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During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a folk song circulating around Pingshan County, a few simple sentences, worth thousands of gorgeous articles:
The last bowl of rice, sent to make military food;
The last foot of cloth, sent to make military uniforms;
The last old cotton jacket, covered on a stretcher;
The last one to kiss the flesh and blood, sent to the battlefield!
And this is also a true portrayal of the liberated areas during the Huaihai Campaign.
At that time, wherever the People's Liberation Army hit, the small carts in front of the people's support were pushed to wherever they were, and they carried provincial and borrowed rice and white noodles, but what they ate was "three red" food!
Therefore, Marshal Chen Yi said: "The Battle of Huaihai is a victory launched by a small cart!" ”
After watching "Armageddon", I knew how hard the Battle of Huaihai was fought and how hard the final victory was.
It is also the first time that I know that the villagers are pushing small carts to support the front line, and they are also in danger, they are against the guns and bullets of the national army, and they send the supplies to the front line!
This depends not only on the spirit of selfless dedication, but also on the fearless spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice for the liberation of new China!
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Before the Battle of Huaihai, at the meeting of the Political Bureau of Xibaipo of the Chinese Communists, the decision-makers once estimated that it would take up to five years to fundamentally defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries.
In fact, the Kuomintang has long lost the will of the people, and the people's hearts and minds have been broken to pieces, and they want to turn their backs on the American masters, and as a result, they still take the wrong side.
On November 6, 1948, the Battle of Huaihai was officially launched.
After 66 days of the Battle of Xu Beng, the People's Liberation Army won the battle with great sacrifice.
This is also the one in which the People's Liberation Army suffered the heaviest sacrifices, the largest number of enemies annihilated, the greatest political influence, and the most complex war style among the three major battles during the liberation period.
Regarding this battle, the filming in the play is not very grand, mainly around the Battle of Nianzhuang, closely following the pace of the soldiers of the two sides, and unfolding the plot.
Here, there is no deliberate attempt to highlight Liu, Deng, Su Yu and other god-of-war figures, and the deployment and command of the battle are also described simply and easily.
Although many netizens can't help but be critical of this, it is undeniable that this also ensures that more viewers can understand this battle.
At that time, the smooth operations in Shandong made it no longer necessary for the Chinese communist army to fight in the south.
On September 24, 1948, before Jinan could be completely captured, Su Yu sent a telegram to the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, "proposing to carry out the Battle of Huaihai immediately."
The move was endorsed by the Central Military Commission.
On November 6, after careful consideration, under the guidance of the idea of "annihilating the enemy north of the Yangtze River" and promoting the victory of a series of small-scale battles, the first phase of the Huaihai Campaign was officially launched.
As soon as the game began, Su Yu surrounded Huang Baitao in Nianzhuang, wanting to make a quick decision, and the trenches were dug into the enemy positions.
And the Nationalist side?
The generals intend to promote their ranks and get rich, but for the battlefield, everyone avoids it, and the fear of war spreads.
For many nationalist generals, the battlefield against the communist army is the execution ground, even if they occupy the advantages of strength and combat readiness, they are still afraid of going to the battlefield.
Originally, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to appoint Bai Chongxi as the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Xu Beng.
However, Bai Chongxi himself was not optimistic about this battle, so he avoided the battle and refused to take over the command.
At that time, Du Yuming was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Suppression Campaign, and old Jiang had no choice but to send the pig general Liu Zhi to cover Bai Chongxi's absence.
Before Du Yuming arrived, Old Jiang had already sent a telegram ordering Liu Zhi to rescue Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps.
But until Du Yuming got off the plane in Xuzhou, Liu Zhi's rescue operation was still in preparation, and he could not wait to hand over the command to Du Yuming.
Su Yu and Du Yuming, these two sick numbers fought, it can be said that they were chess opponents, and the nerves of both sides were tense!
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Du Yuming was ordered to be in danger, but did not choose to avoid the battle, not to say that he was very sure that he could win the battle against the communist army.
He went to the front line in Xuzhou, first, to repay lao Jiang's kindness of knowledge, and second, to not leave the world with the name of greed and fear of death.
But the situation on the front line was worse than he had imagined.
Huang Baitao's 120,000 corps was surrounded in a small mill, material support was delayed, and Qiu Qingquan and Li Mi's all-American armaments and equipment to break the siege force advanced less than a kilometer a day.
In this case, of course, there are factors of the cowardice of the nationalist generals, who are frightened by the way the communist soldiers fight without life, and do not want to fight for the old Chiang Kai-shek anymore.
However, what played a greater role was the desperate obstruction of plausibility by the PLA fighters in Nakano.
At one point, the Kuomintang reinforcements dispatched aircraft, tanks, artillery, and other fine equipment.
Under the fierce attack that they could melt all the steel, Nakano's fighters used flesh and blood and earth methods to kill the enemy tanks, carry the bombing of the aircraft, and stumble on the enemy's footsteps.
They fought until the last moment, even if they let the messengers, cooks, and lightly wounded people go to the battlefield, they did not let the reinforcements advance a meter!
On the side of the national army, before the soldiers go to the battlefield, they even have to rely on oaths to restrain them, what not to desert, if there is a violation, the red cannon pierces the heart, and the male thieves and female prostitutes in the next life ...
