In a wilderness in the northeast, there is a vast expanse of white. The northwest wind is blowing cotton ball-like snowflakes, making people unable to open their eyes.
The wilderness is not a plain, but a series of high mountains and steep peaks. Under the raging snowstorm, it seems like the end of the world.
There is a suspended single-lane bridge on the mountainside across several water diversion pipes. Under the bridge is an abyss.
The original bridge has been broken by bombs several times. On the original broken bridge, 8 sets of M-2 type steel and wood standard bridges have replaced the original bridge.
Not far away, the 1st Marine Division, which had just experienced ten days of bloody battle with the Volunteer Army, was retreating here.
"stop!"
Commander Smith looked at the bridge leading to heaven in front of him with some uneasiness. His First Marine Division had withdrawn from the battlefield three days ago after six days of bloody battles, but it had only traveled a total of 22 kilometers in the past three days.
They were intercepted and killed by volunteers at all levels along the way. They could only walk 300 meters in an hour on average. There were more than 1,500 casualties on the 22-kilometer road.
Now, as long as he crosses the Watergate Bridge in front of him, there is a vast plain in front of him, and his troops can escape.
However, Smith was a little confused.
A staff officer next to him hesitated and said, "General, I feel like someone is watching us!"
Smith's uneasiness became more and more serious, so he sent a few scouts to talk about the way ahead. However, when the scouts climbed to the bridge and took a look, they were all stunned.
More than 120 volunteer soldiers were all frozen on the position. These soldiers were all in sniper postures, holding guns in their hands, with the muzzles facing forward, and their eyes glaring at the position. No one flinched.
"Oh, God!"
The three Mi Lijian soldiers stared at the ice sculpture glaring in front of them for a few seconds, then yelled, turned around and ran away with horror on their faces.
...
"Okay, pass!"
A simple scene was shot in one go. Li Qian thought there would be something awkward about these foreign extras, but he didn't expect that they were quite involved.
"Hurry up, next shot." He picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered to continue shooting.
Chen Kun, Duan Yihong, and Zhang Yi, who were wearing makeup and were about to appear in the next scene, couldn't help but ask, "Director Li, these foreigners must not be Americans."
"I don't know about that, but they are quite dedicated." Li Qian shook his head. There are actually many foreign extras in China. Their salary is usually ten times that of normal extras, and they only need to show their faces.
Things are more valuable when they are rare, that's how it is.
This plot requires a lot of foreign actors. For some close shots, foreign extras were hired, and for long shots, they were recruited locally, including those in the northern part of Heilongjiang Province.
As for whether there were Mi Lijian people in these group performances and whether it would be awkward, Li Qian didn't bother to care.
The filming continued. When several scouts rushed down shouting, the commander of the Mi 1st Division was shocked, and the troops immediately prepared for battle.
Three days, 22 kilometers away, countless attacks, it was already an instinctive reaction.
After asking about the situation, the commander led people onto the bridge. Looking at the more than 120 ice sculptures, he felt numb all over.
The second shot is also simple. After the American army crosses the bridge, in the third shot, the pursuing volunteers arrive.
In reality, the pursuing volunteers arrived even later. Because there was no car transportation, the soldiers could only rely on one pair of legs to walk through the mountains. The snow on the mountains was deep and thick. If they stepped on the snow, the soldiers would accidentally fall.
They got stuck in the snow and couldn't walk. In the end, in order to reach the Water Gate Bridge quickly, they had to crawl forward on their knees. Therefore, they missed a great opportunity to annihilate the Mi 1 Division.
This is a bit frustrating, so in the script, shortly after the Mi 1st Division passed through, the pursuit troops arrived, led by the third company where the male protagonist was.
In the monitor, there was a bird's-eye view of hundreds of people in the company trudging to the Watergate Bridge. When they saw their comrades frozen into ice sculptures, they all stood stunned on the spot.
The camera showed several close-ups. Whether it was Duan Yihong, a cold-faced tiger, Zhang Yi, a stubborn boy, or the elderly Chen Kun, who had seen too many deaths in a nursing home, they all couldn't help but shed tears.
The camera shot back, giving a close-up of the ice sculpture. The faces glaring in front of them shocked the soul.
Suddenly an old hand fell next to the body of a young soldier and picked up a small piece of paper with crooked writing on it:
I love my relatives and my motherland.
Love my honor even more.
I am a glorious volunteer soldier.
Ice and snow! I will never give in to you.
Even if it means freezing to death.
I also want to be proud.
Towering over my position!
This was borrowed from the Shanghai Volunteer Army Museum and was written by a young soldier who turned into an ice sculpture decades ago.
"Chase!"
Duan Yihong's eyes were full of tears and he roared with all his strength.
