Movie Eight Hundred
On one side is a rain of bullets and bullets, on the other side is a song and dance, between heaven and hell. The more than 30,000 onlookers blindly watching on the banks of the Suzhou River were also reduced to prisoners with the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Author: Mlz Nanguo Hometown
Editor: Mlz Southern Homeland
This article belongs to the author's original.
In late October 1937, as the Japanese invasion of China approached step by step, the crisis in Shanghai was within reach. In order to counterattack in the future, the Nationalist army left a dangerous city and a anti-war army, and in order to confuse the enemy, it was called 800 people, but in fact 452 people.
A lone army, in the heavy siege of the Japanese army, was outnumbered and did not retreat, and many crazy attacks of the Japanese army were repelled by the warriors. When the Japanese approached and attempted to blast the "Sihang Warehouse" where the defenders were located, a Chinese soldier with grenades strapped to his body resolutely jumped from the upper floor and died with the enemy.
The stubborn resistance of the Nationalists at the Battle of Songhu crushed the Japanese army's plan to "destroy China in three months". Late October in Shanghai was cold, with scattered stars hanging in the sky, and buildings on the banks of the Suzhou River were quietly listed, so quiet that no one dared to sleep. Suddenly, gunshots rang out in the silent night sky.
Since the Battle of Songhu (August 13, 1937 – November 12, 1937), the fighting has been fought in Shanghai for more than two months. Due to the disparity in military strength, the Nationalist army suffered heavy losses, and the war was already in its later stages at this time, and the Chinese army suffered nearly 300,000 casualties, which was very tragic. On October 25, the Oba position was breached by the Japanese. On October 26, in order to avoid the total annihilation of the army and show the determination of the international community to resist Japan, it was decided that the 88th Division would remain in Shanghai to cover the retreat of the main force. The story of "Eight Hundred" happened at this time.
The "Sihang Warehouse" is the British Concession across the Suzhou River, when the war began, more than 30,000 people on the banks of the Suzhou River, they seemed to be watching a "live broadcast", as the war intensified, deserters, prostitutes, horses, students... They are snubs, wretched, indifferent, selfish. Awakening the spectators on the banks of the Suzhou River, they began to organize themselves and donated a large number of food and medicine. At the risk of their lives, members of the Field Service climbed the Tibet Road at night and were sent into the warehouse. The people on the banks of the Suzhou River are no longer bystanders, and none of them can stay out of the matter.
After nearly two days of bitter fighting, the heroic name of the four lone army has spread all over Shanghai, and the people know that the soldiers are still stubbornly resisting, and they firmly believe that "China will not die." People in Shanghai pinned their hopes on lone soldiers, including girl scout Yang Huimin.
Yang Huimin
Late that night, when Yang Huimin walked out of the British fortress, the sky was already faint, and the four-line warehouse was completely presented in her vision. At this time, she thought of ways to help the lone soldier: "I only saw a large five-story building with bullet marks, and I couldn't see people. When I saw this large building towering over the three-sided sun flag, one side was the middle of the British rice flag, and an urgent desire occurred in my heart. In order to encourage the hearts and minds of the people of Shanghai and show the awe-inspiring righteousness of the Chinese nation, the roof of the Sihang warehouse must fly a national flag with blue sky and red sky. ”
On the evening of the 27th, Yang Huimin tightly wrapped a large national flag around his body, then covered his uniform, and took the cover of night to pass through the garbage bridge. The area leading to the Sihang warehouse was already surrounded by heavy barbed wire, and Yang Huimin could only climb along the barbed wire to the gap and then climb in through the window.
Previously, Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu had received the news that Yang Huimin was going to come to present the flag, so when Yang Huimin arrived at the warehouse, they all went to greet them. Yang Huimin handed over the national flag, which had been soaked in sweat, to Xie Jinyuan, and the officers and men present were moved to tears when they saw the long-lost national flag. Xie Jinyuan said solemnly to Yang Huimin: "Brave comrade, what you have sent us is only a lofty national flag, but the indomitable and perseverance spirit of our Chinese nation!" ”
Xie Jinyuan
Xie Jinyuan, the leader of the Sihang warehouse, came from Jiaoling, Guangdong, and wrote a self-encouragement poem when he was young, "The mountains and rivers are broken and really hurtful, and Hugh is a philistine who loves his hometown." Xie Jinyuan's inaugural speech was very short: "The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the puppeteer, we are Chinese, and we must have the ambition to Chinese." Now we are surrounded by Japanese troops on all sides, and this warehouse is our base and may be our grave, and as long as we still have one person, we must fight the enemy to the end. ”
As early as nine years ago, during the Northern Expedition, Xie Jinyuan had fought against the Japanese army. At that time, Xie Jinyuan was serving as the commander of the vanguard battalion in the 14th Division of the First Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and was seriously wounded in the battle with the Japanese army. Subsequently, he participated in the First Songhu War of Resistance (I. February 8 Incident), clashed against the Japanese army. When the Battle of Songhu broke out, Xie Jinyuan served as the chief of staff of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Army Division and participated in the Battle of Baziqiao, which fired the first shot at the Battle of Songhu. After that, Xie Jinyuan was promoted to deputy regimental commander, and after the regimental commander died, he took over as the regimental commander and led his troops to garrison the extremely important Zhabei Railway Station, and fought fiercely with the Japanese army for more than two months.
