article probably knows, and whether the cannon fodder who is bored knows, this is a difficult question to answer.
The head of the dragon article gave hope to the cannon fodder in various ways, telling them what things should be like and why they should go to war. With the insistence of the head of the dragon, the "cannon fodder" became brave.And they were good at fighting. They won a tragic but beautiful battle at Nantianmen.
But after that battle, do the former "cannon fodder" know why they fought? Do you no longer feel confused?
may be, maybe not, but the answer is probably no.
In the story of "The Commander", Qi Lian only has a small amount of pen and ink at the end of the story. Except for Meng Annoyed, it basically only shows Niu Tengyun, a young soldier who has captured Meng's annoyance.
The little warrior Niu Tengyun seems to know nothing, but he is full of vitality. It is in stark contrast to Mengfan, who knows everything but is always confused, but it is this vitality, this vitality is more important than many things, as The reason why the Communist Party will defeat the Kuomintang repeatedly stated by Long Wenwen and Mengfan: The young must defeat the old.
The ending of the characters in "The Captain" is mostly not good, and the whole story is also depressing, but at the end of the story, Niu Tengyun, a little warrior who is too big to promote the whole storyline, appears on his body. The thing that the whole story is struggling to pursue: is what the leader of the dragon article tried to give them, they once thought they got it but soon lost it, that looming hope.
Alexander said: "My children and grandchildren live on hope."
Loss of hope is more terrifying than loss of life.
More than half a century later, in the story of "Soldiers Assault", although the confusion still exists, it is no longer the main theme of the story. The soldiers are aggressive, and the Seventh Company is always facing comrades in arms. Do not abandon, do not give up.
Obviously, from "My Captain, My Captain" to "Soldier Assault", Chinese fighters have completed a transformation. They can be well organized, and more importantly, they No need to look for hope anymore.
"The Commander" does not hesitate to try to restore the complex human nature of every "cannon fodder",The "cannon fodder" still did not give up hope that may not exist under the pull of various human natures, but those hopes were still too small at the time, and it takes time for it to grow.
From "The Commander" to "Soldier Assault", the image of Chinese soldiers has changed a little bit abruptly. Although the huge image change can be said to be the result of time, it seems that something must always bring this Transformation makes sense, And nothing can explain this transformation better than the story of "Changjin Lake".
It is icy and snowy, lacking food and clothing, and the enemy is in front. As far as the situation is concerned, it seems that it is hard to be more desperate than this.
But even if the situation is so bad, the soldiers still rely on the determination to defend their homes, the honor of the soldiers and the sincere feelings between their comrades to overcome the wind and snow, defeat the powerful enemy, and the transformation comes quietly in the wind and snow. For those who are in the cold For the Chinese soldiers who charged in the wind, there was nothing in the world that could defeat them.
It is precisely with this spirit that even if there are only 3 soldiers left, the Seventh Company can be rebuilt. As long as that spirit exists, the Seventh Company will not be truly defeated. The Seventh Company is just a microcosm, inspired by that spirit. Next, it is all Chinese soldiers who have completed the transformation.
On the Gaema Plateau, the cold wind continues, and the Changjin Lake is covered with snow. Many styling things will be frozen like the lake water, but some things can flow all the time: that is hope, it is faith.
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