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Chapter 556 He is sixteen years old, but he is a veteran! ([-]-character chapter)
Beijing National Library.

A long red carpet has already been laid out early.

Although it was only the premiere of a movie, its scale and posture were no less than some film festival award ceremonies.

As the most popular movie of Li Yi among the directors of Huaguo, the lineup of stars who came to join the show is absolutely luxurious.

The top stars from the three places on both sides of the strait basically came if they could.

But what is interesting is that at the premiere of "War Meridian", a group of special audiences were also invited.

A group of children with red scarves!It can be regarded as a relatively unique scenery at the movie premiere scene.

At the same time, many fans brought their children to the premiere.

This is the effect of movie propaganda.

Many people present in "War Meridian" are familiar faces.

Including movie fans and film critics and media people.

Such as Chen Jingning and Liu Fei, such as Lu Xinguang and Chu Xixi, such as Li Wen and Zhou Qingquan, such as Du Xianghai and Fang Long.

Especially Lu Xinguang and Chu Xixi, Chu Xixi came to the premiere with a big belly.

For Lu Xinguang and Chu Xixi, Li Yi's movies have become an indispensable part of their lives.

From acquaintance to love, to getting married, and now they are about to have their first child, they have never missed any of Li Yi's movies.

It can be said that he is definitely a die-hard fan of Li Yi.

At the entrance, this time Li Yi was really generous. There were staff, and every audience who entered the venue would give out a pack of tissues and a bottle of mineral water.

"This shitty director, who actually gave out tissues, why did I have a bad feeling?" Liu Fei took the tissues and mineral water and said to Chen Jingning.

In fact, many movie fans who received paper towels and mineral water, as well as insiders, almost had the same idea as Liu Fei.

And the fact is, the movie "War Meridian", how should I say it?

There are indeed a few places where the really sensational parts, but the whole movie can be said to be accompanied by death along the way.

From the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie, death is the eternal theme.

Distribute tissues and mineral water, well, this time Li Yi nodded in agreement.

Originally, it was only prepared for those children, but we can't favor one over the other, otherwise the group of Sand Sculpture fans wondered whether Director Dog is discriminating against adults?
The scene of the premiere.

There are not many performances, but Li Yi took the main creative members on stage and chatted about some interesting things encountered during the filming process.

Then, the movie officially begins.

The bright lights dimmed, and images appeared on the big screen.

"Directed by Li Yi!"

These six familiar subtitles have even become the feelings of old movie fans.

Li Yi probably never thought that he would one day become a lover.

Then, a line of subtitles appeared on the big screen.

"History will never forget the unknown soldiers who were minors in the Anti-Japanese War!"

"I would like to dedicate this film to the underage Eighth Route Army soldiers who fought in the Anti-Japanese War!"

Then there are old photos full of the sense of time, including the underage soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War, and some of them wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army.

They look so immature, at this age, in this era, they may all be reading books in a spacious classroom.
But in that era, they were already fighters!
The theater was full of solemnity, especially some special guests, the surviving old Red Army from the Anti-Japanese War, Lao Balu.

It's been too long since now, so long ago that the only remaining old Red Army soldiers who came here, the old Eighth Route Army, were just children at that time.

One of the grey-haired grandmothers couldn't help but burst into tears just seeing these old photos.

Others can't understand it, but in their minds, they can think of the little comrades-in-arms and friends who are not particularly clear now.

This movie does not start from the perspective of the old Red Army and veterans, but from the perspective of the immature children to feel the cruelty of this war.

At the beginning of the movie, the original version said that the winding Great Wall could be seen on the moon, but in fact it was later proved that this was impossible.

You can't see the Great Wall from the moon at all.

So, here, Li Yi used an aerial video of the Great Wall.

The Great Wall winds for thousands of years, and the magnificent rivers and mountains show the Chinese civilization. It has witnessed the history of China, the history of the rise and fall of China, and the suffering of the Chinese nation!
In the hospital, an old man with white hair was lying on the hospital bed and was pushed all the way into the operating room.

