Hanluo Village, an obscure small mountain village in southwestern Jin, is recorded in history because of a battle that took place here 77 years ago. What made it famous was the popularity of a TV series called "Prototype Processing" in 2005, which made many military history enthusiasts begin to look for its footprints. This TV series, which has been popular for 15 years and is still talked about by people, is Li Youbin's version of "Bright Sword".
In "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong led a battalion of troops to ambush three Japanese trucks in the ravine near the Huting stronghold, with about 30 Japanese officers on board. This plot, with a tight arrangement, humorous and funny character dialogue, unexpectedly hit the enemy in an ambush and caught a net of "big fish", especially the "single head-to-head" with the Japanese officers at the end is even more wonderful and pleasant.
The TV series "Bright Sword" can be said to be wonderful everywhere, step by step, so that the audience can't stop and chase to the end. What's even more amazing is that watching it "a thousand times is not tired", every time you look at it, there is a new harvest, and the role of the classic lies in this. I've watched this show no less than 20 times.
Why is this show so good? It is precisely because Li Yunlong's "artistic image" is a classic case of many outstanding generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army fighting, loving, and living, that Li Yunlong is vivid and grounded, and people can never get tired of seeing it.
The archetypal figures of "Li Yunlong" are at least the shadows of Wang Jinshan (lieutenant general), Yang Chengwu (general), Zhou Jianping (who died during the War of Resistance Against Japan), Pi Dingjun (lieutenant general), Zhong Wei (major general), and other outstanding commanders of our army.
Like the beginning of "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong killed the captain of the Sakata Wing with one cannon, which was adapted from the material adapted from the material of Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, who commanded the troops to kill the Japanese army's "Flower of Famous Generals" on November 7, 1939;
The plot of Li Yunlong, Monk, Chu Yunfei, and Sun Ming killing dozens of Japanese troops and puppet troops, including gendarmerie captain Ichiro Hirata, in Juxian Lou, is based on the fact that on May 25, 1942, the Japanese army's "Mako Advance Team" cooperated with the Japanese army's large troops, resulting in the death of Zuo Quan, deputy chief of general staff of the Eighth Route Army.
In order to avenge Zuo Quan, Ou Fufu, head of the special task force regiment of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, selected 31 fighters and, under the leadership of staff officer Liu Manhe, killed all the members of the "Yizi Advance Team" at the Dadexing Hotel in Qixian County.
Today we will focus on how Wang Jinshan, the prototype figure of Li Yunlong's ambush of the Japanese army's field observation mission in "Bright Sword," relied on his wisdom and courage to kill the Japanese army's field observation mission of more than 100 people.
Fast forward to the year 1943, a year of calamity. More than a year after the Pacific War, the Japanese offensive began to decline, and on the European battlefield, the Soviet Red Army won the victory in the defense of Stalingrad, and the arrogance of the invaders began to fade. However, the Japanese army that invaded China was full of self-confidence and full of ambition.
In October 1943, Okamura Ningji, commander of the Japanese North China Front, transferred 16 brigades from the 69th, 62nd, and 37th Divisions, plus puppet troops, totaling more than 20,000 people, and adopted the "new tactics of iron rolling three-tier positions" of iron wall encirclement, iron roll sweeping, and combing and sweeping, and swept the Taiyue anti-Japanese base area. Chiang Kai-shek also took advantage of the fire and robbery to secretly order all units of the Kuomintang army to surround the anti-Japanese democratic base areas, launch an offensive against the anti-Japanese base areas in central and eastern China, and launch a large-scale attack on our Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, setting off a third anti-communist upsurge.
Wang Jinshan, commander of the Taiyue Second Subdistrict and brigade commander of the 386th Brigade, received a handwritten letter from Liu Bocheng's division commander: "Kinshan: On the orders of the Party Central Committee, I will send you to Yan'an with the 16th Regiment to expand the troops and defend the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. At present, the Japanese Kou are concentrating heavy troops to sweep the Taiyue area, the enemy situation is complicated, the situation is tense, and we must be more careful on the road."
