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Siege warfare.
The Huns attacked the city.
The Han army defended the city.
The disparity in the strength of the enemy and our forces was astonishing: the Xiongnu had tens of thousands of men, while the Han army had hundreds of men.
At this time, the narrator explained the background: In 75 AD, Emperor Zhang of Han withdrew the Han army from the Western Regions, leaving only Geng Gong and Guan Chong, each leading hundreds of people to garrison Jinpu City and Liuzhong City.
After the main force of the Han army retreated, the Xiongnu Chanyu, unwilling to accept defeat, gathered tens of thousands of troops to seize the Western Regions.
Faced with tens of thousands of enemy troops, Geng Gong decided to defend Jinpu City and the dignity of the Han warriors with the spirit of dying rather than living.
Thus, a siege that was destined to be difficult began.
In this war, King Wei did nothing else but burn money.
Burn money hard.
Chinese-language films have never spent money like this before. Wei Jun spent so much money that even Da Tiantian was a little scared.
But that's the magic of money.
You get what you pay for.
The ten-minute siege cost Wei Jun 50 million yuan and also created a milestone in Chinese-language war films.
This is 2012 after all.
The battles in the cold weapon era, the astonishing disparity in numbers between the enemy and us, and the Han army's will to fight to the death all shocked the audience.
Unlike the guns and hot weapons of the modern world, fighting with cold weapons has a kind of magic in it.
Geng Gong, played by Jackie Chan, used poison arrows and night attacks to defeat the Huns time and time again, killing and wounding the enemy and finally forcing the Huns to lift the siege.
The defense of the city was a great victory.
With only a few hundred people, they repelled tens of thousands of people.
This is a victory that will be recorded in history.
The fighting was too brutal, and the dense number of heads on the Huns' side brought tremendous pressure to the audience.
And when the Hun army was finally repelled, the audience at the premiere breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, he expressed his sincere admiration for the army led by Geng Gong.
This is also the biggest difference between "Thirteen Soldiers Return to the Cave" and "1942". In the movie "1942", there is no hope.
The movie "Thirteen Soldiers Return to the Cave" is equally tragic, but always full of hope.
After successfully defending the city and repelling the Hun army, Geng Gong and his men could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
But Geng Gong was not carried away by victory.
This victory was a pyrrhic one. Jinpu City was not suitable for holding on to. If the Huns reorganized their troops and came again, these hundreds of people might not be able to repel the enemy's second attack.
So Geng Gong decided to retreat to Shule City, which was more suitable for defense.
As Geng Gong expected, in July 75 AD, the Hun army returned and besieged Shule City.
The siege began again.
But even though the number of Huns was still a hundred times greater than that of the Han army, they still could not take the city after a long siege.
Wei Jun did not spend too much time on depicting this siege. After all, one cannot keep filming war scenes, otherwise the audience will get aesthetically fatigued.
In this part of the plot, the King of Wei gave the Xiongnu some time to perform.
Because they failed to capture Shule City after a long siege, the Huns cut off the city's water supply.
People may be able to survive for a period of time without eating.
But without water, people will die quickly.
The Huns' move was both vicious and effective. The water in the city was quickly consumed, and Geng Gong and his Han army were on the verge of life and death.
At the critical moment of life and death, Geng Gong personally led the Han army to dig a well.
After digging the well to a depth of 15 zhang, there was still not a drop of water, and many Han soldiers began to despair.
Even Geng Gong felt a little desperate at this time.
But Geng Gong was the commander-in-chief, and he could not show his despair.
Geng Gong straightened his clothes and knelt down, praying to God to bless the Han soldiers.
In fact, he didn't believe these things before.
But now, he began to pray if God really blessed him.
And the next moment, a miracle happened.
Perhaps the heavens were moved, but it was more likely because groundwater had to slowly gather before it could emerge. After Geng Gong prayed to the heavens, the well water gushed out.
The Han army shouted "Long live the emperor" as if they were helped by God.
When the news of this miracle spread outside the city, it scared the Huns half to death.
Compared with the Han army, the Xiongnu people who lived on the grasslands believed more in God's will.
Because they have to rely on the weather for their food.
Now it seemed that God was on the side of the Han army. The Huns no longer dared to attack Shule City and directly ordered their troops to retreat.
The Han army won the second battle to defend the city again.
The Xiongnu turned their guns around and attacked the Cheshi Kingdom.
Not all of them are big men.
A few hundred Han soldiers were able to defeat a Xiongnu army of tens of thousands, but the huge Cheshi Kingdom could not find a few hundred such warriors as the Han soldiers.
The Cheshi Kingdom surrendered immediately in its entirety, forming a sharp contrast to the Han army led by Geng Gong.
In September 75 AD, the Xiongnu army joined forces with the army of the Cheshi Kingdom, which had just been conquered, and once again marched to the city of Shule.
This time, the Xiongnu side was determined not to retreat until Shule was defeated.
Shule City was under unprecedented pressure.
But at the critical moment, the Queen of Cheshi Kingdom, played by Da Tiantian, descended like an angel.
For Geng Gong and others, the queen who could bring them food was indeed an angel.
