你再看看 咱们现在这四十一军 这打的什么仗
“Look at our 41st Army now, what kind of fight is this?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
全都死在南京了 一想起这事 我心里就堵得慌
“all died in Nanjing. Whenever I think about it, my heart aches.”
你 再看看 咱们现 在这 四十一军 这 打的什么仗
“Look at our 41st Army now, what kind of fight is this?”
“It's been half a year without any supplies. And we were driven here by Yan Xishan.”
“This campaign is a humiliating disaster and our leadership is running us into the ground.”
Phrasing an evaluation as a rhetorical question with '什么' (e.g., '打的什么仗') is a standard Chinese device to forcefully denounce incompetence or unacceptable conditions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
just take another look at; look at what's happening now
Used to direct the listener's attention to a distressing or contradictory fact to strengthen an argument.
what kind of battle is this even; this is no way to fight
A rhetorical critique expressing utter disgust with how a conflict or mission is being conducted.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Our troops are now under attack from 3 sides.”
“I sincerely invite you to the Army Headquarters of the New Fourth Army”
“we'll take this matter to the headquarters of the 41st Army.”