Chapter 506: Slap in the face with facts
The filming of "Blood Romance" is back on track, in order to catch up with the schedule, the crew is working day and night, shooting, and Song Zheng has no energy to pay attention to anything outside the crew. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At this time, the documentary "Documentary of the Chinese Expeditionary Force", which finally completed the post-production, was broadcast on Yanjing Satellite TV, this documentary is not like previous documentaries, just piling up historical documents, and then narrating them through narration, but through a large number of historical video materials, as well as the personal narration of many parties who are still built, the real restoration of a past that happened in history for people.
The old people sitting in front of the camera are all veterans of the Anti-Japanese War who live in Tengchong, Yunnan, and when "My Captain, My Regiment" was filming in Tengchong, Song Zheng also took the actors of the crew to visit them.
It turned out that he didn't understand, but when he really saw these old people, Song Zheng couldn't help but be in awe of these old people.
They have fought bayonets with Japanese devils on the hot land of the motherland, once thrown their heads and spilled blood in the jungles of Myanmar, they are the heroes of this country, they should enjoy the benefits given by the country, the respect given by the society, they should enjoy a more responsible life, and spend their old age in peace, but in fact, they are living by our side silently.
Forgotten by the people for whom he had fought, he endured poverty and loneliness in the last years of his life to win military merit medals.
Even on the hospital bed, at the last moment of his life, just to get such a sentence: "The country has finally recognized us as anti-Japanese!"
In this situation, shouldn't everyone ask themselves, shouldn't they be ashamed, shouldn't they think about how to help them?
After all, veterans are slowly withering away over time.
Forgetting history means betrayal, and when people are busy singing praises and praising the merits of the troops under the leadership of our party, we should also think of these heroes who also shed their last drop of blood for the independence and freedom of the Chinese nation.
After the broadcast of "Documentary of the Chinese Expeditionary Force", it immediately caused a sensation, although I also had a little understanding of this army, but like now, it is the first time to really know this unit that really existed during the Anti-Japanese War.
Deep, shocking!
This is the deepest feeling people have after watching this documentary.
Especially in the third episode, when it came to the section of turning over the cross-country mountain, many viewers couldn't help but burst into tears.
In the previous two episodes, the Chinese expeditionary force was told about thousands of miles of Yangge, fought bloodily, repeatedly defeated the enemy's front, and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army, but in this episode, the situation changed dramatically, because the Allies did not cooperate effectively, resulting in the defeat of the battle, and the expeditionary force had to retreat.
However, the cruel Japanese army wanted to kill the expeditionary force and cut off the expeditionary force's return channel, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force were forced to choose an extremely dangerous way back, through a primeval forest called Savage Mountain to return to the country.
The so-called Savage Mountain, in fact, is a primeval forest with a radius of hundreds of miles at the junction of China, India and Myanmar, is a 400-kilometer-long and narrow river valley, where the mountains are vertical and horizontal, the rivers are dense, the legend is that there are "wild people" haunted, and the locals have given this place a name called Hukang River Valley. The so-called Hu Kang means "the place where the devil haunts" in Burmese.
But here, because of the epidemic of disease, lack of medical care and food, coupled with the pervasive miasma, this jungle road of just a few hundred miles turned into a road of death that devoured life, and finally tens of thousands of Chinese expeditionary force soldiers died tragically in this dangerous "green cave", which is also an extremely tragic past in the world's military history.
The reason for this tragedy is not the expeditionary force itself, but because the allies, the original expeditionary force fought well in the initial battle, the 38th division of the Chinese expeditionary force desperately rescued the British army on the Western Front who was under heavy encirclement and was in danger, but the ungrateful British army decided to abandon Burma, seek and then fight again, the British army basically suddenly walked clean overnight, and by the way blew up and discarded the equipment and materials that were not given to the expeditionary army, this move, just when the second batch of Chinese expeditionary forces took over the flank defense line, the retreat of the British army completely exposed the flank of the expeditionary force in the bayonet array of the Japanese armyใ
Not surprisingly, the Japanese army seized such an opportunity, but the Japanese 56th Army Corps, which suddenly appeared on the battlefield, occupied the rear road of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and when the Chinese Expeditionary Force thought that it could escape in the gap between the Japanese army's pursuit of the British army, the Japanese army decisively gave up the pursuit of the British army, and instead occupied the main route of the Chinese army's escape, "Myitkyina".
