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HUBEI YANGTZE RIVER
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In 1934, under the erroneous leadership of
Bo Gu, Li De, and their "Left" dogmatism,
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the Fifth Counter-Encirclement
Campaign failed.
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The Central Red Army was forced to abandon the
Central Soviet Area, planning to rendezvous...
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...with the Second and Sixth Army Groups. Chiang
Kai-shek dispatched massive forces in pursuit.
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After five days and nights of
bloody fighting along the Xiang River,
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the Central Red Army and Central organs were reduced
from over 86,000 at departure to barely 30,000.
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These 30,000 sons of workers and
peasants were the spark of revolution...
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and now their survival
hung by a thread.
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Crossing
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The Xiang River
battle was devastating.
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Our entire platoon
was wiped out.
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All our comrades are dead.
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Why won't they let
Chairman Mao lead?
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Is there no one at the top
with the sense to speak the truth?
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This foreign strategist...
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copying positional warfare...
has nearly bled us dry.
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There is nothing wrong with
our strategy and tactics.
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If the soldiers had
followed our orders,
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the casualties would
not have been so severe.
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Who exactly are you
trying to convince?
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Every one of them is
cursing us in their hearts.
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The Battle of the Xiang River
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How many Red Army
soldiers have fallen?
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Forty thousand.
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Fifty thousand.
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Fifty thousand.
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Bo Gu, what are you doing?
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Let go of me!
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Dying is easy.
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Living...
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then what is your
brilliant plan?
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What use are my plans?
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I told you...
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positional warfare
cannot defeat encirclement.
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You refused to listen.
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I opposed crossing
the Xiang River.
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You still refused to listen.
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I opposed defeatist retreat.
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You refused even more.
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Mao Zedong...
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I must remind you, since 1932,
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you have held no
command over the Red Army.
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I...
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Comrade Li De, Comrade Enlai,
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our Three-Man Military Group
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is the leadership here.
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Enough.
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The enemy blocks us ahead,
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and pursues us from behind.
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This is not the
time for arguments.
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I know only this...
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death solves nothing.
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Only by living,
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by surviving with courage,
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Chiang Kai-shek will
surely anticipate
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that we intend to march
north to western Hunan
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to link up with the Second
and Sixth Army Groups.
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We cannot walk into his trap.
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I believe
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we must turn toward Guizhou.
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Our immediate priority
is to establish a base area
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and give these 30,000
Red Army soldiers
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a chance to breathe.
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What is your assessment of
the Communist westward flight?
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Generalissimo,
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the bandit suppression campaign
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could have been airtight.
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Secretary-General, Nanchang Office, National Military
Commission... But the warlords each harbor their own schemes.
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Their blockades are
like beating a drum...
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all noise, no substance.
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Their pursuit is more
like a farewell send-off,
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which is how the
Communists escaped.
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Now these agitators
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have wandered
into our heartland.
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The warlords are of no concern.
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The Communists...
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they are the true threat.
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Drive the tiger
to devour the wolf.
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If the warlords feign
obedience while defying us,
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the Central Army can deal
with them along the way.
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Telegraph Xue Yue to prepare
for immediate deployment.
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We must ascertain the
Communists' movements.
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To Nanjing.
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In barely a month,
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she became like a
sister to Madame Chiang
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Chairman, Guizhou Provincial
Government... and brought back
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ten thousand silver dollars.
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And a thousand rifles.
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Madam,
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remarkable.
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The moment I left Nanjing,
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Xue Yue was at our
heels in Guiyang.
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On the surface, helping
us defend against bandits,
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but in truth...
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a cuckoo in another's nest.
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A necklace may be beautiful,
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but worn carelessly,
it can strangle you.
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So what if he is a strong dragon?
He cannot overpower the local serpent.
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Besides, I have money, I
have guns, and I have opium.
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Most importantly,
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the Wan family of
Tongren is Madam's own kin.
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They will certainly
stand behind me.
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Chiang Kai-shek...
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even if he wants to
pull us up by the roots,
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it won't be that easy.
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You fool.
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The Central Army and the Communists
are fighting like gods here.
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In the end, it's us
little devils who suffer.
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You'd better find out quickly
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where the Communists have gone.
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Guns...
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are not for killing Communists
on Chiang Kai-shek's behalf.
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They are for
protecting ourselves.
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Which unit are you from?
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We were guarding the
Wu River at Huilongchang.
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The Communists broke
through the crossing.
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The division commander fled.
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Our battalion commander...
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was killed in action.
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Our battalion commander
was from Zunyi.
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He wanted to be buried
at the ancestral graves.
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Your battalion commander...
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what was his name?
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Xia Dashan.
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Where did he live?
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Sir! Sir!
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Sir!
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Sir!
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Our battalion commander
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lived on Guanxiang Street,
Renhe Lane, Number 25.
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Huilongchang.
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Absolutely certain, sir.
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Doesn't sound right.
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Sir!
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Sir, what a tragic end!
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Sir!
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Without you to lead us,
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how are we to fight
the Communists?
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You never got a last
smoke before you died.
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Take this opium pipe with you.
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Smoke it on the road.
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Don't touch my pipe!
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It's my treasure!
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Wretched thing!
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Get out of my sight immediately!
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Tell them to leave.
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Go.
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I helped you.
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Give me a silver dollar.
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Don't look back.
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The Communists are here!
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Move!
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Careful!
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Don't run around.
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Open the city gate!
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Old Zhu!
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Open the gate... I'll cover you!
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Move!
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Charge!
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All they do is
give blind orders.
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If this goes on,
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the Red Army is truly finished.
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All they talk about
is the Comintern.
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Do they know anything about
China's mountains and rivers?
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Wang Jialie forced
the people of Guizhou
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to destroy their
grain and grow opium.
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There is not enough food here
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to sustain 30,000
Red Army soldiers.
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Only he can lead us out
of this deadly situation.
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You and I are both commanders.
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We know what the
soldiers are thinking.
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They trust us.
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We must be worthy of that trust.
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Comrades,
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military matters
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ultimately come
down to strength.
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We are too weak.
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The enemy is too strong.
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Those who constantly
spread dissent...
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I question their
loyalty to the Party.
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You...
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During the Fourth
Counter-Encirclement Campaign,
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my intestines were blown open.
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I would rather bleed
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than leave the ranks.
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That is proof enough of my loyalty.
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Bo Gu,
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Comrade Li De, you keep
citing objective factors.
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Tell me...
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can you command a battle
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by sitting in a room
studying maps with a ruler?
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I agree with Comrade Jiaxiang.
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Without capital, how can we fight?
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If this leadership continues,
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we cannot follow any further.
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I agree with Commander Zhu.
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I agree with Commander Zhu.
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This battle was
fought in confusion.
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Our soldiers bled
and died for nothing.
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You...
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have deeply disappointed
the comrades.
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Comrade Peng Dehuai,
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what is your attitude?
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Men are still
bleeding and dying.
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How am I supposed to
answer to the soldiers?
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Calm down, comrades. Calm down.
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Calm down.
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The Communists
have occupied Zunyi.
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The Red bandits are
like a diseased tooth.
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If not extracted, they
will become a mortal threat.
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What is this thing?
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You wouldn't know.
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It's dried prickly pear.
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When in Rome, you know?
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Three days without
something sour,
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and your legs won't
carry you straight.
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A bit of sour gives
you real strength.
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Liming.
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This character is read...
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Do you know how
to write "sleep"?
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"Sleep"...
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Get down here, you rascal!
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Young fellow,
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isn't this...
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you saved us that night.
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Good that you remember.
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Without me, you wouldn't
have made it into the city.
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Those double-gun soldiers
would have wiped you out.
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Those worthless lot...
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We Red Army soldiers could
handle them one-handed.
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Whatever you say.
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Your payment.
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I don't want money.
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You killed my boss, Ma Yousan.
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My hideout is gone.
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I've got nowhere to go.
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Ma Yousan?
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From Liping.
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A bandit.
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Burning houses, looting grain,
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sending half-grown
boys to stop bullets.
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He deserved to die.
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If that's the case,
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then thank me.
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Thank you? I'll
thank you to hell!
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All right, all right.
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You've seen for yourself...
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our situation right
now is rather difficult.
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People die in
marches and battles.
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I don't care.
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Whoever feeds me,
that's who I follow.
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You little...
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you're trying to latch
onto us, aren't you?
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From the Ningdu
Conference until now,
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we have taken too
many wrong turns.
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As for our future
strategy and tactics,
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I propose we hear
Comrade Mao Zedong's views.
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Comrade Mao Zedong...
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is his method of warfare
truly so brilliant?
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I say he
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relies on nothing
but two books...
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one is Romance of
the Three Kingdoms,
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the other is The Art of War.
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To be perfectly honest,
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I have indeed read
the Three Kingdoms.
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Sun Tzu, I have not.
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Since Comrade Kai Feng
is so familiar with it,
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may I ask...
272
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how many chapters does
The Art of War contain?
273
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The Art of War is
barely six thousand words.
274
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I am quite familiar with it.
275
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Which chapter would
you like to hear?
276
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I'll recite it for you.
277
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Since Comrade Enlai
has asked me to speak,
278
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I will not hold back.
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In military command,
280
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the errors our army
has committed include...
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in offense,
282
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adventurism;
283
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in defense,
284
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conservatism;
285
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in withdrawal, defeatism.
286
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Foreign strategy and
tactics may be sound,
287
00:17:04,208 --> 00:17:05,008
but applied blindly,
288
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they will not take root here.
289
00:17:07,108 --> 00:17:08,108
To fight in China,
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we must develop our
own way of fighting.
291
00:17:11,408 --> 00:17:13,408
We must not repeat the
mistakes of "Left" dogmatism.
292
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Comrade Xiaoping,
bring the map over.
293
00:17:15,908 --> 00:17:17,474
This map is more
precious than our lives.
294
00:17:17,508 --> 00:17:18,608
Don't scribble on it.
295
00:17:23,308 --> 00:17:23,508
The Second
296
00:17:24,408 --> 00:17:25,074
and Sixth Army Groups...
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the Fourth Front Army
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is in Sichuan.
299
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We
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are in Guizhou.
301
00:17:32,808 --> 00:17:33,608
Thirty thousand against
four hundred thousand.
302
00:17:34,508 --> 00:17:35,108
How do we fight this?
303
00:17:37,008 --> 00:17:37,508
The Sixth Army Group
304
00:17:38,308 --> 00:17:39,808
has just concluded the
western Hunan offensive.
305
00:17:39,908 --> 00:17:40,974
Only twenty thousand
troops remain.
306
00:17:42,008 --> 00:17:44,308
They face a counterattack by over
one hundred thousand Hunan troops
307
00:17:44,608 --> 00:17:45,974
and have no capacity to
advance west to meet us.
308
00:17:47,408 --> 00:17:48,608
As for the Fourth Front Army,
309
00:17:49,408 --> 00:17:52,408
after fierce fighting against Liu
Xiang's six-route siege in Sichuan,
310
00:17:52,808 --> 00:17:53,608
though victorious,
311
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they are severely depleted.
312
00:17:57,208 --> 00:17:58,008
Our Central Red Army
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00:17:59,008 --> 00:18:00,708
can only rely on ourselves to
break through the encirclement.
314
00:18:01,608 --> 00:18:02,908
Our only option at present
315
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is to concentrate
superior forces
316
00:18:04,708 --> 00:18:06,108
and strike the
enemy's weak points.
317
00:18:06,408 --> 00:18:07,108
In mobile warfare,
318
00:18:07,508 --> 00:18:09,508
we must destroy the
enemy's vulnerable elements
319
00:18:09,808 --> 00:18:12,008
... part or all... one by one,
320
00:18:12,408 --> 00:18:13,408
until we achieve a
complete breakthrough.
321
00:18:14,908 --> 00:18:17,674
Comrades, our situation
is now extremely critical.
322
00:18:18,308 --> 00:18:19,408
The enemy is advancing
from four directions,
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00:18:19,608 --> 00:18:21,008
closing in like an avalanche.
324
00:18:21,208 --> 00:18:23,374
Wang Jialie... we have
only three roads before us.
325
00:18:23,408 --> 00:18:24,108
Wang Jialie...
326
00:18:25,408 --> 00:18:28,008
Either north, or east,
or we stay and fight
327
00:18:28,108 --> 00:18:29,008
like a cornered beast.
328
00:18:29,308 --> 00:18:30,208
Whichever road they take,
329
00:18:30,708 --> 00:18:32,508
I will turn it into a dead end.
330
00:18:33,008 --> 00:18:33,608
Hear my orders.
331
00:18:35,508 --> 00:18:37,374
Central Army columns under
Zhou Hunyuan and Wu Qiwei...
332
00:18:37,408 --> 00:18:38,608
two columns, eight divisions...
333
00:18:38,808 --> 00:18:40,408
pursue the Communists
closely from the rear.
334
00:18:40,708 --> 00:18:41,408
In Sichuan,
335
00:18:41,808 --> 00:18:42,808
order Liu Xiang to
dispatch ten brigades
336
00:18:43,008 --> 00:18:44,374
to concentrate in southern
Sichuan by separate routes.
337
00:18:47,208 --> 00:18:47,908
Long Yun of Yunnan...
338
00:18:48,208 --> 00:18:49,208
send Sun Du with three brigades
339
00:18:49,308 --> 00:18:51,408
to advance northwest toward
the Bijie region of Guizhou.
340
00:18:52,308 --> 00:18:53,408
Wang Jialie's two divisions
341
00:18:53,608 --> 00:18:55,208
advance on Daobashui
and Laibannang.
342
00:18:55,408 --> 00:18:57,208
One division advances on Meitan.
343
00:18:58,608 --> 00:18:59,608
This is what we call
344
00:19:01,008 --> 00:19:02,308
an iron-bucket encirclement.
345
00:19:03,008 --> 00:19:04,208
Not even wings will save them.
346
00:19:07,708 --> 00:19:09,208
The Sixth Division of the Third
Army Group is in heavy fighting.
347
00:19:13,108 --> 00:19:13,508
What happened?
348
00:19:13,608 --> 00:19:14,808
Peng Dehuai of the Third
Army Group reports...
349
00:19:15,208 --> 00:19:16,008
Daobashui cannot be held.
350
00:19:16,208 --> 00:19:18,408
Wang Jialie's forces under Bai
Huizhang will reach Zunyi shortly.
351
00:19:20,208 --> 00:19:22,308
Comrades, we must
accelerate the conference.
352
00:19:23,608 --> 00:19:25,408
I propose the by-election
of Comrade Mao Zedong
353
00:19:25,608 --> 00:19:27,008
as a Standing Member
of the Central Politburo.
354
00:19:32,008 --> 00:19:32,808
The motion carries.
355
00:19:33,808 --> 00:19:35,008
It cannot be denied
that the Three-Man Group
356
00:19:35,208 --> 00:19:36,574
bears inescapable responsibility
357
00:19:36,608 --> 00:19:38,074
for the failure of the
Counter-Encirclement Campaign.
358
00:19:38,108 --> 00:19:39,808
I propose the dissolution
of the Three-Man Group.
359
00:19:46,008 --> 00:19:46,708
I agree.
360
00:19:47,608 --> 00:19:48,208
Carried.
361
00:19:49,308 --> 00:19:49,808
I propose
362
00:19:50,508 --> 00:19:51,908
that following the dissolution
of the Three-Man Group,
363
00:19:52,108 --> 00:19:54,208
Comrade Zhou Enlai retain
military command authority.
364
00:19:54,408 --> 00:19:56,008
Comrades Zhou Enlai and Zhu De
365
00:19:56,108 --> 00:19:56,808
shall be responsible
for military command,
366
00:19:57,008 --> 00:19:58,908
with Comrade Enlai
as the final authority
367
00:19:59,208 --> 00:20:00,608
on military decisions.
368
00:20:01,208 --> 00:20:04,008
Comrade Mao Zedong shall
serve as Comrade Enlai's
369
00:20:05,008 --> 00:20:06,008
military advisor.
370
00:20:10,608 --> 00:20:11,008
Carried.
371
00:20:12,008 --> 00:20:13,408
Guizhou is critically
short of grain.
372
00:20:13,808 --> 00:20:15,008
This is no place to linger.
373
00:20:15,708 --> 00:20:16,208
Agreed.
374
00:20:16,408 --> 00:20:17,608
Cross the Yangtze
northward into Sichuan
375
00:20:17,908 --> 00:20:19,108
and link up with the
Fourth Front Army.
376
00:20:19,708 --> 00:20:20,208
Agreed.
377
00:20:21,508 --> 00:20:22,508
Liu Xiang is no Wang Jialie.
378
00:20:23,208 --> 00:20:24,908
He will not easily allow
the Central Army into Sichuan.
379
00:20:25,408 --> 00:20:26,608
That also reduces
380
00:20:26,908 --> 00:20:27,574
considerable pressure on us.
381
00:20:31,408 --> 00:20:32,008
Look...
382
00:20:34,808 --> 00:20:36,208
the sky above this courtyard
383
00:20:37,508 --> 00:20:38,208
is so small,
384
00:20:41,308 --> 00:20:43,008
it can barely hold us all.
385
00:20:44,208 --> 00:20:45,408
But the sky beyond
386
00:20:47,608 --> 00:20:48,608
is boundless.
387
00:20:50,908 --> 00:20:52,008
It depends on whether
we have the courage
388
00:20:54,508 --> 00:20:55,608
to step out and forge ahead.
389
00:21:04,708 --> 00:21:06,608
The Communists marching
north is a grave threat.
390
00:21:07,208 --> 00:21:09,608
But I, if I play one bold move,
391
00:21:10,208 --> 00:21:12,208
can turn danger into safety.
392
00:21:14,108 --> 00:21:15,508
The Communists flee
northward in panic.
393
00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:16,708
I shall pursue
without striking...
394
00:21:17,308 --> 00:21:18,608
a show of force to rattle them.
395
00:21:19,608 --> 00:21:20,608
Simply scare them away.
