On the evening of July 6, CCTV broadcast the 14th episode of the TV series "Armageddon". In the plot of this episode, the content of the Battle of Yixian is presented. Audiences familiar with the history of the Liberation War know that the Battle of Yixian was an important battle in the Liaoshen Campaign. Therefore, the TV series "Armageddon" takes the attack on Yixian as one of the narrative focuses of the play, and accurately presents it. According to the plot, it can be summarized into the following angles:
The first angle, the overall perspective, is built from a high vantage point to present the strategic significance of the Battle of Yixian County for the audience.
A very positive advantage of the TV series "Armageddon" is that the drama tells stories and tells the story, so that the audience has a sense of the overall situation and context, and is friendly to audiences who are not very familiar with the history of the Liberation War. As presented in "The Great Armageddon", the Battle of Yixian was an important step in the battle to clear the outskirts of Jinzhou, so the enemy and us regarded the Battle of Yixian as a key battle. At that time, the northeast war situation had entered the moment of decisive battle between the two armies around the Jinzhou area. The main force of our Northeast Field Army began to march into Jinzhou, while the enemy army rushed to the aid from both the east and the west, trying to achieve an internal and external attack posture against our army.
At this time, the battle of Yixian was to seize time with the enemy. Before our army can realize that the enemy's large armies on both the east and the west rush to the aid of Jinzhou, we will take Jinzhou in one fell swoop, so that the enemy's attack inside and outside will become a fantasy. In order to take Jinzhou as soon as possible, it is necessary to take the lead in pulling out yixian as an enemy "stronghold." "Armageddon" considers the overall situation and presents the picture based on the importance of the Yixian Campaign in the entire Liaoshen Campaign, and the historical creation concept of the play is clearly reflected.
The second angle, Zhu Rui and Han Xianchu's offensive perspective of our army, artillery columns and trenches attacked at the same time.
The perspective of Zhu Rui and Han Xianchu is a very clever stroke in the TV series "Armageddon". These two warriors, in the earlier plot, are "in love and kill each other", with the content of competing for cannons and the pride of fighting side by side. And this time, in the "Great Armageddon" Yixian Offensive Battle, the two generals joined forces and fought a beautiful battle - the original one-day combat mission, which took only 6 hours, was destroyed.
What is more noteworthy is that Han Xianchu's perspective brought the content of our army's trench warfare to the audience. This is an important tactical support in the battle against Yixian And strictly follows the principles of historical truth. In the Historical Records of Yixian, the 5th Division dug from the east of Songjiatun in the west of the city to the bottom of the city defense wall, and the 9th Division dug from the southernmost bunker group of the enemy army to the southern city wall. This kind of trench warfare has played a tremendous role in our army's breakthrough of the enemy's city defenses.
In Zhu Rui's perspective, it brings the audience the powerful firepower content of the artillery column. As stated in the play, this is the first time that our army has achieved the suppression of the enemy's firepower. The combat effectiveness of the artillery column was even more astonishing to the enemy general Fan Hanjie, who thought that our army was short of clothes and bullets and could not fire a few cannons, but who knows, our army's artillery was densely packed, and almost all of the enemy's stronghold bunkers in Yixian County were pulled out.
From the perspective of our army, the reasons for the victory of the battle in Yixian Are well explained. One point is that our army has constantly optimized its operational policy, developed the army's combat effectiveness, and conducted ideological education in the course of operations; second, our army is good at reflection. The Battle of Yixian was won, Zhu Rui and Han Xianchu went to the attack point to investigate the actual situation, and Zhu Rui also fell into deep self-reproach because the artillery did not fully survey the bunkers built by the Nationalist army, resulting in the sacrifice of the front-line soldiers.
The third angle, the perspective of the enemy Fan Hanjie, and even the perspective of Yu Wei Lihuang, the abandoned son of Yixian, is doomed to defeat.
As played in the TV series "Armageddon", the number of enemy troops in Yixian County at that time was more than 10,000. However, our army's county town attack took only 6 hours to destroy the decay. For the enemy general Fan Hanjie, the Battle of Yixian was just something he used to delay time, to buy more time for the Jinzhou defense to shrink and buy more time.
From the perspective of "Armageddon", the reasons for the defeat of the enemy army are presented. For Fan Hanjie, there are at least two reasons. The first point is that he is eager to make quick gains and wants to highlight himself in front of Chiang Kai-shek. The second point is that the enemy is light, and the comfortable days are accustomed to it, and we do not know that the combat strength of our party and our army has long been different from what it used to be. Wei Lihuang, on the other hand, was a chicken thief watching the fire from the other side, he did not want to sacrifice his troops for others, and even after the fall of Yixian County, when Fan Hanjie asked him why he did not send troops, he still had some hindsight... The arrogance of the generals of the enemy army, the rush for quick success, the internal disunity, and so on are all the key elements contributing to the victory of our army.
The fourth angle, the group portrait of our army's soldiers, the torrent of steel, is not afraid of sacrifice, which makes many viewers cry.
This is one of the very important angles in the TV series "Armageddon", with a huge historical temperature. In the content of presenting the battle of Yixian County, the group portraits of our army's soldiers are not only alive and well, but also courageous to fight and not afraid of sacrifice. In particular, the corner of the ladder was blown up by the enemy, and a soldier of our army lay down on his own and set up a ladder with his flesh and blood so that other comrades could pass smoothly. This scene made many viewers cry.
Although many of the contents are just flashes of footage, and many do not even have a straight face, it is these thousands of soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice who dare to fight a hard battle, can fight a hard battle, and finally win the victory of the Battle of Yixian County, the Battle of Jinzhou, the Battle of Liaoshen, and the War of Liberation. The TV series "Armageddon" is small and large, because the small sees the big, through the narrative of these angles, telling the audience why our party and our army can win the final victory. (Text/Ma Qingyun)