"Red Sun" and "South Tour and North War" are famous red classics in the film history of New China, which tell the contest between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong in the early days of the liberation war. Although this is not exactly the same story, the background and main battles of the story are related to the battle of Meng Lianggu.
I took this photo at the main peak of Meng Lianggu, which was the main position of the 74th Division at that time.
As we all know, in the Battle of Menglianggu, the East China Field Army wiped out the Kuomintang and reorganized the 74th Division. In fact, Huaye was just established at this time. Before that, there were two independent troops, the Central China Field Army and the Shandong Field Army. Why did the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission merge these two teams?
This needs to talk about the background at that time. 1946 After the start of the all-out civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Central China Field Army near Nanjing, the capital of the National Government, posed a great threat to the Kuomintang, and the Kuomintang was determined to eliminate it quickly. The commander of the Central China Field Army is Su Yu, whose predecessor was the Jiangbei Command of the New Fourth Army; At this time, the headquarters of the New Fourth Army has moved to Linyi, an important town in southern Shandong with Chen Yi, and fought in the name of Shandong Field Army.
The Central China Field Army became the main target of Nanjing government. Since the second half of 1946, Hua Ye has suffered repeated wars and defeats, and the military pressure is enormous. Finally, he was driven out of northern Jiangsu and retreated to southern Shandong. Central China needs enough depth to move, and Shandong needs Central China as a cover and barrier. Under this background, the two field armies of Central China and Shandong merged to form the East China Field Army, with Chen Yi as commander and political commissar and Su Yu as deputy commander, under the jurisdiction of 1 1 infantry column and 1 special forces column, with a total strength of 275,800.
Su Yu commanded the battle at the front.
After the establishment of the East China Field Army, Laiwu Campaign and Menglianggu Campaign were launched successively, which achieved great victories and dealt a heavy blow to the Nanjing Kuomintang government. Here, Chen Yi, Commander-in-Chief of Hua Ye, marched in Yimeng Mountain, touching the scene, and wrote "Linyi Vagina is like a Dream" to express his feelings:
Linyi Mengyin Xintai,
Back to the stone monster.
Beautiful scenery,
Seventy-two cute.
Love, love,
Chiang Kai-shek's attack will fail.
Laurie talked about this in detail, which is actually the historical background of the "Southern Expedition and Northern War" and the "Red Sun". Fighting in the south and fighting in the north is not the same as the red sun. The war between the south and the north is fictional, and the characters and places in the film are fictional. For example, the enemy is Zhang in reality, but Li, commander-in-chief of the Laiwu Campaign of the Kuomintang and deputy commander of the second appeasement area. The Red Sun is a true story, which mainly describes the battle scene in Meng Lianggu. In the film, the characters of both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party also adopt their real names, which are vivid and lifelike. The most commendable thing is the movie episode "Who doesn't say my hometown is good", which has become a business card of Yimeng Mountain.
First of all, it must be affirmed that the two films "Red Sun" and "Fighting in the South" are based on the real war history of our army's liberation war. The Northern War was shot at1952; The red sun was shot at 196 1- 1963.
The storylines of the two films are based on two completely different historical war scenes. The "Northern War" is based on 1947, and the front line of Longhai Road is surging. Chen Cheng, the beloved chief of staff of Chiang Kai-shek, visited Xuzhou and made a plan for the battle in southern Shandong, forcing me to fight against Chiang Kai-shek and annihilate the East China Field Army of Chen Yi and Su Yu in Linyi, the capital of Shandong Liberated Area.
Chiang Kai-shek wanted to go north and south to attack the main force of Hua Ye who was gathering in Linyi at that time.
South Road: reorganize Ou Zhen, the 1st19th Army, and command 20 brigades of 8 reorganization divisions. The soldiers were divided into three roads: Taierzhuang to Chengtou, and rushed to Linyi; Left: 7 brigades in Hu Lian; Middle Road: Li Tianxia 7 Brigade; Right: Yellow Sixth Brigade.
North Road: Li commanded four divisions of three armies to descend from the south road and go straight to Laiwu and Xintai rear base areas in Shandong Liberated Area.
South is given priority to, and north is supplemented. The main force of Chiang Kai-shek in the south road goes hand in hand, advancing six kilometers a day. The People's Liberation Army and Chiang Kai-shek in Lu Nan are equal in number, but they are inseparable or panicked because their equipment is slightly inferior to that of Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore, Chen Yi and Su Yu quickly decided to ignore Chiang Kai-shek's heavy troops in Lu Nan and go north with the main force of the People's Liberation Army. Destroy Li (the prototype in the film) troops on the northern line with absolute superiority, and annihilate 50,000 to 60,000 troops in one fell swoop. This is recorded in the famous Military History Book.
Let's talk about the movie Red Sun.