Qiu Qingquan also smugly regarded this as his own originality, using the worst curse of being a soldier to improve the so-called morale.
In the play, ding dasheng was used to beat him in the face with the big nest of soldiers.
Such a stalemate and stalemate did not begin to be broken until both Su Yu and Du Yuming, invariably adopted the tactics of attacking the enemy's flanks and encircling them in a roundabout way.
Both sides were fighting fiercely, and both wanted to win a surprise victory through surprise attacks and forcibly occupy Pantang Town, but they did not achieve the established effect.
Su Yu immediately made a decision and chose to retreat, in the words of Chairman Mao: "If you win a war, you will fight, and if you can't win a war, you will withdraw, and the purpose of fighting a war is not face, but victory." ”
At this point, xu dong was actually defeated by the Kuomintang editors, claiming that they had achieved an "unprecedented victory."
Liu Toe, Qiu, and Li were meant to show old Chiang Kai-shek, who used public opinion to trumpet this false "brilliant victory" in order to ask for merit and reward for his American masters.
But whether it is the spoils of war put on display, or the victory of Ding Dasheng, a soldier pretending to be a prisoner of the communist army, this rumor that is more bizarre than a novel cannot be broken!
The officers he followed were either dead or captured, and he became an ominous man, isolated by his comrades-in-arms.
Let him fight he is afraid of death, retreat, lame on one leg but faster than anyone, let him carry the flag, he is afraid of becoming the target of the communist army, after all, the communist army specializes in flag bearers.
In his opinion, playing the flag is equivalent to beating a flag for himself, and within a few days of effort, he has killed five flag bearers, so who dares to go up?
Therefore, although he was forced to carry the flag by the commander with a gun, as soon as the gun sounded, he was frightened that he could not distinguish between the north and the south, so he had to take the road and flee.
It can be seen from this that the fear of war and fear of war among the soldiers of the Nationalist Army at that time spread widely.
Moreover, on the battlefield at that time, there were still more people than the soldiers he had nested.
This also shows that the Kuomintang not only lost the hearts and minds of the people in the government, but also the army had no will to fight.
Therefore, even if Huang Baitao stubbornly guarded the mill village, he did not wait for the reinforcements who should climb to the ground until he died.
However, the memorial service that Lao Jiang held for him with great mourning and honor turned out to be a mobilization meeting for him to call for "the spirit of Huangpu not to die."
Bai Chongxi watched Old Jiang make a play and ridiculed it incisively: The reason why the Huangpu spirit does not die is not because those who are willing to die for Old Jiang are not Huangpu people!
The couplet of the warning practitioners in Huangpu: Promote officials and get rich, please go elsewhere, greedy for life and afraid of death, do not enter the simen!
They were even more corrupted by them so that there were only eight words left: promotion and wealth, greed and fear of death!
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Of course, Old Jiang wouldn't have thought that when he broke his head, his mass base had long been destroyed, and he had played a good card!
He did not understand, what methods did Mao Zedong use to make the people willingly die for him? Wherever their troops fight, the masses will march forward
Their own army, on the other hand, is regarded as an enemy by the common people, and wherever they go, the people will hide their grain in advance.
He flew out and threw bombs at the carts and civilians in front of him.
But even if he killed people, burned cars, and destroyed food and supplies, he could not resist the footsteps and confidence of the people to support the front line.
They have just been allocated land in the land reform movement, and they have their own destiny, even if they fight to the death, they must protect the hard-won fruits of victory.
There was no grain and no carts, and they sold their labor and sold hard work to the nearest and the villagers borrowed.
To this end, they even hesitate to use the land certificate attached to their hearts as collateral.
In the end, they braved the gun blockade of the Kuomintang and ate red sorghum themselves, red peppers and carrot pickles, but sent rice and white noodles to the front line battlefield.
And that's not all, they also have to apply to stay in the army, even if it's just to help with cooking and carrying stretchers.
Therefore, whether it is Wang Cuiyun in the early stage or the old uncle here, it is not a fictional meaningless small role.
They may not have an exact archetypal figure, but they represent thousands of ordinary and extraordinary people in the front and logistics.
What is fascinating about "Armageddon" is that these flesh-and-blood characters are used to promote the course of the entire historical event.
When the country is faced with a choice between two destinies, individual fate and historical choices inevitably blend together, and the magic weapon for the PLA to win is to choose the path chosen by the people.
Therefore, the folk songs of the War of Resistance once again echoed on the battlefield of liberation.
Only this time, the people have a new choice.
They smashed pots and sold iron to support liberation, and really dedicated the last bowl of rice, the last foot of cloth, and the last old cotton jacket to the People's Liberation Army, which could make them masters of their own homes.
In order to make a complete map of New China, they not only sent the last flesh and blood to the battlefield, but also fought as father and son soldiers.
Therefore, even if Old Jiang had Huang Baitao, a fierce general who was willing to fight for him to the end, and there were countless Huangpu practitioners of the Concubine Lineage, he still had an advantage in vain, and it was still difficult to be a downward trend.
At the founding ceremony, Chairman Mao shouted "Long live the people", and it was precisely because the choice of the masses of the people determined the victorious situation of the war.
Those who disobeyed the will of the masses of the people either gathered in the "Gongdelin" or cowered on the island!