During the Anti-Japanese War, in order to cooperate with the actions of the Kuomintang troops on the frontal battlefield, the Eighth Route Army established a wide range of base areas in rural areas, formed many armed forces, and constantly carried out guerrilla warfare against the Japanese invaders. In order to carry out countermeasures, the Japanese invaders often sent small units to infiltrate the base areas to sabotage, and regularly carried out sweeps, frantically killing the people who supported the anti-Japanese resistance, and committing heinous crimes.
In many anti-Japanese dramas today, the military operations of the Japanese invaders are like child's play, and a large group of people are swaggering on the road. When they arrived in the villages, the soldiers would scatter, fire their guns indiscriminately, shout, loot pigs, chickens and other livestock, and molest women, while the officers would use fluent Chinese to appease the people, and give candy to the children to extract the whereabouts of the anti-Japanese forces. At this time, there will be a "brave" team descending from the sky to cleanly sweep away the Japanese criminals and rescue everyone.
It is true that art needs to properly process reality, but if it is too dramatic, it will distort the work and fall into the trap of historical nihilism. On an individual level, this kind of behavior can mislead minors who cannot distinguish between right and wrong, so that they will have a wrong perception of the war of aggression and gradually forget the suffering of the country. From the perspective of the national level, this kind of behavior is undoubtedly an insult to the soldiers who died in those years and a denial of the achievements of the Chinese people in the 14 years of arduous resistance.
In fact, the Japanese raids were extremely harsh, and since 1938, the Japanese troops in North and South China have continued to organize superior forces to encircle the intended combat area. Subsequently, the assault force quickly occupied strategic points with the help of vehicles and divided and surrounded the anti-Japanese forces. Immediately afterwards, some special operations forces would disguise themselves as guerrillas and use listening devices to track the movements of anti-Japanese armed units and wait for opportunities to carry out decapitation operations, such as the famous "Mashiko Advance Team". At the same time, under the guidance of reconnaissance planes, the mobile unit will sweep several villages, which is what we call "devils entering the village".
At that time, our army's intelligence work was very good, and it often got information about the sweep in advance, so it would organize the villagers to grab food and hide before the Japanese army launched an operation. Even if some villages are unaware, there are children's regiments and militiamen who are responsible for keeping watch around the area, and once they find the enemy, they will immediately raise the alarm, and the party members and militia in the village will lead everyone to move as quickly as possible.
In order to prevent this from happening, the Japanese usually marched lightly along the paths, and constantly sent out squads to assassinate the militia on the way. After arriving at the target village, they will not immediately disperse and rush in, but will be assigned tasks in advance, some soldiers are responsible for blocking all entrances and exits, some are responsible for capturing villagers, and some are responsible for looting goods and food.
When the village is fully controlled, it will drive the villagers into the open area, kill them by all kinds of cruel means, and then set fire to all the houses, which is the notorious scorched earth policy. Efforts were made to completely destroy the soil on which the anti-Japanese armed forces depended, starving them to death and trapping them to death. After all this is done, the Japanese will immediately rush to the next village to commit violence until there is no longer anyone left in the area to be swept away. By 1940, the Japanese army was no longer able to organize large-scale sweeps because the battle front was too long and the attrition was serious, and the soldiers and civilians in the base areas lived a relatively stable life.
In fact, even if a director wants to make the filming of anti-Japanese dramas more realistic, I am afraid that when it is handed over to the relevant departments for approval, it will be rejected on the grounds of "bloody violence". This requires the director to grasp the scale and seek the best balance between rules and art, rather than creating a series of intellectual dramas in order to cater to the so-called entertainment!
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was the greatest anti-aggression action in the course of the development of the Chinese nation, and the people of the whole country fought bravely and unprecedentedly united, and won the final victory after paying countless bloody sacrifices. We should bear in mind the humiliation we have suffered, inherit the legacy of our ancestors, work hard to help the country become rich and strong, and deter all foreign enemies with ill intentions, so that the land will not be trampled on again and the nation will be trampled on again!