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Chapter 156 Director Yang's Professional Strength
A flare rose into the air, hovered in the air for a moment, and then fell slowly.

The pitch-black surface of the river was suddenly as bright as day, and sailboats came silently from the north bank under the strong light, like eagles spreading their wings and stretching their claws.

"The communist army has crossed the river!"

After the terrified shouts, the machine guns of the bunkers and the Linjiang fortifications rang out, quickly weaving a firepower net.

Artillery fire also roared from behind the position, exploding on the river surface and stirring up a huge water column.

The soldiers rushing into the front sailboat fell down one after another before they had time to shoot, and the whole ship was riddled with holes in an instant.

"The water has entered, disembark, and gather at the beach!"

The soldiers shouted and jumped off the sailboat and swam to the other side, blood soon stained the river red.

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, Yang Shu, Yu Hewei, and Brother Chao, all wearing Huaye military uniforms, stood on the bank and stared intently at the south bank.

The soldiers are already on board and ready to go.

The sound of gunfire and artillery became more and more urgent and intense, and countless bright spots flickered on the opposite bank.

Yu Hewei: "It seems that the situation is more complicated. The scheduled time has passed, and the vanguard has not yet issued a landing signal."

The scale of the Battle of Crossing the River was larger than that of Normandy. The battle was very fierce, with more than 6 casualties.

Brother Chao unscrewed the kettle and took a sip: "The 28th Army is not easy to fight. It is currently the hardest bone in the national army. That's why they were asked to guard Jiangpu and defend Nanjing. I didn't expect to be gnawed by us."

"We don't need to think about it," Yu Hewei glanced at him, "This is our honor."

Brother Chao squinted at the dark river: "Yes."

At this time, amidst the gunpowder smoke on the south bank, three signal flares swayed up like flowers in the wind, and then were blown away by the wind.

"Successful!"

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, dozens of signal bombs were launched into the sky, and the Chargers came and went one after another, and more than 35 people from the 2th Army hoisted their sails to cross the river.

Yu Hewei and Brother Chao boarded their boats respectively: "The vanguard has occupied the beach, comrades, let's go!"

Poplar jumped up and helped the boatman pull up the sail.

"Go to Nanjing and liberate the whole of China!"

The soldiers picked up paddles and planks, and worked together to paddle forward.

……

Yang Shu woke up suddenly with sweat on his forehead.

"Warrior" has been filming for almost a month, and he often wakes up like this.

The shooting progress is normal, but the filming is very hard. Yang Shumeng is always filming and fighting.

It took the 35th Army three days from crossing the river to entering Nanjing, and it took him a month to capture the presidential palace.

The battles basically took place at night, and the production team was naturally nocturnal. He didn't go to bed until dawn every day, but he had to get up at noon to continue working.

According to the history of the war, the No.20th, 45th, and 99th armies of the national army served as the city defense of Nanjing. Among them, the No.20th army was an elite force at the end of the Nanjing government, responsible for guarding the Sanpu bridgehead position on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

According to Huaye's order, the 35th Army crossed the river in Jiangpu, just in time for the 28th Army, and fought very hard.

When crossing the river, the ships of the National Army kept bombarding with platoons of artillery, trying to cooperate with the 28th Army to hold on. The more intense the battle, the more difficult it was to film.

After the position along the river was lost, the 28th Army retreated into Jiangpu City and held on with the assistance of the Air Force. The 35th Army attacked fortified positions and killed hundreds of people in two days. Yu Hewei died in this battle.

Therefore, in order to complete his part as soon as possible, these days, in addition to filming the battle across the river, he has to film street battles in the siege. Pinghu Film and Television City has the streets of the Republic of China, which can meet the needs.

Yang Shu directs and acts on his own, which is even more difficult. Fortunately, with the assistance of Liu Man and two director assistants, hundreds of people participated in the group play, and the on-site directing was orderly.

Of course, the smooth shooting is also inseparable from sufficient preliminary work. In addition to detailed storyboarding and shooting plans, he also has sufficient preparations for the male lead's performance.

Before the filming started, he designed the characters, and he made a plan for every performance of the male lead.

Creation is contradictory. He once wanted to design the hero as a steel warrior, like an ancient chivalrous man with no expression of emotion and anger, cool and unsmiling, as if he knew everything in his chest.

