The "Riding the Wind" chapter of "My Father and Me" is Wu Jing's self-directed and self-acting again after creating a box office record in the history of Chinese films in 2017's "Wolf Warrior 2", and the "Beijing Content" burst out, and it is also the war drama that most excited fans who like him. You can see Wu Jing 4 years later, in terms of technology, it is indeed a remarkable progress, and the rhythm control is also gripping.
In 1942, in the most arduous stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese Kou in North China carried out a "great sweep" of our anti-Japanese base areas and wantonly slaughtered the people.
Led by the regimental commander Ma Renxing (played by Wu Jing), they are mobile and flexible, and break through separately.
One day, the regimental headquarters was passing through a village and rescued a group of old and young women and children who had escaped the atrocities of the Japanese army. Among them, the military pregnant woman DaChunzi (played by Zhang Tianai) did not even know that the twenty-third regiment to which her husband belonged had all died heroically in the battle some time ago. One detail reveals how hard and cruel this anti-sweeping campaign is.
In order to cover these masses, the cavalry regiment withdrew safely to the rear, and when the enemy planes bombed indiscriminately, the tall and powerful warrior "Lü Bu" (played by Zhang Hengrui), with a generous body to block the bomb, protected the safety of a little girl, and sacrificed himself heroically.
Other fighters also fought with their flesh and blood to protect the safety of the villagers.
Instructor Wang Nairong (played by Li Guangjie) and sharpshooter Huang Rui (played by Wei Chen) offered to lure away the enemy army. Instructor Wang's eyes are resolute, and Huang Rui salutes in the rain, and this distinction is eternal.
Correspondent Ma Chengfeng (played by Wu Lei), the son of Ma Tuanchang, the daily life of the two is full of the normal state of traditional "Chinese father and son", the father is not good at expressing and hiding emotions, and has strict requirements for his son, and even harshly reprimands his son.
At this critical juncture, father and son talked at night and finally revealed their hearts. Commander Ma's fist and love for his son overflowed with words: "I am just afraid that you are not afraid of death..." "When you joined the army, your mother chased after me and quarreled: you can be Yue Fei, my son can't be Yue Yun."
Talking about a battle last year, the Japanese Kou cast poison gas, and how many soldiers were poisoned with people and horses, and their bodies were covered with blisters, so that they were helpless...
Ma Chengfeng was ordered to receive The Instructor Wang who had seduced the enemy, but saw that he and Huang Rui had already sacrificed heroically, and the body was hung on the cliff by the enemy...
On the other hand, through the communication signals of our army, the Japanese Kou determined the position of the main force of our army, and the large troops were already approaching the regimental headquarters, the enemy was outnumbered, the equipment was inferior, the people were sleepy and the horses were scarce, and behind them were those old and young women and children.
At the first shot, the commander of the horse regiment made a decision: "Hit the signal bomb!" Hit the flares! Hit the flares! Hit—"
When the country is in trouble, the family and the country cannot have both, and the father-son relationship can only endure the pain of renouncing, because he is not only a father, but also a commander of the people's army...
The Japanese Kou were really deceived, and were successfully lured away by Ma Chengfeng and four other warriors. They are under siege, and at dawn, they will strike to the death!
At the same time, the commander of the horse regiment also led the people through the transition port, and arrived safely in the rear, and when the horse was heroically sacrificed in the wind, DaChunzi gave birth on the ferry.
Before that, the sensible little girl gave her only food to a veteran soldier (played by Lu Changen) and shouted "Grandpa". This is the real "military and civilian fish water situation".
When the "big treasurer" of the beloved horse took the relics of the horse riding the wind, rushed out of the layers of heavy sieges, and returned to the leader of the horse regiment, the leader of the horse regiment touched the blood on its body, and a person rushed into the reeds, avoiding everyone, and cried silently: the boy had tears and did not flick, the boy's heart was like iron, look at the test hand, make up for the cracks in the sky!
Two months later, the cavalry regiment, which had gathered all the main forces and had been trained, began a war of revenge against this Japanese army! This is also the highest burning point of the whole "Riding the Wind", and even the whole movie!
When the Japanese set up heavy machine guns and heavy artillery against the rear organs of our army, they were directly surrounded by the cavalry regiment.
The commander of the horse regiment to all the soldiers of the cavalry regiment, each carrying a rifle, holding a saber in his hand, riding a horse and a whip, galloping in the wind, facing the enemy position, braving the artillery fire, decisively charging, the horse stepped on the camp!
