You got all the men to come to Dongbei.
We're left with less than half the men.
Now you're going to flee on your own?
You'd better think of 10,000 ways to die.
You should stop hanging out with those troublemakers.
Women don't get involved in politics.
Did you report him?
I'm taking over the team.
Do it!
Are you one of the communists?
Are you from the Communist Party?
BASED ON PAI HSIEN-YUNG'S WORK A GREAT LITERARY FIGURE OF TAIWAN
I'm a communist.
Those days of living and dying together
with the 11th Wing are gone.
I, Zhi-jian Shao, am a communist!
Sir.
I can't do it anymore.
You and Zhen went to prison before.
It's my turn now.
Don't send me to the Garrison Command Center.
Just bring me to the Air Force Command Center.
Let's go.
The Air Force Command Center no longer exists.
The center
was disbanded.
My promotion to colonel
was the last command they issued
before the disbandment.
Zhi-jian.
The war is almost over.
The war will be over soon.
We're sending him back to Nanjing tomorrow.
Someone from your squadron has to send him to the docks.
You're so cute.
He's dead.
He complained about the heat last night. So, I fed him some ice.
He never woke up this morning.
He's breathed his last.
Doctor.
My goodness. His skin has turned yellow.
I told you to take care of the wound after the operation.
Otherwise, he'll develop septicemia.
Carry him away.
Where to?
To the crematorium.
No way!
His legs were crippled.
He couldn't even be in the Army.
Even if he became a ghost, he could still walk home.
What an incompetent doctor.
Tell all the nurses to accompany him.
Put an aviator jacket on him.
He should look like a proper Air Force pilot. Quickly!
Do as he says.
Sir.
We've been in Dongbei for so long.
The sun hasn't yet come out.
I feel that one of us three
won't make it home.
Let's take a photo together
while we're still alive.
I saw Qing.
It felt so real.
HAPPINESS
Isn't that Zhao-jun?
He's from the recon team.
He has a camera.
Fortunately, I spared his worthless life.
I suddenly remember that my high school teacher taught me a saying
that it's better to go back home together
when you're young.
One more.
Dongbei's winter is like that.
As far as the eye can see
the land is covered with snow.
It looks great.
The recon team sent
the aerial photo of the battle situation at the headquarters.
I didn't expect this.
I came all the way to give you this.
Next time when I knock on your door,
please don't act like you're playing mahjong and don't hear me.
Qian-yi.
Your glass is really tough.
Serves you right.
Who would open the door if you only bring bad news?
You barged in despite us not opening the door.
You need to pay for the glass.
What are you talking about? This photo is a good news, isn't it?
You said
-that Zhen was promoted to a war officer. -Yes.
Wei-cheng should've just retired.
Now, he's a lieutenant colonel.
Congratulations.
Only Zhi-jian wasn't promoted.
It's best if he wasn't promoted.
It's better if he was demoted to lieutenant.
He was originally a major.
It's safer if he wasn't promoted.
Why does Zhen have an individual photo?
A solo photo isn't necessarily good.
"I promised to take you to the horizon.
But I came here first.
You can join me later when the war ends.
I received the will you sent.
I won't write it.
The rookie was killed in action.
But I won't be."
As I said you don't bring good news.
Go back!
Hey.
I'm here to save all of you.
All of you were guarantors
for the dead rookie's wife, Bao-ru Deng, to stay in this village.
Hurry and write your names.
Are you chasing her out?
Her husband was killed in action.
No, I'm not chasing her out.
If he was killed in action, where's the telegram?
Here.
It was also sent by Zhen.
It's written there.
Bao-ru must hurry to Dongbei to meet her husband for the last time.
They are about to cremate his body.
Don't let her know.
The office wants her to stay in this village as usual
and wait for her husband to come back.
The garrison captured a group of students.
And they found a telegram.
It's written that someone's bringing the lady
to meet her husband in Dongbei.