After receiving the task of Sun Yuanliang to cover the retreat of the large army, the troops entered the building, and Xie Jinyuan asked each company to count the number of people and make a roster, so that after the sacrifice, it would be reported according to the roster and their families would be favored. At the same time, he also hopes that his soldiers will not be nameless ghosts after they die. To this end, he organized the soldiers to write a desperate letter each. After four days of persistence, the story of Xie Jinyuan and his "eight hundred heroes" was circulated at home and abroad. But unfortunately, this story only touched the Chinese, and did not win the sympathy of the West as Chiang Kai-shek expected.
A "show" carefully designed by Chiang Kai-shek ended hastily. Xie Jinyuan and the soldiers were ready to put their lives into the performance. Born as a soldier, they cannot decide their own life. And even more tragically, they can't decide their own deaths. Xie Jinyuan, who had been martyred, had to accept Chiang Kai-shek's orders and retreated into the British Concession. After retreating to the concession, Xie Jinyuan and the "eight hundred brave men" were immediately detained by the British army in the concession and taken to the lone army camp. On November 11, when the Japanese army marched to the bank of the Suzhou River, Yu Hongjun, the mayor of Shanghai, issued a letter of notification to the citizens, declaring the fall of Shanghai, the largest city in the Far East. Except for Xie Jinyuan and his eight hundred brave men, There was no Chinese army in Shanghai, and at this time, Shanghai had become a carnival place for various powers.
This was only the beginning of the tragedy, in April 1941, Xie Jinyuan was assassinated in the lone army camp for refusing the solicitation of the Wang puppet regime.
With the Pacific War, the Japanese army occupied the British Concession, and the group of former Western spectators finally failed to escape the baptism of war. Under the japanese offensive, they seemed vulnerable, even a little embarrassed.
The officers and men of the Lone Army were eventually captured by the Japanese army, and then sent to work as coolies around the world, living in a foreign country, as far as New Guinea in the Pacific. Some of them fled and finally returned to the stage of the War of Resistance.
In 1946, Xie Jinyuan's widow Ling Weicheng returned to Shanghai after 10 years of leaving Shanghai, this Shanghai jiaojiao, who likes to play the violin, raised 4 children alone, no longer has the charm of the past, in the plight of the war, she has long faded her youth and become a mother with wrinkled hands.
In the midst of war, no one can stay out of the way, and the fate of every family and individual is changing rapidly. The cold numbers constitute today's great rivers and mountains, and the warriors of the Sihang Warehouse have left a heavy mark in the imprint of the times.
In the film, Xie Jinyuan asked a question: "Do you know how the Ming Dynasty fell?"
In "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", we once commented on our people:
"Our nation is the most resilient nation in the world, no exaggeration.
When the Japanese came in, they were surprised to find that everything had changed overnight.
Warlords can unite as one, and the underworld can clean themselves; illiterate and illiterate, but they are not traitors; ordinary people who are afraid of death are sometimes not afraid of death. Because everything has been firmly engraved in our marrow – strong, brave, fearless.
The Japanese didn't understand, so they failed. This was true before, it is so now, and it will remain so in the future. It is never necessary to remember, and never forget, that this is the gift of a great nation. ”
The British-Japanese novelist Kazuma Ishiguro wrote of the post-war Japanese scene in Ukiyo-e Painters: "I sat on a bench and watched these young clerks, smiling to myself. Sometimes, of course, I think of the brightly lit taverns of the early years, those who gathered under the lanterns, laughing a little louder than the young people of yesterday, but with the same enthusiasm, and at this time I could not help but feel a little nostalgic, nostalgic for the past, nostalgia for this area of the past. But I am delighted to see our cities rebuilt, to see everything recover so quickly over the years. It seems that no matter what mistakes our country has made, it now has a chance to regain its momentum. We can only bless these young people deeply. This is the self-perception of those "war criminals" who were once fanatical after the defeat in World War II. Therefore, Japan's defeat was an inevitable result.