Recently, another TV series "Scout Heroes" was launched, and like the name, it reflects the story of the scouts of a certain unit of our army during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
TV series poster.
After the release of this drama, the reputation was mixed, some said that it was very professional in military filming, and some complained that the plot was outrageous, and there was also a love story line. So how is this drama exactly? Today we will talk about this topic.
Full of combat details.
The first thing to say is that the screenwriters of "Meritorious and Meritorious Literary and Martial Arts Li Yannian" and "Reconnaissance Hero" are Liu Gejian. "Li Yannian" I would like to be rated as the best film to resist US aggression and aid Korea in recent years, so "Reconnaissance Hero" also inherits some of the advantages of "Li Yannian" to a certain extent.
When commenting on excellent film and television dramas such as "The Crucible of War", "Meritorious", and "Super Hero Huang Jiguang", I once said that a gratifying phenomenon at present is that in our newly filmed war-themed film and television works, the details and traditions in the once excellent domestic war feature films are recovering.
For example, the details of the training of soldiers before the war, the details of confidential communications under the interference and surveillance of the US military, and the details of the ambush battle, and so on.
For example, in the old movie "Fighting the Invaders" released in 1965, there is a plot in which the lurking troops of the Volunteer Army disguise themselves as the noise of radio communication by gently blowing into the radio microphone, and use such a specific code to call for artillery support and eliminate the US patrol without arousing the vigilance of the enemy monitors.
Detail from Fight the Invaders.
Meritorious Meritorious Letters, Letters, Martial Arts, Li Yannian", and the coded communication.
In this new "Scout Hero", the battle details of the ancestors of the volunteer army have also been further restored.
During the phone call between Liang Chen, who was the commander of the reconnaissance section, not only used his hometown dialect for confidential communication, but also mentioned that the two sides should use the code language they had previously contacted to call for artillery support.
The plot of Recon Heroes using native dialects and secret languages for communication.
At that time, our army's radio foundation was still relatively weak, and many communications equipment were captured from the enemy, and the US military was already well aware of the performance and working methods of these equipment, and if we did not put more effort into secrecy, then the enemy forces with technological superiority would certainly find ways to make use of it.
In the general war movies and TV series, as long as our scouts gently cut the ** line, the enemy's communications soldiers will carry a large bundle of wires and tools to patrol the line a little bit and enter the full set we have set.
And in the TV series "Scout Heroes", our scouts operate like this:
After arriving at the predetermined position, instead of blindly choosing the ** line to destroy it directly, but first conducting signal detection, so as to determine whether this is a signal in the use of the ** line?
Check the enemy's ** line signal.
After determining that the ** line is a valid ** line, the scouts still did not start but carefully arranged it:
1. First send alert troops to both ends of the ** line to prevent enemy patrols or signal troops from suddenly appearing to disrupt our army's plans.
2. Send a captive team to find a suitable place to start.
3. The main reconnaissance force is far away from the first line for concealment.
4. Call the rear troops and carry out a rapid artillery attack in the direction of the ** line.
5. Under the cover of artillery fire, the ** line was suddenly cut.
Under the cover of artillery fire, cut the ** line.
After this tedious but meticulous tossing, the Volunteer Army succeeded in achieving the goal of making the US troops relax their vigilance and mistakenly believe that the ** line was destroyed by chance, so they only sent a signal corps team to restore it.
This episode is the obvious feeling of "respecting the enemy's intelligence". After all, the U.S. military that experienced World War II is not a "wild monster NPC" that is constantly refreshed forever in the game, but a professional soldier with brains, IQ, and experience. With the blessing of mechanized and motorized equipment, their reaction speed is very fast.
If we do not dispel the enemy's doubts and do not prepare for the worst, one careless will cause the whole army to be buried behind enemy lines.
In addition to the commendable details of the capture battle, the plot's portrayal of the forward positions of the two armies is also very amazing, in "Reconnaissance Heroes", the positions of the two sides are not only intertwined, there are a variety of open posts, dark posts, patrols, and detailed and hidden minefield markings.