My superiors suspect
that the recent cases of the deserting airplanes could be because of this.
Their primary targets are the women.
After the women are brought to a safe place,
the men will fly the aircraft
to reunite with their wives.
My superior wants to use Bao-ru as bait.
We'll track down the suspect
and eliminate the spies in the office.
After that, the war will be over.
You're in my village.
No one is allowed to take away the wives.
We're neither taking nor arresting her.
We'll only be using her.
She's just married and you're not that close to her.
Her husband is dead.
Yet, you want us to trick her
and use her as bait.
Are we still human?
You women aren't human.
You're the wives of the Air Force.
The office needs my answer.
Don't make more trouble.
Anyway,
just mind your own business.
Qian-yi.
I'll send someone to repair the glass.
Extra!
Special edition of Nanjing Daily!
Protest against MPSSC for silencing us!
Extra!
Hold it!
Go!
Queue properly!
Watch what you say.
Qing.
My husband has deserted.
Will the squadron leader and lieutenant colonel be punished?
No.
They went to prison before.
They are used to it.
What was his condition before he deserted?
Was he injured?
He wasn't.
Zhen even wrote me a letter to scold him.
He said, before your husband deserted, he ate a big piece of bread
and drank a big bottle of milk.
Your husband ate his share too.
Once the sun came out, he disappeared.
Qing.
You gave her your dependent certificate. What are you going to do?
You've lost your identity.
I don't want to be an Air Force dependent anyway.
It's too late now.
Stop saying that.
Vehicles are not allowed to pass.
The name has been altered.
The photo doesn't have the Air Force stamp.
She's still new to the village.
She has been holding it since she obtained it today.
I think that's why the name got rubbed off.
I was like that when I came in.
We're from the same village.
Where's she going?
They just got married, but her husband went to war.
So she wants to go to Dongbei to see him.
Dongbei?
Contact the Air Force General Headquarters.
Yes!
Sir. Her husband was killed in action.
She's going there to collect his ashes.
Death Notice
Go.
I didn't tell you at first
because I was afraid you might kill yourself.
Your husband is in the hospital now.
He's waiting for you to see him.
He hasn't been cremated.
Hurry and find him.
Don't look back, go!
Let's go!
Look carefully.
Is she the one who talked to the new wife?
No.
I'm warning you. This is your last chance.
The office is desperate to catch the spies.
If they can't, they'll catch you.
-Hello, this is New Society Club. -I'm talking to you.
-Yes. -Do you understand?
Chief, the call is for you.
Hello.
Chief, don't go hard on her.
I agreed to let Bao-ru leave.
I was involved as well.
You Air Force wives are insane.
I'll ask you again.
Is she the one who met with Bao-ru here?
-What are you doing? -It's her. Take her away.
Go!
-Chief. -Yes?
We need to go to the village and inquire exactly how Bao-ru escaped.
I won't let you touch the wives.
You're a war chief. You have control over military matters.
We need to answer...
Go back and tell your chief
that this village is part of the war.
It's under my control.
Chief, but I...
On the day the regime changes, do you want to get on a transport aircraft?
Then, let go of them.
I will give you each a ticket to evacuate.
What do you think?
Do you want it or not?
Sit down.
If I knew this was going to happen,
I shouldn't have stamped your marriage request with Zhen.
Your dad was problematic.
Now, you helped a suspect escape.
You even gave away your dependent certificate.
The office is keeping tabs on you now.
If I could start over, I too wouldn't want you to stamp it.
The day I received my dependent certificate
was the day I regretted it.
The Air Force Command Center
has retreated from Dongbei.
This war
is almost over.
Go back to the village and clean up.
Don't let them see how bad things are when they come back.
Have they lost the war?
Could you all be normal?
Finally, they are coming home.
Let's go across the street.
Who told you to send them?
The owner of the paper money shop said somebody paid him to have these sent here.
Who paid him?
Qing!