396
00:21:21,208 --> 00:21:23,108
You have long been known for
your ties to the Communists.
397
00:21:23,208 --> 00:21:24,308
Everyone knows.
398
00:21:24,408 --> 00:21:27,308
In 1927, you personally
released quite a few Communists.
399
00:21:27,608 --> 00:21:28,808
The most famous of them
400
00:21:29,408 --> 00:21:30,208
was Chen Yi.
401
00:21:30,708 --> 00:21:32,808
Do you think the
Generalissimo will believe that?
402
00:21:33,108 --> 00:21:34,808
Then let the
Communists come and try.
403
00:21:35,008 --> 00:21:36,208
We shall see if
their teeth are harder
404
00:21:36,708 --> 00:21:38,208
or my bones, Guo
Xunqi's, are harder.
405
00:21:38,908 --> 00:21:40,308
But once the Communists
enter Sichuan,
406
00:21:40,808 --> 00:21:44,008
the Central Army will cling to us
like a bone disease, right on our heels.
407
00:21:44,308 --> 00:21:44,908
When that happens,
408
00:21:45,208 --> 00:21:46,908
you and I will be
the next Wang Jialie.
409
00:21:48,208 --> 00:21:49,508
We must still pursue.
410
00:21:50,508 --> 00:21:51,708
But at a measured pace...
411
00:21:52,408 --> 00:21:53,908
neither too close nor too far.
412
00:21:55,508 --> 00:21:56,508
Qinggangpo.
413
00:22:08,708 --> 00:22:10,174
The Sichuan Army is
preparing another assault.
414
00:22:10,208 --> 00:22:11,008
Hold the line, comrades!
415
00:22:15,008 --> 00:22:15,708
Hold!
416
00:22:16,008 --> 00:22:17,408
Comrades, forward!
417
00:22:25,708 --> 00:22:26,908
Heavy fire from Baima Mountain.
418
00:22:27,008 --> 00:22:28,208
There must be a
Communist leader there.
419
00:22:32,008 --> 00:22:32,608
Brigade Commander Pan?
420
00:22:33,408 --> 00:22:34,708
Take Jianshanzi immediately,
421
00:22:35,208 --> 00:22:35,908
then push west
422
00:22:36,208 --> 00:22:37,108
straight into Baima Mountain.
423
00:22:37,508 --> 00:22:39,308
Take Baima Mountain and
the first merit is yours.
424
00:22:41,708 --> 00:22:42,408
Brothers!
425
00:22:43,008 --> 00:22:44,008
The Communist headquarters
426
00:22:44,608 --> 00:22:46,008
is on that hill ahead.
427
00:22:46,208 --> 00:22:47,708
Their leader's head
428
00:22:49,408 --> 00:22:51,008
is worth a sack
of silver dollars.
429
00:22:52,308 --> 00:22:53,208
One wretched life
430
00:22:54,408 --> 00:22:56,408
for a lifetime of ease.
431
00:22:57,608 --> 00:22:58,808
Which brave brother
432
00:22:59,608 --> 00:23:00,508
will follow me
433
00:23:00,908 --> 00:23:01,808
to kill the Communists?
434
00:23:02,308 --> 00:23:04,808
Let's go!
435
00:23:06,608 --> 00:23:07,508
Centered on this position,
436
00:23:07,608 --> 00:23:09,108
establish three
defensive fire lines.
437
00:23:10,708 --> 00:23:12,808
Qinggangpo... we will
not yield a single step.
438
00:23:34,608 --> 00:23:35,608
Set up the machine guns!
439
00:23:45,208 --> 00:23:46,208
You bastards!
440
00:23:46,408 --> 00:23:47,908
I'll fight you to the death!
441
00:24:02,408 --> 00:24:03,474
Get the wounded to the rear!
442
00:24:03,508 --> 00:24:05,608
Move the wounded back, quickly!
443
00:24:20,608 --> 00:24:21,608
Was the intelligence wrong,
444
00:24:23,108 --> 00:24:24,708
or was my judgment flawed?
445
00:24:27,008 --> 00:24:28,608
If the enemy sent
only four regiments,
446
00:24:30,008 --> 00:24:31,008
they could not have
this many troops.
447
00:24:54,208 --> 00:24:54,708
Give me a rifle.
448
00:24:55,208 --> 00:24:55,508
Here.
449
00:25:01,208 --> 00:25:02,608
Commander Zhu,
where are you going?
450
00:25:03,108 --> 00:25:04,208
If we cannot hold now,
451
00:25:04,708 --> 00:25:06,408
the enemy's encirclement
will close completely.
452
00:25:07,608 --> 00:25:08,808
Only by taking Yong'an Temple
453
00:25:09,008 --> 00:25:10,008
is there a chance of survival.
454
00:25:10,508 --> 00:25:11,608
I know that terrain best.
455
00:25:12,408 --> 00:25:13,008
I will command there.
456
00:25:13,608 --> 00:25:14,808
Our intelligence must be wrong.
457
00:25:15,008 --> 00:25:17,108
We must reassess the
situation before deciding.
458
00:25:17,708 --> 00:25:19,308
But the enemy will
not give us time.
459
00:25:20,008 --> 00:25:21,108
As long as the Red Army endures,
460
00:25:22,108 --> 00:25:23,208
what is one Zhu De
461
00:25:23,908 --> 00:25:24,808
worth mourning?
462
00:25:28,208 --> 00:25:28,908
The enemy's bullets
463
00:25:29,408 --> 00:25:30,408
cannot find Zhu De.
464
00:25:35,208 --> 00:25:35,908
Chen Geng.
465
00:25:39,308 --> 00:25:39,908
Don't worry.
466
00:25:40,108 --> 00:25:41,808
We will hold the enemy at
the foot of the mountain.
467
00:26:07,408 --> 00:26:08,474
Commander Zhu is here!
468
00:26:09,008 --> 00:26:10,808
Hold on, comrades!
469
00:26:15,608 --> 00:26:16,608
Third Platoon, follow me!
470
00:26:19,308 --> 00:26:21,408
Comrades, drive the enemy back!
471
00:26:49,208 --> 00:26:51,208
Enemy aircraft!
472
00:26:55,008 --> 00:26:56,808
Just when I was craving
milk, mother arrives.
473
00:27:42,608 --> 00:27:43,208
Xingshan!
474
00:27:51,908 --> 00:27:53,008
No!
475
00:28:04,008 --> 00:28:05,608
Xingshan!
476
00:28:06,708 --> 00:28:07,808
This is called
dried prickly pear.
477
00:28:09,408 --> 00:28:10,708
Three days without
something sour,
478
00:28:10,908 --> 00:28:11,974
and your legs won't
carry you straight.
479
00:28:12,008 --> 00:28:12,908
Old roads make
your feet stumble.
480
00:28:13,008 --> 00:28:14,708
A bit of sour gives
you real strength.
481
00:28:32,508 --> 00:28:33,608
Find cover quickly!
482
00:28:35,108 --> 00:28:36,608
Move! Find shelter! Hurry!
483
00:28:37,208 --> 00:28:38,308
Watch for artillery!
484
00:28:38,608 --> 00:28:39,508
Move!
485
00:28:39,908 --> 00:28:41,308
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
486
00:28:47,908 --> 00:28:48,808
Fall back!
487
00:28:50,808 --> 00:28:52,008
Xingshan!
488
00:29:01,208 --> 00:29:03,308
Get inside!
489
00:29:45,108 --> 00:29:46,008
We cannot keep fighting.
490
00:29:47,008 --> 00:29:48,208
Notify the front-line units
491
00:29:49,008 --> 00:29:49,608
to withdraw immediately.
492
00:29:50,208 --> 00:29:52,008
Adventurism in offense,
conservatism in defense,
493
00:29:52,608 --> 00:29:53,508
defeatism in retreat...
494
00:29:54,108 --> 00:29:56,008
this is your strategy
and tactics, Mao Zedong?
495
00:29:56,308 --> 00:29:57,208
From Ruijin,
496
00:29:57,508 --> 00:30:00,008
step by step, how did
we arrive at this point?
497
00:30:00,608 --> 00:30:01,708
Do you still not understand?
498
00:30:01,808 --> 00:30:03,174
Chiang Kai-shek is
desperate for victory
499
00:30:03,208 --> 00:30:04,208
and pursues us relentlessly.
500
00:30:04,608 --> 00:30:06,208
The enemy is forming a pincer.
501
00:30:06,608 --> 00:30:08,008
If we keep meeting
force with force,
502
00:30:08,608 --> 00:30:09,808
there is only one road... death.
503
00:30:10,008 --> 00:30:11,408
Only in mobile warfare
504
00:30:12,008 --> 00:30:13,008
can we find a way to survive.
505
00:30:13,408 --> 00:30:14,208
Do you understand?
506
00:30:18,808 --> 00:30:19,508
Remember this...
507
00:30:20,808 --> 00:30:22,908
it is not only Comrade Li
De and I who can lose battles.
508
00:30:25,208 --> 00:30:26,408
Mao Zedong is no different.
509
00:30:30,608 --> 00:30:31,008
I propose
510
00:30:31,808 --> 00:30:33,208
we shelve the plan to
cross the Yangtze northward.
511
00:30:33,808 --> 00:30:34,608
Before dawn,
512
00:30:35,408 --> 00:30:36,708
cross the Chishui River in full.
513
00:30:36,908 --> 00:30:38,108
This is our only way out.
514
00:30:38,208 --> 00:30:39,008
But this crossing point
515
00:30:39,308 --> 00:30:39,808
has no bridge.
516
00:30:40,008 --> 00:30:40,708
There is no time.
517
00:30:40,908 --> 00:30:41,508
No bridge...
518
00:30:43,008 --> 00:30:44,208
then we borrow one
from the people.
519
00:30:45,708 --> 00:30:46,808
Our survival
520
00:30:48,808 --> 00:30:50,008
depends on this single move.
521
00:30:50,808 --> 00:30:51,574
Once across the Chishui River,
522
00:30:52,008 --> 00:30:52,874
we aim to take
Xuyong and Shaquan.
523
00:30:53,208 --> 00:30:54,208
From there, march north
524
00:30:54,508 --> 00:30:55,708
and continue toward
the Yangtze crossing.
525
00:31:00,708 --> 00:31:01,308
Comrades,
526
00:31:02,208 --> 00:31:03,208
no matter how many obstacles
527
00:31:03,908 --> 00:31:05,008
lie ahead,
528
00:31:05,808 --> 00:31:07,508
we must fight our way through
with everything we have.
529
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:09,408
As long as our feet keep moving,
530
00:31:11,308 --> 00:31:12,408
the flame will not
be extinguished.
531
00:31:14,608 --> 00:31:15,108
Hold your heads high.
532
00:31:31,508 --> 00:31:32,108
So sour.
533
00:31:32,908 --> 00:31:34,208
Why did Xingshan
love this so much?
534
00:31:38,608 --> 00:31:39,008
Old Guo,
535
00:31:40,008 --> 00:31:41,208
there is no more time.
536
00:31:41,708 --> 00:31:43,208
Headquarters has ordered
us to cover the engineer unit
537
00:31:43,408 --> 00:31:44,408
building the pontoon bridge.
538
00:31:44,908 --> 00:31:47,708
But right now, what they
lack most is boats and timber.
539
00:31:48,608 --> 00:31:49,408
We must find some quickly.
540
00:31:51,508 --> 00:31:52,008
Move!
541
00:31:52,608 --> 00:31:53,508
We have no time to waste.
542
00:31:54,408 --> 00:31:57,008
Zhao Defa, how can
your heart be so hard?
543
00:31:59,508 --> 00:32:01,308
Comrades around us have
fallen one after another.
544
00:32:01,908 --> 00:32:02,808
Only a few of us remain.
545
00:32:04,008 --> 00:32:05,108
Does your heart not ache?
546
00:32:19,408 --> 00:32:20,708
How could it not ache?
547
00:32:23,408 --> 00:32:25,008
But we cannot stop.
548
00:32:34,908 --> 00:32:38,708
Shicheng.
549
00:32:40,608 --> 00:32:41,708
I know where to find timber.
550
00:32:43,008 --> 00:32:44,508
If you don't want
to die, follow me.
551
00:32:49,708 --> 00:32:50,374
We are the Red Army.
552
00:32:50,408 --> 00:32:51,708
We'd like to borrow
your door panels.
553
00:32:52,108 --> 00:32:52,308
Of course.
554
00:32:54,308 --> 00:32:54,908
Be careful.
555
00:32:55,108 --> 00:32:55,908
Come help, brothers!
556
00:32:56,108 --> 00:32:56,374
This way.
557
00:32:56,408 --> 00:32:56,708
Hurry.
558
00:32:59,608 --> 00:33:00,008
Take it.
559
00:33:00,308 --> 00:33:02,008
Borrowed two door panels from
household head Zhang Erniu,
560
00:33:02,308 --> 00:33:03,474
for pontoon bridge construction.
561
00:33:03,508 --> 00:33:04,508
Twenty copper coins paid.
562
00:33:04,808 --> 00:33:05,408
Comrades,
563
00:33:06,408 --> 00:33:07,608
everything in our hands
564
00:33:07,708 --> 00:33:09,508
represents the
people's trust in us.
565
00:33:09,808 --> 00:33:11,908
We must treasure it doubly
and keep our promises.
566
00:33:12,808 --> 00:33:14,408
Door panels can be
removed and put back.
567
00:33:15,208 --> 00:33:16,308
But once people's
trust is broken,
568
00:33:17,408 --> 00:33:18,708
it cannot be restored.
569
00:33:19,408 --> 00:33:19,908
No good.
570
00:33:20,208 --> 00:33:20,408
Take it.
571
00:33:21,208 --> 00:33:21,408
Thank you.
572
00:33:22,008 --> 00:33:23,208
Sister, don't be afraid.
573
00:33:23,308 --> 00:33:24,908
We just want to
borrow your door panels
574
00:33:25,008 --> 00:33:26,208
and any wooden boards you have.
575
00:33:27,008 --> 00:33:29,174
If the double-gun soldiers
or militia find out,
576
00:33:29,208 --> 00:33:30,008
people will die.
577
00:33:30,608 --> 00:33:31,508
Then I'll add
another copper coin.
578
00:33:32,008 --> 00:33:32,774
Don't waste time with
her.... How about three?
579
00:33:32,808 --> 00:33:33,608
There's no time.
580
00:33:37,408 --> 00:33:37,908
What are you doing?
581
00:33:38,308 --> 00:33:39,208
Removing door panels.
582
00:33:47,108 --> 00:33:47,408
Fang Er.
583
00:33:58,208 --> 00:33:59,508
Do you still think
you're a bandit?
584
00:34:02,308 --> 00:34:02,808
Old Zhao,
585
00:34:03,308 --> 00:34:03,708
mind the discipline.
586
00:34:04,608 --> 00:34:06,608
Sister, this is payment
for the door panels,
587
00:34:06,808 --> 00:34:08,408
and for the clay
pot we broke earlier.
588
00:34:08,708 --> 00:34:09,208
Here, take it all.
589
00:34:09,808 --> 00:34:10,174
No need.
590
00:34:10,208 --> 00:34:10,808
Please, take it.
591
00:34:16,308 --> 00:34:17,808
You've got strength
and nowhere to use it.
592
00:34:18,408 --> 00:34:19,908
I've got plenty of strength.
593
00:34:21,108 --> 00:34:22,608
Don't crush that
small frame of yours.
594
00:34:23,208 --> 00:34:24,308
Need a hand?
595
00:34:24,808 --> 00:34:25,508
No thanks.
596
00:34:27,208 --> 00:34:28,008
Still stubborn.
597
00:34:28,908 --> 00:34:30,408
This boy reminds me of you.
598
00:34:31,608 --> 00:34:32,308
Like hell he does.
599
00:34:34,508 --> 00:34:36,808
After we cross the Chishui
River, send A-Jin back.
600
00:34:37,508 --> 00:34:38,708
What tomorrow brings,
601
00:34:39,208 --> 00:34:40,108
no one can say.
602
00:34:51,778 --> 00:34:52,208
This way.
603
00:34:56,608 --> 00:34:57,708
Make haste.
604
00:34:58,008 --> 00:35:00,008
The pontoon bridge must
be ready before dawn.
605
00:35:00,608 --> 00:35:01,408
The Red Army's lifeline
606
00:35:01,708 --> 00:35:03,608
is in our hands.
607
00:35:06,208 --> 00:35:06,808
Hurry!
608
00:35:26,208 --> 00:35:26,908
Hold tight!
609
00:35:29,408 --> 00:35:29,908
Faster!
610
00:35:41,008 --> 00:35:42,208
Enemy reconnaissance
aircraft incoming!
611
00:35:45,008 --> 00:35:46,608
Everyone, hurry!
612
00:35:52,008 --> 00:35:52,608
Report, sir.
613
00:35:52,708 --> 00:35:53,408
According to aerial
reconnaissance,
614
00:35:53,608 --> 00:35:54,774
the Communists are
in the Tucheng area,
615
00:35:54,808 --> 00:35:55,408
crossing the Chishui westward.
616
00:35:56,308 --> 00:35:58,708
Make way! Make way!
617
00:35:58,808 --> 00:35:59,408
Make way!
618
00:36:00,608 --> 00:36:01,008
Make way!
619
00:36:01,608 --> 00:36:03,308
What's the situation? Report.
620
00:36:04,008 --> 00:36:04,808
A small enemy force
621
00:36:05,108 --> 00:36:06,208
is heading this way.
622
00:36:18,508 --> 00:36:18,808
Old Zhu,
623
00:36:19,308 --> 00:36:20,008
this is yours.
624
00:36:20,408 --> 00:36:20,708
Yes, sir.
625
00:36:22,008 --> 00:36:24,108
Guo Chuang, bring your
squad and follow me.
626
00:36:24,308 --> 00:36:25,608
Soldiers, follow me!
627
00:36:41,908 --> 00:36:42,208
Hurry!
628
00:36:42,908 --> 00:36:43,508
Make haste!