In the forward position of the Korean army in the play, empty canned food boxes are hung on the barbed wire to sound an alarm when someone touches the barbed wire.
Close-up of a small tree stick as a minefield marker.
More importantly, in addition to the scouts of the protagonist regiment in the play, the troops stationed at the front are not completely indifferent "background boards" but actually have their own roles.
When the scouts attack, they need to greet the forward positions in advance; After the scout is in position, it is necessary to continuously observe the forward position in the direction of the mission destination to confirm the activities of the reconnaissance force at any time; And after hearing the sound of the outbreak of battle, the forward positions will report the situation in time to confirm whether it is necessary to make a short sortie to meet the retreat of our small detachment.
The forward troops escorted the reconnaissance squad dressed in the enemy's puppet army uniform.
The setting of these plots allows us as an audience to really feel what a complete front is like, it is not a stage that only the protagonist can perform, but a dynamic system composed of countless soldiers, multiple arms, and many troops, which is organically combined, and it affects the whole body.
Double Warrior. In this "Reconnaissance Hero", a liberation fighter named "Qi Lu" has become a very brilliant stroke, according to the setting of the plot in the play, this soldier is from one of the five main forces of the former Kuomintang.
1. The "New Sixth Army", which has received American-style training and has been on expeditions to Burma, is an out-and-out former elite.
Such an experience can be said to have its own dramatic conflict in him.
On the one hand, his complete training and long-term combat life have enabled him to master extremely high military qualities. In the battle at the beginning of the TV series, the soldier Qi Lu gave full play to his expertise in being familiar with the American system and the combat characteristics of the US army, and from the roar of the approaching US tank guns, he keenly judged that the task of our forward blocking force had failed, the US army was rapidly approaching, and the danger was imminent.
That's the value of a veteran.
In the play, the volunteers used the captured anti-air contact board to guide the US bombers to mistakenly hit friendly positions, which is said to have a historical prototype.
By the way, the beginning of the TV series "Scout Hero" started with the cruel fourth battle, compared with the previous three battles, the volunteers won a series of joint **, and drove the enemy through the "38th parallel" south of the heroic, the process of the fourth battle is very bitter for our army.
Because at this time, under the leadership of US General Li Qiwei, the United Army had reorganized the order of the troops, carried out tactical improvements according to the characteristics of the Volunteer Army, keenly grasped the weaknesses of the Volunteer Army, summed up the "worship offensive", and carried out extremely fierce ** against our army.
In the fourth battle, the joint ** carried out a counterattack on the whole front, and the volunteers began to retreat in order to prevent being surrounded, and on March 15, the joint ** captured the empty city of Seoul.
In this process, our army, which was already extremely tired, had to switch from offensive to defensive, constantly retreating to the north with alternate cover, and many blocking troops were entangled by the American army with superior overall strength for the safety of the large force, and drained their own blood, and the "three battalions and three companies" at the beginning of "Reconnaissance Hero" sacrificed all their staff on the position in order to cover the transfer of the main force is a microcosm of them.
In order to cover the retreat of the main force, the entire third company was sacrificed on the position.
On the other hand, the experience of being mixed in the Kuomintang army for many years must have caused Qi Lu to suffer from some bad problems, such as being lazy, wanting to escape when encountering difficulties, not wanting to do extraneous things, mixing up for a day is a day, and not wanting to go to a difficult and dangerous unit if he can stay in a comfortable unit, ......etc
This is also a microcosm of millions of "liberation fighters", no one is born a hero, and no one is infallible and has no minor faults. Those who do not make mistakes, do not take detours, and do not have any stain are saints, idols, but not living people.
Some of the small frictions that occurred between Qi Lu as a "liberation fighter" and some comrades of the reconnaissance company are also very real and normal situations, and people will always have a little sense of superiority and prejudice, "this is not pleasing to the eye, and that is awkward to look at this and this", which is a part of life and growth.