In front of the shadowless lamp in the operating room, a nurse appeared, and seeing the old man wake up, she turned to the doctor and said, "She's awake!"

"Prepare for surgery!" The doctor didn't appear in the picture, only the voice came.

"Take it easy, count with me, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is fine!"

The nurse pulled up the sheet and covered the camera!
The picture on the big screen is one of the darkest!
Came from outside the screen, bursts of machine guns, explosions.

Shouts, screams.
A little girl in the uniform of the Eighth Route Army appeared in the camera. With her back to the sun, she looked at the camera and said, "She's awake!"

The camera moves sideways, slowly unfolding like a scroll.

The figure in the screen gradually became clear.

Children of different heights appeared in the screen, the oldest of them was only sixteen years old, and the youngest was only eight years old!

The picture freezes, like an old photo.

Many viewers immediately understood that this was a picture in the memory of the old man on the hospital bed.

Each of them looks so immature, and each of them looks so embarrassed, it is completely impossible to imagine what these children have experienced.

The shots are shifted again.

Begin to explain the historical background.

"Since the summer of 1942, the Japanese army launched a large-scale mopping up of the anti-Japanese base areas in Huaguo North China. Because the Eighth Route Army troops were in urgent need of medical personnel, in November 1942, the Beiping underground party mobilized 11 progressive youths in hospitals and schools. Nine detachments and three columns escorted to Pingxi Anti-Japanese Base Area!"

In the picture, soldiers of the Eighth Route Army escort a group of progressive young women, sitting in a carriage.

They look so young, and they are full of expectations for going to the anti-Japanese base area.

"Hey, look!" On the carriage, a young woman shouted happily, pointing to a distance not far away.

The camera followed the direction of her finger, it was a winding Great Wall!

At this moment, the roar of the plane broke the calm, making the faces of the young women who were still smiling turn pale.

And the escorting soldiers also quickly shouted: "There are enemy planes, quickly hide!"

It's just that these progressive youths who have never been to the battlefield have not been trained at all.

The sound of the bombing sounded, the shells fell, and they scattered and fled in fright.

And everyone knows that at this time, running away without reason will only become a target.

They fell down one after another. When they came, they were elated, but they never understood the cruelty of war.

It was eerily quiet in the theater.

Many movie fans and guests did not expect that the opening of the movie is so cruel, without giving everyone any chance to buffer, it directly shows the cruelty of war!
The soldiers ran towards the Great Wall while protecting the young people, but along the way, people kept falling down. Under the artillery fire, life seemed so fragile.

The young people who were still facing longing and hope for the future just a moment ago, but at this moment, one after another, they fell down with unfulfilled beliefs!
There are Japanese planes bombing and strafing in the sky.

There were countless Japanese troops chasing after them in skirmish lines. The roar of bullets echoed in the wilderness, and people kept falling.

On the other side, a soldier was seriously injured, but he still frantically swung his whip to make the horse run faster.

On the carriage, an older young woman was holding another young woman in her arms, advancing amidst the artillery fire.

Towards the breakout part of the Great Wall, with disparate forces and disparate encounters, their fate seems to be doomed!

The part that fled to the Great Wall was surrounded by Japanese troops, and finally the whole army was wiped out!
No prisoners were taken, and no one surrendered!The corpses lay there in pieces, the blood stained the Great Wall red, and the bright red blood was still flowing on the mottled walls of the Great Wall.

The movie title of "War Meridian" is revealed on the bloody Great Wall!

This part of the original version, I don’t know if it was due to the shortage of funds, but it was presented in the form of a stage play, which gave people the feeling that it was more pompous than tragic.

Li Yi didn't know what the director of the original version wanted to express through such a picture.

But in his version, there are only extremely tragic war scenes, without excessive exaggeration, and without excessive sensationalism.