629
00:37:05,208 --> 00:37:06,208
The enemy has spotted us!
630
00:37:14,108 --> 00:37:14,708
Hurry!
631
00:37:14,808 --> 00:37:15,808
Move, move, move!
632
00:37:27,308 --> 00:37:28,208
Hurry! A-Jin! A-Jin!
633
00:37:28,508 --> 00:37:29,408
Patch the gap behind!
634
00:37:31,208 --> 00:37:32,008
Come, make way!
635
00:37:32,608 --> 00:37:33,108
Make way!
636
00:37:56,508 --> 00:37:56,808
Get up!
637
00:39:15,408 --> 00:39:16,508
Dodge!
638
00:42:10,008 --> 00:42:10,808
Zhao Defa.
639
00:42:11,408 --> 00:42:13,208
Comrades around us have
fallen one after another.
640
00:42:13,808 --> 00:42:14,808
Only a few of us remain.
641
00:42:15,808 --> 00:42:17,108
Does your heart not ache?
642
00:43:20,408 --> 00:43:21,208
Medic!
643
00:43:21,408 --> 00:43:22,208
Yes, Chairman?
644
00:43:27,208 --> 00:43:27,708
Gauze.
645
00:43:29,108 --> 00:43:29,608
Quickly.
646
00:43:35,608 --> 00:43:37,408
Chairman, the
enemy is closing in!
647
00:43:38,808 --> 00:43:40,508
Chairman, the enemy is
about to... Stand aside!
648
00:43:48,908 --> 00:43:49,608
All the wounded...
649
00:43:51,408 --> 00:43:52,308
take them all.
650
00:43:52,508 --> 00:43:53,108
Save them!
651
00:44:01,808 --> 00:44:02,908
Anyone still alive...
652
00:44:06,008 --> 00:44:07,008
not one shall be left behind.
653
00:44:08,408 --> 00:44:08,908
If we go,
654
00:44:10,208 --> 00:44:11,008
we go together.
655
00:44:24,408 --> 00:44:26,608
Our pontoon bridge
is almost ready.
656
00:44:27,408 --> 00:44:28,008
Push harder!
657
00:44:34,808 --> 00:44:35,708
The bridge is ready!
658
00:44:36,408 --> 00:44:38,208
Cross the Chishui River!
659
00:44:41,908 --> 00:44:42,608
Lower it!
660
00:44:46,408 --> 00:44:47,608
Move it forward, quickly!
661
00:44:51,008 --> 00:44:51,308
Hurry!
662
00:44:52,608 --> 00:44:53,108
Lower it!
663
00:44:57,008 --> 00:44:59,408
One, two, three... lift!
664
00:45:00,208 --> 00:45:00,708
Lower it!
665
00:45:07,008 --> 00:45:08,108
Push!
666
00:45:08,708 --> 00:45:10,608
One... two... three!
667
00:45:11,408 --> 00:45:12,608
Push the cannons into the water!
668
00:45:14,308 --> 00:45:16,008
Push the cannons into the water!
669
00:45:17,808 --> 00:45:18,408
Without them,
670
00:45:19,408 --> 00:45:20,608
what do we fight the enemy with?
671
00:45:22,008 --> 00:45:22,608
Sink the cannons?
672
00:45:23,408 --> 00:45:24,408
Sink me first!
673
00:45:24,508 --> 00:45:25,308
Do you have shells?
674
00:45:27,008 --> 00:45:28,008
Look behind me.
675
00:45:29,208 --> 00:45:30,708
So many men are bleeding.
676
00:45:32,008 --> 00:45:33,708
So many are waiting
for treatment.
677
00:45:35,408 --> 00:45:36,208
Without the cannons,
678
00:45:37,108 --> 00:45:38,408
we are still the Red Army.
679
00:45:39,608 --> 00:45:41,208
But without our people,
680
00:45:42,208 --> 00:45:44,008
what do we have to fight with?
681
00:45:45,208 --> 00:45:46,008
Survive.
682
00:45:46,608 --> 00:45:48,208
Only by surviving
do we have a chance.
683
00:45:49,408 --> 00:45:50,908
Only by surviving
684
00:45:51,008 --> 00:45:52,708
can we carve a path
through the blood.
685
00:46:00,708 --> 00:46:01,608
Sink the cannons!
686
00:46:02,308 --> 00:46:03,008
Sink them!
687
00:46:03,308 --> 00:46:03,708
Yes, sir!
688
00:46:04,208 --> 00:46:05,108
Push them in!
689
00:46:14,308 --> 00:46:14,908
Cross the bridge!
690
00:46:16,208 --> 00:46:16,908
Cross the bridge!
691
00:46:17,308 --> 00:46:17,608
Hurry!
692
00:46:18,408 --> 00:46:19,408
Everyone, follow!
693
00:46:19,608 --> 00:46:20,608
Cross the bridge!
694
00:46:22,208 --> 00:46:23,308
Hurry, hurry!
695
00:47:02,008 --> 00:47:03,208
Zhao Defa,
696
00:47:03,908 --> 00:47:05,308
why won't you take me?
697
00:47:06,108 --> 00:47:08,908
I am not a bandit.
698
00:47:09,408 --> 00:47:12,208
Ma Yousan said we were
nothing but his livestock.
699
00:47:13,808 --> 00:47:15,708
He never treated
us as human beings.
700
00:47:17,408 --> 00:47:18,608
I don't want to die.
701
00:47:19,608 --> 00:47:20,608
I want to eat.
702
00:47:21,208 --> 00:47:22,308
What's wrong with that?
703
00:47:24,908 --> 00:47:25,408
Old Zhao,
704
00:47:26,208 --> 00:47:28,108
how can you be so cold-hearted?
705
00:47:30,408 --> 00:47:30,908
Think about it...
706
00:47:31,208 --> 00:47:32,408
we don't even know
where we're going.
707
00:47:32,508 --> 00:47:33,408
Zhao Defa,
708
00:47:35,708 --> 00:47:37,108
alive today, perhaps
dead tomorrow.
709
00:47:37,408 --> 00:47:38,508
You want to bring
a child?...- I...
710
00:47:38,808 --> 00:47:40,108
Isn't he a burden?...
am not a bandit.
711
00:47:40,808 --> 00:47:41,608
I don't think so.
712
00:47:43,608 --> 00:47:44,408
He is not a burden.
713
00:47:46,908 --> 00:47:48,208
He will be a seed
of the Red Army.
714
00:47:56,208 --> 00:47:57,008
All right.
715
00:48:12,808 --> 00:48:13,774
I have only one condition.
716
00:48:14,208 --> 00:48:15,708
Red Army soldiers are not
allowed to call themselves 'Laozi'
717
00:48:16,008 --> 00:48:17,408
That is bandit talk.
718
00:48:18,708 --> 00:48:19,408
Understood.
719
00:48:20,608 --> 00:48:21,908
Old Zhao means well.
720
00:48:22,408 --> 00:48:23,374
He doesn't want you in danger.
721
00:48:28,208 --> 00:48:28,808
Fools!
722
00:48:29,008 --> 00:48:29,908
A pack of incompetents!
723
00:48:30,008 --> 00:48:31,608
I told you to keep the
Communists out of Sichuan.
724
00:48:31,708 --> 00:48:33,008
How did you let them in?
725
00:48:36,808 --> 00:48:37,308
He's back.
726
00:48:42,408 --> 00:48:44,808
Now that the Communists have
left, who knows where they've gone.
727
00:48:45,508 --> 00:48:46,808
Perhaps we should send scouts.
728
00:48:47,408 --> 00:48:48,508
Rest easy, Madam.
729
00:48:49,008 --> 00:48:50,808
If not Sichuan, then Yunnan.
730
00:48:51,208 --> 00:48:52,408
If not Liu Xiang's headache,
731
00:48:52,708 --> 00:48:54,008
then Long Yun's misery.
732
00:48:54,208 --> 00:48:57,908
It is their turn to treat
the Communists to a meal.
733
00:49:02,808 --> 00:49:03,208
What is it?
734
00:49:04,008 --> 00:49:05,908
Communist traces found
near Gulin, Sichuan,
735
00:49:06,208 --> 00:49:07,408
heading toward our Yunnan.
736
00:49:09,408 --> 00:49:10,608
Telegraph the Generalissimo.
737
00:49:11,208 --> 00:49:12,008
Tell him the Communists...
738
00:49:15,808 --> 00:49:17,508
Block the key
passes at Zhenxiong.
739
00:49:18,808 --> 00:49:21,108
Even if the Communists
tear the sky open elsewhere,
740
00:49:21,808 --> 00:49:23,208
we do not move an inch.
741
00:49:26,108 --> 00:49:26,808
Remember.
742
00:49:30,608 --> 00:49:31,708
Here.
743
00:49:32,608 --> 00:49:33,108
Take it.
744
00:49:34,708 --> 00:49:35,208
For you.
745
00:49:36,408 --> 00:49:36,908
You eat.
746
00:49:37,108 --> 00:49:37,308
Eat.
747
00:49:38,608 --> 00:49:39,208
You eat.
748
00:49:40,108 --> 00:49:41,108
The enemy is everywhere.
749
00:49:41,608 --> 00:49:42,808
Xuyong was not taken either.
750
00:49:43,008 --> 00:49:44,008
Where are we supposed to go?
751
00:49:45,508 --> 00:49:46,174
Here.
752
00:49:46,208 --> 00:49:47,208
This kid.
753
00:49:47,608 --> 00:49:48,108
Old Zhu.
754
00:49:48,808 --> 00:49:49,208
Here.
755
00:49:49,608 --> 00:49:50,108
What is it?
756
00:49:50,408 --> 00:49:51,008
Eat.
757
00:49:51,208 --> 00:49:51,808
What is it?
758
00:49:52,108 --> 00:49:52,608
Turnip.
759
00:49:55,108 --> 00:49:55,808
Where did you get it?
760
00:49:56,408 --> 00:49:57,408
It's not for you.
761
00:49:57,508 --> 00:49:58,408
None of your business.
762
00:49:59,808 --> 00:50:00,808
I'm asking where you got it.
763
00:50:00,908 --> 00:50:01,508
I'm talking to you.
764
00:50:01,608 --> 00:50:02,208
Where?
765
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:04,208
The White Dogs' camp at
the foot of the mountain.
766
00:50:05,008 --> 00:50:06,408
I stole it from them.
767
00:50:06,508 --> 00:50:07,208
What?
768
00:50:08,008 --> 00:50:09,008
The White Dogs...
769
00:50:14,608 --> 00:50:16,608
Disobeying orders,
acting on your own...
770
00:50:17,008 --> 00:50:17,874
you've exposed our position.
771
00:50:17,908 --> 00:50:18,874
You could get everyone killed.
772
00:50:18,908 --> 00:50:19,508
Do you understand?
773
00:50:19,908 --> 00:50:22,608
Zhao, who is really
getting whom killed?
774
00:50:22,908 --> 00:50:25,008
We've been circling
this valley for days.
775
00:50:25,208 --> 00:50:26,208
No one knows where we're going.
776
00:50:26,508 --> 00:50:27,608
No food, no water.
777
00:50:27,708 --> 00:50:28,608
Worse than animals.
778
00:50:28,708 --> 00:50:30,408
You're even worse than
the bandit Ma Yousan!
779
00:50:30,808 --> 00:50:32,008
You... Come on!
780
00:50:33,408 --> 00:50:35,908
Right now, the fact that we
can still stand here breathing
781
00:50:37,208 --> 00:50:39,508
was bought with the
lives of so many comrades.
782
00:50:40,808 --> 00:50:41,508
Guo Chuang.
783
00:50:42,308 --> 00:50:43,408
Luo Xingshan.
784
00:50:43,808 --> 00:50:44,608
Gone.
785
00:50:46,108 --> 00:50:47,008
Have you forgotten?
786
00:50:48,708 --> 00:50:50,008
And so many more comrades
787
00:50:50,308 --> 00:50:52,808
who died at the Xiang
River, who died at Guangchang.
788
00:50:55,308 --> 00:50:56,808
I wish it were me who died,
789
00:50:57,908 --> 00:50:59,308
and they who lived.
790
00:51:01,408 --> 00:51:02,208
Do you understand?
791
00:51:04,808 --> 00:51:05,908
The New Year is coming.
792
00:51:07,208 --> 00:51:09,608
I just wanted them to
have something to eat.
793
00:51:17,108 --> 00:51:18,008
Take it.
794
00:51:23,008 --> 00:51:23,408
What,
795
00:51:23,708 --> 00:51:24,408
missing home?
796
00:51:30,008 --> 00:51:31,608
They're all long dead.
797
00:51:33,608 --> 00:51:34,508
Starved to death.
798
00:52:02,208 --> 00:52:02,808
Generalissimo,
799
00:52:03,508 --> 00:52:06,608
Japan's ambition to
swallow China is no secret.
800
00:52:08,208 --> 00:52:09,808
The entire nation... Hanqing,
801
00:52:10,208 --> 00:52:11,708
I understand your
feelings perfectly.
802
00:52:11,808 --> 00:52:14,274
But the nation is not yet
united under my command.
803
00:52:14,308 --> 00:52:15,608
What do I fight Japan with?
804
00:52:15,808 --> 00:52:17,608
Internal pacification must
come before external resistance.
805
00:52:18,908 --> 00:52:19,674
The Communists are currently
806
00:52:19,708 --> 00:52:21,008
our gravest internal threat.
807
00:52:21,208 --> 00:52:22,474
Throughout history,
when bandits and rebels
808
00:52:22,508 --> 00:52:24,108
reach their final
desperate stage,
809
00:52:24,408 --> 00:52:25,608
they flee to
Sichuan and Guizhou.
810
00:52:25,808 --> 00:52:27,808
The further west,
the closer to death.
811
00:52:29,008 --> 00:52:30,908
Once the Communists are destroyed
and the warlords eliminated,
812
00:52:31,008 --> 00:52:32,408
we can concentrate our strength
813
00:52:33,108 --> 00:52:34,008
against the Japanese.
814
00:52:35,508 --> 00:52:37,508
You men never stop once you
start discussing state affairs.
815
00:52:37,708 --> 00:52:38,208
It's the New Year.
816
00:52:39,908 --> 00:52:42,608
Today, let's not talk about
destroying this or that.
817
00:52:43,008 --> 00:52:43,708
Let us devote ourselves entirely
818
00:52:44,008 --> 00:52:45,308
to conquering the
feast on this table.
819
00:52:51,808 --> 00:52:52,408
Runzhi,
820
00:52:53,208 --> 00:52:53,808
eat something.
821
00:52:53,908 --> 00:52:54,508
I'm not hungry.
822
00:52:55,808 --> 00:52:56,608
Eat.
823
00:53:11,008 --> 00:53:11,608
Xiao Chen.
824
00:53:12,408 --> 00:53:12,908
Chairman.
825
00:53:13,408 --> 00:53:15,108
Take this to Comrade Zizhen.
826
00:53:15,208 --> 00:53:15,808
She needs the nourishment.
827
00:53:16,208 --> 00:53:17,008
Yes, Chairman.
828
00:53:21,208 --> 00:53:22,008
At Tucheng,
829
00:53:22,608 --> 00:53:24,008
the enemy lost three thousand.
830
00:53:25,608 --> 00:53:27,508
But that is three thousand
out of four hundred thousand.
831
00:53:28,208 --> 00:53:30,008
We also lost three
thousand soldiers.
832
00:53:31,508 --> 00:53:33,708
But that is three thousand
out of thirty thousand.
833
00:53:34,208 --> 00:53:35,708
An ambush turned into
a war of attrition.
834
00:53:37,008 --> 00:53:38,108
We lost the battle.
835
00:53:38,608 --> 00:53:40,008
Who has never lost a battle?
836
00:53:40,408 --> 00:53:41,608
In 1927,
837
00:53:42,008 --> 00:53:42,974
when Chiang Kai-shek
purged the Party
838
00:53:43,008 --> 00:53:44,108
and unleashed a bloodbath,
839
00:53:45,008 --> 00:53:46,108
was I not the same?
840
00:53:46,608 --> 00:53:49,208
From Shanghai, I barely
escaped with my life.
841
00:53:49,808 --> 00:53:50,408
Exactly.
842
00:53:51,908 --> 00:53:53,974
Back then, at the Sanheba
blocking action in Guangdong,
843
00:53:54,008 --> 00:53:57,374
was I not also... Commander
Zhu, that was no defeat.
844
00:53:57,408 --> 00:53:59,674
The division at Sanheba
preserved a vital spark
845
00:53:59,708 --> 00:54:01,374
for the revolution.
846
00:54:01,408 --> 00:54:01,808
Yes.
847
00:54:03,808 --> 00:54:04,708
Without Sanheba,
848
00:54:05,208 --> 00:54:07,208
there would have been no
rendezvous at Jinggang Mountain.
849
00:54:08,608 --> 00:54:10,108
You have all studied abroad,
850
00:54:11,208 --> 00:54:12,608
properly trained
in military science.
851
00:54:13,608 --> 00:54:14,608
Do you truly believe
852
00:54:16,508 --> 00:54:17,308
I can do this?
853
00:54:17,708 --> 00:54:18,308
Runzhi,
854
00:54:18,608 --> 00:54:20,008
from Jinggang Mountain to now,
855
00:54:21,208 --> 00:54:22,308
you and I have had
our disagreements.
856
00:54:22,808 --> 00:54:23,608
But facts have proven
857
00:54:24,008 --> 00:54:24,908
that in military matters,
858
00:54:25,408 --> 00:54:26,008
you have been right.
859
00:54:28,408 --> 00:54:29,408
You have always been right.
860
00:54:29,708 --> 00:54:31,808
Who can truly lead this force
861
00:54:32,108 --> 00:54:33,208
out of this crisis?
862
00:54:33,708 --> 00:54:34,608
Runzhi,
863
00:54:35,208 --> 00:54:36,908
you must believe in yourself.
864
00:54:37,508 --> 00:54:39,908
The world may think
we are finished.