If people lose their edges and corners, they will lose their vigor and sharpness.
In addition to Qi Lu, there are many supporting soldiers in the TV series who can impress the audience, and Li Chenggong, a soldier from the engineering unit, is also a very typical one. Li Chenggong was in the process of carrying out the blasting mission, he was broken by the US machine gun and broke his legs, and after being rescued, he was depressed for a while and ......wanted to commit suicide several times
After having his legs broken, the wounded are demoralized.
This is also a manifestation of the real battlefield situation, and it is also a real historical prototype, after all, the ancestors of our volunteers are also flesh and blood with seven emotions and six desires, and in the face of the modernization of the US military, individuals who have suffered serious physical and mental damage will inevitably have bad psychological conditions.
In the documentary "1950 They Are Young", which I talked about before, I interviewed a number of soldiers of the Volunteer Art Troupe, one of whom was an accordionist who was strafed by an enemy plane while playing on the march, and his right hand was broken, and his dream was shattered, and his psychology at that time was also seriously damaged.
1950 They Are Young" interviewed veterans of the Art Troupe.
The addition of this character in the play is also a reminder from different dimensions that peace is not only beautiful, but also precious, and that peace cannot be maintained without thousands of people who are willing to sacrifice their lives.
The highly valued Lee puppet army and the North Korean comrades.
In some film and television works filmed by the warring parties that reflect the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, there are often characteristics that only highlight the war between China and the United States, or the war between the DPRK and South Korea.
In fact, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was a "mini-world war" in which the Chinese, American, DPRK, and ROK armies were the mainstay, supplemented by the Soviet Union and more than a dozen other countries, and the vast majority of Korean civilians in the north and south of the peninsula were coerced. These people, who were ignored in previous film and television works, were also witnesses and participants in this war, and their role should not be underestimated.
The illustrations in the book "Summary of the Logistics Experience of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea" show that the Korean people have also made great contributions to the war of aggression of the imperialists themselves.
The Lee puppet army in the early stage of the Korean War was indeed educated by the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army in turn because it was completely formed by the temporarily formed Korean *** to recruit and surrender the rebels" (absorbing many Korean traitors and puppet troops as the backbone of the Japanese occupation period and pulling in a lot of strong men), and the combat readiness level was completely out of state (there was not a single tank in the whole army).
However, as a result of the brutal war and the retraining and rearmament of the United States at all costs, some ROK units have also made great strides in their own quality during the war, and their performance has been positively evaluated by some volunteer generals. In the book "The Soul of the Battlefield, the Chronicle of the 15th Army's Fierce Battle in Shangganling", published by our army, there is such a record:
Many old men in the 15th Army who had fought against both the US and ROK armies had this experience, saying: "We have done a lot with Syngman Rhee's troops in the past, but no, they are very sparse, and we really look down on them in our hearts." As soon as they heard that they were going to fight Syngman Rhee's soldiers today, everyone felt quite bored. Hey, but when it came to Ganling, I suddenly found that they were more difficult to shave than the heads of American devils? ’”
Excerpted from "The Soul of the Battlefield: The Chronicle of the Fifteenth Army's Fierce Battle in Shangganling".
In particular, the ROK army endured hardships and hardships better than the US troops, and every time they occupied a position, they always meticulously and immediately rushed to repair the fortifications, and did not hesitate to expend their efforts to build trenches, barbed wire, deer barricades, and firepower ...... in a coordinated mannerThe same is a 597On the 9th heights, the 45th Division clearly felt that it would be much more difficult to counterattack the ROK positions than to counterattack the US positions."