"On this westward journey, you are fighting independently, and under the condition that the enemy is outnumbered and the timing changes rapidly, and the superiors are unable to give timely guidance, we must give play to the fine tradition of our military's decisive behavior."
Master Liu's letter makes it very clear that you must lead the troops to Yan'an, how to go, how to deal with the complicated environment and the enemy situation, you have the final say.
After wang Jinshan consulted with Chen Geng, commander of the Taiyue Column, Commander Chen warned him: Try to avoid engaging the enemy as much as possible, and when encountering the enemy, you should fight quickly, make a quick decision, and leave quickly, focusing on hurrying the road. Chen Geng's three "speeds" were already very clear, and Wang Jinshan said that he would do it completely according to Commander Chen's instructions.
There was also news that made Wang Jinshan feel comfortable, that is, his beloved wife Han Xiuyan and his lovely daughter Wang Suhong went to Yan'an with him, of course, the burden on his shoulders was heavier.
On October 18, Wang Jinshan led the 16th Regiment and a group of cadres and their families who had been transferred to Yan'an from Hengshui Village in Changzi County, crossed the two enemy blockade lines of Tongpu Road and Fenhe, and approached Linfen, where the former enemy headquarters of the Japanese army was located.
Wang Jinshan asked more than 1,000 people to take off their military uniforms and dress up as ordinary people, and arrived at Han Luo Village on the 22nd.
As soon as Wang Jinshan arrived at Han Luo Village, he felt that this place was a good place to fight ambushes, first of all, the terrain. About 2,000 meters southwest of Hanluo Village, there is a 500-meter recess, lined with steep walls, about ten meters high, and seven or eight meters in the low place, and the width of the concave road below only allows one car to pass, and this recess is a section of the road to the outside world.
In such terrain, if the troops are ambushed on both sides of the steep slope, let alone machine gun grenades, even if they throw stones down, they can also kill one-fifth of the enemy.
And then the surroundings. About 500 meters from this tunnel is a turret built by the Japanese army in 1939, and there is a small group of Japanese troops living in the turret, and coincidentally, this bunker is obscured by the wind outlet wall, and the enemy in the bunker cannot see the steep slopes of the two concaves.
Hanluo Village
After these two points were in line, Wang Jinshan decided not to leave, and he wanted to go to "investigation and research." See what the mass base is here? Let's see if there is "oil and water" on this road.
When all was said and done, Wang Jinshan asked the troops to hide and go reconnaissance on their own.
Wang Jinshan saw a fellow selling tofu at the edge of the village who stopped here, so he went up to talk: "Fellow, I buy a piece of tofu." ”
The fellow stared at him for a moment and said, "You're a foreigner, right?" Sit down and rest your feet. ”
People who grew up in the countryside know that rural people have deep nostalgia, and the three miles and five townships know each other, and if there is no introduction and introduction by the locals, it is difficult for you to mix here.
Wang Jinshan was born in the countryside and certainly knew this. He sat side by side with his fellow countrymen and lit a cigarette for him to smoke, and this time you know the importance of smoking.
I remember that Chairman Mao once told He Zizhen the reason why he smoked: First, when dealing with people, he used "cigarettes" as a kind of "prop" to facilitate communication; second, others smoked you do not smoke, it seems to be foreign; third, smoking can prevent mosquito bites.