The queen of the Cheshi Kingdom was a Han Chinese. It was because she had been secretly supporting Geng Gong with food and revealed the battle plan of the joint forces of the Xiongnu and the Cheshi Kingdom to Geng Gong that Geng Gong and his men were able to hold on to Shule City.
But the situation remains extremely dangerous.
After all, the queen was just the queen. She could not support Geng Gong indefinitely, and she also had to worry about being discovered by the king of Cheshi Kingdom and the Huns.
Geng Gong and his men gradually ran out of ammunition and food.
In the end, Geng Gong began to lead his soldiers to dig mice and catch insects to satisfy their hunger, and all the living things that could be eaten in Shule City disappeared.
Then Geng Gong and his men began to cook leather armor and bowstrings.
In fact, this plot also appears in "1942".
But the people in "1942" really couldn't survive.
The big Han warriors in "The Thirteen Soldiers Return to the Cave" refused to surrender to the enemy.
Same situation, different reasons.
Geng Gong and his men persisted for several months.
But if it's just like this, there will come a day when you can't hold on any longer.
They must have reinforcements to break through and have a chance of winning.
Shule City was isolated in the Western Regions, and the imperial court had not received any news from them.
Geng Gong finally sent his general Fan Qiang back to the Han Dynasty to seek reinforcements.
Wei Jun gave the role of Fan Qiang to Zhang Yi.
After all, in the eyes of outsiders, it was he who made Zhang Yi famous.
Of course, we have to take care of our own people.
Besides, Zhang Yi’s acting skills are also good enough.
After traveling thousands of miles to seek help, Fan Qiang finally brought news from the Western Regions back to the court.
The ruling and opposition parties were shocked.
A heated debate immediately broke out in the Eastern Han court.
At that time, Emperor Zhang of Han had just ascended the throne and had not yet established a firm foothold and sufficient prestige.
Some ministers used this as a reason to suggest not sending troops for the time being to avoid unpredictable consequences.
Naturally, there were also loyal ministers who volunteered and hoped that the court would send troops to rescue.
When the two sides were deadlocked, Situ Baoyu, played by Yu He and Wei, stepped forward to make the final decision: "Today, if you put people in a dangerous place and hastily abandon them, you will unleash the violence of the barbarians and hurt the ministers who are in trouble.
If we do not rescue them at this moment, and the Huns invade the border again, how will Your Majesty send your generals?
Bao Yu persuaded Emperor Zhang of Han.
Even if rescuing Geng Gong and his men this time would cost a heavier price and result in more casualties, the Han Dynasty must send troops.
Because Geng Gong and his men were fighting for the Han Dynasty.
They did not surrender, they did not betray the Han Dynasty, so the Han Dynasty could not abandon them.
This is the pride of the Han people and the dignity of a nation.
At this point in the plot, accompanied by the master-level soundtrack, the Han court sent 7,000 troops from Wuwei to rescue Geng Gong.
When the guests at the premiere saw the dense Han army on the screen, many of them felt a tingling sensation on their scalps.
At the same time, Shule City has reached its most difficult moment.
There were less than a hundred Han soldiers left. Moreover, winter had arrived and it was snowing, but the soldiers had no cotton clothes to keep warm.
But they still chose to continue fighting.
Until the dead.
These warriors shocked not only the audience but also the Huns.
The Xiongnu Chanyu valued talent and decided to recruit Geng Gong and others.
The Xiongnu Chanyu was played by Yu Rongguang. Wei Jun originally wanted to give this role to an actor from Hong Kong and Taiwan, but after taking the final makeup photos, Wei Jun found that Yu Rongguang was more suitable and simply gave it to him.
The Xiongnu Chanyu sent an envoy to Shule City and told Geng Gong that if he laid down his arms and surrendered to the Xiongnu, he would be crowned king and given a princess in marriage.
Even if Geng Gong won and returned to the Eastern Han court, he would not have received such treatment.
Geng Gong won the respect of the Huns through his actions, so the conditions they offered him were really sincere.
But faced with such generous conditions, Geng Gong was not moved at all.
On the top of the Shule City, Geng Gong called out the Xiongnu Chanyu, killed the Xiongnu envoy with his own hands in front of the Chanyu, ate his flesh and drank his blood to show that as a general of the Han Dynasty, he would never surrender to the Xiongnu.
Wei Jun filmed the entire scene.
Of course, eating meat definitely does not include eating human flesh.
It is impossible to drink human blood.
But the whole process was presented by Wei Jun on the big screen.
The scale is extremely large.
Fortunately, this is a movie invested by Da Tiantian, and the male lead is still Jackie Chan, otherwise this plot would probably be deleted.
Geng Gong's behavior is the origin of the saying "When hungry, I would eat the flesh of the barbarians; when thirsty, I would drink the blood of the Xiongnu."
This scene shocked all the guests present.
Although Jackie Chan's acting skills are not particularly good, he still managed to portray Geng Gong's heroic spirit.
Geng Gong’s perseverance finally brought him reinforcements.
The King of Wei had a good grasp of the rhythm. After Geng Gong rejected the recruitment of the Xiongnu Chanyu, he quickly switched the camera to show 7,000 Han soldiers descending from the sky to rescue Shule City and fight against the 20,000-strong army.
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