Who paid for them?
Hello.
Your husbands killed civilians. They are war criminals.
At New Society Club, you...
The woman you all accused at New Society Club is my fiancée.
She was shot.
You're women too yet you killed her.
Judgement day is coming soon!
Judgement day will be the day when my husband returns.
Our field doesn't accept females as apprentices.
So, please don't let this lady come here.
Sir, I'm really sorry.
It's really quiet here. Nobody comes here.
They won't be able to disturb us here.
Lady Qin.
Gong disconnected the phone line.
Nobody will call again.
I'll fold a few more.
We can put one at Wei-xun's house, my house
and your house.
They won't come and disturb us anymore.
It's well made, Lady Qin.
Let's bring it back as a toy for Mo-ting.
Come, let's go home.
-Wei-xun. -Yes?
Did you tell Gong to hang the umbrellas?
Before they left,
the umbrellas were hung outside.
It should be the same when they come back.
Just to let them know nothing has changed.
Gong will do it tomorrow.
Madam Zhou, it's late.
Let's play tomorrow.
It's not late.
Just like how it used to be, we'll play until dawn.
When the phone rings,
they'll return.
Lady Qin, you should sleep first.
When they are back,
I'll inform you.
JIANG'S RESIDENCE
If I don't lock her door, she'll go to the paper money shop.
If they don't come back,
we'll become like her too.
Let's rest.
"Staying here healing my wounds
longing for the one
everlastingly fated for me."
My sentence sounds better.
Yours is about having a dream.
Mine is about making a dream come true.
In the end, I'm the one who met Qing.
I returned Qing to you and then, I took her back.
You don't deserve her.
I can't believe I should be grateful to the Communist Party.
I know, right?
If we didn't lose the war and retreat to Xian,
I won't be in such a good mood
and let you live.
I'll escape once I reach Xian airport tomorrow.
I'll return to Nanjing.
I'll run as far as possible with Qing.
We'll live anonymously.
If the regime changes,
the 11th Wing will be labeled as war criminals.
Where can you hide?
As long as I can be with Qing,
there's always a way out.
She's good at finding the way out.
After all, she found me with just a single note.
She'll lead the way.
We'll escape to the horizon.
And you...
You'd better hide far away.
Don't let me see you again.
If you remind me of the things I did here,
I'll kill you for sure.
Remember that.
Are you going to have children?
Zhen.
You and Zhi-jian
plan out the route for the bombing.
What do you mean?
Aren't we retreating tomorrow?
We can go home, right?
Home?
Not the 11th Wing.
We're responsible to cover the retreat of the Army.
Before we go home,
we need to blow up the roads.
It's not easy to be a killer.
The Communist Army has anti-aircraft guns.
They had it set up.
I noticed the guns when I took the aerial shot.
The guns are for all of you.
I guess I have to write my last words.
Go back.
I'll pass you the note tomorrow.
If I come back alive,
keep the note.
Just say that you wrote the note.
But if anything happens,
I'll write my last words on the back.
Pass it to Qing for me.
Is this a handover?
I'm not giving her to you. I'll go home.
I will go home!
You should be grateful to the Communist Party.
You should be because I spared your life.
Deliver the letter for me.
My last words are written on the back.
Don't get angry.
If I come back,
we'll be together
until the day we die.
I'm looking forward to it.
If I don't come back,
the things I want to say to you are written on the back of the letter.
At least, it'll give you some closure.
Bastards!
Abort mission. Zhen, fall back. Don't fight.
What?
Sir, we're supposed to cover their retreat.
We must go home together.
There are only a few of us left. We can't turn the tide.
You can report me when we go back to Nanjing.
But don't argue with me now.
Sir, what the hell are you talking about?
Are you sure you still remember the road back to Nanjing?
Of course, I remember.
After crossing the fields four times,
we'll see Jinling Girls' College of Arts and Sciences.
After that, we'll reach home.