Fellow villagers smoked cigarettes lit by Wang Jinshan, and a look of joy appeared on their faces, and Wang Jinshan asked, "Fellow, is this tofu easy to sell?" Who's in the family? ”
The fellow said, "Hey, these years and months of soldiers are in chaos, it would be nice to survive, I am a farmer in a neighboring village, and everyone in my family has called the devil to kill." I said, don't hide from me, I know you're a good person when I look at it. ”
Wang Jinshan was even more distressed, saying, "I am the Eighth Route Army." ”
The fellow said, "That's great! We all support the Eighth Route Army here, and the little devils are so bad that we all hate them to death. Beat them up and make us happy. ”
When Wang Jinshan heard this, he thought to himself: The mass base here is good, and the third condition has also been met. He said to his fellow villagers, "I want to go into the village to feel the situation, can you lead the way?" ”
The fellow said, "No problem, but you have to carry the tofu burden to me." ”
Wang Jinshan carried the burden of tofu and followed his fellow villagers into the village. When I met the villagers, I said: "My waist flashed a little, so I had to let my distant relatives help pick tofu. ”
While selling tofu, they chatted with the villagers and found a lot of information. In the end, the fellow villagers took Wang Jinshan to a family, made a look at Wang Jinshan, said that it was not early in the morning, the waist was better, and he carried the almost empty tofu burden and left.
Wang Jinshan understood and entered the family's house. Here is the secret contact point for the local party organization in this village. Sun Minglie, director of the Armed Forces Commission, briefed Wang Jinshan on the situation.
From Sun Minglie's mouth, Wang Jinshan knew the basic situation of the Japanese transport troops.
First, the mass base here is good, the enemy has its own people in each stronghold, and what the enemy does will be known at the first time;
Second, the enemy was relatively paralyzed in this place; every morning there were several cars, laden with supplies, driven from Linfen under the cover of a small number of troops, passing through the village of Hanluo to support the enemy who was carrying out the "sweeping"; in the afternoon, they returned to Linfen with the property they had stolen from our base area, and harassed the people along the way.
Third, the enemy is arrogant because they have never been picked up, plus there are more enemy turrets around them.
After doing this investigation, Wang Jinshan was full of confidence and must "put on lipstick on the old lady - give him some color to see!" ”
Chang Xiangkao, the political commissar of the 16th Regiment, and Yuan Xuekai, the acting regimental commander, both agreed with the brigade commander's opinion, and a battle that was about to enter the annals of the History of the Chinese Revolution began.
Lieutenant General Wang Jinshan
Finally, Wang Jinshan concluded: "This should be a 'warm-up race' for us to defend Yan'an, using favorable terrain to fight a quick ambush battle, remember Commander Chen's instructions, grab a handful and leave!" ”
Liu Bocheng, the "god of war," said: "The five elements are uncertain, and the loss is clean." The "five elements" refer to the task, the enemy's situation, our feelings, the place, and the time.
Wang Jinshan has great respect for Liu Bocheng, and what he says to Liu Shuai is also repeatedly pondered and applied. Regarding the "five elements" that Liu Shuai said, Wang Jinshan analyzed them one by one:
Mission - fight ambush battles;
Hostility - clear;
I love - morale is high, up and down concentric;
Location - blessed;
Time - also have to be carefully considered.
In order to further implement the various situations, Wang Jinshan and his regimental and battalion cadres continued to dress up as local farmers, cloth shoes, and carry firewood to find out any small situation. Because "everything is predetermined, and if it is not predetermined, it is abolished" also.
After figuring out the detailed enemy situation and terrain, he decided to move.
Wang Jinshan began to deploy the task, issuing an order: "First transfer the cadres' families and accompanying heavy loads to the complete area, leaving the fourth, fifth, and sixth companies of the second battalion and the fourth company of the ninth company of the third battalion to carry out ambush tasks." ”
In general, one company has about 90 to 100 people and four companies has about 360 to 400 people. That is to say, the number of people who went to fight the enemy convoy was about 400 people.
After that, Wang Jinshan made a pre-war mobilization of the cadres and fighters who participated in the war: to fight here, the advantage is that under the eyes of the enemy, the enemy can not think of it at all, plus the terrain, the support of the local guerrillas and the masses;
The disadvantage is that once a fight breaks out, if a quick battle is not resolved, the enemy's reinforcements will be quick. Therefore, what we have to do is to strictly keep secrets beforehand, and we must rush and hit hard when fighting, and we must fight quickly and close quickly. We must fight a beautiful victory and present a gift to Chairman Mao to the Party Central Committee.
