Watch "Assembly Number" again

I turned on the TV at night and clicked on the war movie section. I flipped through it and didn't see a good movie, so I clicked on "Assembly" and watched it again. Among the domestic war films I have watched in the past ten years, I am the only one I have a soft spot for "Assembly". Although I have watched it many times, my eyes will get moist every time I watch it.

Why do you like "Assembly"? First it feels realistic. The film truly reproduces those passionate years and shows the war, blood and fire battlefield. Whether it is combat situations, or the embodiment of tactics and techniques, including everyone's true emotions, I think it is relatively close to reality.

However, just being realistic is not enough. There are many realistic movies. I think the film "Assembly" is more important because of its profound connotation. The film tells a story of sacrifice and dedication. While describing a major historical fact, let us understand the true meaning of sacrifice and dedication from the complex and magnificent historical scenes in the film, and understand the true meaning and power of ideals and beliefs.

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Regiment leader Liu Zeshui alone issued a combat mission to the ninth company commander Gu Ziqi. The ninth company held a position alone in a blocking battle until the regiment blew the assembly horn. Evacuate. This position was originally held by two companies of the Second Battalion. Due to the expansion of the mission of the entire regiment, the Second Battalion was transferred to other places, and only Gu Zidi led the entire company to hold the position. The Ninth Company had just finished a critical battle and suffered heavy casualties. There were only 47 officers and soldiers left, less than half of the original number. They had not been supplemented by soldiers. Gu Zidi had just been released from confinement for three days for violating battlefield discipline.

Guzidi, who had been tested for a long time by war, did not bargain. Although the request to the regiment commander for additional troops was not met, the guns, ammunition, and explosives that he wanted were replenished, and they still have to arrive. An intellectual who was imprisoned for fear of war served as the acting instructor, and Gu Zidi accepted the task.

The Ninth Company, which had just experienced a brutal battle and only had a few days of rest, rushed to the established position overnight. The battlefield is an open area, relying on the Wen River Valley and the mountains on both sides. The terrain is slightly higher than the direction of the enemy's attack, and there is no connection with the neighboring troops on the left and right. The Ninth Company, with only half of its personnel, must defend this position alone.

Behind the position is an abandoned kiln, which serves as an ammunition storage point and personnel shelter. As soon as the Ninth Company arrived, they nervously repaired the fortifications, deployed light and heavy firepower, and stored the large amounts of ammunition and explosives they brought in the kiln.

The battle started quickly. With the preparation of fierce artillery fire, raindrops of artillery shells fell on the forward position. When the artillery fire extended, the enemy infantry launched an impact under the guidance of the tanks. The Ninth Company repelled the enemy's charges again and again and held on until the afternoon. It had exceeded the time requirement of holding on until 12 noon when the regiment leader issued the order. However, the most important point mentioned by the regiment leader was that only after hearing the assembly call withdraw.

When the enemy's attack was repulsed again, there were only a dozen people left on the Ninth Company position who could move. Company commander Gu Zidi's ears were basically deafened by the sound of artillery. A row of telephoto greenhouses told him that they had just heard a rally call from behind. Gu Zidi asked the other soldiers suspiciously, and everyone avoided his eyes. . Jiao Dapeng became anxious and shouted loudly: "Company Commander, please take the remaining brothers and withdraw quickly! Save some ground for our old Ninth Company."

Gu Zixia made up his mind not to hear The assembly number does not retreat! The enemy launched another attack. After a fierce fight, all the remaining officers and soldiers of the Ninth Company were sacrificed. In order to prevent the remains of his comrades from falling into the hands of the enemy, acting instructor Wang Jincun detonated the kiln where the remains of the martyrs were placed, and himself died heroically. . Gu ZiDe fired the last artillery shell at the enemy tank, and was seriously injured by the enemy's artillery shells...

The scenes of the story continued, and after various battles in the War of Liberation and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Gu ZiDe, an honorary soldier who was nearly blind, returned to the Wenhe battlefield where he fought. The old army was nowhere to be found. He unexpectedly met the wife of acting instructor Wang Jincun, only to learn that all the forty comrades he had sacrificed had become missing soldiers. If we can't find the old troops and the remains of our comrades, we can't prove that these comrades are heroes who died heroically.

After many searches, Xiao Liangzi, the bugler and regimental leader of the regiment, was finally found. He also learned that the regiment leader Liu Zeshui died in the Fifth Battle to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. In front of the regiment leader's tomb, Gu Zidi told Xiao Liangzi that he was deafened back then and did not hear the assembly call and did not bring back the remaining comrades in the company. Xiao Liangzi told him that the assembly call was not blown at all that year because the troops were ordered to evacuate urgently. If the Ninth Company was withdrawn, the enemy might pursue them closely and kill the large troops.