865
00:54:40,608 --> 00:54:42,108
Thirty thousand against
four hundred thousand.
866
00:54:43,208 --> 00:54:44,408
But our thirty thousand
867
00:54:44,808 --> 00:54:46,008
wear straw sandals.
868
00:54:46,808 --> 00:54:49,008
Surely we need not fear
those in military boots.
869
00:54:55,108 --> 00:54:55,908
Pas à pas,
870
00:54:57,608 --> 00:54:58,908
nous irons loin.
871
00:54:59,208 --> 00:55:01,108
I just praised you for
your foreign education,
872
00:55:02,008 --> 00:55:04,308
and already you're bullying
this country teacher.
873
00:55:36,008 --> 00:55:37,208
An honest man speaks plainly.
874
00:55:39,808 --> 00:55:41,308
I have come to ask
you to step aside.
875
00:55:47,308 --> 00:55:49,374
Bo Gu, we must acknowledge
876
00:55:49,408 --> 00:55:51,508
that our adversary is
far stronger than we are.
877
00:55:51,808 --> 00:55:53,608
Chiang Kai-shek is unfathomable.
878
00:55:53,708 --> 00:55:55,174
I worked alongside him
at Whampoa for two years.
879
00:55:55,208 --> 00:55:56,408
I know him well.
880
00:55:56,808 --> 00:55:58,974
Whether in the factional
struggles within the Kuomintang
881
00:55:59,008 --> 00:56:00,908
or against the warlords great
and small across the nation,
882
00:56:01,008 --> 00:56:02,208
no one has been his equal.
883
00:56:03,408 --> 00:56:04,608
If we are to defeat him,
884
00:56:05,808 --> 00:56:07,108
we must find someone
885
00:56:07,408 --> 00:56:08,808
even stronger.
886
00:56:09,408 --> 00:56:12,208
Enlai, your prestige
in the Party is so great.
887
00:56:12,408 --> 00:56:14,374
I do not understand...
I truly do not understand
888
00:56:14,408 --> 00:56:15,574
why you are always willing
to sacrifice yourself
889
00:56:15,608 --> 00:56:16,974
for others.... At a
moment of life and death,
890
00:56:17,008 --> 00:56:18,408
what use is prestige?
891
00:56:20,208 --> 00:56:21,408
Extraordinary deeds
892
00:56:22,808 --> 00:56:24,708
require extraordinary men.
893
00:56:50,508 --> 00:56:53,708
The road ahead is
long and arduous;
894
00:56:54,008 --> 00:56:57,008
I shall search high
and low for the truth.
895
00:56:58,008 --> 00:56:58,908
These characters...
896
00:56:59,508 --> 00:57:00,308
you must pay attention.
897
00:57:00,408 --> 00:57:01,008
This character "Man"...
898
00:57:01,808 --> 00:57:03,408
Look at Old Zhu, so cultured.
899
00:57:03,808 --> 00:57:05,408
He studied abroad,
a university man.
900
00:57:06,208 --> 00:57:06,808
Old Zhao,
901
00:57:07,308 --> 00:57:09,008
I've taught you quite a
few characters already.
902
00:57:09,308 --> 00:57:10,608
Why not teach A-Jin?
903
00:57:11,208 --> 00:57:12,508
I won't learn from him.
904
00:57:13,208 --> 00:57:13,908
Listen well.
905
00:57:15,208 --> 00:57:16,008
This character is read...
906
00:57:17,408 --> 00:57:18,508
We are human beings,
907
00:57:18,808 --> 00:57:20,008
not another man's livestock.
908
00:57:20,408 --> 00:57:21,708
We must stand tall and upright.
909
00:57:22,008 --> 00:57:22,808
Understand?
910
00:57:25,208 --> 00:57:26,408
I'll teach you another.
911
00:57:33,308 --> 00:57:34,208
I know what you want to write.
912
00:57:38,108 --> 00:57:39,108
It's this character, isn't it?
913
00:57:39,508 --> 00:57:40,008
Yes.
914
00:57:40,508 --> 00:57:41,174
"Xin."
915
00:57:42,008 --> 00:57:43,308
This character is read "xin"...
916
00:57:43,708 --> 00:57:44,608
"new," as in New Year.
917
00:57:45,208 --> 00:57:46,208
Put the two characters together,
918
00:57:46,608 --> 00:57:49,308
and you get "new person."
919
00:57:49,908 --> 00:57:51,708
It represents
someone with a future,
920
00:57:52,208 --> 00:57:53,208
someone with hope.
921
00:57:53,808 --> 00:57:54,608
Hope?
922
00:57:55,608 --> 00:57:56,708
We are so few.
923
00:57:57,508 --> 00:57:59,808
The White Dogs chasing
us outnumber us ten to one.
924
00:58:00,408 --> 00:58:02,574
If they link arms in a
circle, we couldn't escape.
925
00:58:02,608 --> 00:58:03,508
What hope is there?
926
00:58:06,508 --> 00:58:07,208
Youngster,
927
00:58:09,208 --> 00:58:10,108
you are right,
928
00:58:10,708 --> 00:58:11,608
but also wrong.
929
00:58:11,708 --> 00:58:13,108
Chairman.
930
00:58:13,508 --> 00:58:14,408
You are...
931
00:58:15,708 --> 00:58:17,408
Zhao Defa, the boy
from Jinggang Mountain.
932
00:58:17,708 --> 00:58:18,108
Yes, sir.
933
00:58:18,608 --> 00:58:19,608
Former commander of
the Third Company,
934
00:58:19,708 --> 00:58:22,408
now platoon leader of the Second
Platoon, First Company... Zhao Defa.
935
00:58:22,608 --> 00:58:24,108
Combat casualties
have been severe.
936
00:58:24,208 --> 00:58:25,108
The Zhaxi reorganization...
937
00:58:25,708 --> 00:58:28,208
some companies have ten
commanders for a single squad.
938
00:58:29,008 --> 00:58:29,808
Reorganization
939
00:58:31,208 --> 00:58:33,408
is to make our forces
more mobile and flexible,
940
00:58:34,108 --> 00:58:35,208
and strengthen our
combat effectiveness.
941
00:58:35,808 --> 00:58:38,208
Zhao Defa, future
reconnaissance missions
942
00:58:38,308 --> 00:58:39,508
will depend on your company.
943
00:58:40,008 --> 00:58:41,808
Only then can we, under
this iron-bucket encirclement,
944
00:58:42,808 --> 00:58:43,608
carve a path through the blood.
945
00:58:44,808 --> 00:58:45,708
Our Red Army
946
00:58:47,908 --> 00:58:48,808
is here now.
947
00:58:49,008 --> 00:58:50,608
To the north, the Sichuan Army.
948
00:58:51,008 --> 00:58:51,808
To the west,
949
00:58:52,508 --> 00:58:53,308
the Yunnan Army.
950
00:58:54,208 --> 00:58:55,208
To the southeast,
951
00:58:55,608 --> 00:58:57,408
the Central Army
pursues us relentlessly.
952
00:58:59,108 --> 00:59:00,108
So where do we go now?
953
00:59:01,008 --> 00:59:01,908
Where do we go?
954
00:59:07,008 --> 00:59:07,808
I say...
955
00:59:09,608 --> 00:59:11,008
if the enemy will
not let us advance,
956
00:59:12,108 --> 00:59:13,008
then we simply
957
00:59:13,608 --> 00:59:14,408
retreat.
958
00:59:15,208 --> 00:59:16,608
Strike Wang Jialie once more.
959
00:59:20,608 --> 00:59:21,908
We cross the
Chishui a second time
960
00:59:23,008 --> 00:59:24,008
and return to Zunyi.
961
00:59:24,508 --> 00:59:25,608
Agreed.
962
00:59:31,208 --> 00:59:32,908
First, we send a
small force northward
963
00:59:34,408 --> 00:59:34,808
to make Chiang Kai-shek believe
964
00:59:35,508 --> 00:59:37,008
we still intend to cross
the Yangtze northward.
965
00:59:38,208 --> 00:59:39,808
But at the same
time, the main force
966
00:59:40,108 --> 00:59:40,908
marches east,
967
00:59:41,808 --> 00:59:43,908
seizing Taipingdu and Erlangtan,
968
00:59:44,808 --> 00:59:46,208
and crosses the
Chishui River once more.
969
00:59:48,008 --> 00:59:49,774
The Central Revolutionary
Military Commission issued from Gulin
970
00:59:49,808 --> 00:59:51,408
an open letter to all Red
Army commanders and fighters.
971
00:59:52,008 --> 00:59:53,408
Chairman Mao wrote
it brilliantly.
972
00:59:56,008 --> 00:59:56,808
The Red Army must
973
00:59:57,808 --> 00:59:59,208
constantly shift its
area of operations...
974
00:59:59,608 --> 01:00:00,308
sometimes east,
975
01:00:00,808 --> 01:00:01,708
sometimes west,
976
01:00:02,208 --> 01:00:04,808
sometimes by narrow trails,
977
01:00:05,608 --> 01:00:06,408
sometimes by old roads,
978
01:00:07,208 --> 01:00:08,408
sometimes by new paths.
979
01:00:08,808 --> 01:00:09,808
The only constant
980
01:00:10,108 --> 01:00:11,708
is to seek victory in battle
981
01:00:12,108 --> 01:00:13,308
under favorable conditions.
982
01:00:13,508 --> 01:00:15,208
Chairman Mao is
personally commanding again.
983
01:00:15,508 --> 01:00:16,174
Now we can breathe easy.
984
01:00:16,208 --> 01:00:16,974
Our hearts are steady.
985
01:00:17,008 --> 01:00:18,574
The Chairman we know
is back to lead us.
986
01:00:18,608 --> 01:00:20,408
Chairman Mao is ten times
sharper than Chiang Kai-shek.
987
01:00:20,508 --> 01:00:22,708
If the enemy wants to catch
us, it won't be that easy.
988
01:00:22,808 --> 01:00:24,008
Good. Comrades,
989
01:00:24,408 --> 01:00:25,008
gather round.
990
01:00:31,408 --> 01:00:32,808
Our target for this assault
991
01:00:33,608 --> 01:00:34,308
is here...
992
01:00:35,808 --> 01:00:36,308
the salt depot.
993
01:00:36,608 --> 01:00:37,508
The reactionary
militia hoards salt
994
01:00:37,808 --> 01:00:38,308
and exploits the people.
995
01:00:38,808 --> 01:00:40,074
For the poor, salt
is a New Year's luxury.
996
01:00:40,108 --> 01:00:41,408
We will open the stores and
distribute salt to the villagers.
997
01:00:41,808 --> 01:00:44,608
After that, we will
enlist the villagers' help
998
01:00:44,808 --> 01:00:46,008
to build our pontoon bridge
999
01:00:46,408 --> 01:00:47,808
and complete the second
crossing of the Chishui.
1000
01:00:54,008 --> 01:00:55,708
We will divide
into three squads.
1001
01:00:56,008 --> 01:00:57,608
First squad... frontal assault.
1002
01:00:58,208 --> 01:01:00,408
Secure the main
gate of the depot.
1003
01:01:01,208 --> 01:01:04,208
We will exploit the gaps
in their patrol schedule
1004
01:01:04,408 --> 01:01:05,108
to close in.
1005
01:01:05,608 --> 01:01:07,508
Their guard will
be weakest then.
1006
01:01:07,808 --> 01:01:08,808
Two men will suffice.
1007
01:01:09,108 --> 01:01:10,008
But remember...
1008
01:01:10,408 --> 01:01:12,708
use knives and rope.
1009
01:01:13,108 --> 01:01:14,808
Eliminate them without a sound.
1010
01:01:15,808 --> 01:01:16,408
Second squad...
1011
01:01:16,808 --> 01:01:17,808
flanking from the rear.
1012
01:01:18,008 --> 01:01:20,074
Near this depot there
is a water channel.
1013
01:01:20,108 --> 01:01:21,308
The channel has a small gate.
1014
01:01:22,208 --> 01:01:23,708
It is narrow, but
1015
01:01:24,108 --> 01:01:25,208
poorly guarded.
1016
01:01:25,308 --> 01:01:26,608
We slip in quietly
1017
01:01:27,008 --> 01:01:27,908
straight into the depot interior
1018
01:01:28,408 --> 01:01:29,008
and seize it.
1019
01:01:29,708 --> 01:01:30,308
Third squad...
1020
01:01:30,808 --> 01:01:31,408
the assault team.
1021
01:01:31,808 --> 01:01:32,308
Strike
1022
01:01:32,808 --> 01:01:33,608
the enemy command post,
1023
01:01:33,808 --> 01:01:36,208
sever their command
and communications.
1024
01:01:36,908 --> 01:01:39,808
Right now, the enemy
believes they are safe.
1025
01:01:40,508 --> 01:01:41,608
While they are complacent
1026
01:01:42,208 --> 01:01:42,608
and careless,
1027
01:01:43,008 --> 01:01:43,808
we take them down.
1028
01:01:45,008 --> 01:01:45,708
Understood?
1029
01:01:46,208 --> 01:01:46,808
Understood.
1030
01:01:47,308 --> 01:01:48,008
Good.
1031
01:01:54,008 --> 01:01:54,508
Move.
1032
01:02:10,408 --> 01:02:10,874
The Communists!
1033
01:02:10,908 --> 01:02:11,408
What's going on?
1034
01:02:11,608 --> 01:02:14,008
The Communists are here!
1035
01:02:56,408 --> 01:02:57,008
Who's there?
1036
01:03:02,008 --> 01:03:02,408
Go.
1037
01:03:21,808 --> 01:03:22,308
Hurry.
1038
01:03:27,408 --> 01:03:27,808
Take the salt.
1039
01:03:42,908 --> 01:03:43,608
Old Zhu,
1040
01:03:44,808 --> 01:03:46,408
why have they barred
the doors so tight?
1041
01:03:47,408 --> 01:03:48,708
Are they afraid of us?
1042
01:03:49,808 --> 01:03:50,508
Not afraid.
1043
01:03:51,408 --> 01:03:52,408
They don't dare believe it.
1044
01:03:54,008 --> 01:03:55,608
We're not here to take.
1045
01:03:55,708 --> 01:03:57,408
We're giving their
salt back to them.
1046
01:03:58,008 --> 01:03:59,408
They've been robbed
all their lives.
1047
01:04:01,008 --> 01:04:02,008
They've long
accepted their fate.
1048
01:04:03,108 --> 01:04:04,408
Now that we tell
them to take it back,
1049
01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:06,008
they can hardly believe it.
1050
01:04:06,708 --> 01:04:07,208
Move fast.
1051
01:04:07,308 --> 01:04:07,708
Quickly.
1052
01:04:08,008 --> 01:04:08,608
Hurry.
1053
01:04:22,408 --> 01:04:22,608
Go.
1054
01:04:23,108 --> 01:04:23,808
Move, move.
1055
01:04:24,908 --> 01:04:26,608
Pick up the pace. Move.
1056
01:04:27,808 --> 01:04:28,808
Sharp now.
1057
01:04:29,008 --> 01:04:29,608
Move.
1058
01:04:29,908 --> 01:04:30,974
You few, head that way.
1059
01:04:31,008 --> 01:04:31,274
Yes.
1060
01:04:31,308 --> 01:04:31,908
The rest, follow me.
1061
01:04:32,008 --> 01:04:32,408
Go.
1062
01:05:09,008 --> 01:05:09,274
Rifle.
1063
01:05:09,308 --> 01:05:09,608
Catch.
1064
01:05:26,808 --> 01:05:27,074
Some say
1065
01:05:27,108 --> 01:05:29,174
the Chairman's crossing
in and out was a gamble.
1066
01:05:29,208 --> 01:05:31,174
No one else would dare it.
1067
01:05:31,208 --> 01:05:32,608
That's because he's
never been chased by dogs.
1068
01:05:33,308 --> 01:05:35,208
If I were cornered, not twice...
1069
01:05:35,408 --> 01:05:36,408
three times, four times,
1070
01:05:36,708 --> 01:05:38,408
I'd wade back into the Chishui.
1071
01:05:39,808 --> 01:05:40,808
The real trials
1072
01:05:41,808 --> 01:05:43,108
likely still lie ahead.
1073
01:05:55,108 --> 01:05:56,608
How could the
Communists turn back?
1074
01:05:56,708 --> 01:05:57,608
That's walking into a trap.
1075
01:05:58,908 --> 01:05:59,908
Why not?
1076
01:06:02,208 --> 01:06:03,508
It must be Mao Zedong.
1077
01:06:05,208 --> 01:06:06,808
Only Mao Zedong would
make such a move.
1078
01:06:07,908 --> 01:06:09,208
But it defies logic.
1079
01:06:09,808 --> 01:06:10,574
It defies the art of war.
1080
01:06:10,608 --> 01:06:11,708
Whose art of war?
1081
01:06:12,908 --> 01:06:13,808
Baoding Academy?
1082
01:06:14,208 --> 01:06:15,108
Whampoa?
1083
01:06:15,808 --> 01:06:16,408
The Soviets?
1084
01:06:16,908 --> 01:06:17,808
The Germans?
1085
01:06:19,308 --> 01:06:21,008
He was always a wild
monkey from the mountains.
1086
01:06:21,208 --> 01:06:22,608
He cares nothing
for your art of war.
1087
01:06:26,508 --> 01:06:28,174
All Sichuan units
rush to the Chishui
1088
01:06:28,208 --> 01:06:29,408
to block the Communists'
northward advance.
1089
01:06:30,408 --> 01:06:31,608
The Central Army enters Songkan
1090
01:06:31,708 --> 01:06:33,408
to prevent a
northeastward breakout.
1091
01:06:33,508 --> 01:06:34,308
Telegraph Wang Jialie...
1092
01:06:34,708 --> 01:06:35,608
hold Loushan Pass.
1093
01:06:35,708 --> 01:06:37,108
Block the Communists
from entering Zunyi.
1094
01:06:37,708 --> 01:06:38,808
Await the
encirclement's closure.