Everyone, holding their spears tightly, continued to pursue with full of anger and hatred.
"Pass!"
Li Qian stared at the monitor closely, clapped his hands and shouted, announcing that another crossing was coming.
In this situation, everyone's emotions are in place, and there is no need for him to say anything.
Then someone immediately helped the more than 120 thinly-clad soldiers into the tent. Don't let them freeze in this damn weather.
The focus of the Battle of Changjin Lake has been shot, mainly the ice sculpture company, and only a large panoramic shot of the specific battlefield.
Next, I moved the location and filmed marches, ambush battles, and fortified battles one by one.
The focus is on the tough battles. There are three tough battles, mainly showing the tactics of the volunteers.
Why the Volunteer Army was able to win, this must be filmed.
In modern warfare, numbers can no longer be the dominant factor.
When the two armies are fighting, the first thing they suffer is that their own weapons can reach the other side.
Otherwise, not only can we not kill the enemy, we can only be killed.
Weapons have developed from spears to bows and arrows, muskets, cannons, airplanes, and missiles, constantly extending the strike distance, interpreting the truth that "an inch long is strong, and an inch short is dangerous."
One division of the US Army is equipped with more than 330 cannons with a caliber of 70 mm or above, and the total number of artillery pieces of various types reaches more than 790.
One division of the Volunteer Army only has 12 mountain guns, one corps only has more than 190 cannons with a caliber of 70 mm or above, and the total number of artillery of all types is only more than 540. It is not as good as the artillery of one division of the US Army.
One division of the US Army has more than 140 tanks, which is 40 more tanks than the Volunteer Army invested in the entire Beibang War.
As for light and heavy machine guns and aircraft, they are even more incomparable.
If you want to fight, you must first engage the enemy. Otherwise, if you distance yourself, it will be a massacre.
At first, the volunteers usually stayed in hiding during the day and went out at night, hiding in place all day long and marching at night to avoid enemy reconnaissance and bombing, shorten the distance with the enemy, and minimize the firepower gap.
To sum up, the tactics are big maneuver, big ambush, big penetration, big detour, big encirclement, and finally the big annihilation.
Although the goal of annihilation was not achieved due to a serious lack of firepower, the battle line was pushed from the Yalu River to the 37th parallel.
To achieve this, tactical execution ability, willpower, the tactical literacy of soldiers, and the command ability of grassroots commanders and fighters are all indispensable.
That is to say, the volunteers who have experienced the baptism of the Anti-Japanese War and the Neighbor War can do it, and it is not just a matter of beating chicken blood.
It can be said that they are a group of 21st century modern lightly-armed armies in the 1950s with weapons from the 1940s.
Hiding day and night, closing the distance, this is one of the war scenes.
The second scene is the response strategy of the Mi Army. After all, Li Qian will not belittle the Mi Army. At that time, the Mi Army was already the most powerful country in the world. To deliberately belittle the opponent is to lie to himself.
Faced with the tactics of large-scale maneuver, large-scale ambush, large-scale insertion, large-scale detour, and large-scale encirclement, the American army chose to maximize its firepower and mechanization advantages.
When defending, keep a distance from the Volunteers, regardless of the amount of ammunition, and continuously use "sea of fire tactics" to violently hit the spearhead of the Volunteers' attack.
When retreating, the retreat distance is exactly equal to the distance that the Volunteer Army marches in one night. When the Volunteer Army pursues it, it is daytime again. Not only does it avoid the Volunteer Army's strengths in night fighting, but it can also give full play to its firepower and air superiority, forcing the Volunteer Army who are seriously lacking in firepower.
Fighting in the daytime, using short attacks to attack long, pay a heavy price.
As a result, the volunteers cannot hit the enemy when attacking, and cannot get rid of the opponent when retreating. They are always stuck, beaten, chased, and chased by the opponent.
The third war scene is the "hidden enemy ambush" tactic in response to the American army's tactics.
The first night, troops are sent to lurk at the front of the enemy's position, and the next day they have to hide under the enemy's noses throughout the day. When night falls on the second day, they begin to attack, quickly engage the enemy, and cover the charge of subsequent troops.
This battle was the most successful in history. More than 3,500 combatants were lurked at the front of the enemy's position. The nearest personnel were less than 60 meters away from the enemy. The entire lurking force was within the opponent's range and fire network. The enemy
If you throw a grenade from top to bottom on a hillside of 60 to 70 degrees, you can throw it into the latent area, and the artillery is only a few kilometers away from the enemy.
It was difficult to shoot such a big scene, so Li Qian shrunk it down. It was the third company where the male protagonist was, with a hundred people. They lurked under the nose of the enemy for a day and a night, and then launched a brazen attack on the second night, taking them all by surprise.
A main division of the US Army, an integrated company with heavy firepower.
