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* CombatPragmatist: TruthInTelevision, the Japanese troops fake defeat and being dead to perform sudden surprise attacks, continuously yell propaganda through a loudspeaker at the Chinese troops to demoralize them and inflict psychological damage, conduct marine and night raids, use snipers to pick off any soldier or civilian who dares to walk out into the open, used chemical weapons, gun down civilians, and use overwhelmingly powerful weapons of war such as fighter planes, tanks, and excavators against a ragtag group of Chinese defenders. Downplayed in the sense that the Chinese respond in turn, looting Japanese equipment from their dead, creating new pigeon holes to shoot from by breaking down their own building, performing their own suicide attacks, using flamethrowers and propane canisters as improvised explosives, and performing a night raid of their own to even the playing field.
* DavidVersusGoliath: The featured characters of the film are a crew of deserters and surviving KMT soldiers who had either been separated or avoided the slaughter of their main units, conscripted into a bruised but still combat capable German trained 88th division of the Nationalist army, who are the only major pocket of resistance in urban Shanghai during the Second World War. Their opponents are several divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army, who have access to greater troop numbers, better weapons, more experienced snipers and officers, calvary units, modern tanks, infamous A-5M figher planes, Navy artillery support, and higher morale and discipline. It was all but stated that the only reason the small ragtag group of Chinese resistance does not capitulate within the first two days is due to Japanese high command wanting to avoid any collateral damage that could be dealt to the neutral international districts adjacent to the warehouse that the KMT had holed up in, and none of the Chinese officers are foolish enough to believe that they are capable of winning the battle. The major debate of the movie instead is centered around whether the Chinese troops should stay to perform a glorious LastStand or flee to fight another day.
* DavidVersusGoliath: The featured characters of the film are a crew of deserters and surviving KMT soldiers who had either been separated or avoided the slaughter of their main units, conscripted into a bruised but still combat capable German trained 88th division of the Nationalist army, who are the only major pocket of resistance in urban Shanghai during the Second World War. Their opponents are several divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army, who have access to greater troop numbers, better weapons, more experienced snipers and officers, calvary units, modern tanks, infamous A-5M figher planes, Navy artillery support, and higher morale and discipline. It was all but stated that the only reason the small ragtag group of Chinese resistance does not capitulate within the first two days is due to Japanese high command wanting to avoid any collateral damage that could be dealt to the neutral international districts adjacent to the warehouse that the KMT had holed up in, and none of the Chinese officers are foolish enough to believe that they are capable of winning the battle. The major debate of the movie instead is centered around whether the Chinese troops should stay to perform a glorious LastStand or flee to fight another day.
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* CombatPragmatist: TruthInTelevision, the Japanese troops fake defeat and being dead to perform sudden surprise attacks, continuously yell propaganda through a loudspeaker day and night at the Chinese troops to demoralize them and inflict psychological damage, conduct marine and night raids, use have snipers to pick off any soldier or civilian who dares to walk out into the open, used deploy chemical weapons, gun down civilians, weapons like mustard gas, and use overwhelmingly powerful weapons of war such as fighter planes, tanks, and excavators against a ragtag group of Chinese defenders. Downplayed in the sense that the Chinese respond in turn, looting Japanese equipment from their dead, creating new pigeon holes to shoot from by breaking down their own building, performing their own suicide attacks, using flamethrowers and propane canisters as improvised explosives, and performing a night raid of their own to even the playing field.
* DavidVersusGoliath: The featured characters of the film are a crew of deserters and surviving KMT soldiers who had either been separated or avoided the slaughter of their main units, conscripted into a bruised but still combat capable German trained 88th division of the Nationalist army, who are the only major pocket of resistance in urban Shanghai during the Second World War. Their opponents are several divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army, who have access to greater troop numbers, better weapons, more experienced snipers and officers, calvary units, modern tanks, infamous A-5Mfigher fighter planes, Navy artillery support, and higher morale and discipline. It was all but stated that the only reason the small ragtag group of Chinese resistance does not capitulate within the first two days is due to Japanese high command wanting to avoid any collateral damage that could be dealt to the neutral international districts adjacent to the warehouse that the KMT had holed up in, and none of the Chinese officers are foolish enough to believe that they are capable of winning the battle. The major debate of the movie instead is centered around whether the Chinese troops should stay to perform a glorious LastStand or flee to fight another day.
* DavidVersusGoliath: The featured characters of the film are a crew of deserters and surviving KMT soldiers who had either been separated or avoided the slaughter of their main units, conscripted into a bruised but still combat capable German trained 88th division of the Nationalist army, who are the only major pocket of resistance in urban Shanghai during the Second World War. Their opponents are several divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army, who have access to greater troop numbers, better weapons, more experienced snipers and officers, calvary units, modern tanks, infamous A-5M
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: A soldier in the midst of battle is seen tearfully looking at one before getting shot in the chest by a random stray bullet.
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: A soldier in the midst of battle is seen tearfully looking at one before getting shot in the chest by a [[MurphysBullet random stray bullet.bullet]].