The specific deployment is: the Ninth Company, with a platoon of troops, with the cooperation of the militia, controls the enemy's artillery towers;
The remaining two platoons of the Ninth Company ambushed the enemy's "head" at the head of the village;
The fourth and fifth companies ambushed behind the two slopes of the highway and hit the enemy's "waist";
The six companies finally blocked the enemy's "ass", and when the enemy entered the ambush circle, they immediately tightened their pockets.
At 4:00 a.m. on October 24, 1943, when everything was silent, all the troops entered their predetermined positions.
The wait is long and painful: unable to move, long time, numb legs and feet; eyes staring hard, long time, the eyeballs are astringent; unable to speak, holding the mouth sticky; and the stomach, also grunting "revolution".
As Einstein said: When you talk to a beautiful girl, time flies by; when you sit alone by the tea stove and wait, time passes too slowly, which is the "theory of relativity".
Makes so much sense! But for these revolutionary fighters, who have a firm faith and determination to win, nothing is out of the question.
At about 9 o'clock after more than 5 hours, the enemy's 13 cars finally swung over. The enemy behaved, as the Japanese army's "flower of fame" Norihide Abe wrote to his eldest daughter Noriko when he set out on expeditions in November 1939: Fighting in China was leisurely and fun.
At this time, the Japanese army, without any defense, was still talking and laughing in the car, eating sea plugs, and being a full ghost was better than a hungry ghost.
As the two flares took off, the sixth company took the lead in firing heavily at the rear of the enemy convoy with grenades and grenadiers, and the two cars behind them caught fire and exploded, blocking the enemy's retreat, and they became "turtles in an urn."
Almost at the same time, all the fighters fired at their positions with submachine guns, grenades and other weapons. The enemy is really well trained, organizing a revolt on the spot, even if attacked without preparation. Wang Jinshan immediately ordered everyone to rush up and fight with bayonets, which was the real "hand tearing devil."
The battle lasted for nearly an hour, and finally almost all the enemies were killed.
Everyone quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and too many were captured.
Wang Jinshan said, "Pass on my orders, march in a hurry, and set off at once!" ”
Wang Jinshan did not forget the support of Sun Minglie and thanked Sun Minglie, and the way of thanks was that the rest of the battlefield was cleaned by them.
Wang Jinshan led his troops to the west, and the battle was summarized as he walked.
Chief of Staff Linkoff reported: "This ambush lasted about 3 hours, and more than 120 enemies were annihilated except for 3 people who escaped. We seized 1 Type 92 heavy machine gun, 2 crooked light machine guns, 3 grenadiers, more than 80 rifles, and destroyed 13 cars. ”
Wang Jinshan said: "This group of Japanese troops seems to be particularly fierce, and most of them wear command knives, and their identities seem to be unusual!" ”
Wang Youliang then said, "Brigadier General, I really guessed you!" I just saw a captured document, and found out the identity of the enemy who was beaten, hey, it's not an ordinary Japanese army, the leader of the team is a major general brigade commander, there are 6 Big Sasa united team battles, the rest are all some squadron-level officers of the Japanese army. ”
Wang Youliang was right in saying that this group of people was the member of the "field watch group" that Okamura Ningji had invited the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters to send people to visit his "new tactics of the iron rolling three-tier position.", and he did not expect to directly hit the muzzle of Wang Jinshan's gun.
Okamura immediately mobilized more than 10 planes to track down Wang Jinshan, and drew more than 3,000 people from Linfen and several enemy troops who were "sweeping" to encircle Wang Jinshan.
Okamura gritted his teeth and said, "If you sacrifice two more squadrons, you will also eat this communist army!" ”
As a result, this "communist army" has run out of shadows.
