The excellent revolutionary historical drama "Red Cradle" tells the historical story of the Red Army's opening up of the Central Soviet Region in gannan and western Fujian, which lasted for five years and ten months after five anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns.
Shao Junlin, the screenwriter and chief producer of the play, said that every person and everything in "Red Cradle" respects historical truth, can withstand the test of history, and has a grand narrative, but there is no lack of vivid and touching small details.
Lao Qin is a veteran history lover, and he is naturally eager to watch such excellent plays, watch them repeatedly, linger in them, and praise them.
It must be admitted that this drama deserves the evaluation of the four words "fascinating".
But to say that "everyone and everything in the play respects historical truth and withstands the test of history", Lao Qin does not dare to agree.
For example, the image of Deng Ping, a famous warlord of the Red Army, was seriously weakened in the play.
Lao Qin's "Interception of a Letter Secretly Murdered by the Three Armies, Chairman Mao, and General Manager Peng Said: False," written yesterday, tells a small episode that occurred on the eve of the first anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign: Because there were 100,000 people coming from the enemy, Chairman Mao, as the former secretary of the General Committee of the Red Army and the General Political Commissar, demanded that the Red First Army and the Red Third Army join forces and strike the enemy with one fist, and formulated the policy of "letting go of both hands and luring the enemy to go deeper" to lead the enemy to fight in the base area. In this way, the Red Third Army stationed in Dongshanba, the capital, had to cross the Ganjiang River and join the Red First Army stationed in Huangpi. However, a large part of the Red Third Army came from Pingjiang, Liuyang, Yangxin, and Daye, and had heavy local concepts and were reluctant to cross the river, and put forward the military proposition that the First and Third Armies "sandwiched the river from east to west, and each developed its own base area."
The historical drama "Red Cradle" shows many scenes of commanders and fighters in the Red Third Army resisting the river, appealing to General Peng, making suggestions, and even making noise.
This is indeed a manifestation of "respect for historical truth".
However, the play portrays Deng Ping as the leader and leader of the opposition to crossing the river, which is very disrespectful to historical facts.
Of course, the most intolerable thing is the following incident: In order to split the Red Army, the ambitionist Cong Yongzhong stirred up the relationship between "Mao, Zhu, Peng, and Huang", imitated Chairman Mao's handwriting, and forged a letter with the content of booby-trapping Peng Dehuai and sent it to the Red Third Army.
The real history is this: The first person to intercept the letter was Zhou Gaochao, the former secretary general of the Three Corps Committee, who directly handed the letter to General Peng without passing through anyone. After Mr. Peng read the letter, he said indisputably: "Fake." "Give the letter to Teng Daiyuan, Yuan Guoping, Deng Ping, and others to circulate."
Teng Daiyuan, Yuan Guoping, Deng Ping, and others all looked at it and thought, "This is a letter that stirs up dissension." ”
However, Shao Junlin's screenwriter may have wanted to tell this historical event more brilliantly and to arouse the audience's appetite even more, so he focused on rendering, deliberately increased dramatic conflicts, and used the usual method of the screenwriters to make some adjustments to the incident: let Deng Ping read the letter before zhou climactically delivered the letter to General Manager Peng, and issued an order to stop crossing the river; when Chairman Mao came to inquire about the reason why the Red Third Army stopped crossing the river, he got off the gun of Chairman Mao's guards and detained Chairman Mao and the guards in a small black room...
Lao Qin particularly emphasized here: "Laying down Chairman Mao's guards' guns" and "shutting Chairman Mao and the guards in a small black room" are simply fictitious things; even if the screenwriters make something out of nothing, why did they arrange Deng Ping to play the protagonist of such incidents?
What kind of person was Deng Ping in history?
Lao Qin let's briefly talk about it.
Born in 1908, Deng Ping, a native of Fushun, Sichuan Province, was ten years younger than Mr. Peng, and was admitted to the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy at the end of 1926 and joined the Communist Party of China.
The cadets of the Wuhan Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy and the cadet corps were combined to form the Central Independent Division, and when the Northern Expedition fought against Zhang Zuolin's Fengzhi Army, Deng Ping participated in the battle with the division.
In 1927, after the "July 15th" incident, Deng Ping was sent by the central authorities to Hunan to carry out the military movement work of the First Regiment of the Independent Fifth Division of the National Revolutionary Army, and the main task was to inspect and mobilize Peng Dehuai, the commander of the First Regiment of the Fifth Division, to join the party.
Now people talk about Peng Dehuai's experience of joining the party, mainly thanks to Duan Dechang, but Peng Dehuai's introduction to the party is actually Deng Ping!
Peng Dehuai joined the party in April 1928, and Deng Ping presided over the party joining ceremony.
The ceremony was somewhat rudimentary, but very solemn, and Deng Ping personally painted statues of Marx, Engels and Lenin hanging on the wall.
Therefore, Deng Ping was the guide of Peng Dehuai's revolution.
Together, Deng Ping and Peng Dehuai launched the famous "Pingjiang Uprising," together leading the Fifth Red Army to counterattack the Kuomintang's suppression of the three provincial capitals, going up to Jinggangshan to join the Red Fourth Army division to jointly carry out the Jinggangshan Defense War and the creation of the revolutionary base area in the Central Soviet Region, and jointly experienced five "anti-encirclement and suppression" operations.
Lao Qin interjected here that another excellent revolutionary historical drama "Long March" starring Teacher Tang Guoqiang arranged Deng Ping's sacrifice on the strong attack on Loushan Pass, which also did not respect historical facts.
Deng Ping was actually killed by the enemy's cold bullet after conquering Loushan Pass, during the second strike of Zunyi City.
Speaking back to "Red Cradle", "Red Cradle" portrays Deng Ping as a character of "fierce Zhang Fei" and "Mang Li Kui", which is very inappropriate.
As mentioned earlier, such vicious incidents as "getting rid of Chairman Mao's guards' guns" and "putting Chairman Mao and the guards in a small black house" do not exist.
Moreover, when Chairman Mao formulated the policy of "letting go of both hands and luring the enemy to go deeper," Deng Ping was the first to jump out and support it.
At that time, some cadres and soldiers of the Red Third Army did not have enough understanding of this strategic principle and were unwilling to cross the river, and put forward a proposal to return to the Xiang'e-Gansu base area to fight.
But there was no Deng Ping among these people.
On the contrary, Deng Ping was patiently and meticulously doing the ideological work of these people, repeatedly stressing that the strategy of the Red Army should be based on the overall situation.
It was also thanks to Deng Ping's patient mobilization that the Red Third Army quickly unified its understanding from top to bottom, quickly crossed the Ganjiang River, fought with the Red First Army, captured the enemy division commander Zhang Huizhan alive, and won the first victory against "encirclement and suppression."
Finally, I would like to add that Deng Ping is not only a confidant of General Peng, but also a member of Chairman Mao's weight.
In early October 1931, when Chairman Mao was planning to establish a regular Red Army school in the Central Soviet Region, he gave this burden to Deng Ping, then commander of the Fifth Red Army, and He Changgong, then commander of the Eighth Red Army.
Deng Ping was appointed deputy chief of the Central Military and Political School and chief of education.
Therefore, Deng Ping's image was weakened in the revolutionary historical drama "Red Cradle".