Someone once boasted that Chiang Kai-shek "if there are ten seventy-four divisions, all China can be unified." Zhang, the seventy-four division, is even more complacent and arrogant. Zhang, a fourth-grade student in Huangpu (once a first-year student with Marshal Lin Biao), boasted to his principal Chiang Kai-shek: "Give me the New Fourth Army (referring to the East China Field Army)!" Chiang Kai-shek said, "Lianshui World War I proved that the 74th Division was worthy of being a model division of the national army and made some achievements. You are very glorious. "
At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, in the Battle of De 'an, Zhang commanded his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese army for five days and nights, and achieved a "great victory in De 'an". Tian Han, a playwright at that time, wrote a live-action drama on this theme, and the name "Zhang" was passed down as a hero and celebrity for some time.
However, with the surrender of Japanese imperialism, Zhang followed Chiang Kai-shek in the War of Liberation, acted as a pawn of Chiang Kai-shek's anti-communism and anti-people, and stood on the opposite side of the people. Seventy-four of them were wiped out in Meng Lianggu by the East China Field Army led by Chen Yi and Su Yu, which is a historical necessity!
1947 in may, according to the battlefield situation at that time, Su Yu suggested to Chen Yi, commander of Hua Ye: "commander, judging from the current situation, we should change our plans and fight the enemy's seventh army and 48th division. We should quickly assemble several powerful columns nearby, wedge them into the middle of the enemy's battle formation in a way that tore the heart out of the tiger, separate the 74th Division from other enemies, and completely annihilate them. " Su Yu said, and waved and made a gesture of determination to behead. Chen Yi listened to Su Yu's opinion without any delay. He totally agreed, "Good! There must be a million troops to take the spirit of the general's head. " With that, Boss Chen stood up and threw his hat on the table. If Chen Yi has decided anything, it is the battlefield situation, and our army is developing in the direction of victory. So, under the strategic deployment of Chen Yi and Su Yu, the whole army stormed Meng Lianggu in the morning of 16, and at the foot of Meng Lianggu Mountain, the gun rang. In the afternoon, the remnants of the 74th Division were completely wiped out, and the 74th Army was wiped out.
Finally, at the end of this article, we take the seven-rhythm poem written by the beloved Marshal Chen Yi after defeating Meng Lianggu and annihilating the 74th Division as the first choice, which reads: "Meng Lianggu is possessed by ghosts, and the 74th Division has nowhere to escape. The signals are scattered, the stars are confused, and lights are everywhere. The knife rushed to the top of the mountain, and blood and rain floated in, wetting the shirt. I am very happy to see that thieves are elites and our army is heroes. "
It is definitely not a story or a battle, but the background of the story is definitely one, that is, during the 1947 war of self-defense (not called the war of liberation at that time), the People's Liberation Army (not called the People's Liberation Army at that time, but it was no longer the Eighth Route Army) smashed Chiang Kai-shek's key attack on the Shandong liberated area in Jiangsu.
The film Red Sun is based on Wu Qiang's novel of the same name. On the premise of respecting history, the novel describes the story that the 74th Division reorganized by 1947 (one of the five main forces of the Kuomintang) launched a key attack on the liberated areas in the southwest of northern Jiangsu and was surrounded by the whole army of Meng Lianggu in Linyi. The film puts the novel on the screen and depicts in detail the scene of the desperate struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, especially Zhang Jin, the 74th division commander. This is a one-step documentary.
The film "Fighting in the South and Fighting in the North" is also a battle feature film reflecting the People's Liberation Army 1947' s crushing of Chiang Kai-shek and its key attack on the liberated areas in Shandong, Jiangsu. It's just that the film tells the story of a liberation camp-level fighting group fighting Chiang Kai-shek in Taocun, Motianling and Dasha River and finally being eliminated.
There are both differences and similarities between The Red Sun and Fighting in the North. The time, space, characters, scenes and so on in the film are both factual and fictitious. The Red Sun tends to be a documentary feature film, while the Southern War tends to be a realistic feature film.
Red Sun and Northern War are based on the real historical background of Laiwu Campaign and Menglianggu Campaign, but Red Sun is more documentary. The names of the campaigns are all real names, and enemy generals such as Li and Zhang also use real names, which can better describe the actual characteristics of the commanders of both sides. And "War in the South" embodies our army's superb strategy and tactics with fictional place names and artistic characters. Fighting, characters and battlefields all concentrate many characteristics of both sides of the liberation war on their respective characters, which not only embodies the characteristics of Zhang, Li or Chen Yi, Su Yu or the lower class and Pi Dingjun, but also embodies the characteristics of both sides in art. To give a simple example, for example, Li in the battle of Laiwu was originally a member of the first phase of Huangpu and Chiang Kai-shek, and was the deputy commander of the appeasement area who commanded the three armed forces (reorganization division). His position should be mainly Zhang. This is obvious in the red sun. However, the one in "Southern Tour and Northern War" has been shaped into a miscellaneous brand, and his position is only the commander-in-chief, and he is no longer the real Li. The place names also fictionalize Laiwu and Meng Lianggu as Phoenix Mountain and Motianling. Therefore, the real background of the two feature films is the same, but the image and battle scenes have their own emphasis.