Okamura Ningji had no choice but to "move his anger" and sent the Japanese squadron commander who was guarding the Hanluo village stronghold back to Japan with a knife, and he did not understand the hatred and removed a lieutenant general from the post of division commander.
Wang Jinshan led nearly a thousand men and horses to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution. Chief Liu Deng praised Wang Jinshan in a letter, and the Central Military Commission decided to set up a new fourth brigade, and Wang Jinshan once again served as commander.
Chairman Mao personally received the legendary brigade commander and several other cadres. Chairman Mao shook Wang Jinshan's hand and said, "I have long heard that there was a 'madman' of the Red Fourth Front, and now he has become Wuxia Amun. This ambush battle in HanLuo Village shows that you are very brave, decisive, courageous, and able to seize the fighter and fight a beautiful battle! ”
Wang Jinshan said excitedly and modestly: "Chairman of the report, I learned to fight with Liu, Deng, and Xu. ”
When it was time for dinner, Chairman Mao gladly stayed behind and dined with Wang Jinshan's new troops.
In 2005, general director Chen Jian adapted Mr. Du Liang's novel "Bright Sword" into a TV series and put it on the screen, which has been popular for 15 years and has become a classic of tv dramas with the theme of the War of Resistance.
Below, we look at how the director "violated" four points of "common sense" to make this drama enduring.
First, time.
The real situation is October 1943, and the TV series does not specifically say the time, but based on the plot, we can infer that the time is 1942.
Why?
The plot of "Bright Sword" is as follows: the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army dispatched Li Yunlong's independent regiment to defend the safety of the headquarters, Li Yunlong left a battalion to ambush in the ravine near the Tiger Pavilion stronghold, and Yamamoto Kazuki's special forces went to sneak into the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.
Based on this information, we know that Kazuki Yamamoto's special forces have not yet been wiped out. According to reality, the "Masiko Advance Team" was killed by 31 fighters led by Liu Manhe in the Daedexing Hotel in Qixian County after the death of the deputy chief of staff of Zuo Quan on May 25, 1942, and the head was cut off and hung in the city occupied by the enemy.
Second, the number of people.
In "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong led a battalion of troops, a battalion is 3 companies, and Chu Yunfei and Sun Ming of the Jin Sui Army, and the number of cars fighting the enemy is three, and the number does not exceed 40.
The real situation is that Wang Jinshan led a regiment of troops, ambushed the enemy with 4 companies, 13 vehicles to fight the enemy, and destroyed a total of 180 enemy people (120 people).
Third, the process.
Li Yunlong relied on his feelings to leave a battalion to ambush here and inadvertently caught a net of "big fish." The real situation is that Wang Jinshan, after reconnaissance, investigation, and visits, got in touch with the local party organization, and the army and the people joined hands to fight this victorious battle.
Fourth, heads-up
In "Bright Sword", when there were a few Japanese officers left, Li Yunlong let the monk and Zhang Dabiao come to a head-to-head, and the real situation was to fight quickly and leave quickly.
We say, "Art comes from life and is higher than life." What is art? Art is the expression of ornamental performance in a unique form, paying attention to the words "ornamentality" and "performance". Since it is a "ornamental performance", it must meet the psychological requirements of the audience when watching the plot.
For example, the whole 400 people, the crew box lunch management? Is the lens shining? The whole 13 cars, the convoy is too long, how much explosives are wasted to fight!
If you add Wang Jinshan's entire reconnaissance, research, and visit process, it is too protracted, so clean and sharp, very suitable for the audience's taste. If there is no "head-to-head" in the back, how will the one-hour plot be reflected?
Therefore, although the director violates the four "common senses", the "violation" is good, the "violation" is appropriate, and the "violation" is in line with the audience's psychology. Therefore, the TV series of "Prototype Processing Method" of "Bright Sword" can flourish for a long time and be popular for 15 years, and it will continue to be popular and become an eternal classic.