The commander of the horse regiment held the battle flag of the "Jizhong Cavalry Regiment", and he took the lead on one horse, and it was difficult for everyone to do so.
The soldiers charged and assembled in the rain of bullets and bullets, and one soldier after another and war horses fell in the shelling, but no matter how cruel the bloody sacrifice, it did not hinder the pace of the latecomers in the slightest.
What a long half-minute for every viewer? One minute? Unconsciously, I meditated in my heart: "Hurry up, hurry up!" I have to admire director Wu Jing, who really controlled the rhythm of the war drama and the emotional regulation of the audience to the extreme!
Finally, when the cavalry of our army rushed into the enemy's machine gun position, the Japanese infantry was free to harvest, the long knife was like snow, and where it passed, the pawn was invincible and happy! It's a blast!! Extremely painful!!!
The Japanese army daisa, who was trapped in beasts, raised his knife to fight the horse, and the commander of the horse regiment made a decision, threw down the battle knife, replaced it with a bayonet rifle, one inch long and one inch strong, and closed this fierce enemy together! Avenge his son and his many sacrificed comrades with his own hands!
Then he raised the battle flag, waved in the wind, stood firm, and the flag stirred endlessly through time and space in people's revolutionary feelings!
This battle is also the most intense and shocking horse war drama in the history of Chinese cinema in decades! The whole article is "Ran Dian"! 【Tear Point】! 【Tear Point】!! 【Ran Dian】!!
How can the cavalry group of our army charge through the Japanese camp, and the thousands of troops and horses charge forward, what a magnificent and magnificent scene, and outline the anti-Japanese fighters' enthusiasm for serving the country on the big screen?
The end of the story is that in September 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Commander Ma was already the commander of the military sub-district, and Daharuko had also been honorably enlisted in the army, when she heard that the child she gave birth to in the war was named "Riding the Wind", without explicit implication, naturally it was to commemorate the soldier who died at the same moment.
Not only the leader of the horse regiment on the screen, I believe that countless viewers have also followed the wet... This is also the story [the last tear point], the finishing touch, the beginning and the end echo of a stroke.
The story of "Riding the Wind", from the announcement of the trailer, there are quite a few people who know little about military history and war history, complaining that "the cavalry rushes the machine gun position, too unreasonable" Yunyun,
And what these people don't know at all is:
In the real history of the 1942 "anti-sweeping" battle, the cavalry regiment of our Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, surrounded by tens of thousands of Japanese troops in a torrent of steel and under the disparity in firepower, rushed to the death, and used the most traditional cavalry tactics to tear open a bloody gap in the enemy's position and successfully completed the heavy task of covering the safe transfer of the organs in the central Hebei region and the people in the base area.
As a result, the 1200-man cavalry regiment was eventually left with less than 400 men, including instructor Wang Nairong, Secretary of the General Branch Gao Shangyong, Director of the Political Department Yang Jingguo, and Ma Chengfeng, son of Commander Ma... And so on, martyrs, all died heroically in the encounter with the enemy.
What cavalry charge machine gun positions, too unreasonable? They are soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, the sons and daughters of the Chinese people! Usually, help the people harvest grain, build bridges and houses, and do not take a needle and a thread from the masses, but when the people are in danger, they disregard their own safety! What is reasonable or unreasonable?
Just like the personal writing of the martyr Yang Jingguo: "We are soldiers from the people, we are war horses from the people."
The martyrs of the cavalry regiment who once guarded the people of Jizhong with their flesh and blood, it is precisely because they swore to defend their homeland to the death and resist the invaders that we have a happy life today.
In June of this year, a video footage of the 1942 War of Resistance filmed by the Soviet special correspondent Kalman was made public for the first time, unsealing the scenes of the Eighth Route Army's multi-scene battle in the annihilation of the Japanese Kou. The cavalry soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the video are like this shown in the film, braving the rain of bullets and bullets in the trenches and charging into battle.
It is said that director Wu Jing and the production team did not see this image before filming "Riding the Wind", but accidentally reproduced this real historical image when filming the footage of the war horse charging.
This unintentional restoration of historical images condenses the sincerity and dedication of the main creative team, which is not only the fate across time and space, inheriting the spirit of the fathers who are not afraid of sacrificing and charging forward, but also the best reward for the sincere ingenuity of the creative team.