Source: People's Liberation Army Daily Author: Hu Liang, Huang Wuxing
"The engineers have not eaten anything bitter, and if there is wind and sand, we will chew it up and swallow it!" Just after watching the micro-movie "The Longest Day", Wang Nailun, an instructor of the fourth battalion of a certain brigade of the Rocket Army, sighed. At the beginning of the new year, the micro-film "The Longest Day", written and directed by the brigade, was premiered and caused a strong response. The film borrows film and television art techniques, restores the stories around it, shoots out the heartfelt feelings, and interprets the mission of the sapper heroes in the forbidden area of life on the road to a strong army, which has won wide praise from officers and soldiers.
The brigade has been responsible for national defense construction tasks for many years, and the micro-film "The Longest Day" focuses on this group of missile engineers who have "never seen a missile". Li Chen, a private soldier who lurked in the desert sand sea, dreamed of becoming a missile trumpeter, but he had been enlisted in the army for nearly a year but had never witnessed the true appearance of missiles, and could only "brain supplement" the scene of the divine arrow flying in the sky from the veteran's "Shen Kan" and his own dreams. At 4:00 a.m. on this day, the rapid whistle awakened the dreams of the soldiers, and Li Chen's Steel Eighth Company was urgently ordered to urgently build an "enemy" position within a day to provide a target range for the "I" live-fire launch.
Excited, Li Chen thought that this time he was going to see live ammunition. However, after traveling to unfamiliar areas, the Eighth Company encountered complex meteorological challenges such as cold waves and sandstorms during construction, and they overcame many difficulties and finally completed the construction task according to the time node. At 12:00 midnight, the officers and men of the Eighth Company who returned to the camp to look up at the glory in the distance were filled with tears when they learned that the Divine Arrow had accurately hit the "enemy's" position with a thunderous momentum. At this time, Li Chen knew that no one in the company had ever seen a missile. Li Chen, who was in a deep sleep, appeared in his sleep again with the scene of the divine arrow flying in the sky...
The 20-hour battle was the most common day of the missile engineers' military careers. The film starts from the perspective of Li Chen, a private soldier, starts with the dream of the flying arrow of the god arrow, and then ends with the dream of the flying of the god arrow, through the vivid image of the work and the vivid and intimate language story, enthusiastically singing the touching deeds of the missile engineers in the forbidden area of life in the desert and fighting in the sky. Familiar pictures and real shots have made many officers and men feel the close connection between their "small posts" and the "great development" of national defense, thus stimulating the motivation for dedicating themselves to the construction of national defense projects.
Hou Xiangdong, a college student soldier, was assigned to the first line of construction in the Gobi, and his mood was very low when he saw that the garrison was remote and the construction was arduous. After seeing the story of the officers and men of the Eighth Company in the micro-film who braved the wind and sand to complete the task in the Gobi, he was deeply educated and took the initiative to ask to work in the most arduous post.
Caption: Stills from the micro-film "The Longest Day"