1095
01:06:39,308 --> 01:06:40,208
Annihilate the Communists.
1096
01:06:41,608 --> 01:06:42,308
Mao Zedong...
1097
01:06:43,608 --> 01:06:46,208
let us see how you
escape my grasp this time.
1098
01:06:50,508 --> 01:06:51,008
Enlai,
1099
01:06:52,608 --> 01:06:55,408
Bocheng, the latest
intelligence from Bureau Two...
1100
01:06:56,308 --> 01:06:57,374
the Sichuan Army
and the Central Army
1101
01:06:57,408 --> 01:06:58,608
are tightening their fist,
1102
01:06:59,008 --> 01:06:59,908
trying to crush us.
1103
01:07:00,008 --> 01:07:00,908
This Chiang Kai-shek...
1104
01:07:01,208 --> 01:07:02,308
he moves too fast.
1105
01:07:02,608 --> 01:07:04,708
We must make a
decision immediately.
1106
01:07:05,208 --> 01:07:05,908
In that case...
1107
01:07:06,608 --> 01:07:08,874
rather than wound ten
fingers, better to sever one.
1108
01:07:08,908 --> 01:07:10,408
If we are to retake Zunyi
1109
01:07:10,808 --> 01:07:12,208
and seize the initiative,
1110
01:07:12,608 --> 01:07:14,408
we must break through swiftly...
1111
01:07:15,708 --> 01:07:16,508
Loushan Pass.
1112
01:07:18,808 --> 01:07:20,208
Loushan Pass is
treacherous terrain,
1113
01:07:20,408 --> 01:07:21,408
ringed by mountains,
1114
01:07:22,408 --> 01:07:24,808
guarding the throat
between Zunyi and Sichuan.
1115
01:07:25,408 --> 01:07:26,408
Take Loushan Pass,
1116
01:07:27,308 --> 01:07:29,408
and the gates of
Zunyi swing open.
1117
01:07:30,608 --> 01:07:32,608
The Guizhou Sixth Regiment
is entrenched on the main peak.
1118
01:07:33,808 --> 01:07:35,808
The Guizhou Tenth Regiment holds
the high ground at Dianjinshan.
1119
01:07:40,408 --> 01:07:44,108
Chiang Kai-shek's Hankow
Residence Tell Wang Jialie...
1120
01:07:45,308 --> 01:07:48,674
if he cannot hold Loushan Pass,
he answers for the consequences.
1121
01:07:48,708 --> 01:07:49,708
Comrade Peng Dehuai,
1122
01:07:49,808 --> 01:07:51,108
take Loushan Pass
before nightfall.
1123
01:07:51,608 --> 01:07:52,108
Any problems?
1124
01:07:52,208 --> 01:07:53,008
My Third Army Group...
1125
01:07:53,408 --> 01:07:54,708
all four regiments
engage simultaneously.
1126
01:07:54,808 --> 01:07:55,808
The Thirteenth Regiment
leads the vanguard.
1127
01:07:56,608 --> 01:07:57,908
The Twelfth Regiment
strikes the center.
1128
01:07:58,808 --> 01:08:00,608
The Tenth and Eleventh
Regiments flank left and right.
1129
01:08:01,808 --> 01:08:02,808
No reserve?
1130
01:08:07,108 --> 01:08:08,208
I am the reserve.
1131
01:08:44,008 --> 01:08:44,608
Fire!
1132
01:09:07,108 --> 01:09:07,808
If I had artillery,
1133
01:09:08,508 --> 01:09:09,508
I'd take that hilltop.
1134
01:09:10,208 --> 01:09:10,708
Charge!
1135
01:09:16,608 --> 01:09:17,574
Follow me.
1136
01:09:17,608 --> 01:09:18,208
Right.
1137
01:09:19,208 --> 01:09:19,808
Old Zhu,
1138
01:09:20,108 --> 01:09:21,008
come with me.
1139
01:09:21,208 --> 01:09:21,708
Yes.
1140
01:09:22,208 --> 01:09:22,608
Go.
1141
01:09:32,008 --> 01:09:33,608
The Thirteenth Regiment's
Third Battalion is stalled.
1142
01:09:34,108 --> 01:09:34,908
The battalion
commander is wounded.
1143
01:09:35,608 --> 01:09:36,608
The political
instructor is dead.
1144
01:09:36,808 --> 01:09:38,374
The Thirteenth Regiment's
First Battalion is advancing
1145
01:09:38,408 --> 01:09:39,608
but pinned down by enemy fire.
1146
01:09:40,208 --> 01:09:41,008
Heavy losses.
1147
01:09:41,108 --> 01:09:43,408
The Guizhou Fifteenth Regiment
at Banqiao supports Loushan Pass,
1148
01:09:43,608 --> 01:09:45,208
forming a pincer
with Dianjinshan.
1149
01:09:45,308 --> 01:09:46,608
The Communists
are stretched thin.
1150
01:09:46,808 --> 01:09:49,408
Our fire covers the
road below Dianjinshan.
1151
01:09:49,708 --> 01:09:51,608
Three Communist assaults
have been repelled.
1152
01:09:56,808 --> 01:09:57,508
This Guizhou force...
1153
01:09:57,908 --> 01:09:59,274
heavier firepower
than any we've faced,
1154
01:09:59,308 --> 01:10:00,408
and far more stubborn.
1155
01:10:00,908 --> 01:10:01,874
Our Third Army Group
1156
01:10:01,908 --> 01:10:02,874
has been attacking
uphill at Dianjinshan.
1157
01:10:02,908 --> 01:10:03,908
It's a grinding fight.
1158
01:10:04,208 --> 01:10:06,308
This battle is turning into
another war of attrition.
1159
01:10:10,608 --> 01:10:11,908
The double-gun soldiers' lives
1160
01:10:12,808 --> 01:10:14,408
hang on a pipe of opium.
1161
01:10:15,408 --> 01:10:16,808
They've fought all day.
1162
01:10:16,908 --> 01:10:18,608
They must be fading by now.
1163
01:10:20,008 --> 01:10:21,708
Send a strike force now...
1164
01:10:23,208 --> 01:10:24,908
climb the back of Dianjinshan
1165
01:10:26,208 --> 01:10:27,208
and close the pincer.
1166
01:10:34,408 --> 01:10:35,708
Hold tight. Climb toward me.
1167
01:10:36,208 --> 01:10:36,608
Over here...
1168
01:10:36,908 --> 01:10:37,808
there's a handhold.
1169
01:10:46,308 --> 01:10:47,508
One step at a time.
1170
01:10:48,108 --> 01:10:49,208
Don't rush.
1171
01:10:50,408 --> 01:10:51,208
Watch the rope.
1172
01:10:51,808 --> 01:10:52,608
Mind your footing.
1173
01:11:40,808 --> 01:11:41,308
Quickly.
1174
01:11:41,708 --> 01:11:43,108
Find a foothold.
1175
01:11:54,308 --> 01:11:56,208
Old Zhu, hold on.
1176
01:12:22,008 --> 01:12:22,908
What are you waiting for?
1177
01:12:23,608 --> 01:12:25,308
Climb to the summit
and complete the mission.
1178
01:12:26,508 --> 01:12:27,208
Move.
1179
01:12:27,408 --> 01:12:28,308
That's an order.
1180
01:12:28,808 --> 01:12:30,008
There are more tasks ahead.
1181
01:12:49,208 --> 01:12:49,808
Old Zhao,
1182
01:12:51,008 --> 01:12:52,108
get a firm grip first.
1183
01:12:52,708 --> 01:12:54,608
Once you're secure, pull me up.
1184
01:12:56,308 --> 01:12:58,008
All right. Hold on.
1185
01:13:07,408 --> 01:13:07,908
Don't worry.
1186
01:13:08,308 --> 01:13:09,208
I tied it as tight as I could.
1187
01:13:43,508 --> 01:13:44,808
Old Zhu!
1188
01:14:00,608 --> 01:14:01,808
Old Zhu!
1189
01:14:55,208 --> 01:14:57,608
Comrades, charge!
1190
01:15:19,808 --> 01:15:21,108
Charge!
1191
01:15:30,408 --> 01:15:31,308
Follow me.
1192
01:15:40,108 --> 01:15:41,308
Turn the guns around.
1193
01:15:42,908 --> 01:15:43,508
Shells.
1194
01:15:44,908 --> 01:15:45,674
Loaded.
1195
01:15:45,708 --> 01:15:46,408
Ready.
1196
01:15:48,708 --> 01:15:49,108
Fire!
1197
01:16:11,508 --> 01:16:12,008
Old Zhao,
1198
01:16:13,408 --> 01:16:15,208
temper that foul
temper of yours.
1199
01:16:16,608 --> 01:16:18,008
See the view from
the summit for me.
1200
01:16:23,208 --> 01:16:24,408
Dianjinshan is taken.
1201
01:16:25,008 --> 01:16:26,408
The objective of
taking Loushan Pass
1202
01:16:26,508 --> 01:16:27,708
is more than half achieved.
1203
01:16:28,408 --> 01:16:31,008
This is a major
victory for the Red Army.
1204
01:16:31,608 --> 01:16:32,508
Returning to Zunyi
1205
01:16:33,108 --> 01:16:34,208
is within reach.
1206
01:16:40,208 --> 01:16:41,108
Say that again.
1207
01:16:41,708 --> 01:16:44,008
The Communists have
taken Dianjinshan.
1208
01:16:44,408 --> 01:16:46,174
They are now assaulting
the Loushan Pass main peak.
1209
01:16:47,808 --> 01:16:49,408
The enemy still holds the
southern slope in trenches.
1210
01:16:49,608 --> 01:16:51,808
The Sixth Regiment has
fallen back to Heishenmiao.
1211
01:16:52,108 --> 01:16:53,208
Bureau Two reports
1212
01:16:53,808 --> 01:16:55,274
Wu Qiwei is racing north with
two Central Army divisions.
1213
01:16:55,308 --> 01:16:56,374
The Guizhou Army will
fight to the last.
1214
01:16:56,408 --> 01:16:57,974
They will hold and
wait for relief.
1215
01:16:58,008 --> 01:16:59,374
Comrade Peng Dehuai,
from this moment,
1216
01:16:59,408 --> 01:17:01,408
the First and Third Army Groups
are under your unified command.
1217
01:17:01,608 --> 01:17:03,408
Tomorrow will be
a fierce battle.
1218
01:17:03,508 --> 01:17:04,608
Yes, sir.
1219
01:17:05,008 --> 01:17:05,208
Yes.
1220
01:17:22,008 --> 01:17:23,174
Once you've had your opium,
1221
01:17:23,208 --> 01:17:24,508
you are invincible warriors...
1222
01:17:24,808 --> 01:17:25,574
impervious to blade and bullet.
1223
01:17:25,608 --> 01:17:26,808
The Communists'
machine guns and cannons
1224
01:17:27,408 --> 01:17:28,708
will mean nothing to you.
1225
01:17:29,208 --> 01:17:29,608
Prepare for battle.
1226
01:17:31,108 --> 01:17:31,708
Prepare for battle.
1227
01:17:32,808 --> 01:17:33,408
Prepare for battle.
1228
01:17:34,208 --> 01:17:34,808
Prepare for battle.
1229
01:17:41,708 --> 01:17:42,208
Does it hurt?
1230
01:17:42,608 --> 01:17:43,208
No.
1231
01:17:43,608 --> 01:17:44,408
Good. It shouldn't.
1232
01:17:44,608 --> 01:17:45,308
Get up.
1233
01:17:46,308 --> 01:17:47,408
Kill the Communists!
1234
01:17:52,808 --> 01:17:53,408
Fire!
1235
01:18:06,108 --> 01:18:07,208
The Guizhou Army is coming.
1236
01:18:07,508 --> 01:18:08,208
Grab your rifles.
1237
01:18:11,208 --> 01:18:11,908
Quickly.
1238
01:18:34,808 --> 01:18:35,508
Chairman.
1239
01:18:36,008 --> 01:18:36,908
Generalissimo.
1240
01:19:10,208 --> 01:19:11,508
Bureau Two
intelligence indicates
1241
01:19:11,608 --> 01:19:14,108
the Guizhou Fifteenth Regiment
will flank right around Loushan Pass
1242
01:19:14,308 --> 01:19:15,408
to strike our left.
1243
01:19:15,608 --> 01:19:16,808
Strike where they must defend.
1244
01:19:17,008 --> 01:19:18,708
Order Wang Jialie
to send a force
1245
01:19:18,908 --> 01:19:20,008
to hammer the
Communists' weak point.
1246
01:19:20,408 --> 01:19:21,074
Orders from the commander...
1247
01:19:21,108 --> 01:19:21,808
push through
Niuwangtun at speed,
1248
01:19:22,208 --> 01:19:22,808
flank the Communist left wing.
1249
01:19:26,608 --> 01:19:28,208
The enemy ammunition
depot is indeed at Banqiao.
1250
01:19:30,908 --> 01:19:32,408
The Communists are
critically short of supplies.
1251
01:19:32,608 --> 01:19:33,474
Commit everything.
1252
01:19:33,508 --> 01:19:35,208
Bleed the Communists'
fighting strength.
1253
01:19:40,608 --> 01:19:41,608
The enemy is
strong, we are weak.
1254
01:19:41,808 --> 01:19:43,608
Give ground one step,
then strike by flanking.
1255
01:19:43,908 --> 01:19:46,408
Send a detachment to
raid the enemy rear.
1256
01:19:57,108 --> 01:19:58,608
Charge! Forward!
1257
01:20:11,608 --> 01:20:12,908
Destroy the Banqiao
ammunition depot.
1258
01:20:13,108 --> 01:20:14,608
Cut their supply line,
break their morale.
1259
01:20:14,808 --> 01:20:16,774
Number Two gun in position.
1260
01:20:16,808 --> 01:20:17,574
Ready.
1261
01:20:17,608 --> 01:20:18,108
Fire!
1262
01:20:37,908 --> 01:20:39,208
Taking the pass is paramount.
1263
01:20:39,308 --> 01:20:41,208
The enforcement squad strictly ordered
the Guizhou Army to attack the enemy.
1264
01:20:41,408 --> 01:20:42,808
Any who retreat will be shot.
1265
01:20:44,408 --> 01:20:45,508
Reconnoiter the enemy positions.
1266
01:20:45,608 --> 01:20:47,708
Find their weakest
point and break through.
1267
01:20:48,008 --> 01:20:49,408
Then strike the vital point...
1268
01:20:50,008 --> 01:20:51,508
destroy the Guizhou
command post.
1269
01:20:51,608 --> 01:20:53,008
This battle we will win.
1270
01:22:43,008 --> 01:22:46,708
Gentlemen, today is
my mother's birthday.
1271
01:22:47,908 --> 01:22:48,208
Welcome.
1272
01:22:54,808 --> 01:22:56,008
Chiang Kai-shek and his lot
1273
01:22:56,208 --> 01:22:57,108
will be driven out
sooner or later.
1274
01:22:57,508 --> 01:23:00,608
Guiyang will still
answer to me, Wang Jialie.
1275
01:23:02,308 --> 01:23:03,608
Make way.
1276
01:23:05,208 --> 01:23:06,008
Make way.
1277
01:23:08,008 --> 01:23:09,574
Congratulations, Chairman Wang.
1278
01:23:09,608 --> 01:23:10,208
Chairman.
1279
01:23:11,608 --> 01:23:12,408
Chairman.
1280
01:23:13,808 --> 01:23:14,408
Make way.
1281
01:23:21,308 --> 01:23:22,108
The Communists...
1282
01:23:22,908 --> 01:23:24,508
The Communists are back!
1283
01:23:32,408 --> 01:23:32,874
Back?
1284
01:23:32,908 --> 01:23:33,808
They're back.
1285
01:23:35,008 --> 01:23:36,208
Why have they returned?
1286
01:23:37,208 --> 01:23:37,908
Move, move, move.
1287
01:23:38,208 --> 01:23:39,808
We'll take the trail
to Zhongzhuangpu.
1288
01:23:40,308 --> 01:23:42,008
Brother Wu, save me!
1289
01:23:42,208 --> 01:23:44,508
The Communists have taken Zunyi.
1290
01:23:45,808 --> 01:23:46,508
Look...
1291
01:23:47,108 --> 01:23:48,208
south of Zunyi
1292
01:23:48,608 --> 01:23:50,008
there are two high points.
1293
01:23:50,808 --> 01:23:52,008
One is Laoyashan.
1294
01:23:52,408 --> 01:23:53,308
One is Honghuagang.
1295
01:23:53,608 --> 01:23:55,308
Only by taking both hills
1296
01:23:55,808 --> 01:23:56,608
can Zunyi
1297
01:23:57,008 --> 01:23:57,774
be retaken.
1298
01:23:57,808 --> 01:23:59,808
What is the situation
on those two hills now?
1299
01:24:00,908 --> 01:24:02,008
In Communist hands.
1300
01:24:03,508 --> 01:24:04,208
Brother Wang,
1301
01:24:05,008 --> 01:24:06,208
go have a smoke and rest.
1302
01:24:06,608 --> 01:24:07,308
Set up a command post here.
1303
01:24:08,608 --> 01:24:09,608
We attack Laoyashan immediately.
1304
01:24:10,208 --> 01:24:11,608
Attack Laoyashan at once.
1305
01:24:15,908 --> 01:24:17,408
Enemy radio signals
have intensified sharply.
1306
01:24:18,208 --> 01:24:19,108
They're at Zhongzhuangpu.
1307
01:24:19,208 --> 01:24:21,008
Chen Guang... I need
you to move at full speed,
1308
01:24:21,208 --> 01:24:23,408
flank around, find Wu
Qiwei's command post,
1309
01:24:23,808 --> 01:24:24,708
and drive a blade
straight into it.
1310
01:24:25,908 --> 01:24:28,408
Peng Dehuai at
Laoyashan can barely hold.
1311
01:24:30,108 --> 01:24:30,608
Where is Lin Biao?