-That's right. -Zhi-jian. Let's go home safely.
Heading 173 degrees, cruising altitude.
The 11th Wing, fall back.
Zhen, come up.
Everyone, go up!
I'm always your guinea pig.
I even wrote my last words and handed it to Zhao-jun.
I was contemplating the other day.
If I don't make it home this time
and I'm stuck in the cockpit...
Sir.
Then you must fly back and end my life.
Let me leave without pain.
Time goes by so fast here.
Home
is so far away.
Hey, girl.
Be my beacon.
Find the way for me.
Help the 11th Wing to find the way.
Liaoyang Airport is exactly below us.
It's our last chance.
The airport's a bit small.
If we refuel one by one, it'll be possible.
Roger.
Liaoyang Airport.
This is the 11th Wing. Do you copy?
Liaoyang Airport. Do you copy?
Affirmative, 158.
158.
The 11th Wing is low on fuel. Request for emergency landing.
Prepare the ground signal.
Roger, over!
Zhen.
We didn't do it right.
Sir, that's the signal for take-off.
Zhi-jian.
It's impossible that the Army guarding the airport doesn't know signals.
Hey, 158.
What are your latest combat commands? When were they changed?
Do you copy, 158?
It's not the National Army.
Zhen, come up.
Everyone, increase your altitude! Fall back!
Zhen.
Are you okay, Zhen? Do you copy?
Do you copy, Zhen?
I'm your guinea pig again.
I'm right below you.
Zhen, are you okay?
Do you still remember the coordinates for Nanjing village?
Crazy.
Why are you asking me when you don't even remember it?
If I'd known this woud happen,
I would've stayed in the hospital.
At least, the nurses are cute there.
They can inject IV for me.
I can just lie down there and let them do that.
Zhi-jian.
How's the terrain?
It was raining two days ago.
There's marshland below us.
and forest up ahead.
We can't land
or eject.
If we land, we'll crash.
If we eject, we'll die on the sharp tree branches.
Sir.
Why didn't we join the infantry?
We can only fly for a few more minutes.
I wonder
how Qing and other people in the village
are doing now.
Sir.
If you could meet Lady Qin,
what would you say to her?
Actually, after we got married,
we seldom talked.
When I went home back then,
the table would be filled with dishes.
After we finished eating, I'd tell Lady Qin
that I was going back to the airport.
I never looked back when I left.
There was one instance
where I was leaving and I looked back.
I saw her looking at me.
The guards in the village said
she'd go back in
after I left the village.
I was so scared at that time.
So I went to the airport
and scolded Zhi-jian.
I scolded the squad too.
That's why Lady Qin is so kind to us.
It was all because of her.
If I were you,
I would scold Lady Qin.
"What are you looking at?"
If I can go home
and see Qing,
she'll be stunned.
After that, she will cry.
I would scold her too.
"You silly girl.
Hurry and leave with me."
Where to?
I already thought about it.
Once I reach Xian,
I'll escape
to Nanjing.
Zhi-jian.
What about you?
What would you say first thing when you reach home?
I didn't have a wife last time.
So I never thought of it.
I won't have a chance anymore.
We
can't go home.
I have a daughter.
She's in the second grade.
It doesn't matter.
We must go home.
We must.
I don't see the marshy lands
up ahead.
I'll land first.
Wait for me.
Zhen.
What are you doing, Zhen?
Zhen, come back.
What are you doing, Zhen? Come back!
Come back!
Zhen!
Zhen, are you okay? Do you copy?
Zhen, are you okay?
Zhen, are you okay? Do you copy?
It feels so cold.
Zhen, get out!
Get out now!
Let me take another look.
Qing.
I can't go home.
Zhen, how are you holding up?
Come back.
Sir.
Come back!
Don't leave me here!
Come back!
Zhen, get out!
Hurry and get out!
I'm stuck.
I can't use my gun.
Sir, it's time.
Zhen.
