On March 23rd, when the new Jingwumen starring Zhou Xingchi was released, Qiao Feng flew to the United States to attend the 63rd Academy Awards.

The next day, a refreshed Qiao Feng met Spielberg, who also came to attend the award ceremony.

Qiao Feng's focus in coming to the United States was not to attend the Oscars, because the films produced by his company did not get too many nominations this year.

One of the reasons to go to the United States is to accompany Gong Li.

Ju Dou, who starred her, was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and she was last year's Oscar actress, and according to convention, this year she will be presented on stage as a guest of honor.

Another reason and the most important reason is that the final script of the Jinling Thirteen Hairpins was set, and he came to talk to Spielberg in detail.

The script of the Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling changed drafts several times, and Qiao Feng, Spielberg and the screenwriting team of the two were involved in the creation of the script.

The final script is very different from the original Jinling Thirteen Hairpins.

The story begins with memories, but not directly with the students Shujuan and their escape after the fall of Nanjing.

The story begins at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, where the elderly Shujuan went to the memorial hall on the day of the completion of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall to mourn and pay respects.

On the wall of the list of victims, Shujuan saw Yumo's name and fell into the memories of that year.

Memories begin with the fall of Nanjing, when a group of students were ready to escape by boat from the father of one of their classmates, but failed to escape and had to flee back to St. Mary's Church.

In the original version, on the way back, they encountered a group of soldiers from the evacuating Teaching Corps, Instructor Li, and then these soldiers engaged with the soldiers to escort them back to the church.

But Qiao Feng didn't want to simply talk about the bravery of the national army, because that didn't correspond to the facts.

Therefore, Qiao Feng and Spielberg discussed that they would add a period of battle between the siege of the city and the Kuomintang army from the battle to the hasty evacuation and escape.

Before the Nanjing Massacre, the Kuomintang decided to defend Nanjing to give up in a hurry and chose to retreat, not to mention any considerations, but the inaction of the upper echelons of the Kuomintang is certain.

If it was decided to retreat at the beginning because Nanjing was in no danger to defend, then the number of victims of the Nanjing Massacre would definitely not be such a huge figure as more than 300,000.

But the Kuomintang decided to hold on, and of course there was an important person in it, General Tang.

On the grounds that Nanjing was the capital of the country, the place where Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum was located, and that the international view and cover the retreat of the troops, he advocated holding Nanjing, which was finally approved by Chiang.

General Tang repeatedly openly stated that he would live and die with Nanjing, and promised Chiang that he would not retreat without orders.

In order to prevent the troops from retreating across the river without permission, Tang adopted an attitude of fighting to the death. He ordered all units to hand over the ships under their control to the headquarters, withdrew the two ferries from Xiaguan to Pukou to Wuhan, and also ordered the 36th Division to block the only passage from Nanjing City to the Xiaguan wharf.

From December 1, 37, the army officially began to attack Nanjing, and the so-called defense of Nanjing lasted less than 12 days.

On the 11th, Chiang telegraphed to Tang that "if the situation cannot last for a long time, we can retreat one after another, and try to sort out and counterattack."

On the 12th, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 88th Division, who was responsible for defending Zhonghua Gate, took part of his troops to escape from Xiaguan without authorization, and although he was dissuaded from returning by Song Xilian, the commander of the 36th Division, it had already caused chaos in the city.

The commander of the 88th Division, Sun Yuanliang, is the son of Taiwanese movie star Qin Khan.

For twelve days, there was almost no relaxation between holding on and deciding to retreat, and no preparations were made at all for the retreat.

On the afternoon of the 12th, Tang hastily summoned the generals above the division level to arrange a retreat.

According to the retreat arrangement, except for the 36th Division, which covered the headquarters and the troops directly under it, crossed the river from Xiaguan, all other troops had to break through from the front, but Tang was worried that the descendants of the Central Army would lose too much in the breakthrough, so he verbally ordered the 87th Division, the 88th Division, the 74th Army and the Teaching Corps to "if they can't all break through, they can cross the river when there is a ferry."