1312
01:24:31,208 --> 01:24:32,008
What position has he reached?
1313
01:24:32,508 --> 01:24:33,774
Back in the Soviet
area, they used to say...
1314
01:24:33,808 --> 01:24:34,974
the Third Army Group's flanking,
1315
01:24:35,008 --> 01:24:36,008
the Fifth Army Group's sabers,
1316
01:24:36,108 --> 01:24:38,208
and the First Army
Group... what was it?
1317
01:24:38,408 --> 01:24:39,408
The First Army Group's...
1318
01:24:40,408 --> 01:24:41,208
charge.
1319
01:24:43,408 --> 01:24:44,608
Corps Commander, we...
1320
01:24:46,108 --> 01:24:46,808
Steady.
1321
01:24:47,708 --> 01:24:48,574
Wait a little longer.
1322
01:24:55,408 --> 01:24:56,208
It's Chen Guang.
1323
01:24:56,408 --> 01:24:57,608
He's found Wu
Qiwei's headquarters.
1324
01:24:57,708 --> 01:24:58,308
But Wu has fled.
1325
01:24:58,408 --> 01:24:58,908
Pursue?
1326
01:24:59,008 --> 01:24:59,308
Pursue.
1327
01:25:00,208 --> 01:25:01,008
How far?
1328
01:25:03,608 --> 01:25:04,508
A hundred li.
1329
01:25:05,908 --> 01:25:06,608
Five days.
1330
01:25:06,908 --> 01:25:07,808
Only five days.
1331
01:25:08,708 --> 01:25:09,374
A rabble in rags
1332
01:25:09,408 --> 01:25:10,908
routed two divisions
and eight regiments.
1333
01:25:11,208 --> 01:25:12,308
Wang Jialie was
always soft, fine.
1334
01:25:13,208 --> 01:25:15,308
But even Wu Qiwei was
sent fleeing in disgrace,
1335
01:25:15,808 --> 01:25:17,908
staging a suicide
scene at the Wu River.
1336
01:25:18,608 --> 01:25:19,608
Disgraceful.
1337
01:25:19,808 --> 01:25:20,808
An utter disgrace.
1338
01:25:22,008 --> 01:25:22,408
Attention.
1339
01:25:22,808 --> 01:25:23,574
Telegraph all units...
1340
01:25:23,608 --> 01:25:25,008
I, the Generalissimo, have
established command in Chongqing.
1341
01:25:25,208 --> 01:25:26,874
All forces in
Sichuan and Guizhou
1342
01:25:26,908 --> 01:25:28,408
shall be under my
unified command.
1343
01:25:28,608 --> 01:25:29,608
No unit shall advance
or retreat without orders.
1344
01:25:29,808 --> 01:25:31,208
All forces
1345
01:25:31,308 --> 01:25:33,008
shall attack the bandits
at Zunyi with full strength.
1346
01:25:33,208 --> 01:25:34,208
Yes, sir.
1347
01:25:36,008 --> 01:25:38,308
It seems Wang Jialie
has been stung hard.
1348
01:25:38,608 --> 01:25:40,608
He's holed up in Daguxinchang
and refuses to come out.
1349
01:25:40,808 --> 01:25:42,608
The other armies are
all dragging their feet,
1350
01:25:42,708 --> 01:25:43,408
watching from the sidelines.
1351
01:25:44,008 --> 01:25:45,874
Only Zhou Hunyuan remains on
the north bank of the Wu River,
1352
01:25:45,908 --> 01:25:46,608
not moving an inch.
1353
01:25:46,908 --> 01:25:48,308
Send a detachment
to feint and lure...
1354
01:25:48,408 --> 01:25:49,908
harass his Xiao
and Xie divisions,
1355
01:25:50,008 --> 01:25:50,808
draw the snake from its hole.
1356
01:25:52,608 --> 01:25:53,808
If both snakes come out,
1357
01:25:54,108 --> 01:25:54,474
which do we strike?
1358
01:25:54,508 --> 01:25:55,908
Since they are snakes,
we need not fear them.
1359
01:25:56,108 --> 01:25:57,108
One comes, we strike one.
1360
01:25:57,208 --> 01:25:58,608
Two come, we strike both.
1361
01:25:58,808 --> 01:26:00,108
Destroying the enemy
in mobile warfare...
1362
01:26:00,208 --> 01:26:02,008
that is our greatest strength.
1363
01:26:02,808 --> 01:26:03,608
The more restless
Chiang Kai-shek becomes,
1364
01:26:04,208 --> 01:26:05,508
the more advantageous
1365
01:26:05,808 --> 01:26:07,608
it is for us.
1366
01:26:13,808 --> 01:26:15,374
We nearly fell for
Mao Zedong's trick.
1367
01:26:15,608 --> 01:26:16,174
Notify Zhou Hunyuan...
1368
01:26:16,608 --> 01:26:17,908
halt the advance immediately.
1369
01:26:18,108 --> 01:26:18,874
Fortify his positions.
1370
01:26:20,408 --> 01:26:21,208
Remind him
1371
01:26:21,908 --> 01:26:22,708
to be like Guo Huai...
1372
01:26:23,208 --> 01:26:23,908
steady and methodical.
1373
01:26:24,808 --> 01:26:25,808
Not like Xiahou Yuan.
1374
01:26:36,608 --> 01:26:37,808
This Mao Zedong...
1375
01:26:39,708 --> 01:26:40,508
he is no simple man.
1376
01:26:40,808 --> 01:26:41,608
What is it?
1377
01:26:43,008 --> 01:26:44,808
This is the latest
from Bureau Two.
1378
01:26:45,208 --> 01:26:47,208
Zhou Hunyuan has
fallen back to Lubanchang
1379
01:26:47,408 --> 01:26:48,408
and is building blockhouses.
1380
01:26:48,608 --> 01:26:49,974
The surrounding enemy forces
1381
01:26:50,008 --> 01:26:51,508
are still employing
the old tactics
1382
01:26:51,608 --> 01:26:53,008
from the encirclement campaigns
against the Soviet Area...
1383
01:26:53,108 --> 01:26:55,174
scorched earth, closing
in on us layer by layer.
1384
01:26:55,208 --> 01:26:57,008
They mean to starve
us to death here.
1385
01:26:57,608 --> 01:26:59,408
Comrades Lin Biao and
Nie Rongzhen suggest
1386
01:26:59,808 --> 01:27:02,208
we might consider striking
Wang Jialie again...
1387
01:27:02,508 --> 01:27:03,708
taking Daguxinchang.
1388
01:27:04,008 --> 01:27:04,608
That would give us
1389
01:27:04,908 --> 01:27:06,208
much-needed supplies.
1390
01:27:06,508 --> 01:27:08,808
Wang Jialie is already a
bird startled by the bow.
1391
01:27:09,608 --> 01:27:12,174
In our experience,
we could likely take it
1392
01:27:12,208 --> 01:27:13,208
without firing a shot.
1393
01:27:13,508 --> 01:27:14,308
However,
1394
01:27:14,908 --> 01:27:17,208
always picking on
Wang Jialie alone
1395
01:27:17,308 --> 01:27:19,008
hardly seems a worthy victory.
1396
01:27:23,908 --> 01:27:24,508
Generalissimo,
1397
01:27:25,208 --> 01:27:27,408
should we not guard
against the Communists
1398
01:27:27,908 --> 01:27:29,574
raiding Daguxinchang?
1399
01:27:29,608 --> 01:27:30,708
In our previous campaigns,
1400
01:27:31,208 --> 01:27:32,908
even with an iron net cast,
1401
01:27:33,408 --> 01:27:34,608
there was always one gap.
1402
01:27:37,008 --> 01:27:37,874
The Communists always find
1403
01:27:37,908 --> 01:27:39,808
the weakest point in our defense
1404
01:27:40,208 --> 01:27:41,608
and slip away.
1405
01:27:45,808 --> 01:27:47,508
Now our forces
advance step by step.
1406
01:27:49,008 --> 01:27:50,174
The Communists will soon be
1407
01:27:50,208 --> 01:27:51,208
out of ammunition and grain.
1408
01:27:51,808 --> 01:27:52,908
A hungry man
1409
01:27:53,208 --> 01:27:54,174
cannot think clearly.
1410
01:27:54,208 --> 01:27:55,208
At that point,
1411
01:27:56,108 --> 01:27:57,874
I dangle Wang Jialie
before them like a fat prize.
1412
01:27:57,908 --> 01:27:58,908
Let them come.
1413
01:28:03,608 --> 01:28:05,008
If they dare come,
1414
01:28:10,808 --> 01:28:13,408
staying cooped up here
is no solution either.
1415
01:28:13,808 --> 01:28:14,808
A fight is feasible.
1416
01:28:15,208 --> 01:28:16,608
Only movement brings victory.
1417
01:28:17,208 --> 01:28:18,008
As for how to fight...
1418
01:28:18,608 --> 01:28:19,608
the front-line political
commissar decides.
1419
01:28:20,208 --> 01:28:20,874
I execute.
1420
01:28:20,908 --> 01:28:22,708
Very well. Let us
put it to a vote.
1421
01:28:25,208 --> 01:28:26,208
I disagree.
1422
01:28:28,708 --> 01:28:30,608
Then tell us... why
can we not attack?
1423
01:28:30,808 --> 01:28:32,208
If we strike Daguxinchang,
1424
01:28:32,808 --> 01:28:33,908
Zhou Hunyuan's forces
1425
01:28:34,208 --> 01:28:35,474
will certainly close
in from the flank.
1426
01:28:35,508 --> 01:28:37,208
You worry over nothing.
1427
01:28:38,708 --> 01:28:39,608
Runzhi,
1428
01:28:41,608 --> 01:28:42,308
very well.
1429
01:28:42,408 --> 01:28:43,408
Who agrees with me?
1430
01:28:46,808 --> 01:28:47,408
It seems
1431
01:28:48,008 --> 01:28:50,608
only Enlai supports
Runzhi's view.
1432
01:29:11,608 --> 01:29:13,008
Since you all disagree with me,
1433
01:29:22,308 --> 01:29:23,808
then what purpose does
this front-line commissar
1434
01:29:25,208 --> 01:29:26,408
still serve?
1435
01:29:27,608 --> 01:29:28,208
I resign.
1436
01:30:48,408 --> 01:30:51,008
The decisions a man makes
often hinge on small details.
1437
01:30:51,308 --> 01:30:52,608
You served alongside
Chiang Kai-shek.
1438
01:30:53,508 --> 01:30:54,508
What manner of man is he?
1439
01:30:55,608 --> 01:30:56,708
Chiang Kai-shek...
1440
01:30:58,008 --> 01:30:59,974
even at Whampoa, he had
already risen to prominence,
1441
01:31:00,008 --> 01:31:01,008
commanding considerable respect.
1442
01:31:01,708 --> 01:31:02,608
He keeps a diary.
1443
01:31:03,608 --> 01:31:06,008
No matter how
busy, he makes time
1444
01:31:06,208 --> 01:31:07,808
to reflect and record each day.
1445
01:31:08,008 --> 01:31:09,608
For over twenty years,
without a single break.
1446
01:31:10,808 --> 01:31:11,608
I often think...
1447
01:31:12,208 --> 01:31:14,208
a man who persists in one thing,
1448
01:31:15,008 --> 01:31:17,808
even a small thing,
is a formidable man.
1449
01:31:18,508 --> 01:31:19,508
At this very moment,
1450
01:31:19,808 --> 01:31:21,308
while you study him,
1451
01:31:22,208 --> 01:31:24,108
he may well be studying you.
1452
01:31:26,008 --> 01:31:26,808
Runzhi,
1453
01:31:27,308 --> 01:31:28,508
your eloquence is unmatched.
1454
01:31:29,108 --> 01:31:31,108
Why did you not press
your case at the meeting?
1455
01:31:31,808 --> 01:31:32,908
I believe you could
have prevailed.
1456
01:31:33,008 --> 01:31:38,208
Enlai, secrecy brings success;
1457
01:31:39,608 --> 01:31:40,808
loose tongues bring ruin.
1458
01:31:41,308 --> 01:31:43,808
You are the final authority
on military decisions.
1459
01:31:45,208 --> 01:31:46,608
Some things I can
only say to you.
1460
01:31:47,808 --> 01:31:48,808
Daguxinchang
1461
01:31:49,508 --> 01:31:50,174
must not be attacked.
1462
01:31:50,808 --> 01:31:52,208
Commander Zhu was right.
1463
01:31:53,408 --> 01:31:55,208
In military matters,
you are right.
1464
01:31:56,108 --> 01:31:57,508
And you have always been right.
1465
01:31:58,908 --> 01:31:59,708
Look...
1466
01:32:08,008 --> 01:32:09,408
these two intelligence
reports in my hand
1467
01:32:10,208 --> 01:32:11,608
were just decrypted
by Bureau Two.
1468
01:32:11,808 --> 01:32:13,408
Chiang Kai-shek's
latest dispositions.
1469
01:32:14,708 --> 01:32:16,608
If we attack Daguxinchang,
1470
01:32:17,108 --> 01:32:18,508
the forces facing us head-on
1471
01:32:19,008 --> 01:32:20,174
would be the Guizhou remnants
1472
01:32:20,208 --> 01:32:21,608
and Yunnan reinforcements.
1473
01:32:21,708 --> 01:32:23,274
Flanking us from
the side and rear...
1474
01:32:23,308 --> 01:32:24,408
the Central Army
and the Sichuan Army.
1475
01:32:27,008 --> 01:32:27,608
Comrades,
1476
01:32:28,608 --> 01:32:30,008
attacked from front and rear...
1477
01:32:30,108 --> 01:32:31,908
nine deaths, one survival.
1478
01:32:35,208 --> 01:32:36,608
We now put it to a vote...
1479
01:32:37,408 --> 01:32:38,708
shall we rescind
1480
01:32:39,108 --> 01:32:40,908
the proposal to
attack Daguxinchang?
1481
01:32:46,708 --> 01:32:47,808
Good. Carried.
1482
01:32:49,008 --> 01:32:49,908
Now then...
1483
01:32:50,708 --> 01:32:51,608
shall we restore
1484
01:32:53,108 --> 01:32:53,908
Mao Zedong
1485
01:32:55,208 --> 01:32:56,208
to his post as
political commissar
1486
01:32:56,908 --> 01:32:57,808
of the Front Command?
1487
01:33:05,208 --> 01:33:06,008
Carried.
1488
01:33:11,408 --> 01:33:12,308
I have a plan.
1489
01:33:16,608 --> 01:33:18,008
We concentrate our forces
1490
01:33:18,508 --> 01:33:20,174
and strike Zhou
Hunyuan at Lubanchang.
1491
01:33:20,708 --> 01:33:22,774
Once Chiang Kai-shek's
armies converge,
1492
01:33:23,408 --> 01:33:24,608
we cross at Maotai
1493
01:33:24,908 --> 01:33:25,874
... the third crossing
of the Chishui.
1494
01:33:25,908 --> 01:33:26,974
The entire army goes to ground.
1495
01:33:28,808 --> 01:33:29,408
Then we send one regiment
1496
01:33:30,208 --> 01:33:31,374
with a high-power radio set,
1497
01:33:31,408 --> 01:33:32,574
disguised as the main force,
1498
01:33:32,608 --> 01:33:34,174
to assault Gulin county seat.
1499
01:33:34,208 --> 01:33:35,408
The Communists have
withdrawn from Lubanchang.
1500
01:33:35,608 --> 01:33:36,274
They've vanished.
1501
01:33:36,308 --> 01:33:38,108
What do you mean, vanished?
1502
01:33:38,408 --> 01:33:40,408
Because we still cannot
break their cipher,
1503
01:33:40,608 --> 01:33:42,708
we can only rely on their
transmission frequency
1504
01:33:42,908 --> 01:33:45,408
and location to estimate the
Communist central command's position.
1505
01:33:46,008 --> 01:33:48,774
But since yesterday, the
Communist central radio
1506
01:33:48,808 --> 01:33:50,208
has maintained complete silence.
1507
01:33:50,608 --> 01:33:52,508
Therefore, we cannot trace them.
1508
01:33:52,808 --> 01:33:54,408
Is their cipher
truly that advanced?
1509
01:33:54,908 --> 01:33:56,108
Why can we not break it?
1510
01:33:58,808 --> 01:33:59,974
The Communist cipher
1511
01:34:00,008 --> 01:34:01,408
employs a
double-encryption system.
1512
01:34:01,908 --> 01:34:03,008
Within a single message,
1513
01:34:03,408 --> 01:34:04,374
the same code yields
different characters,
1514
01:34:04,408 --> 01:34:05,408
the same character
yields different codes.
1515
01:34:05,808 --> 01:34:08,508
The difficulty of decryption
is therefore immense.
1516
01:34:08,608 --> 01:34:09,808
If the problem cannot be solved,
1517
01:34:10,408 --> 01:34:12,908
can we not eliminate
the man who created it?
1518
01:34:13,408 --> 01:34:15,008
Who designed their cipher?
1519
01:34:16,608 --> 01:34:18,408
This cipher is
called the Hao Cipher.
1520
01:34:20,208 --> 01:34:22,208
The man who designed it is
1521
01:34:23,608 --> 01:34:24,608
Zhou Enlai.
1522
01:34:32,808 --> 01:34:33,208
Report.
1523
01:34:33,708 --> 01:34:34,774
Aerial reconnaissance reports
1524
01:34:34,808 --> 01:34:36,508
Communist main forces
spotted near Maotai.
1525
01:34:54,708 --> 01:34:55,308
Bear with it.
1526
01:34:55,508 --> 01:34:56,208
Almost done.
1527
01:35:00,408 --> 01:35:01,308
Easy, easy.
1528
01:35:02,008 --> 01:35:02,808
The stairs are slippery.
1529
01:35:03,008 --> 01:35:03,508
Take it slow.
1530
01:35:03,908 --> 01:35:04,508
Careful.
1531
01:35:05,808 --> 01:35:06,308
Boss,
1532
01:35:07,708 --> 01:35:08,508
did they pay?