Try again, Zhen.
It's no use.
I can't go home.
Hurry.
Zhen!
I'm sorry!
The 11th Wing, dismissed!
Everyone, find your own way.
Eject!
Sir!
Eject now, sir.
If the wind is strong, you might be blown away.
Sir!
I killed my own student.
My compass is broken.
I can't find my way home.
Zhi-jian.
Thank you for your help.
Leave now.
It's the end of the 11th Wing.
I'll fly until my fuel's gone.
Find your own way out.
Sir!
Leave!
I'm telling you to leave!
Sir, goodbye.
Qian-yi.
I'm a lieutenant colonel now.
I left the Army.
I can't let go.
Everything is back to normal in the village.
Just like how it was when Qing just got married.
Before 11th Wing went to Dongbei.
Umbrellas were hung outside.
The word Happiness was all over the village.
The village was full of joy.
Qing!
Chief said that the Army has retreated to Beijing.
They will arrive at Nanjing after Beijing.
They are finally coming home.
Have you told Lady Qin?
I told her before I locked the door.
I told her to stop folding paper airplanes.
That's great.
I want to make another dependent certificate for you.
Chief said the office is purposely delaying it.
It doesn't matter.
After Zhen is back, I'll run far away with him.
I don't want to be a military dependent.
I'll be a normal citizen.
They are all war criminals.
Where can you go?
I'll lead the way.
I'll be his guide.
Qing.
Let's not be in contact after we leave.
We'll go separate ways.
It'll be our own fault if we are caught.
If not, once someone spills the beans, it'll just drag everyone down.
I'm home.
However,
the 11th Wing is gone.
It's gone.
It's good that you're back, Wei-cheng.
The others don't matter.
It's good that you're back.
Mo-ting.
Lieutenant Jiang.
Uncle Jiang is home.
Uncle Jiang.
He's back.
Can you help him open the door?
Take the key.
There were so many Mo-tings.
I've killed a lot of Mo-tings.
I...
Mo-ting.
Help me open the door! Hurry!
Wei-cheng!
Mo-ting.
Don't tell anyone that you saw Uncle Jiang.
Do you understand?
Lady Qin, it's time for breakfast.
Here.
Thank you.
Lady Qin.
You hurt your hand.
It's nothing. I was having a nightmare.
I dreamed that Wei-cheng came home.
I couldn't tell whether it was real.
so I bit myself.
Lady Qin.
Aren't you waiting for Lieutenant Colonel? Why did you pack your stuff?
Can you help me tell Wei-xun
to let me go?
Let me leave first, okay?
Qian-yi.
Lieutenant Colonel is back.
I told you it was a dream.
-Qian-yi. -Sir!
I'm going back to my hometown.
-Sir! -Take care.
Lady Qin!
Sir! Where's Zhen?
-Sir, where's Zhen? -Who are you talking to?
-Lieutenant Colonel is back. -Wei-cheng!
Lieutenant Colonel! Lady Qin!
Wei-cheng, you're back! Where's Zhi-jian?
Why are you going in the room?
-Where's Zhi-jian? -Lady Qin!
Wei-cheng!
-Why do you close the door? -Open the door!
Come out, Qian-yi!
Where's Zhi-jian?
Zhi-jian.
Lady Qin!
Lady Qin, open the door!
Where's Zhi-jian?
-Lady Qin, open the door! -Qian-yi, what are you doing?
Come out!
Where's Zhi-jian?
Come out! Where's Zhi-jian?
Hurry.
Bring me along!
Zhi-jian!
I came to the horizon.
You're a big liar!
We were fighting the war at the front,
while you were messing things up here!
-No. -What are you doing?
My husband is the vice-captain of the 11th Wing.
Your husband was taken away.
-What is happening? -Let go of me!
There's something wrong with the 11th Wing.
If you think you have a problem, then leave with us now.
Hurry!
Subtitle translation by Michelle