However, after fully discussing with Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu, they gave up this idea.

In particular, Liu Man's suggestion is worthy of reference: "The male protagonist has experienced the baptism of war for more than ten years. He undoubtedly has a will of steel, but he is also an ordinary person, and he should have the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of ordinary people."

Jiang Shiyu also said: "Characters must have warmth, don't make the heroine in some dramas so inhumane, birds fly away in thousands of mountains, and people disappear in thousands of miles."

So in order to plump up the characters, in the end Yang Shu had a lot of emotional outburst scenes in this movie, and made different performance designs.

According to the sequence of the plot, the captain Jin Dong was trapped and killed by Japanese agents, and when the body was collected, he shed tears of hatred and anger.

Ou Hao, a comrade-in-arms who attacked Meng Lianggu, died, and shed tears with reluctance.

The army crossed the river, and the political commissar was sacrificed soon after liberation. He wept sadly and regretfully, matching the emotional progression of the lines, and the performance was layered and easy to understand.

Jiang Shiyu appreciated these designs: "It's better to be straightforward. If you have feelings, you have to express them. Don't play with the depth to make the audience suspect. If you guess wrong, you will think that the hero is a wooden person, which will weaken the appeal of the character. gone."

So when Yu Hewei died, he hugged the dead body on the street destroyed by the war and wailed loudly. He couldn't stop after shouting cards, and squatted on the side crying for a long time. Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu took turns to stop him.

Brother Chao, with his military uniform wet and sweaty, came over with a Czech-style light machine gun on his shoulders: "He's venting his nervousness. I've had it before, and no one can persuade him."

Standing aside, Yu Hewei couldn't help sighing: "My Uncle Liu was born in tears, and you grew up in tears."

Yang Shu took a napkin from Jiang Shiyu to wipe his tears and glanced at Brother Chao, and stopped crying immediately.

"Who gave you this light machine gun?"

"I picked it up," Brother Chao was stunned by him: "When I rushed into the city according to the plot, my submachine gun ran out of bullets, so I picked up a machine gun and continued to fight."

It was so secretive that Yang Shu couldn't care less about crying, sobbing and shouting: "The master of the gun, come here, this gun is wrong."

The firearms team hurried over: "Director Yang, what's wrong?"

"This machine gun is a Czech ZB26, and the magazine is straight. The one you provided is curved."

The firearms crew also looked confused: "Other crews have been filming like this before, isn't the magazine wrong?"

Yang Shu has made a lot of preparations for this film, and he is very sure: "That is to say, other war films also made mistakes. ZB26 cannot be a curved magazine. You may have confused it with the British Bren light machine gun. These two The magazines of different types of guns can be mixed. Although the national army also introduced British machine guns, they used Czech straight magazines to save money when equipped.”

This firearms group is relatively reliable in China, and has cooperated with "Bright Sword" before.

However, Yang Shu joked with them in private: "The Italian cannon in Liangjian is well-known to everyone, but I know it is actually a French M1897 75mm mountain cannon. Make another mistake."

At that time, the firearms team was also stunned, and begged him quietly: "Director Yang, please don't tell others about this, the gun is indeed wrong."

Unexpectedly, Director Yang was crying and crying today, and found that the magazine was wrong again.

The person in charge of the firearms team apologized while checking the information on his mobile phone: "I'm sorry Director Yang, if you're wrong, you may be wrong."

Half a minute later, it was revealed that the clips were indeed uncluttered, and they were from the British Bren light machine gun. Brother Chao's charge scene just now had to be re-shot.

"Amazing, amazing!" Yu Hewei and Brother Chao admired him all over the place: "With Director Yang's professionalism, this drama is already half successful."

Pukou is a Yangtze River ferry and an important hub of the Jinpu Railway. After the 28th Army was lost, it retreated into Nanjing, and the 35th Army also chased and killed all the way into Nanjing.

So after filming the scene of crossing the river, I had to go to Nanjing to film the scene of occupying the presidential palace.

Then the 28th Army fled all the way south, and the 35th Army pursued to Hangzhou and liberated Hangzhou by the way.

At the end of July, the crew moved to Nanjing and Hangzhou to continue filming.

(End of this chapter)