Gu Zidi was furious: "Are you afraid of being bitten to death? Where is our Ninth Company? All 47 of our brothers were bitten to death!" He picked up a wine bottle and was about to smash Liu Zeshui's grave. Xiao Liangzi tried his best to stop him and shouted: "There are no immortals in a war? The commander himself has sacrificed his life!"

After Gu Zidi vented his anger, he sat in front of the commander's grave. He said to the head of the group: "Everyone who came out of our teaching team in the eighth district is dead-headed... From now on, as long as I am here, I will make sacrifices to you in all seasons. When the day comes, I will go with you... …”.

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After "Assembly" was released that year, it caused a great response. After watching it, many people felt that it was indeed a good film with profound connotations and strong viewing ability. Film. But there are also different voices. One of the more famous jokes at the time said: After watching "Lust, Caution", I found that women are unreliable, after watching "Report", I found that brothers are unreliable, and after watching "Assembly Number", I found that organizations are unreliable.

Is the organization really unreliable?

There are countless examples of sacrificing local parts to preserve the overall situation in wars. Two major examples can be cited. The first is Kiev's breakout. In August 1941, the Nazi German Army Group South, supported by the armored group led by Guderian of Army Group Center, surrounded a heavily-armed group of about 700,000 people led by General Kirponos, commander of the Soviet Southwest Front, in Kiev. When Stalin agreed to the group's breakout, it was already surrounded by German troops.

General Kilponos immediately ordered Major General Bagramyan, deputy chief of staff and chief of operations of the front army, to prepare a breakout plan, and asked him to lead a assault force of more than a thousand people to break out first. After Bagramyan led this force to break through the enemy's encirclement, the follow-up troops followed up quickly, but found that there were no follow-up troops.

It was only after the war that Bagramyan learned that General Kilponos did not adopt the combat plan he formulated at all. He just wanted to use their unit's breakout to attract the German army's strength, weapons and Pay attention and weaken the encirclement intensity in other directions. The front army headquarters prepared to lead its units to break out in other directions, but failed. General Kilponos was killed and 665,000 troops were encircled and annihilated. The organization wanted to sacrifice Bagramyan, but Bagram managed to escape and eventually became marshal.

Another famous battle example is the Central Plains breakout. In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war and gathered 300,000 troops. He surrounded more than 50,000 people from our Central Plains Military Region and Central Plains Field Army in a narrow strip of land in Xuanhuadian, Hubei Province, preparing to launch an attack to annihilate our army and create another " "Southern Anhui Incident" incident.

When the Kuomintang army's attack was imminent, the Central Plains Bureau of the Communist Party of China gave clear instructions to the Central Plains Bureau led by Li Xiannian and Zheng Weisan on June 23: break out immediately, survival first, victory first.

The Central Plains Field Army formulated a detailed breakout plan. First, it ordered the 1st Brigade of the 1st Column led by Pi Dingjun to disguise itself as the main force and advance east of the Jinpu Railway. Every day, we march eastward in a mighty way during the day, and then quietly come back at night. The reconnaissance planes of the Chiang Army's daily air reconnaissance found a steady stream of troops heading eastward. Together with the reconnaissance information sent in by intelligence personnel, they verified the intelligence that the main force of our army was heading eastward. The Chiang Army quickly mobilized the main force eastward.

On the day of the breakthrough on June 26, the Pi Brigade charged forward with a fierce offensive and was surrounded by the Chiang Army at all levels. While the enemy's attention was focused on the eastern front, the main force of our army broke out from other directions where the enemy's defense was weak.

After discovering the true intention of our army, the Chiang Army hurriedly adjusted its forces in an attempt to intercept, encircle and annihilate the main force of our army. After completing the task of covering the transfer of the main force, the Pi Brigade broke through the Kuomintang army blockade north of Macheng on the 29th. Go east.

Then it crossed the Daniu Mountain, the throat of the Hubei-Anhui border, passed through the Dabie Mountain, defeated many pursuits and interceptions by the Kuomintang army, and traveled more than a thousand miles. On July 20, it crossed the Tianjin-Puzhou Railway and entered the Jiangsu-Anhui Liberated Area. The brigade experienced the enemy for nearly a month. The troops were pursued and intercepted. From more than 7,000 people at the time of departure, more than 5,000 people were retained in the end. They were full of vitality and were later changed to the 13th Brigade of the Central China Field Army.