According to unofficial statistics, only Sun Liren and Dai Anlan were able to save the retreat of the formation at that time, however, the sum of the two divisions did not exceed 50,000 people, and the remaining tens of thousands of people who retreated in a hurry were basically killed in the pursuit of the Japanese army's small formation, which naturally included the dead and dead who were pursued in "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment".
First put aside other fugitive troops, on this scattered fugitive troops, after a lot of hardships, arrived at the Huitong Bridge at the junction of China and Burma, waiting to return home with the refugees, the insidious Japanese scouts 500 people have been lurking in the refugees, and behind the refugees, is the long-awaited hungry Japanese main force, in the coincidence, in order to block the panicked refugees and the Chinese military police who opened fire, but let the Japanese army think that the plan was discovered and attack in advance, fortunately Zhang Zuwu, who was the head of the gendarmerie at the time, ordered to blow up the bridge decisively, blocking the Japanese army on the other side of the Nu River, and unfortunately there were still refugees on the other side of the river and the remaining remnants of the Japanese army were slaughtered by the Japanese army in front of the military policeIn "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", the Battle of Nantianmen was adapted from this real history.
And when the few remaining officers and soldiers miraculously walked out of the "Savage Mountain," the people who greeted them were extremely surprised to find that there was actually a woman among them, and for the first time in the list of survivors, they had filled in a female character in the gender column.
At the beginning, Song Zheng also took the actors of the crew to visit the heroine who was still built, the old man who was the "living archive" and "living fossil" of the expeditionary force to resist Japan, and the other party choked up several times when he told Song Zheng and others about that experience.
During the filming of the documentary, the production team visited the old man again, and the old man's words made everyone who was singing couldn't help but cry.
"Looking back now, I can't believe that I was able to get out of the Savage Mountain alive! When I climbed the Savage Mountain, I had only one thought in my mind: I would climb to the land of the motherland to die even if I died!"
The war has long ended, the smoke of gunpowder has long been dissipated, and everything that has happened has gradually been forgotten by people.
The reason for this is to let more people understand that period of history and understand the heroic souls who also sacrificed their lives for the country, national independence, and freedom.
During the filming in Tengchong, Song Zheng once heard one thing, some old expeditionary force officers and soldiers who were still built in the country jointly applied to the Myanmar National Order Construction Committee to rebuild the martyrs' tombs of the expeditionary forces.
After reading that petition, Song Zheng couldn't help but feel deeply heartbroken: My generation experienced the battle, but fortunately, the survivors are also dying, and we really can't bear to let the sacred historical achievements of upholding international justice and defending human peace be annihilated, and the loyal souls who fought bloody and sacrificed their lives have no return.
How sad, the remains of the officers and men of the expeditionary force can not be buried in the ground, but Song Zheng heard that on a bustling street in Burma, not far from the residence of a veteran of the expeditionary force, is the big Buddha temple built by the Japanese, every year, the veteran soldier will see batch after batch of Japanese come here, this veteran of the Chinese garrison in India who defeated the Japanese in Myitkyina, can not hide the loss in his heart, ask himself, who is the winner, who is the loser.
Similarly, every year in the United Kingdom, before Easter in April, there is a large event of World War I and World War II veterans, which is attended by the Prime Minister and all government officials, which is a minimum of respect for those who have shed blood and sacrificed their lives for their country.
Thinking about the many soldiers of the expeditionary force in the wilderness, how could there not be an inexplicable sentimentality in my heart.
The purpose of this documentary is to let more people know the war stories of the expeditionary force, and to spread these stories and praise them, so that future generations will know to commemorate them and pay tribute to them, because they are also heroes of the motherland.
The Chinese nation has never lacked heroes and daughters, and everyone who sacrifices for the sake of the country and the nation should never be forgotten by future generations, because without them, there would be no present Chinese nation.
The truth of history will not be buried forever, and we must not let the younger generation forget this period of history and forget the older generation who shed blood and sacrificed their lives for the prosperity of the nation.
The broadcast of "Documentary of the Chinese Expeditionary Force" caused great repercussions in the society, and there was no need for Song Zheng and them to contact the media, but many media spontaneously participated, and published positive comments about the expeditionary force on important pages of newspapers, and many historians also gave the expeditionary force a very high evaluation when they were interviewed.
By this time, no one like Song Zheng and the others paid attention to Liu Guanlou, an insignificant and brazen little person, and naturally many people re-translated the articles he had published before and refuted them.
There is no need for Song Zheng to do anything at all, Old Man Liu already felt a hot pain on his face, originally this old thing was still thinking about fighting back, but before the article was written, he received a call from one of the above, what was said on the phone, no one knew, but for a long time in the future, this old guy consciously stopped.