Wang Jinshan, acting commander of the Third Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers, also said in his instructions on the use of tactics: "....In terms of tactics, the US military is rigid, and the puppet army is more flexible, ghostly, and cunning; Able to repair fortifications, good at stationing troops at the dead corners of the anticline, and carrying out continuous counterattacks against me. ’”
In "Reconnaissance Hero", we saw an intelligence officer of the Li Puppet Army born in the Japanese puppet period, Baek Chang-ho, whose character is a microcosm of the cruel ** war in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The Korean army character "Baek Chang-ho", who once wore a Japanese military uniform in the play**At that time, many Korean soldiers were Japanese puppet soldiers, such as the famous Korean general Bai Shanye served as the captain of the puppet Manchurian squad and even fought with the Eighth Route Army.
Throughout the war, the "Northern Faction" from the Syngman Rhee regime was always a troublemaker before and after the front of the Volunteer Army, and it can be said that it was a fierce enemy of our army. Many of the valuable logistical materials and transportation forces in the rear of our army were destroyed by the intelligence personnel of the Li puppet army guiding the US bombers on the ground. In order to exterminate these spies of the Li puppet army, all departments of the Volunteer Army also attached great importance to it and carried out targeted struggles.
Any soldier who was able to cross the battle lines of the two armies at that time and penetrate deep into the rear of the other side was considered elite.
Contrary to the role of Li's puppet army, throughout the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the local Korean villagers and guerrillas scattered behind the enemy's front also made indelible contributions to the victory of the war.
In the TV series, the guerrillas lead the Korean masses to deliver food to the volunteers.
This kind of scene of the Chinese and North Korean armies working together to resist the enemy can be seen in the black-and-white movies to resist US aggression and aid Korea in the early years, such as "Heroes' Children" and "Shangganling". Whether it was providing intelligence, supply, repairing roads, caring for wounded soldiers, providing garrisons, and helping volunteers rush to transport food and ammunition, the Korean people played a great role.
The Volunteer Army and the People's Army in the opening scene of "Heroic Sons and Daughters".
In the opening scene of Shangganling, the volunteers are marching, and the North Korean people are braving artillery fire to build roads and transport the wounded.
It is a pity that in the movies to resist US aggression and aid Korea in recent years, it is rare to see the Korean People's Army and the Korean people around the volunteers, and there are only a few pictures in "Meritorious Meritorious Soldier Nengwen Nengwu Li Yannian" and "The Crucible of War".
The Korean People's Army in the opening scene of "Meritorious".
Meritorious", the evaluation of the Korean People's Army by the volunteers.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was not only a wrestling between China and the United States, but also a war in which the oppressed Asian people at that time united to resist imperialism and its vassal reactionary forces.
Obey the party's command, be able to win battles, and have a good work style."
"Obeying the party's command" is the soul that determines the political direction of army building; "Being able to win battles" is the core, reflecting the fundamental functions and fundamental orientation of the army; "Excellent work style" is a distinctive characteristic and political advantage of military personnel, and has a bearing on the nature, purpose, and true character of the military.
In many domestic military films in recent years, the importance of the "party" in the army has been downplayed. In the real people's army, the "party" has a decisive position.
Party members should take the lead in the battle.
We can see in many historical examples and old movies that the "party" plays a key role in winning battles. In the battle of Xishankou in the self-defense counterattack against India, four PLA soldiers from different units, but all separated from the large army, were able to consciously form a combat group, and took the initiative to nominate member Pang Guoxing to be the leader of the group, and at the same time held a combat meeting; under the leadership of Pang Guoxing, they penetrated the enemy's 15 miles deep in two days, defeated an artillery battalion of the Indian army, and were rated as "national combat heroes."
Pang Guoxing combat group.
In old movies, we often see that in the rear headquarters, the combat officers and political officers will discuss the battle plan together, and they need to get the consent of political officers such as political commissars and instructors. Party branches are organized at the front-line company and platoon level, and party members and reserve party members play an exemplary role in the battle.
Even in modern times, party members are still the backbone of the army.
Some screenwriters and directors have a limited understanding of the people's army, and the movies they shoot often show the company commander making combat decisions alone, and the instructor is like a "wet nurse", and the company commander takes the lead in charging and killing the Quartet, completely ignoring the life and death of the soldiers behind him. This is fundamentally divorced from the essence of the people's army.