Some are only tragic, only sacrifices!
The picture appeared again, still on the edge of the Great Wall.

The only difference is that this place has come to modern times, and children are planting trees here.

They are in sharp contrast with the children in the frozen picture in the opening part of the previous chapter.

They were all wearing bright and fashionable clothes, happily digging soil and planting trees beside the Great Wall.

Suddenly a group of children seemed to have dug up something special and shouted for the teacher to come over.

The children were excitedly discussing what the iron bumps they dug were. Some said they were cultural relics from the Ming Dynasty, because this section of the Great Wall was repaired by the Ming Dynasty.

The teacher saw it, it was a landmine, and quickly called the police.

The police car came roaring, and on the bus, the old man who had been lying on the hospital bed before, sat on it and looked out the window.

The crisis is over.

Everything seemed to be back to normal.

Tourists take pictures, ride horses
Tourists rode horses and roared past the bus, but the sound of horseshoes brought the old man back to the unforgettable years.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers driving the carriage fell down.

The horse still kept running forward.

The plane struck again, strafing at low altitude, the horse was shot, and the carriage was overturned to the ground.

The female nurse raised her head again. Everyone died, and she was the only one left.

Camera switch.

On another battlefield.

The child who appeared in the camera before was lying in the grass.

Gunshots from time to time tell the audience that this is still a battlefield.

The child got up and found the old military doctor in the grass. There were wounded lying everywhere along the way.

One of the wounded said to the old military doctor: "Hurry up, you can get out one by one, enough people have died for us!"

The whistling of bullets echoed in the wilderness, and an Eighth Route Army soldier ran forward while turning back to fight back.Behind him were countless Japanese soldiers chasing him.

He rushed to this makeshift camp, where the wounded and some children were.

But he was shot and fell!
Supported by the little female soldier, she came to the temporary camp.

It's a pity that the soldier only had his last breath left. When he was dying, he said: "Order, for the Ninth Company, is there any Ninth Company here?"

A "soldier" with a wounded leg struggled to stand up: "I belong to the Ninth Company, give me the order."

"What mission?"

It's a pity that the soldier died before finishing saying "go west along the Great Wall".

The old military doctor found a half-burned military order from the soldier's bag.

The military order reads: "Order, three battalions and nine companies, urgently order your department to go west along the Great Wall to the highway before ten o'clock on the [-]st at all costs."

This is a broken order.

The only information is only west along the Great Wall.

The specific task content has been burned!
There is also a map attached to the back, with a red line drawn on the map, going west along the Great Wall.
The old military doctor asked, "Where is Jiulian now?"

The soldier who was wounded on his leg and leaned on a tree branch as a crutch silently took the order, lowered his head, hid the order in his arms, looked up at the old military doctor and said, "I am the only one left in the Ninth Company."

The old military doctor wanted to look ahead, but when he turned around, he saw the wounded soldiers distributing grenades one by one, and they were ready to sacrifice.

The bullets were still roaring, and the nameless petals were blowing away in the wind.The Japanese soldiers lined up in skirmishers killed all the wounded Eighth Route Army soldiers they saw with bayonets. They did not take prisoners, and none of the wounded soldiers surrendered.

The wounded soldiers and a group of troops were scattered, and they met children gathered together on the road.

The oldest of the children was a veteran, sixteen years old.

The youngest is Cao'er. She said that she was annexed, that is, her mother put her in a fellow villager's house and said that she would pick her up tomorrow. She didn't say anything later, but everyone knows that she didn't wait for her mother to pick her up.

As for why she was carried out by the veteran alone, she didn't say anything about what happened in the fellow's house.

But the audience in the theater can already guess.

"Xiaocao" is a seven-year-old girl. She always stands beside the "veteran" with big eyes but no spirit.

The veteran took two steps and looked back, only a group of wounded soldiers and children of different ages.