1533
01:35:08,608 --> 01:35:09,008
Sir,
1534
01:35:09,408 --> 01:35:10,008
they did.
1535
01:35:10,708 --> 01:35:11,508
I've long heard
1536
01:35:11,808 --> 01:35:14,008
that the Red Army never
runs a tab wherever they go.
1537
01:35:14,808 --> 01:35:15,708
Selling this liquor to you
1538
01:35:16,208 --> 01:35:16,808
was well worth it.
1539
01:35:17,408 --> 01:35:18,008
Good.
1540
01:35:19,008 --> 01:35:21,008
Maotai is renowned
for its fine liquor.
1541
01:35:21,508 --> 01:35:22,808
The reputation is well earned.
1542
01:35:23,808 --> 01:35:24,308
Boss,
1543
01:35:25,008 --> 01:35:25,808
your liquor...
1544
01:35:26,408 --> 01:35:27,808
it will be even
more famous someday.
1545
01:35:31,608 --> 01:35:32,908
Thank you, sir.
1546
01:35:34,008 --> 01:35:36,008
Young comrade, let me take that.
1547
01:35:36,408 --> 01:35:37,208
Thank you.
1548
01:35:48,608 --> 01:35:49,708
Chairman, it's all right.
1549
01:35:50,008 --> 01:35:50,508
Let me.
1550
01:35:56,308 --> 01:35:57,808
We've never had enough gauze.
1551
01:35:59,808 --> 01:36:01,408
Before, we could
only boil it in water,
1552
01:36:01,808 --> 01:36:04,008
but some soldiers still
suffered reinfection.
1553
01:36:04,408 --> 01:36:05,008
Now, at last,
1554
01:36:05,608 --> 01:36:07,008
we can disinfect with liquor.
1555
01:36:09,008 --> 01:36:09,808
Wonderful.
1556
01:36:50,208 --> 01:36:52,108
The Third Crossing
of the Chishui
1557
01:36:57,908 --> 01:36:59,108
I don't know why,
1558
01:36:59,708 --> 01:37:01,208
but every time I
see you, I get angry.
1559
01:37:03,608 --> 01:37:04,508
Old Zhu said
1560
01:37:05,408 --> 01:37:06,708
you remind him of
his younger self.
1561
01:37:08,808 --> 01:37:09,508
Like hell I do.
1562
01:37:20,908 --> 01:37:21,708
I'm the same as you.
1563
01:37:22,508 --> 01:37:24,008
Since I was small, I was
treated less than human.
1564
01:37:24,908 --> 01:37:26,008
Plenty of whippings.
1565
01:37:26,908 --> 01:37:28,408
Until I met Old Zhu.
1566
01:37:29,808 --> 01:37:30,708
He told me...
1567
01:37:34,108 --> 01:37:35,408
only by joining the Red Army
1568
01:37:40,408 --> 01:37:42,374
can we protect people like us,
1569
01:37:42,808 --> 01:37:43,808
and help the poor stand up.
1570
01:37:45,008 --> 01:37:46,608
The Third Company that
set out from Ruijin...
1571
01:37:47,208 --> 01:37:48,208
I'm the only one left.
1572
01:37:48,808 --> 01:37:49,808
These past two nights,
when I close my eyes,
1573
01:37:51,108 --> 01:37:53,008
all I see is Old Zhu,
smiling, saying...
1574
01:37:55,808 --> 01:37:57,708
every one of us
soldiers is a seed.
1575
01:37:57,908 --> 01:37:59,008
As long as the seed endures,
1576
01:38:01,208 --> 01:38:02,208
the Third Company endures.
1577
01:38:08,208 --> 01:38:09,008
Why are you crying?
1578
01:38:09,908 --> 01:38:10,408
Hold it in.
1579
01:38:12,508 --> 01:38:13,908
In war, men die.
That's how it is.
1580
01:38:27,008 --> 01:38:28,408
Have we taken a wrong turn?
1581
01:38:31,008 --> 01:38:31,808
Just keep walking.
1582
01:38:32,608 --> 01:38:33,408
We'll know soon enough.
1583
01:38:34,008 --> 01:38:34,408
Move.
1584
01:38:35,208 --> 01:38:37,508
Remember what Old Zhu said
about Chairman Mao's tactics?
1585
01:38:37,908 --> 01:38:40,008
Sometimes west,
1586
01:38:41,408 --> 01:38:41,908
Generalissimo,
1587
01:38:42,208 --> 01:38:44,008
Mao Zedong is cunning by nature.
1588
01:38:44,508 --> 01:38:47,308
This crossing was done in broad
daylight, with great fanfare.
1589
01:38:47,608 --> 01:38:50,308
It seems deliberate.
1590
01:38:51,008 --> 01:38:52,008
You do not know Mao Zedong.
1591
01:38:52,608 --> 01:38:55,008
His greatest skill is...
when false, make it seem true;
1592
01:38:55,608 --> 01:38:56,808
when true, make it seem false.
1593
01:38:57,008 --> 01:38:58,008
Crossing in daylight
1594
01:39:00,308 --> 01:39:01,608
is a performance.
1595
01:39:03,608 --> 01:39:04,008
Orders...
1596
01:39:06,108 --> 01:39:07,508
concentrate all
intelligence resources
1597
01:39:08,208 --> 01:39:10,208
to monitor Gulin in
Sichuan and the Xuyong area.
1598
01:39:10,808 --> 01:39:12,408
Second, telegraph the air force.
1599
01:39:12,608 --> 01:39:13,608
Order them to intensify
reconnaissance.
1600
01:39:14,108 --> 01:39:15,408
If all goes as expected,
1601
01:39:16,608 --> 01:39:17,608
within three days,
1602
01:39:18,308 --> 01:39:19,208
we will have results.
1603
01:39:26,308 --> 01:39:27,908
Guangshi Li Qing Shengdi
Kesheng Shi Chongqing Zhuguo
1604
01:39:28,008 --> 01:39:29,208
Daodian
1605
01:39:32,208 --> 01:39:32,808
Report.
1606
01:39:33,308 --> 01:39:34,208
In the Gulin, Zhenlongshan area,
1607
01:39:34,408 --> 01:39:36,508
the Communist central command
radio has been detected transmitting.
1608
01:39:40,208 --> 01:39:42,208
Just as you predicted.
1609
01:39:44,008 --> 01:39:45,708
The Generalissimo's
foresight is unmatched.
1610
01:39:50,108 --> 01:39:50,608
Orders...
1611
01:39:51,208 --> 01:39:53,408
Zhou Hunyuan and Wu
Qiwei pursue toward Gulin.
1612
01:39:53,708 --> 01:39:54,308
Sun Du at Bijie,
1613
01:39:54,608 --> 01:39:56,108
Wang Jialie intercepts
north of Jinsha.
1614
01:39:56,408 --> 01:39:56,908
In Sichuan,
1615
01:39:57,008 --> 01:39:59,508
Pan Wenhua dispatches five
brigades to block at Gulin and Xuyong.
1616
01:39:59,608 --> 01:40:02,174
The Fifty-Third Division
advances from Shiqian toward Zunyi.
1617
01:40:02,208 --> 01:40:03,208
All columns
construct blockhouses
1618
01:40:03,908 --> 01:40:04,708
to form a blockade line.
1619
01:40:04,808 --> 01:40:05,608
Yes, sir.
1620
01:40:06,608 --> 01:40:07,008
Prepare the car.
1621
01:40:07,808 --> 01:40:08,208
Generalissimo,
1622
01:40:08,508 --> 01:40:09,208
where are you going?
1623
01:40:09,608 --> 01:40:10,808
To Guiyang, of course,
to direct operations.
1624
01:40:11,708 --> 01:40:12,508
The success of the
bandit suppression
1625
01:40:13,408 --> 01:40:14,308
hinges on this moment.
1626
01:40:51,708 --> 01:40:52,008
Madam,
1627
01:40:52,308 --> 01:40:54,008
Madam Wan Shufen, wife of Wang
Jialie, requests an audience.
1628
01:40:56,808 --> 01:40:57,208
Refuse her.
1629
01:41:02,408 --> 01:41:08,708
Chiang Kai-shek was conferred the rank of Special-Class General, becoming
the only officer in National Government history to formally hold this rank.
1630
01:41:10,908 --> 01:41:11,208
Move aside.
1631
01:41:15,008 --> 01:41:15,608
Generalissimo,
1632
01:41:16,308 --> 01:41:17,308
forty li outside Guiyang,
1633
01:41:18,608 --> 01:41:19,408
Communist forces
have been sighted.
1634
01:42:10,608 --> 01:42:11,308
I have a plan.
1635
01:42:11,808 --> 01:42:13,808
Step one... strike Zhou
Hunyuan at Lubanchang.
1636
01:42:14,008 --> 01:42:16,108
If we cross the river right
under Zhou Hunyuan's nose,
1637
01:42:16,408 --> 01:42:17,808
he will certainly
send troops in pursuit.
1638
01:42:18,008 --> 01:42:21,408
But if we hit him hard at
Lubanchang, hurt him enough,
1639
01:42:21,608 --> 01:42:23,608
he will bolt his gates
and dare not sally forth.
1640
01:42:23,708 --> 01:42:24,608
Then step two...
1641
01:42:25,408 --> 01:42:26,408
cross in broad daylight.
1642
01:42:27,408 --> 01:42:28,408
The third crossing
of the Chishui.
1643
01:42:30,708 --> 01:42:31,608
But Chiang Kai-shek
1644
01:42:32,108 --> 01:42:33,308
is suspicious by nature.
1645
01:42:33,908 --> 01:42:34,508
Doing this
1646
01:42:35,108 --> 01:42:35,608
may not
1647
01:42:36,208 --> 01:42:37,208
deceive him.
1648
01:42:37,408 --> 01:42:39,608
Crossing in daylight
is a performance.
1649
01:42:39,808 --> 01:42:41,608
Monitor Gulin and
Xuyong in Sichuan.
1650
01:42:42,308 --> 01:42:43,108
Telegraph the air force.
1651
01:42:43,308 --> 01:42:44,408
Order them to intensify
reconnaissance.
1652
01:42:44,808 --> 01:42:47,408
The purpose of all this is
to make him believe our plan
1653
01:42:47,708 --> 01:42:49,608
is to continue marching
north and cross the Yangtze.
1654
01:42:49,808 --> 01:42:51,308
Let him redeploy his own forces,
1655
01:42:51,608 --> 01:42:53,408
tearing open a gap for us
1656
01:42:53,608 --> 01:42:54,508
in his iron wall
of encirclement.
1657
01:42:54,608 --> 01:42:57,008
And if he continues to dig
in deep and refuse to move?
1658
01:42:57,608 --> 01:42:58,008
Then good.
1659
01:42:58,808 --> 01:42:59,908
We proceed to the next step.
1660
01:43:06,008 --> 01:43:06,808
We send him a surprise force.
1661
01:43:07,008 --> 01:43:08,208
Have we taken a wrong turn?
1662
01:43:08,908 --> 01:43:09,508
Just keep walking.
1663
01:43:10,208 --> 01:43:11,208
We'll know soon enough.
1664
01:43:13,308 --> 01:43:14,374
Raise the torches high.
1665
01:43:14,408 --> 01:43:15,408
Let them see us clearly.
1666
01:43:15,808 --> 01:43:16,808
Yes, sir.
1667
01:43:26,608 --> 01:43:27,208
The fish has taken the bait.
1668
01:43:27,608 --> 01:43:28,408
Grab your weapons. Move.
1669
01:43:29,408 --> 01:43:31,008
In strategy, we must
despise the enemy.
1670
01:43:31,408 --> 01:43:33,608
But in tactics, we must
take the enemy seriously.
1671
01:43:33,808 --> 01:43:34,308
This strike force
1672
01:43:34,408 --> 01:43:36,808
may not be enough to move
Chiang Kai-shek's grand army.
1673
01:43:39,808 --> 01:43:40,208
Step four...
1674
01:43:40,708 --> 01:43:42,808
this strike force
carries the central radio.
1675
01:43:43,108 --> 01:43:45,408
All other unit radios
maintain complete silence.
1676
01:43:48,608 --> 01:43:49,008
Report.
1677
01:43:49,508 --> 01:43:50,508
In the Gulin, Zhenlongshan area,
1678
01:43:50,708 --> 01:43:52,708
the Communist central command
radio has been detected transmitting.
1679
01:43:53,708 --> 01:43:55,108
The Generalissimo's
foresight is unmatched.
1680
01:43:58,008 --> 01:43:59,708
Once Chiang Kai-shek
has redeployed his forces,
1681
01:43:59,908 --> 01:44:01,908
we begin the next
phase of our plan.
1682
01:44:02,508 --> 01:44:04,408
Are the pontoon bridges from
the second crossing still intact?
1683
01:44:04,608 --> 01:44:05,908
You mean Taipingdu
and Erlangtan?
1684
01:44:06,608 --> 01:44:08,608
We use them to march east...
1685
01:44:09,108 --> 01:44:09,808
the fourth crossing
of the Chishui.
1686
01:44:11,508 --> 01:44:13,208
We can shake off the
enemy's pursuit entirely.
1687
01:44:13,408 --> 01:44:14,108
What comes next
1688
01:44:14,408 --> 01:44:15,408
depends on whether this army
1689
01:44:15,808 --> 01:44:17,608
can stand united, high and low,
1690
01:44:17,808 --> 01:44:19,408
each devising
their own stratagem.
1691
01:44:23,808 --> 01:44:25,008
Comrade Peng
Dehuai telegraphs...
1692
01:44:25,208 --> 01:44:26,808
he recommends we turn southwest.
1693
01:44:27,008 --> 01:44:28,408
Great minds think alike.
1694
01:44:28,808 --> 01:44:29,808
We must play our part well.
1695
01:44:29,908 --> 01:44:31,808
The Ninth Army Group continues to
disguise itself as the main force,
1696
01:44:31,908 --> 01:44:32,908
drawing the enemy north.
1697
01:44:33,008 --> 01:44:34,008
Meanwhile, we
1698
01:44:34,408 --> 01:44:35,408
lead the main force
1699
01:44:35,708 --> 01:44:36,608
southward.
1700
01:44:37,008 --> 01:44:37,608
That won't work.
1701
01:44:38,008 --> 01:44:40,008
The Central Army is
very close to us now.
1702
01:44:40,108 --> 01:44:41,808
A head-on collision
would be disastrous.
1703
01:44:43,608 --> 01:44:45,208
Comrade Zeng Xisheng
has a brilliant idea.
1704
01:44:45,408 --> 01:44:47,208
Bureau Two can mimic
Chiang Kai-shek's tone
1705
01:44:47,608 --> 01:44:49,008
and the Nationalist
Army's transmission style
1706
01:44:49,308 --> 01:44:50,208
to send telegrams
to the Central Army,
1707
01:44:50,808 --> 01:44:52,208
altering their marching route.
1708
01:44:59,108 --> 01:44:59,608
Change direction.
1709
01:44:59,808 --> 01:45:00,808
Panshui, Xinchang.
1710
01:45:12,708 --> 01:45:14,674
We put a hundred li between
us and Wu Qiwei's forces,
1711
01:45:15,108 --> 01:45:16,108
and we can march south safely.
1712
01:45:19,008 --> 01:45:19,908
We are here.
1713
01:45:20,108 --> 01:45:21,208
And Chiang Kai-shek?
1714
01:45:22,008 --> 01:45:24,108
Useless at everything
else, but first in meddling.
1715
01:45:24,208 --> 01:45:25,308
Couldn't stay in his nest,
1716
01:45:25,608 --> 01:45:26,408
had to come poking out.
1717
01:45:26,808 --> 01:45:28,408
To Guiyang, of course,
to direct operations.
1718
01:45:29,008 --> 01:45:29,908
The success of the
bandit suppression
1719
01:45:30,608 --> 01:45:31,408
hinges on this moment.
1720
01:45:34,408 --> 01:45:35,308
For the next move,
1721
01:45:36,208 --> 01:45:38,208
perhaps we can
play it this way...
1722
01:45:39,108 --> 01:45:40,774
swing wide into Yunnan.
1723
01:45:41,408 --> 01:45:42,608
That's good, but
1724
01:45:43,608 --> 01:45:46,374
Sun Du's Yunnan Army
guards that key route.
1725
01:45:46,408 --> 01:45:48,208
Getting past them won't be easy.
1726
01:45:48,308 --> 01:45:50,208
This iron turtle keeps
its head in its shell.
1727
01:45:50,708 --> 01:45:52,108
We must find a way
to draw him out.
1728
01:45:53,608 --> 01:45:54,808
I've been watching
them for some time.
1729
01:45:55,408 --> 01:45:55,908
Director Zeng,
1730
01:45:56,208 --> 01:45:57,874
the combat units captured
a batch of radio sets.
1731
01:45:57,908 --> 01:45:59,308
The Chairman sent
me to deliver them.
1732
01:46:00,008 --> 01:46:00,608
Many thanks.
1733
01:46:02,008 --> 01:46:02,808
The Chairman also said
1734
01:46:03,008 --> 01:46:04,908
to keep a close watch on
the Yunnan Army's movements.
1735
01:46:05,708 --> 01:46:07,808
The Yunnan Army's whereabouts
we have always tracked.
1736
01:46:08,008 --> 01:46:08,708
In this world,
1737
01:46:09,008 --> 01:46:09,708
only one man
1738
01:46:10,608 --> 01:46:11,408
can draw them out.
1739
01:46:11,808 --> 01:46:12,208
And that man
1740
01:46:13,608 --> 01:46:15,208
happens to listen
to us most readily.
1741
01:46:18,408 --> 01:46:18,808
Move.
1742
01:46:19,908 --> 01:46:21,108
We give him a move...
1743
01:46:22,408 --> 01:46:23,408
army at the gates of Guiyang,
1744
01:46:24,208 --> 01:46:24,808
check the general.
1745
01:46:25,708 --> 01:46:26,408
Take the chariot.