Why did I blow up "Meritorious Meritorious Soldier Nengwen Nengwu Li Yannian" before, because it shows in detail the entire process of how the volunteer army won the battle from beginning to end, from regiment and battalion level combat meetings, company and platoon level meetings, team meetings, the importance of instructors, instructors and party members, how commanders command each squad and platoon to fight on the front line, and at the most critical moment of the battle, party members will take the initiative to stand up and take the lead.
Reconnaissance Heroes organizes party group meetings.
Reconnaissance Heroes organizes a party member blasting team at a critical moment.
This point is also expressed in "Reconnaissance Heroes", which makes me feel very gratified, and the future of domestic military films can be expected!
to be improved. I talked about the advantages of this drama earlier, and finally I would like to make a little suggestion. "Scout Heroes" is still not exempt from some of the significant shortcomings of China's war-themed film and television dramas. For example: The power shown in the film is seriously inconsistent with the reality.
For example, in the scene at the beginning of the story where the Volunteer Army Art Team evaded the bombing of the US military, the combat process of the two US B-29 bombers was shown to be speechless.
The bomb of the B-29 was by no means of this effect.
Not to mention whether the strategic bombers who carry out tasks at high altitude during the day can accurately lock on a few people in the woods and bomb on the ground, just saying that the bombs dropped by these four bombers seem to be able to raise only a shovel of so much soil after **, and it is not as powerful as an 82 mortar, which is really a bit outrageous.
A real B-29 Flying Fortress, a bomb capable of carrying several thousand kilograms.
In the case that the explosion point effect is difficult to overcome, if the crew can replace the B-29 special effects with a combat attack aircraft such as the F-4U in the later stage, it will obviously be more suitable for the picture to replace the bomb with a 50-pound "small sweet potato" or rocket effect.
In the movie "Loyalty" filmed by the United States itself, the F-4U carrier-based aircraft piloted by the protagonist was hanging rockets when attacking the volunteers.
In addition, as a large strategic bomber, the B-29 was basically used to carry out daytime strategic bombing in the Korean battlefield, and was used to destroy North Korean strategic targets and industrial areas in the early days. After the Volunteer Army had MiG fighters, it shot down 28 B-29s, and then switched to night bombing, mainly to cut off the supply of the Volunteer Army.
Strategic bombers, which carry out strategic bombing missions, are not used to bomb infantry at low altitudes.
In the scene where the reconnaissance detachment blocked the US tank, if the shells of the US tanks really hit the positions of our army as shown in the TV series, then these soldiers can be said to have no chance ......of survival
"Hard" eating a high-explosive shell of an American tank at such a close distance, even if it is a Sherman's 76-mm gun, it will never be fine if it shakes the earth.
In addition to some flaws in the special effects and props, the various gun-wielding actions of the soldiers in the TV series are also obviously much more modern and detached from history, in fact, in different historical periods, the teaching model of the army is different. The veterans of that era had their own set of grips.
For example, the way of holding the gun in "Scout Hero" is very professional, but it is too modern.
The way the real volunteers hold the gun, pay attention to the "golden finger" difference.
The way the U.S. military gripped it back then.
The way the North Korean soldiers gripped it back then.
There are also volunteers at that time with guns and impact posture, which is completely different from modern times, although many movies now invite professional military guidance, but some military directors let actors learn the combat posture of modern special forces, although it looks very handsome and professional, but it is completely out of reality.
The Volunteer Army and the U.S. Army play tactical CQB, which looks handsome, but is outrageous. The picture is from "Changjin Lake".
The shock posture of the volunteers in Changjin Lake.
The point of the impact posture of the volunteers in the real video is to be low and fast, rather than straight up and shooting while running.
I hope that the crew in the future can pay attention to these details when filming new dramas to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
At present, "Scout Hero" is being broadcast on Tencent, Youku channel, overall this is a work worth watching "Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", everyone is about to have a holiday, you can take a look at home during the New Year.