Audiences who have watched the Peking opera "Sha Jiabang" know that the villains in the play, Hu Chuankui and Diao Deyi, are the commander and chief of staff of a certain unit of the Zhongyi National Salvation Army, respectively.
The Zhongyi National Salvation Army was a secret agent guerrilla force organized and led by the Kuomintang military organization during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and because many of its members came from gangs and three religions and nine streams, the armed forces were given a very jianghu name at the suggestion of Du Yuesheng: the Zhongyi Salvation Army.
In "Sha Jiabang", Hu Chuankui and Diao Deyi are the villains, but another detail is also explained in the play, Commander Hu was injured in the battle with the Japanese army and was saved by Ah Qing's sister-in-law, so he regarded Ah Qing's sister-in-law as a benefactor.
It can be seen that even the revolutionary model drama did not evade a historical fact: the Kuomintang military command also made outstanding achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
It may be affected by various spy dramas with a relatively low level of production and creation, and in the impression of many viewers, it is generally believed that the military command is a proper villain, and the military command agents are the most cunning, sinister and vicious enemies.
We cannot say that this impression is wrong, because in the history of military unification, the Revival Society and the secret agents of the military unification have indeed wantonly destroyed underground party organizations and killed countless underground party members, and the prisons under their command, such as the Slag Cave and the White Mansion, are even more uncompromising human magic caves.
However, we must also recognize another fact, that is, the military command made outstanding contributions in the War of Resistance, and they also made great sacrifices in the War of Resistance.
In episodes 25 and 26 of the spy drama "Rebels", the Shanghai Station of the Military Command suffered heavy losses from the Japanese army and Agent Wang Pseudo No. 76.
1, Why did the Japanese army want to eliminate the Shanghai Station of military command?
In "The Rebels", the military command Shanghai Station united with the underground party to assassinate the Japanese general Uemura Jing, and the military command Shanghai station also organized several assassinations of Chen Moqun, the director of No. 76, which made the Japanese army like a fish in the throat, and they even used diplomatic means and the threat of force to force the French to make concessions, and cooperate with the Japanese army to eliminate the military command Shanghai station on the territory of the French Concession.
The reason why the Japanese army was so eager to destroy the Shanghai Station of the Military Command was of course not to avenge and anger Chen Moqun, nor was it just for the assassination of Uemura Jing, and the fundamental reason for its action was that the Military Command Shanghai Station had caused them too much trouble and losses.
Rebels is a TV series that doesn't show much content due to its limited space. In fact, the historical military commanders organized more than 150 assassinations in Shanghai between 1937 and 1941 against Japanese officers and Wang pseudo-traitors, including Zhang Xiaolin, a tycoon of the Qing gang, Chen Zhen, the minister of foreign affairs of Wang, Li Guojie (grandson of Li Hongzhang), the mayor of Wang's pseudo-Shanghai, Fu Xiao'an, the mayor of Shanghai, Tang Shaoyi, the first premier of the Republic of China, who colluded with the Japanese, and other senior Japanese military officers Akagi Kinyuki.
Among them, the military command carried out the largest number of assassinations, of course, Wang Jingwei, the head of the Wang puppet regime, although the five assassinations of the military command failed, but Wang Jingwei eventually died of illness and died of bullets that the military command shot into his body that could not be removed.
It can be said that the assassination operation of the military command at any cost not only directly dealt a blow to the Japanese and traitors, but also suppressed the arrogance of the traitors in the enemy-occupied areas in a certain sense, brought encouragement to the masses in the occupied areas, and shocked a large number of swing elements, and its positive significance is immeasurable.
Because of this, the Japanese army and the No. 76 will eliminate the General Tonghai Station at any cost.
2. The military command made great sacrifices in the War of Resistance
In episode 26 of The Rebels, Japanese gendarmes and Agent 76 surrounded the Shanghai Station and launched a strong attack on the Shanghai Station. During the breakout, the secret agents of the Shanghai Station of the Military Command suffered heavy casualties, and most of the stations in the city were also destroyed, and a large-scale retreat and transfer had to be carried out.
In fact, Shen Drunk, one of the four great kings of the military command, once counted a number, and among the 48,000 personnel registered in the military command during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the number of personnel who died in the anti-Japanese struggle reached 18,000, accounting for more than one-third, if you count the peripheral personnel, this number will exceed 40,000.
In the past various spy dramas, the battle scenes of the military command agents in the War of Resistance war rarely became the main content, but in "Rebels", the battle and sacrifice pictures of the military command agents became an important performance content of the show, and in many episodes, its shots were even far more than the underground party, which was a respect for history and a respect for the audience.
3, "Rebel" this move is of great significance
In the 1980s, a classic film reflecting the Kuomintang's frontal anti-Japanese battlefield, "Blood Battle taierzhuang", was released, which concentrated on the achievements of the Kuomintang's Central Army, The Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, the Sichuan Army, the Lu Army, and the Gui Army in the Battle of Xuzhou.
Chiang Ching-kuo, who was then the leader of the Kuomintang in Taiwan, sent someone from Hong Kong to get a copy of the film "Blood Battle in Taierzhuang," and then he invited the elders of the Kuomintang, including Soong Mei-ling, to watch the film with the top brass. Finally, Chiang Ching-kuo came to the conclusion that there have been positive changes in the mainland's Taiwan policy, and we should respond positively to them. Soon, the two sides of the strait opened the door that had been closed for decades, and the Veterans of the Kuomintang were able to return to their hometowns to visit their relatives. The movie "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" plays a great role in it.
The spy war drama "Rebel" uses a large number of pages to describe the achievements and sacrifices of the Kuomintang military command agents in the War of Resistance, and its content accounts for a relatively high proportion, which shows an objective and rigorous historical view that is admirable, and at the same time, this TV series can even be comparable to "Blood Battle Taierzhuang" in a certain sense.