It's all at this time, and the upper echelons are still making their own little calculations, and Tang still wants to protect Jiang's central military lineage.

The result is even more chaos.

After the meeting, only the 66th Army and the 83rd Army, which belonged to the Guangdong system, broke through to the front under the leadership of army commanders Ye Zhao and Deng Longguang, and successfully broke through the Japanese encirclement after paying a huge price, and Luo Cequn, the acting commander of the 159th Division, was killed in battle.

Most of the other commanders did not fully communicate the retreat to the lower levels, so they left their troops and fled to the river in the boats they controlled in advance.

In the evening, Tang, who had vowed to live and die with Nanjing, fled on a ship that had been reserved in advance.

The commanders left the entrenched troops and fled, and when these troops heard that the commanders had retreated to Xiaguan, they thought that the riverside was ready to retreat, so they abandoned their positions and rushed to the area around Xiaguan.

Then, because the 36th Division, which was responsible for blocking the Rujiang Gate, did not receive an order to allow the troops to retreat, there was a clash with the troops retreating from the city to Xiaguan, and many people were killed or trampled to death.

The Chinese defenders who had fled to Shimonoseki had lost their formation and became a chaotic group of stragglers, some of whom had crossed the river on their own rafts, and many of whom had drowned or been shot in the river by the arriving Japanese troops.

Most of the Chinese soldiers who failed to cross the river or break through were scattered on the streets of Nanjing, and many of them gave up their weapons and changed into civilian clothes to hide in the Nanjing security zone.

And then the massacre began.

Of course, there were bloody soldiers who fought bloody battles in the defense of Nanjing and served the country with their bodies, but more of them were abandoned and had no fighting spirit, like headless flies of the national army soldiers and the so-called commanders who only cared about themselves and ignored their subordinates.

Qiao Feng actually only wanted to show the upper echelons of the national army in the movie who only cared about protecting themselves, but then he thought that if it was just like this, he would be too sorry for the soldiers who fought bloodily in the war and patriotic generals like Luo Cequn, the acting commander of the 159th Division who died in battle, and it would inevitably make the audience feel too sad and negative.

Therefore, after discussing with Spielberg in the end, it was decided to present the real defense of the city and the hasty retreat of the national army before the Nanjing Massacre in a certain amount of time, while giving the audience a little positive energy and a little hope.

Similar to the original Jinling Thirteen Hairpins, the soldiers who joined a teaching corps to resist the Japanese army.

The reason why I want to join the teaching corps and not other units is because the equipment of the teaching corps is the most sophisticated in the national army, and the quality of personnel is also the best.

During this period, it was indeed a bloody battle.

From the Battle of Songhu, the teaching corps suffered a lot of casualties, and when they returned to Nanjing, they also suffered heavy casualties in the defense battle, and the commander of the defending battalion of the second regiment of the teaching corps was killed by five people, almost all casualties.

But the captain of the Qi Commander, like Don and the other officers, ran away first when he retreated.

Although Captain Gui persevered until the last day, it has to be said that some officers in the national army may have blood when fighting, but when they retreat, they are the fastest runners.

Therefore, Qiao Feng would not arrange for these soldiers to escort the students to the church in the movie, because they didn't care about other people's during the retreat.

They encountered the Japanese army in the retreat, fought and retreated, and finally got rid of the Japanese army after paying great sacrifices, and the few wounded who survived ran away, and two of them fled to the church.

And in the church, there are not only students who have escaped, but also Qin Huai girls and soldiers who have fled.

Because after the destruction of Nanjing, there was no place that could be used as a shelter, and there would only be a few simple groups in a foreigner's church.

In addition to the students who fled back, Miss Qin Huai, and the soldiers, there were dozens of old and weak women and children, as well as a female missionary who taught students on weekdays.

This is also the biggest difference from the original Jinling Thirteen Hairpins, the thirteen hairpins that Qiao Feng wants are not all girls on the Qinhuai River.

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Thanks to the book friend Little Tiger in the Demon World for a reward of 100 coins.