After the New Year's holiday, Qin Xuan quickly put into a new shooting plan, the first one to shoot was "Assembly".

The rallying call is a story that tells the story of war. War is like a feast of death. Once you set foot on the battlefield, you are ready to give your precious life at any time, but for Gu Zidi, there is something more precious than life, that is, the high honor that belongs to the 47 brothers of the Ninth Company. He spent his whole life looking for his fallen comrades, and no matter what, he wanted to return the honor to this group of young martyrs.

In the Huaihai Campaign in 1948, the battle between the People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang army was unprecedentedly fierce. Gu Zidi, the commander of the Ninth Company, accepted the task of blocking the battle, and he agreed with the regiment commander to use the assembly call as the order to retreat, and if the assembly call was not sounded, the whole company must hold out until the last moment. In an abandoned old kiln, 47 soldiers fought bravely, and after all, the firepower was outnumbered, and Gu Zidi watched his comrades die one by one but could not do anything. The platoon commander Jiao Dapeng was Gu Zidi's right and left man, and before he died, he said that he heard the rallying cry and asked Gu Zidi to retreat with the few remaining brothers. Gu Zidi found that the friendly troops had already retreated, and he suspected that he had ignored the trumpet, causing his comrades to lose their lives in vain. Shocked and guilty, he rushed out of the kiln with his explosives bag and went to the enemy trenches alone. The rest of the warriors were eventually killed.

After being wounded, Gu Zidi was captured by the People's Liberation Army as an enemy soldier. It was only in the hospital in the rear that he learned that his original unit number had been cancelled, and that it would be difficult for him to prove his true identity, and that even the 46 brothers who had died in the war would be considered missing...... Gu Zidi managed to join the PLA artillery unit and follow the team's footsteps in the north and south, and his only motivation for survival was only to restore the honor due to his dead comrades. Even if time flies, even if history has gradually been forgotten, the unforgettable brotherhood has not diminished at all, in Gu Zidi's mind, what is always vivid is the image of his brothers: Wang Jincun, Jiao Dapeng, Jiang Maocai, Lu Kuangou......

Poor and uncertain riverside bones, like a person in a deep dream. As persistently looking for Gu Zidi is Sun Guiqin, the wife of instructor Wang Jincun. It wasn't until she met Guzidi that she was convinced that her husband had died in battle. The two who have been wronged share the same grief and faith, and they embark on a journey of verification together. Gu Zidi introduced Sun Guiqin to his best friend Zhao Erdou when he was in the artillery unit and witnessed them tie the knot.

When they finally returned to the old kiln where the bloody battle took place, they found that the battlefield site had been destroyed beyond recognition by coal mining. Except for the valley field, no one knows, or even believes, that just under this kiln, there are dozens of warriors who died heroically. Gu Zidi digs like a mountain of coal mines, and he wants to let the truth come out no matter what

Eventually, after a frantic search in the valley, he finally found his 46 brothers. Gu Zidi, along with his 46 comrades-in-arms, was awarded the honorary title of Battle Hero.

The theme of "The Rallying Call" is, of course, the rallying call, whether it is sounded or not...... Gu Zidi, an ordinary soldier in the Liberation War, a hero who fought to the death before hearing the rallying cry. He was an ordinary man of flesh and blood, and he was also afraid of death, so he asked his soldiers to keep their ears upright, to hear if there was a trumpet, and to withdraw if they did, but he was not afraid of death, because he was a soldier, and he had to hold back the enemy before he was given an order and heard the trumpet. This is the soldier, more romantic than any faith, and it is precisely because death and brutality are so close that the romantic obsession to protect the glory of one's defense has become a weapon in the face of fear. Every soldier is like a poem, a nameless, small and great historical epic. It is these nameless wooden signs that awaken the people of the next life, the cruelty of killing and humiliation and power struggle, and the war should not exist anymore.

The military spirit is certainly the center of this film, but I superficially think that this is only one of them, and the director is more of a satire of some people in power in a black way, or people who pick up chicken feathers as arrows. When Lao Gu was repeatedly questioned about his identity by doctors and nurses in the prisoner of war hospital, when he was questioned by Erdou in the barracks, when he was settled down, he was questioned by the clerk about the incident, and so on, and so on, what does this mean? In the eyes of some people, the soldiers on the front line only have two correct choices: victory and death, and if you choose to live, it is tantamount to betrayal, no matter what method you use to survive. Therefore, almost everyone looked at Lao Gu with colored glasses, the soldiers didn't trust him, and the organization didn't trust him, so everyone's first words to him were: "You explain the ins and outs of the matter", no matter how Lao Gu explained, they didn't believe it, maybe they already had an answer in their hearts, just wait for Lao Gu to say it himself......

Do you still remember how Zhong Yueming's father was killed in "Blood Romance"? How did the organization make him confess? When all his comrades-in-arms died and he survived, who believed in his innocence?

A soldier's glory on the battlefield is not only sacrifice, but also the ability to keep the flag of his own troops in the face of enemy fire, whether tangible or intangible, just like at the end of "Assembly Number", Lao Gu reported to the chief in front of the tomb of his comrades: "The Ninth Company has been assembled, please instruct!" However, the people above, who cares about you? The regiment commander retreated for fear of being "bitten"...... If you fight a war, you have to reorganize if you have broken it, and if you win it, you have to reorganize it...... The banner that the soldiers worked so hard to earn was like a grain of sand in their eyes, and everything was wiped out with a light word of reorganization......

If this film is by other directors, maybe, the military soul is the biggest topic, but this film is Xiao Gang's, please remember this person, there is a trace of black humor all the time. Irony is the theme of his films, it was, is, and will be!

In the end, Lao Gu knew everything, and it turned out that the horn had never sounded, so Lao Gu had always carried the banner of the Ninth Company and did not let it fall. This is the real soul of the army! When the rallying call finally sounded, the commanders and fighters of the Ninth Company lined up to award medals to Lao Gu's slogan: "The Ninth Company has been assembled, please instruct!"

This is a very good story, Qin Xuan also likes to shoot such a movie, so Qin Xuan took out Jiang Zheng's script to shoot, of course, there is also a reason, that is, because Qin Xuan already has a good foundation when filming the soldier assault, just at this time, he is striking while the iron is hot and making use of the relationship, there are many scenes in it that require a large number of people to shoot.