Although this tactic sounds simple, how do you secretly enter the latent position? How do you solve a series of problems such as eating, drinking, diarrhea, coughing, etc. after entering? This is not something ordinary troops can do.
Opponents often conduct fire reconnaissance on possible lurking locations, casualties are unavoidable, and rescue is impossible.
The wounded warriors must hold on motionless and cannot expose the target. As long as one person is exposed, the entire latent unit will be casualties.
The well-known Qiu Shaoyun was burned to death by a fire caused by a reconnaissance incendiary bomb sent by the enemy while lurking.
There was a similar scene during the lurking process. A soldier was injured due to enemy fire reconnaissance. He lay silently on the spot for a day and a night, bleeding to death.
The male protagonist, who is a hygienist, can only watch this scene helplessly, unable to do anything.
In fact, if he wasn't afraid of being too bloody, Li Qian would have just filmed someone's intestines being blown out, stuffed them secretly, and continued to lurk.
These are all things that really happened, but the audience's feelings must also be taken into consideration, and they may be killed because they are too bloody.
This is not a war movie, the theme is still a romance movie, so the overall style cannot be ruined, so the war scenes should be dominated by victory and emotion.
Tactics, victory, and emotion are the focus of these scenes.
Next, in mid-January, the crew ushered in the most brutal filming of the Songgu Peak Blockade.
The scene of this battle lasts for five minutes. In addition to the one-minute panoramic view, the remaining four minutes are the scenes of three consecutive positions.
The protagonists here are Chen Kun, Duan Yihong and Zhang Yi.
First, I took a large panoramic shot, with tanks, armored vehicles, and airplanes all on board. After all, this was an interception and annihilation battle, and the enemy was retreating like crazy.
Rather than retreating, it is better to say running away. If you run away in order to survive, of course you will attack crazily.
This one-minute scene consists of all kinds of heavy weapons, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and aircraft taking turns to attack each other.
The details are the three company positions, the constantly running health worker Chen Kun, the sniper Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong who directs the battle, and more scenes of unknown heroes fighting and dying.
This scene ends with Duan Yihong's sacrifice.
An artillery shell landed not far from the position, and a piece of shrapnel hit Duan Yihong's chest.
"Company commander!"
Chen Kun, who was bandaging a comrade in the trench, choked and ran over. Looking at Duan Yihong's bloody chest, he knelt in front of him and hurriedly pressed some yellowed gauze on the wound with a cry.
I used too much force and was afraid that it would hurt him.
My strength was weak, and blood kept spilling out, quickly staining the gauze red.
"Company commander...company commander..."
"Why are you crying? Lao Zhi is not dead yet!" Duan Yihong cursed with difficulty.
"Don't worry about me, go rescue other comrades."
"Company Commander, you..."
"This is an order!"
"But company commander, you said that the third company cannot leave a wounded person behind."
"Obey the order, Lao Zhi will be dead immediately, not injured...ahem...wounded."
The excitement caused Duan Yihong to cough violently, bringing out a mouthful of blood. He used his last bit of strength to give Chen Kun the last order.
This line may seem a bit strange at first glance, but this is a tragic battle. If it is too serious, it will feel disconnected from the subsequent plot, and the two will not be coordinated enough.
The first sentence is that Lao Zhi is not dead yet because he doesn’t want Chen Kun to cry.
The second sentence is that Lao Zhi is going to be a dead man immediately, so he should stop wasting bandages and medicines.
It's reasonable, and this kind of line is not so awkward coming from a person who is not very good at talking and has a cold face all day long.
"Okay, pass!"
Li Qian gave the order, and here, the entire scene of the blocking battle at Songgu Peak was officially finished.
"call!"
Li Qian stood up from the monitor and breathed a sigh of relief, finally able to relax.
Everyone in the crew also let go of the nerves that had been tense for more than half a month. In this icy and snowy environment, filming this kind of scene, everyone felt uncomfortable, both physically and mentally.
Duan Yihong got up from the trench, patted his bloody chest, came to Li Qian, and said sincerely.
"Director Li, thank you for asking me to play such a heroic role. When I saw these incoherent and fragmented plots before, I was afraid that the character would be thin, but after filming the last scene, I connected the previous scenes together.
, I discovered that this character is already very full.”
Li Qian said, "The script is indeed very thin, but you acted well and filled in the things that were not written in the script."
There are fragmented scenes, although there are character biographies and the like, but after all, the content cannot be filmed into the movie. Generally speaking, Duan Yihong used his performance to support this thin character.
Zhang Yi pondered, "It seems that my role has more roles, but it seems thinner."
"You are a sniper and a superhero, that's enough. Lao Duan is one of thousands of company commanders in the Volunteer Army, so he needs to be more mature." Li Qian said with a smile.