1746
01:46:34,608 --> 01:46:36,608
Telegraph Wu Qiwei, Zhou
Hunyuan, and Sun Du...
1747
01:46:36,908 --> 01:46:37,508
come to Guiyang at once.
1748
01:46:38,008 --> 01:46:38,408
Immediately.
1749
01:46:39,208 --> 01:46:41,208
Generalissimo, the aircraft
and airfield are ready.
1750
01:46:41,308 --> 01:46:42,408
Please depart at once.
1751
01:46:43,608 --> 01:46:44,808
Guiyang is not Zunyi.
1752
01:46:46,208 --> 01:46:47,208
If Zhu and Mao take it,
1753
01:46:51,008 --> 01:46:52,308
it will damage our
standing abroad.
1754
01:46:58,108 --> 01:46:59,108
You wretches,
1755
01:46:59,608 --> 01:47:02,208
run faster! Run!
1756
01:47:07,008 --> 01:47:08,408
Commander! Commander!
1757
01:47:09,008 --> 01:47:11,108
Chairman Long ordered us to
hold the Yunnan-Guizhou border.
1758
01:47:11,208 --> 01:47:11,908
Should we move?
1759
01:47:12,508 --> 01:47:13,508
You fool.
1760
01:47:15,008 --> 01:47:16,908
Since ancient times,
what merit is greatest?
1761
01:47:17,508 --> 01:47:18,808
Saving the sovereign.
1762
01:47:19,408 --> 01:47:20,408
If I don't seize this credit,
1763
01:47:20,708 --> 01:47:23,008
am I to hand it to Zhou
Hunyuan and Wu Qiwei for nothing?
1764
01:47:29,008 --> 01:47:29,408
Generalissimo,
1765
01:47:29,808 --> 01:47:30,608
Brother Zhizhou,
1766
01:47:31,108 --> 01:47:32,008
you've come at last.
1767
01:47:32,208 --> 01:47:33,808
I heard the Communists
threatened the Generalissimo.
1768
01:47:34,008 --> 01:47:34,908
I was consumed with worry.
1769
01:47:35,308 --> 01:47:36,508
Four hundred li in four days.
1770
01:47:38,208 --> 01:47:39,808
Seeing the
Generalissimo unharmed,
1771
01:47:40,608 --> 01:47:42,308
I can finally rest easy.
1772
01:47:43,808 --> 01:47:46,008
You've gone to great
trouble. Great trouble indeed.
1773
01:47:47,608 --> 01:47:47,908
Quickly...
1774
01:47:48,808 --> 01:47:50,174
reward Commander Sun with
thirty thousand silver dollars.
1775
01:47:50,208 --> 01:47:52,208
Also telegraph rewards
for each regiment...
1776
01:47:52,708 --> 01:47:53,808
two hundred jin of pork,
1777
01:47:54,108 --> 01:47:55,208
sixty silver dollars in cash,
1778
01:47:55,808 --> 01:47:56,908
one hundred dollars in notes.
1779
01:47:58,608 --> 01:47:59,908
Saving the sovereign pays well.
1780
01:48:00,308 --> 01:48:01,708
Sun Du has struck it rich.
1781
01:48:02,008 --> 01:48:03,608
Comrade Bocheng,
you miss the point.
1782
01:48:03,908 --> 01:48:05,574
This iron turtle
guarding the western pass
1783
01:48:05,608 --> 01:48:07,208
has finally crawled
out of its shell.
1784
01:48:07,408 --> 01:48:08,508
Naturally, the
Generalissimo must pay us
1785
01:48:09,008 --> 01:48:10,708
a little errand fee.
1786
01:48:10,908 --> 01:48:12,208
A little errand fee.
1787
01:48:14,208 --> 01:48:16,108
A pity our forces are too few.
1788
01:48:16,408 --> 01:48:17,808
We could only give the
Generalissimo a fright.
1789
01:48:20,208 --> 01:48:21,608
But he will never guess
1790
01:48:22,408 --> 01:48:23,608
what we truly intend.
1791
01:48:24,008 --> 01:48:24,808
Bypass Guiyang,
1792
01:48:25,108 --> 01:48:26,008
feint eastward.
1793
01:48:26,508 --> 01:48:28,374
Leave a detachment
north of the Wu River
1794
01:48:28,408 --> 01:48:29,808
as a decoy to pin the enemy.
1795
01:48:30,008 --> 01:48:32,008
Once Chiang's main force
swings east to chase us,
1796
01:48:32,208 --> 01:48:33,208
we turn immediately
1797
01:48:33,608 --> 01:48:35,408
and race toward Yunnan,
straight for Kunming.
1798
01:48:35,808 --> 01:48:37,908
As long as we break out of the
four-hundred-thousand-strong encirclement,
1799
01:48:38,308 --> 01:48:39,208
that is victory.
1800
01:48:39,308 --> 01:48:39,808
Move out.
1801
01:48:46,808 --> 01:48:47,208
Comrades,
1802
01:48:47,808 --> 01:48:48,908
these are orders from above.
1803
01:48:49,508 --> 01:48:50,808
We are to draw the enemy
1804
01:48:51,108 --> 01:48:52,408
and cover our main force
1805
01:48:52,808 --> 01:48:53,808
as it withdraws safely.
1806
01:48:54,008 --> 01:48:55,208
These two days of forced marches
1807
01:48:55,708 --> 01:48:57,208
have worn the enemy down.
1808
01:48:57,808 --> 01:48:58,708
You've done well.
1809
01:48:59,708 --> 01:49:02,008
But we cannot stop.
1810
01:49:02,308 --> 01:49:03,208
After a brief rest,
1811
01:49:04,108 --> 01:49:05,208
we march on.
1812
01:49:06,008 --> 01:49:06,208
And
1813
01:49:06,708 --> 01:49:09,008
every minute we hold
the enemy, the main force
1814
01:49:09,408 --> 01:49:10,708
is safe for one more minute.
1815
01:49:10,908 --> 01:49:12,708
And I have good
news for you all...
1816
01:49:13,008 --> 01:49:13,508
the main force
1817
01:49:13,808 --> 01:49:16,008
has left the enemy far behind.
1818
01:49:16,208 --> 01:49:18,608
And for that, we
deserve full credit.
1819
01:49:18,808 --> 01:49:20,108
Good.
1820
01:49:21,808 --> 01:49:23,008
Chairman Mao said before
1821
01:49:23,308 --> 01:49:24,408
the White Dogs couldn't trap us.
1822
01:49:24,708 --> 01:49:25,608
I didn't believe it then.
1823
01:49:26,408 --> 01:49:27,608
Who would have thought,
after all that circling,
1824
01:49:28,208 --> 01:49:29,608
we actually shook them off.
1825
01:49:30,208 --> 01:49:31,508
You still have much to learn.
1826
01:49:32,408 --> 01:49:33,208
All talk, no practice.
1827
01:49:33,808 --> 01:49:35,208
These past days it's
been nothing but walking.
1828
01:49:35,408 --> 01:49:35,908
Old Zhao,
1829
01:49:36,308 --> 01:49:37,408
how many characters
do you owe me?
1830
01:49:39,008 --> 01:49:40,008
Prepare to move out.
1831
01:49:40,208 --> 01:49:40,708
Yes, sir.
1832
01:50:02,808 --> 01:50:03,208
Old Zhao,
1833
01:50:04,808 --> 01:50:06,408
temper that foul
temper of yours.
1834
01:50:07,308 --> 01:50:08,708
See the view from
the summit for me.
1835
01:50:25,608 --> 01:50:26,408
Chairman Long,
1836
01:50:26,708 --> 01:50:28,408
the Communists are
now near Kunming.
1837
01:50:29,008 --> 01:50:30,608
You must block their path.
1838
01:50:30,808 --> 01:50:33,208
Generalissimo, my
elite main forces
1839
01:50:33,308 --> 01:50:34,308
are all with Sun Du.
1840
01:50:34,708 --> 01:50:35,974
They've all gone to protect you.
1841
01:50:36,008 --> 01:50:37,508
I don't care what
method you use...
1842
01:50:38,208 --> 01:50:39,008
hold them back.
1843
01:50:39,608 --> 01:50:40,608
Hold them at all costs.
1844
01:50:55,508 --> 01:50:56,408
The fog is too thick.
1845
01:50:56,908 --> 01:50:58,408
Yunnan's terrain is
the most treacherous.
1846
01:50:59,708 --> 01:51:00,808
We don't even have a map.
1847
01:51:00,908 --> 01:51:02,008
Rushing into the
mountains like this...
1848
01:51:02,208 --> 01:51:03,308
it's like a blind
man on a blind horse.
1849
01:51:03,408 --> 01:51:04,708
We can't keep going in circles.
1850
01:51:04,808 --> 01:51:06,808
We barely won a chance
to catch our breath,
1851
01:51:07,008 --> 01:51:08,108
and we're squandering it.
1852
01:51:22,608 --> 01:51:22,908
Report, sir.
1853
01:51:23,408 --> 01:51:24,308
We've captured a truck.
1854
01:51:24,408 --> 01:51:26,008
Inside are gifts from
Long Yun to Xue Yue.
1855
01:51:26,408 --> 01:51:29,208
Xuanwei ham, Pu'er tea,
and the finest Yunnan Baiyao.
1856
01:51:42,208 --> 01:51:44,208
We were just dozing off, and
someone delivered a pillow.
1857
01:51:45,608 --> 01:51:47,108
A military map, scale one
to one hundred thousand.
1858
01:51:47,808 --> 01:51:48,508
This is a treasure.
1859
01:51:48,608 --> 01:51:49,608
When Liu Bei entered Sichuan,
1860
01:51:49,908 --> 01:51:50,608
Zhang Song presented him a map.
1861
01:51:51,108 --> 01:51:51,408
Diao Zhishang...
1862
01:51:51,508 --> 01:51:53,008
Now we pass through
Yunnan into Sichuan,
1863
01:51:53,208 --> 01:51:54,308
and Long Yun presents us a map.
1864
01:51:54,608 --> 01:51:55,608
A good omen.
1865
01:51:56,308 --> 01:51:56,908
Chairman,
1866
01:51:57,208 --> 01:51:58,208
this Art of War...
1867
01:51:58,308 --> 01:51:59,508
I don't know if you're
well versed in it,
1868
01:51:59,708 --> 01:52:00,908
but this Romance of
the Three Kingdoms...
1869
01:52:01,008 --> 01:52:02,808
you must know it by heart.
1870
01:52:03,208 --> 01:52:05,174
Order Long Yun and Liu
Wenhui to burn every boat.
1871
01:52:05,208 --> 01:52:06,208
Cut off the Communists'
river crossing.
1872
01:52:06,408 --> 01:52:07,108
Burn them all.
1873
01:52:07,408 --> 01:52:08,108
Report, Commander.
1874
01:52:08,208 --> 01:52:09,108
They've all been burned.
1875
01:52:09,408 --> 01:52:10,008
Not one left.
1876
01:52:10,608 --> 01:52:11,008
Come here.
1877
01:52:12,008 --> 01:52:13,974
Brother, I've got
some scarce opium here.
1878
01:52:14,008 --> 01:52:16,608
If you can help me
get it across the river,
1879
01:52:16,908 --> 01:52:18,408
you'll be well rewarded.
1880
01:52:20,608 --> 01:52:22,308
Commander, no problem
at all. Come, come.
1881
01:52:22,608 --> 01:52:23,808
This way, this way.
1882
01:52:27,508 --> 01:52:28,008
You see?
1883
01:52:33,108 --> 01:52:33,908
Don't move.
1884
01:52:36,608 --> 01:52:37,808
You...
1885
01:52:54,208 --> 01:52:54,808
Bocheng.
1886
01:52:56,208 --> 01:52:57,608
The people of Sichuan
call you a dragon.
1887
01:52:58,408 --> 01:52:59,474
Without you, the Dragon King,
1888
01:52:59,508 --> 01:53:01,808
borrowing these seven
boats, this Jinsha River...
1889
01:53:02,208 --> 01:53:03,108
would truly be
impossible to cross.
1890
01:53:04,108 --> 01:53:05,308
What dragon am I?
1891
01:53:05,608 --> 01:53:07,008
These boatmen are
the real dragons.
1892
01:53:08,308 --> 01:53:09,808
Wherever the Red Army goes,
1893
01:53:10,208 --> 01:53:12,108
we rely on the
support of the people.
1894
01:53:13,708 --> 01:53:14,608
Commander Zhu,
1895
01:53:15,108 --> 01:53:17,008
we've shaken off
the pursuers for now.
1896
01:53:17,208 --> 01:53:18,308
Why do you still
look so troubled?
1897
01:53:19,608 --> 01:53:20,108
Do I?
1898
01:53:23,408 --> 01:53:24,908
I've been frowning so long
1899
01:53:25,408 --> 01:53:26,608
I've forgotten how to relax.
1900
01:53:28,808 --> 01:53:30,408
Thirty thousand against
four hundred thousand.
1901
01:53:31,408 --> 01:53:32,308
And yet this battle...
1902
01:53:35,808 --> 01:53:37,208
Our soldiers lack
food and clothing.
1903
01:53:40,208 --> 01:53:41,508
Our soldiers have no supplies.
1904
01:53:42,608 --> 01:53:44,708
Right in the middle of battle,
1905
01:53:45,308 --> 01:53:46,808
their stomachs still
growl with hunger.
1906
01:53:50,308 --> 01:53:51,008
Come, come.
1907
01:53:51,308 --> 01:53:53,608
To our health.
1908
01:53:53,808 --> 01:53:55,208
Not only are our bellies empty,
1909
01:53:55,708 --> 01:53:57,008
our hands have
no weapons either.
1910
01:53:59,208 --> 01:54:00,508
What are weapons for?
1911
01:54:02,408 --> 01:54:04,008
They're for
protecting ourselves.
1912
01:54:04,108 --> 01:54:05,008
To buy weapons...
1913
01:54:05,308 --> 01:54:06,208
that takes money.
1914
01:54:06,408 --> 01:54:07,508
Do we have any?
1915
01:54:11,908 --> 01:54:13,708
These are gifts from the
Generalissimo to you both.
1916
01:54:15,808 --> 01:54:17,108
He requests your
presence in Hankou.
1917
01:54:18,208 --> 01:54:19,108
Guizhou...
1918
01:54:19,908 --> 01:54:21,008
think no more of it.
1919
01:54:23,408 --> 01:54:26,508
The one thing we
never lack is enemies.
1920
01:54:27,408 --> 01:54:28,608
An enemy at the
height of its power,
1921
01:54:29,508 --> 01:54:30,508
a formidable enemy.
1922
01:54:31,008 --> 01:54:31,708
Wire Xue Yue:
1923
01:54:31,808 --> 01:54:33,408
march through the night.
Continue the pursuit.
1924
01:54:34,208 --> 01:54:36,408
Order Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui
to hold their lines at all costs.
1925
01:54:41,208 --> 01:54:43,008
I want Mao Zedong to meet
the same fate as Shi Dakai...
1926
01:54:43,808 --> 01:54:44,608
at the Dadu River,
1927
01:54:45,208 --> 01:54:46,608
total annihilation.
1928
01:54:49,408 --> 01:54:50,808
They've been relentless
in their pursuit,
1929
01:54:51,608 --> 01:54:53,208
determined to wipe
us out entirely.
1930
01:54:54,308 --> 01:54:55,208
Now the road is wide open.
1931
01:54:55,408 --> 01:54:56,074
Each goes his own way.
1932
01:54:57,208 --> 01:54:58,108
Generalissimo Chiang,
1933
01:54:59,108 --> 01:55:00,608
there's no need to see us off.
1934
01:55:05,808 --> 01:55:06,174
Enlai.
1935
01:55:07,008 --> 01:55:07,608
What are you thinking?
1936
01:55:09,808 --> 01:55:10,608
I was thinking...
1937
01:55:11,308 --> 01:55:13,008
we've crossed so
many rivers together.
1938
01:55:14,008 --> 01:55:16,408
We've shaken off Chiang Kai-shek's
four hundred thousand troops.
1939
01:55:18,708 --> 01:55:19,208
And then?
1940
01:55:24,408 --> 01:55:25,608
We crossed the Xiang River.
1941
01:55:26,908 --> 01:55:28,108
We crossed the Chishui River.
1942
01:55:29,208 --> 01:55:31,508
Now we cross the Jinsha River.
1943
01:55:33,208 --> 01:55:34,108
One day,
1944
01:55:35,408 --> 01:55:36,808
we will cross the Yellow River,
1945
01:55:37,808 --> 01:55:38,608
cross the Yangtze,
1946
01:55:40,308 --> 01:55:42,308
even scale the highest
mountains and cross the seas.
1947
01:55:44,208 --> 01:55:45,108
When that day comes,
1948
01:55:46,708 --> 01:55:47,808
all of China...
1949
01:55:50,008 --> 01:55:51,408
will be a new world.
1950
01:55:53,308 --> 01:55:53,908
Let's go.
1951
01:55:57,808 --> 01:56:00,408
The Four Crossings of Chishui
lasted over three months.
1952
01:56:00,608 --> 01:56:03,108
The Central Red Army broke free of
the enemy's encirclement and pursuit.
1953
01:56:03,408 --> 01:56:05,508
It shattered the enemy's plan
of encirclement and annihilation.
1954
01:56:06,108 --> 01:56:07,608
At the most critical
juncture of the Long March,
1955
01:56:08,108 --> 01:56:09,974
the Red Army turned from
passivity to initiative,
1956
01:56:10,008 --> 01:56:12,074
from defeat to victory.
1957
01:56:12,108 --> 01:56:14,708
It laid a solid foundation
for the northward march
1958
01:56:14,908 --> 01:56:16,608
to resist Japan
and save the nation.
1959
01:56:18,508 --> 01:56:21,308
Mao Zedong once said the
Four Crossings of Chishui
1960
01:56:21,608 --> 01:56:25,108
was the finest stroke of
his entire military career.
1961
01:56:45,408 --> 01:56:47,208
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