When conferring the title in 1955, Chairman Mao Zedong mentioned the matter again. The plan proposed by the General Administration was to grant Pi Dingjun a major general. Mao Zedong wrote 6 words: "Pi has merit, and he will advance to the middle of the country." Therefore, Pi Dingjun was awarded the title of founding lieutenant general.

The two cases of the Kiev breakout and the Central Plains breakout are very similar. The difference is that Bagramyan did not know the true purpose of his team's breakout, but Pi Dingjun knew it. Li Xiannian and Zheng Position Three clearly told him that the worst that could happen to your brigade is that the fight is over. No matter how many people are left, they will go up the mountain to fight guerrillas. This may be the difference between our army and the Soviet army.

War is cruel. In order to win, there will be sacrifices. The reason why the organization asks you to sacrifice is not because the organization is unreliable, but to exchange local sacrifices for overall victory. Since you are a soldier, you will You should and have been prepared to sacrifice. This is the fundamental reason why Gu Zidi was very angry when he learned that the assembly horn was not blown, but after venting it, it was over. In one sentence: "There are no undead people in a war?!"

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Many years ago, I served as the leader of a certain division-level unit. The commander and political commissar of the provincial military region wanted to talk to us collectively. The four of us who came from the field army went to a conference room of the provincial military region to wait for the leader. , several people arrived one after another.

Two people came in one after another, hugged each other and cried when they saw each other. It turned out that they were platoon commanders of different companies in the same army and participated in the war against Vietnam together. During a battle, they attacked the same hilltop. The platoon leaders of two companies' assault platoons respectively. After a fierce battle and heavy casualties, they cleared away the stubborn Vietnamese army. The two platoon leaders led their soldiers to meet up on the hilltop.

Overjoyed, a platoon leader discovered that another man's clothes were soaked with blood and still dripping blood. He yelled and pointed at his hand. Only then did the platoon leader realize that his arm had been pierced by a bullet. Tohru, but he didn't know the pain. Others quickly bandaged the wound with a first aid kit and sent him to the ambulance. Afterwards, the doctor said that it was fortunate that he was bandaged and sent to the hospital in time, otherwise he would have died of excessive blood loss. It can be said that they are truly comrades in life and death. Later, he developed in different troops. Unexpectedly, he would serve in the same provincial military region many years later and become the chief officer of a division-level unit at the same time.

Although the war was cruel, our team still maintained the fine tradition of unity from top to bottom and uniformity between officers and soldiers. There were many leaders who truly loved their soldiers like their own sons.

In 1998, I took our team to participate in the flood fight in the Yangtze River Basin. Our regiment was responsible for dozens of kilometers of embankments in Poyang Lake and the Ganxi Embankment. At that time, there were big slogans posted everywhere: "Strictly guard against death" and "Swear to fight for the survival of the embankment."

Once a general from our group army came to inspect our embankment. He was a political leader. After he inspected the scene, he took me to sit down under a shade tree and asked me what would happen if the embankment burst. manage? I immediately answered: organize the force to block it! Did he say it could be sealed? I say we are confident!

The chief said seriously, you can’t say such empty words! The water inside the embankment is already more than ten or twenty meters higher than the ground outside the embankment. Moreover, these embankments are all made of earth, unlike Jiujiang which is a cement embankment. Once the embankment breaks, there is no way to stop it! Therefore, your task is to patrol and observe, block pipe surges and pressure springs. At the same time, you must tell the local government to evacuate people in a timely manner. You must not pat your chest and say that you can block the breach and make the people near the dam blindly optimistic. If a breach does occur, withdraw your troops immediately. You must not sacrifice a soldier because of a breach that cannot be blocked!

I was deeply moved after hearing this. Although I was also prepared to do this, in an atmosphere where "I swear to fight for the survival of the levee" was posted everywhere, as a big leader, I can only speak some high-sounding words. Show correctness, but it is not easy to tell these truths truthfully.

Think of the telegram sent by the Central Committee to the Central Plains Bureau during the Central Plains breakout: "Survival first, victory first."

This is Chinese characteristics. The Soviet army will not put survival first. Otherwise, how could the 7 to 8 million Soviet troops be surrounded and annihilated by the German army?

? Final words

Other women may not be reliable, but my own woman is; brothers may not be reliable, but comrades are; organizations may not be reliable, but many leaders are. of.

Of course, it is not ruled out that in a certain battle, some people will need to make sacrifices. The cruelty of war has been forgotten by people nowadays.