Definitely not a story! The "Northern War" started with blocking the enemy in Taocun Village, Dashahe, and then blocked the enemy's aid, and ensured that Hua Ye's main force wiped out the enemy in Fenghuang Mountain, and finally pursued the enemy to Taocun Village, Dashahe, and was completely annihilated! As far as history is concerned, the symbolic meaning is greater than the actual meaning, and the prototype is the first stage of Linyi's blocking war-Laiwu Campaign-Huaihai Campaign! Now it seems that the film is amazing, because the protagonist, a regiment and a battalion (four companies), has stopped the attack of the same enemy and an army (reorganization division) successively. Finally, he captured Jiangjunmiao Station (railway station) with a battalion, and the defenders were a regiment, which prevented the two regiments from rushing back! Still no support! The film "Red Sun" began with the failure of the second Lianshui Campaign, followed by the training and consolidation, Laiwu Campaign and Menglianggu Campaign! The prototype is commander Wang Bicheng's Hua Ye Liu's combat experience! Between the two, apart from the battle of Laiwu and the former Central Army, there are two films with different ideas! The symbol of the "Northern War" is of great significance-go back where you came from! The red sun is a real and complete event.
The film "Red Sun" focuses on how to annihilate the 74th Division of the Kuomintang before the battle and how to annihilate it. The film "Fighting in the South and Fighting in the North" focuses on two parts before and after the cooperation (part) between Chen Su's army and the Central Plains Field Army. The first half is mainly to clamp the Kuomintang Danielle and the 74th Division of Zhang Department together, that is, to annihilate the Ministry in Phoenix Mountain; Zhang Jun headquarters, which was annihilated in Dasha River in the south during World War I, should be a brief introduction to the annihilation of Du Corps in Huaihai Campaign.
Historically, films have been reprocessed and upgraded to artistic reality on the premise of respecting history. This not only reflects the real struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Shandong and northern Jiangsu in history, but also artistically reproduces the people's pre-support actions and touching pictures.
The difference between the two films lies in: The Red Sun is an artistic reproduction based on respect for the original novel; The War in the South is an artistic reproduction after editing and processing by the creative group under the historical facts. These two films are rare artistic treasures.
The film Red Sun and Northern War are not the same story, but they have the same historical background.
The film "Fighting in the South and Fighting in the North" was shot at 1952, with the battle of Laiwu as the background. However, the film combines the Laiwu campaign and the elimination of Zhang Jin for artistic treatment, highlighting the large-scale maneuver of our army in sports warfare and winning two battles from south to north.
1947 65438+ 10 In October, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized heavy troops to launch the Lunan Campaign and wiped out our East China Field Army. In order to crush Chiang Kai-shek's attack, Hua Ye launched the Laiwu Campaign in February of that year, surrounded more than 60,000 Li Tuan, annihilated 40,000 of them, and completely smashed Chiang Kai-shek's battle plan in southern Shandong. This is what "Fighting in the South and Fighting in the North" refers to. Later, the elimination refers to the elimination of Zhang, but the film does not directly indicate it, but artistically handles the two major battles.
The Red Sun was shot in 1963 and tells the story of 1947 in May. Chiang Kai-shek was not content to lose the battle in southern Shandong. He organized 24 reorganization divisions and more than 60 brigades, with a total of 450,000 elites launching key attacks on Jiangsu and Shandong Liberated Areas, including the 74th Division, the 5th Division of the 5th Army and the18th Army. Hua Ye fought with 9 columns and 1 special forces columns, with a total of 270,000 people. With Zhang's series of tactics, our 74th Division was finally separated, surrounded and completely annihilated. Is the battle, Hua Ye with 2, 3, 7, 65, 438+00 columns to help, with 65, 438+0, 4, 6, 8, 9 columns besieged the 74th division. The film Red Sun was shot against the background of this historical event.
It is said that Marshal Chen Yi participated in the creation of "Northern War", but told the crew to make it into a war art film instead of writing it according to the complete truth. Originated from war, higher than war. So the war is real, and how to fight it can be handled artistically.
The Red Sun is now called reportage, which is basically a real event, but it also has subtle and reasonable exaggeration.
The movie "Northern War" should be a part of "Laiwu Campaign" and "Meng Lianggu Campaign". With the essence of "fighting from the south to the north"-walking, we achieved the strategic goal of paralysis, mobilization, dragging down and then destroying the enemy.
"Red Sun" is an eternal classic, and "South Tour and North War" is a drama with exactly the same background, but the Six Vertical Secret Service Team is definitely a negative example of lax military management.