Surprise Attack - Tunnel Warfare
Surprise Attack – Tunnel Warfare (Chinese: 奇袭·地道战) is a 2020 film released online in China about a fictional story based upon the actual history of tunnel warfare that was used by Chinese partisans against Japanese occupational soldiers in World War 2. Japanese forces are doing sweeps of the North China Plain during World War II. A young student from Beiping named Ye Cheng comes to a village to help the communist partisans fighting against the Japanese. Using his knowledge, he helps perfect and improve their tunnel systems which they are using to hide from and ambush the Japanese when they come to the village. They fight several battles with the Japanese, and in the final battle, they succeed in destroying a tower the enemy was using. Plot Japanese forces are doing sweeps of the North China Plain during World War II. Some villagers use tunnels to hide themselves and ambush the Japanese soldiers. Nagano(Changye in Chinese) is the Japanese commander who is leading his soldiers to do these sweeps. A young student who studied in Beiping named Ye Cheng comes home to his village with the intention of becoming a teacher. He rides on a cart with his father, Ye Fugui, and a few others in the countryside. They then spot a group of Chinese villagers fleeing from pursuing Japanese soldiers. One of the villagers is holding a package. Ye Cheng decides to help them . The Chinese villagers arrive back at the village. One of them Sun Xiaorong, is the sister of one of the partisan leaders in the village Sun Dachun. She brings the package containing medical supplies to the communist party commissar Ma Fu, who directs her to use them for the wounded. Her brother Sun Dachun arrives and is upset that he did not know about her mission where she put herself in danger. Ye Cheng and his father then arrive and meets Sun Dachen, who he knew as a child. Ye Cheng meets the commissar and announces his intention to become a teacher in the village. The commissar tells him that the previous teacher was killed by the Japanese three years prior and that the war has made it impossible to have classes. The commissar says that the partisans need intellectuals like him. Sun Dachun objects and does not want Ye Cheng to join the partisans. Ye Cheng tells Sun Dachun that he did not say that he wanted to join. He later meets Sun Xiaorong, who he recognized as being the villager he helped, but did not realize it was her, who he knew as a child. She tells him that she has studied to be a nurse and was helping the partisans. At the Japanese camp, a new commander named Nakamura (Zhongcun in Chinese) arrives to help with the special warfare in engaging the villagers who are using tunnel warfare to fight the Japanese. Ye Cheng takes over the eastern tunnels and gets the partisans to remake the tunnels according to his own