I don't know if it is "Yang Jia General" ah "Xue Jia General" ah such a novel has seen too much, many film and television directors today, like to show the military division commanders personally operating machine guns submachine guns on the scene, do not believe you see:
This is the scene of Hao Mengling, the commander of the army who sacrificed in 1937, in the movie "Taihang Mountain", leading the charge with a submachine gun born in 1941.
This is the scene of The Commander Ofe Ye Ting personally firing machine guns during the Anhui Incident in the TV series "General Ye Ting". The submachine gun in the stills was born nearly two years after the Anhui Incident, and the machine gun was transformed more than thirty years after the incident.
This is the scene of the military commander Shen Zhenxin holding a machine gun and leading the charge in the TV series "Red Sun". Compared with the old movie version of "Red Sun", it can be described as a wonderful to the extreme and a garbage to the extreme.
Probably in the eyes of many choreographers, whether you are a military commander or a division commander, to show his heroism and excellence, you must describe how he holds a large knife or submachine gun to fight the enemy in close combat. This seems to be becoming a kind of program.
It's asshole logic!
It is true that in the military history of the Republic of China, senior generals wielding box cannons or large blades to fight and kill, there is indeed such a situation, but that is a special situation.
What's the situation?
The first is that the Red Army in the early days had such a situation. When the Red Army was founded, its number was seriously inconsistent with its strength, and some divisions and regiments were only equivalent to today's companies and platoons. For example, when the 7th Red Army of Eyu and Anhui was first established, there were only more than seventy people, and its strength was only about half a company; when the 6th Guerrilla Division of the Hubei and Shaanxi Red Army was at its peak, it only had three squads, more than thirty people, and only a corresponding platoon. Most of the commanders and division commanders of certain military commanders in this period had their names but no facts, and often performed only the duties of grass-roots commanders, and naturally they had to personally use guns and knives to lead the team to fight.
Not only does the name not match the truth, but also because the equipment of the enemy and us in this period is backward, the firepower density is low, the command method is primitive, and the battlefield space is limited, so even if the army and division of thousands of people, when a critical situation arises, the commander of the army and the division commander personally uses the gun and the knife to fight the enemy at close range, and occasionally occurs. We cannot equate the commanders and division commanders of this period with the commanders and division commanders of the Armageddon.
The second is that there is such a situation in the old warlord forces that crisscrossed the north in the twenties. In these units, division commanders and brigade commanders are often either born in the army or from the green forest, and they cannot even understand the situation map of the enemy and ourselves, but because of the long years of conquest, their individual combat skills are quite good and very belligerent. Since the red circle and blue dao on the battle map in the command post could not be understood, when fighting, they often went to the battlefield they were familiar with and were good at to personally supervise the battle, and even personally killed. Fortunately, in the battlefield at that time, the density of firepower was also quite low, and the tearing and killing of cold weapons often accounted for a considerable proportion, so occasionally doing so could really play a considerable role in inspiring the courage of officers and men to kill the enemy, so there were similar situations in Feng Yuxiang, Zhang Zongchang, Li Shouxin, Bai Fengxiang, Sun Dianying, Liu Guitang and other departments.
The third is that it is necessary to fight in person to the point where you have to fight yourself. This is like what Sun Lianzhong said to Chi Fengcheng: "When the soldiers are finished filling in, you fill in, and if you fill in, I will fill in again." Sun was right to say so. Yang Jingyu finally used the shell gun to shoot at the enemy, it was at such a moment, Wang Jiaben finally fought with the enemy, and the battle also developed to such a moment.
In short, in the war in old China, when senior generals personally wielded swords and guns to lead the charge, first, they could only appear in such a specific battlefield environment; second, they could only appear in such a special army; and third, they could only appear in the war to such a special extent. If he doesn't have such a situation, and then does it, then he must have his head in the water. Because the commander has the post of commander and the platoon leader has the post of platoon leader, if the commander goes to the position of the platoon leader to shoot machine guns, can the division commander and regiment commander under him sit in the rear of the commander? Naturally not. But if the division commander and the regimental commander have gone to the trenches to fight the enemy with bayonets, who will command this unit?
After the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, its battlefield form was far from being comparable to that of the Red Division; not only was the number of each division and each army no longer the same as when the Red Army was founded, but the front and depth of the operation had also expanded many times; in addition, the degree of integration of the arms had also been improved, the construction of the command organs had been perfected day by day, and the means of command were no longer relying solely on taking the lead in the charge. Therefore, at this time, not only do military commanders and division commanders not need or allow them to take large knives and submachine guns into battle, but even the regimental commander cannot do this until the moment of extreme danger.
The picture above is a shot from the old movie "Red Sun", and the military commander shown in this film really looks like a military commander.
Some people may say that as an art, "On the Taihang Mountain" shows Hao Mengling, and it can better express the fearless spirit of the generals of the Nationalist Army who regard death as a homecoming. This is typical of the ignorant who make up the ignorant and guide the ignorant to show the ignorant. To portray Hao Mengling as in the movie is not an award for martyrdom, but a derogatory one. Because leaving the command post of the commander to do what a platoon leader should do is a dereliction of duty and a relinquishment of command responsibility.
The captain has the post of captain, the engine man has the post of the engine man, if the sea gun battle is at its most intense, the captain leaves his post, he has to go to the engine man to do the work of the engine man, or he has to do the work of the loader, do you say that he is still a good captain? This is true of the battleships of the Navy, and why is it not the case in battlefields where the Army is thousands and tens of thousands of times larger than the battleships?