The film "Song Jingshi" was released in 1955 and produced by Shanghai Film Studio.
Song Jingshi was a historical leader of the peasant rebel army active in the Luxi region during the Xianfeng and Tongzhi periods of the Qing Dynasty. According to the situation at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the screenwriters and directors at that time associated Song Jingshi's own deeds with the Anti-Qing forces such as the Taiping Army and the Twist Army of that year, which in turn made the film plot have a greater development and breakthrough.
As a historical theme film reflecting the peasant uprising, the film has a magnificent pattern, a grand scene, many characters, and the details of the war are in place. It's well worth a look for military fans.
Fragment of Song Jingshi
At the beginning of the film, the deleted "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebel Army Fengtian Qingwen" is displayed with silent subtitles, and its original text is as follows: There is a blind and distorted Mandate of Heaven, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is fengtian to beg for Hu, and the cloth is spread in all directions. To the only one who is under the heavens, the world of China, the world of non-Hu Yu; the clothing and food of China, the clothing and food of Non-Hu Yu; the children of The people of China, the children of the people, the children of the people, the people of non-Hu Yu. He blamed himself for his own misconduct, Manchuria's provocations, chaos in China, theft of China's world, seizure of China's food and clothing, and fornication of China's children and people. And China is the size of liuhe, the crowd of Kyushu, and it is not strange that China has to be human! Since Manchuria poisoned China, abused the burning sky, obscene poisoned the sky, spread fishy winds in the four seas, and the demon was miserable in the five hu, and the Chinese people bowed their heads and bowed their hearts, and were willing to be servants. Oh, no one in China!
After this passage was displayed, the first character to appear was not the protagonist or the masses, but the monk Gelinqin, who represented the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the monk's troops were defeated by the British and French forces at Bali Bridge, the Yuanmingyuan was robbed, and then the imperial court negotiated peace with the foreigners, and the monk himself was sent south of the Yellow River to encircle and suppress anti-Qing forces such as the Taiping Army and the Twist Army. Because the Qing government paid a large amount of reparations, the monk Greenqin's department could only raise grain on the spot.
In Tangyi, Shandong, when the notice of the official government to step up the grain collection was posted, the people were miserable, and at this moment, the county commander and the gentry were discussing how to squeeze the oil and water of the poor ghosts.
After these people discussed it, countless peasant families were destroyed and died...
Seeing that the officers and soldiers wantonly oppressed the townspeople, Song Jingshi, who had martial arts, could not bear it, so he took the lead in resisting grain, and rushed to the county town with a group of poor people, grabbed the neck collar of the county order, and asked him if he wanted grain. The county commander was frightened and had to compromise, and according to everyone's request, he posted a notice saying that he would no longer collect grain.
The villagers who went home were full of pride, but Song Jingshi herself was scolded by her mother and told him to leave the house and go out to hide from the disaster. After chatting with his wife for a few days, someone came to report to Song Jingshi, and the government arrested someone and asked him to flee quickly.
Song Jingshi made up her mind, gathered everyone together, and rushed into the county seat at night, killing the county order with one knife. After dawn, Song Jingshi announced the formal formation of an insurgent army, named the Black Flag Army.
Yang Mingqian, as a large landlord and head of the people's regiment in Liulin Town, did not have much feeling about the death of the county order, and he sat on the fence of Liulin Town, in addition to hundreds of vigilante soldiers who were good at war, there was also a military master Wang Erxiang who advised him. Yang Mingqian ignored the rebellious people and still acted as a blessing to confront the rebels.
Soon, the Black Flag Army grew stronger and stronger, and the general Shengbao under Senggelinqin was ordered to come to encircle and suppress it. The first time they fought, Katsuho was defeated. In order to reverse the situation, Yang Mingqian and Wang Erxiang rebelled against Wang Zhan'ao, who had originally defected to Song Jingshi in the Liulin militia, and the rebel army began to be at a disadvantage after another confrontation with Shengbao.
Just as the two sides were at a stalemate, Katsuho received news that the Xianfeng Emperor had died, and he was anxious to return to his division, so he compromised with Song Jingshi and marched to Shaanxi with the Black Flag Army. The uprising in Shandong was temporarily suspended. Soon after, Song Jingshi made contact with the Taiping army entering Henan through the hui army in Shaanxi, and decided to return to his hometown to avenge himself before going south to join the Taiping army. After some time, Katsuho was politically suppressed and eventually dismissed from office. Song Jingshi seized the opportunity, rode his horse and whipped, traveled thousands of miles east, and returned to Shandong.
This time, the Black Flag Army has made great progress, most of the surrounding counties have been captured, the uprising is huge, Yang Mingqian is killed, and the town of Liulin is in danger. The Qing court eventually sent the monk Greenqin to attack Rusi.
Hollow phalanx
In the first confrontation, the rebel cavalry attacked several times, but still did not break through the hollow phalanx of the Qing army. The monk Greenqin ordered the troops to unfold and advance in a horizontal formation. Song Jingshi adjusted in time, and the rebel cavalry formed a wedge-shaped formation, which promptly attacked the Qing infantry. The Qing army collapsed, and the monk Greenqin left the foreign gun team to defend in order to win time to reorganize the formation. The foreign officers of the yankee were well-commanded and repelled several onslaughts of the rebel cavalry. After the monk Greenqin finished his team, he counterattacked the rebels, and the rebels lost.
After retreating to the camp, Song Jingshi realized the restraint of foreign gun tactics against cavalry. He sent his own soldiers to issue a "battle table" to the monk Greenqin, and in his letter he first praised the monk Greenqin, saying that since the beginning of the incident, he had never encountered such an officer and soldier as the monk Greenqin's army, and he was very impressed. After that, Song Jingshi's relatives deliberately provoked the monk Greenqin: The reason for the defeat in the battle is not that my Black Flag Army is not brave, but that you monk king loves to use foreign guns, if you have the ability, don't use the gun team trained by foreigners.
The reckless monk Greenqin was really provoked, and in the ensuing battle, his forward cavalry and infantry broke away from the gun brigade, pursued Song Jingshi, and was ambushed by the rebel spearmen in a large sorghum field, suffering heavy losses. After the war, Song Jingshi led his troops across the Yellow River and went south to join taiping.
According to the plot, in 1865, the monk Greenqin was defeated by Song Jingshi and died in the army.