For many ordinary netizens, the slogan "Don't abandon, don't give up" from the military TV series "Soldiers Assault" seems to be more reflected in the battlefield, not abandoning any comrades and not giving up any wounded. In principle, this is of course correct and every soldier should abide by it. Just like the monk in "Bright Sword", he would rather die than give up Li Yunlong.
But at the same time, netizens who know more or less about the history of war also have other opinions. If you really don't give up any wounded people, three wounded people in a combat class means that this class has completely lost its combat effectiveness. If it is an interior operation that can transport the wounded, it is better to say that it is an exterior operation, or even an emergency moment when the troops break through. Continuing to adhere to this principle will undoubtedly bring greater sacrifices.
In the movie "The Great Turn-Fighting Southwest Shandong", two column commanders, Chen Zaidao and Chen Xilian, once said something similar: "Fighting in the base area, some people were injured and some were buried. In exterior-line operations, soldiers are generally not afraid of sacrifice, but of injury. Once they are injured, they will suffer and even bring trouble to their comrades. -"
Then the problem is coming. In wartime, the troops broke through and retreated. What about the wounded? The author found three classic movies, each of which has a different way to deal with the injured. I believe it can bring you the answer:
First, "Meridian of War"
This is a war film made by Feng in the early 1990s. The protagonist of the story is a group of children and several injured soldiers. After breaking through the tight encirclement, they are ready to complete a task of "going west along the Great Wall".
The keynote at the beginning of the film is that the wounded soldiers in the field hospital are trapped. In desperation, they met a group of children, and they also stayed in the breakout.
In this case, the wounded first thought of preparing glorious bombs, but the children resolutely chose to carry all the wounded across the blockade with the medical staff, and they suffered heavy losses in the process of crossing the line of fire.
In the process of transfer, some wounded people died, and some committed suicide in order not to implicate their comrades. By the end of the film, there are only two children left in this unit, a nurse and a wounded person.
Meridian of War shows the cruel side of war. If you choose not to abandon the wounded, other comrades-in-arms and medical staff will pay a great price.
Second, the battle of Taierzhuang
There is a scene of defending tengxian in the film. Wang, commander of Sichuan Army, insisted on fighting. A wounded soldier asked the commander after delivering grenades: help me, I don't want to be a prisoner. Wang reluctantly shot the wounded soldier in the chest.
This is the artistic representation of the film. In the history of defending tengxian, 300 wounded soldiers of Sichuan Army collectively committed suicide by throwing grenades at each other. They would rather die than be captured. If they fall into the hands of the Japanese army, their fate will only be worse.
Coincidentally, faced with a similar situation in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, there are still many such options.
At the critical moment of the anti-mopping-up in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, many seriously wounded people in the General Hospital of the Military Region were unwilling to drag down their comrades-in-arms or be prisoners. Some wounded people gathered together to sound grenades, and some secretly cut blood vessels with daggers. There is also a female instructor in a white school. Because she was weak after giving birth, she needed two people to help her break through. When she passed through longtan lake, she pushed the nurse who helped her to jump into the lake.
The most painful example in this regard is undoubtedly the experience of the Fifth Army of the Expeditionary Force in Myanmar. At that time, 1500 seriously injured people were transported by truck to the vicinity of Modu village, which is the end of this road. Savage mountain walked ahead, and the Japanese devils followed. The main force of the Fifth Army blew up all the cars, leaving five days' food and some medical staff for the wounded, and then entered savage mountain. Five days later, 1500 seriously injured people ended their lives by self-immolation. Although the details of this history are controversial, there is no doubt that the outcome of these injured people is doomed to be tragic. In addition to his own death, entering savage mountain will bring trouble to his comrades. If they don't leave, they will fall into the hands of the Japanese, so they took such drastic measures.
Third, "Meiling Spark"
This is a film about the fighting course of southern guerrillas after the Long March, which was shot in the 1980s. The protagonist is Chen Yi, and the protagonist is Xitian Liu.
At the beginning of the film, Chen Yi, who stayed in the base area and didn't take part in the Long March, first faced the problem of a large number of wounded people. These wounded people stayed in the base area after the Red Army's Long March and faced a grim situation. Rola Chen's three speeches in the film are very representative.
The first speech is to face all the wounded. He said that the army has no strength to take you away, so it can only arrange for you to live in your hometown to recuperate. After recovery, you can farm or go up the mountain to fight guerrilla warfare, and the troops will pick you up when the situation improves.
The second speech was directed at fellow villagers. He said, for the sake of the revolution, you can take them home, be sons or sons-in-law, and when they are healed, they are also laborers, and there will be an avenger in the future.
The villagers came to the Red Army Hospital to take the wounded home. Chen Yi finally explained to the wounded and villagers: Anything can happen in the future. Once you meet the enemy, you (the wounded) should be a hero. If you want to sacrifice yourself, don't ramble and implicate the villagers.
These three speeches can be described as comprehensive.
When the wounded can't break through and retreat with them, it is the best way to put them in other people's homes. The same is true on the Long March. Kong Xianquan, the operational staff of the 3rd Army 12 Regiment, was seriously injured in the Battle of Loushanguan. Before the army set out, he was placed in the home of a local rich man named Song, leaving 300 yuan of ocean and medicine, and a doctor and a correspondent were arranged to take care of Kong Xianquan.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Kong Xianquan was very injured and wanted to be a soldier. The rich man in Song Dynasty was worried that the Red Army would not let him go when he came back, so Kong Xianquan stayed in the local area and became a mason. After liberation, he wrote to his comrades-in-arms and superiors Huang Kecheng and Yong Yang, and his comrades-in-arms knew that he was still alive. Later, Kong Xianquan became the first curator of Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall.
To sum up, combined with the above-mentioned three films and related historical materials, we can know that the army will never give up the wounded as long as it is not in a very urgent situation. But if it is a critical moment, the troops can't take the wounded away, so they can only find another way. Where there is a mass base, the wounded can be evacuated. In the desperate situation surrounded by the enemy, the outcome of the wounded is mostly tragic. This is the cruelty of war.