But they didn't give up on the wounded soldiers, but raised stretchers one by one with their small arms.

So the wounded soldiers who were surrounded broke out with all their strength, accompanied by 12 children, and the 16-year-old veteran was the oldest among them.

Why veterans?Because the veteran said that he participated in the anti-mopping up three times and has been in the army for seven years. Of course he is a veteran!
On the way to break out of the siege, they fell one by one, and even the old military doctor died on the railway blockade. Before he died, he held a stretcher and shouted at the "veteran": "Son, the wounded will be handed over to you!" we're here!"

From the beginning to the present, the movie has always been accompanied by artillery fire and death and sacrifice!
On the other side, the nurse who escaped from death also came to the edge of the Great Wall, and she picked up a box cannon.

On the Great Wall, the children and the wounded are resting.

But at this moment!

The old military doctor died, only six children remained, and only two wounded soldiers remained!

They are still just children. In a peaceful age, this is the age of studying, the age of enjoying childhood and happiness, but now, they have to shoulder the responsibility, not only to take good care of the wounded soldiers, but also to avoid the Japanese army. They can do are you there?

Nobody knows!
"Two grenades, a buckler, with one bullet! One rifle, with eleven bullets!"

The kids are counting the guns and ammo they have left!
Shanpao said: "Go east, you know? My dad said, come and pick me up after this raid, my dad said, come pick me up after this raid, my dad said"

The art troupe retorted: "Come on, the east is full of devils!"

When the children are discussing in a hurry.

The platoon leader stood up supporting his crutches, and he ordered the children to go down the mountain to the base!
But the children did not listen.

The sixteen-year-old veteran, who has served for seven years, said: "As long as there are people in our army alive, there is no rule of leaving the wounded behind!"

The platoon leader said: "It's not throwing, it's to complete the task, go west along the Great Wall!"

The veteran came to the platoon leader and asked, "What mission?"

The platoon leader originally wanted to take out the mission order, but when he looked at the veteran, he shook his head and said, "It's for us. It's for me!" That's right, it was originally a mission for the Ninth Company, but the Ninth Company He is the only one left in the company, so this is a task for him!

The veteran said: "You can also reach the base area along the Great Wall to the west!"

But the platoon leader refused: "You guys can't walk the mountain road on the Great Wall!"

The veteran smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, I have participated in anti-mopping up three times!"

"Take the weapons of the wounded, carry the stretcher, and go west!"

One sentence reflects his prudence and maturity that do not match his age, but this is what makes people feel sad.

He is only sixteen years old, and the cruelty of the war made him grow up rapidly. Among these children, he must shoulder the burden of "veterans" and lead them to complete the task of heading west along the Great Wall!
One of the wounded shouted inarticulately: "Leave me alone!"

Only seven-year-old Cao'er was innocent and kind. She stepped forward and gently stroked and comforted the wounded soldier.

"Uncle, let's go together. When my eyesight was good, my uncles carried me away!"

On the [-]-degree steep Great Wall, even if the children climbed by themselves, they would be smashed to pieces if they were not careful, not to mention that they had to carry wounded soldiers.

But the children still gritted their teeth and climbed up abruptly!
Many people in the theater covered their mouths.

They are just children!
However, this is not the most difficult thing. What is even more difficult is the lack of food.

They have to break a piece of steamed bun into small pieces and eat them separately!
On the other side, the nurse who escaped from death saw two fellow villagers. She wanted to go forward to ask for help, but at this time, two wounded soldiers of the Eighth Route Army stepped forward.

As soon as the nurse heard that they were soldiers from the Eighth Route Army, she immediately looked happy and wanted to step forward, but she didn't expect that the two fellow villagers were actually devils in disguise.

They took out their guns and directly shot dead the wounded soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who had no defense!
The nurse could only cover her mouth, with tears in her eyes, and hurriedly fled in the opposite direction!

(End of this chapter)