On July 7, 1937, Japan tore off the pretense of peace and began a full-scale war of aggression against China. Beiping and Tianjin have lost their hands one after another, and North China is about to fall into the hands of the enemy. China's terrain has always been low in the north and low in the south, and the nomadic peoples in the north have the advantage of cavalry, fighting low with high and low, often sweeping south, attacking and attacking all the way. The Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty died under this blow.
In order to avoid this unfavorable situation, Chiang Kai-shek decided to take the initiative to launch an offensive in order to attract the main force of the Japanese army to change the direction of operations and enter China from east to west, so as to disrupt the enemy's deployment. On August 13, the Battle of Songhu, which shocked China and foreign countries, broke out.
At the beginning of the war, the Japanese army arrogantly shouted: three months to destroy China. However, the Chinese army fought tenaciously with the support of the broad masses of the people, and the battle lasted for 3 months, directly bankrupting their attempts. For the sake of the survival of the nation, all armies throughout the country paid the price of hundreds of thousands of people and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders.
In the later stages of the battle, the situation on the battlefield became more and more unfavorable, and in order to preserve the living forces, the Chinese army had to fight and retreat, and the Japanese army pressed forward step by step, and then occupied all of Shanghai. However, there is another place that has always been under the control of the Chinese army, that is, the famous Sihang Warehouse. In Shanghai, which is full of plaster flags, only this small building flies the flag of the motherland, which is very inspiring.
In order to confuse the enemy, Xie Jinyuan and his 400 men claimed 800 people, which is the origin of the eight hundred heroes. In the early days of the battle, this warehouse served as the headquarters of the 88th Division. The Japanese army broke through various positions one after another, and the defeat of the Chinese army became more and more obvious, but in order to show China's determination to resist the war to the end, the division commander Sun Yuanliang called the battalion commander Xie Jinyuan and assigned him the task of holding firm.
Xie Jinyuan unequivocally accepted the order, and as soon as the division commander left, he commanded the entire battalion to prepare for the fortifications. In order to prevent the Japanese from rushing into the warehouse, the soldiers sealed all passages, doors and windows, and dug firing ports everywhere. In order to resist the enemy's crazy attack, Xie Jinyuan specially organized a death squad, and once the battle situation was dangerous, he immediately counterattacked and killed him with a rifle.
From October 28, the Japanese army began to attack, the battle lasted for 4 days and 4 nights, during which the enemy, under the suppression of heavy machine guns, repeatedly approached the Sihang warehouse, and the Chinese brave soldiers fought the enemy back each time. In the most dangerous one, the Japanese army rushed to the door, and a soldier on the roof of the building saw that he could not shoot, and resolutely jumped down with a grenade, defusing the crisis on the spot. The defenders' strict death-defying move shocked the Japanese soldiers, who were quickly defeated and retreated.
The warriors of the Sihang Warehouse fought desperately, and the Chinese people in the concession saw that the army was so brave and came to the aid, and every day people were in danger of their lives to send things. There was also a 14-year-old girl scout who brought the flag of the motherland to the defenders, which made the warriors moved, and at dawn, Xie Jinyuan led everyone to solemnly raise the national flag on the roof of the building, and the people saw it and cheered.
Looking at the national flag on the roof, the anti-Japanese situation of the Shanghai people was even higher, and they used various methods to pass on information to the defenders, just hoping that the warriors would continue to persist.
However, with the continuous protests of the Japanese side, the Western countries could not withstand the pressure and repeatedly sent notes to the Nationalist government to force the Chinese defenders to withdraw. In order not to offend the West, the government issued a retreat order. Although the defenders wanted to hold on to the battle, they had no choice but to disobey the order, and the defenders had to retreat to the British concession at night.
As soon as they stepped into the British Concession, the British first surrendered the weapons of the warriors, in order to provoke the Japanese army and prevent them from making excuses. In order to resettle the Chinese soldiers, the British set aside a special place to settle.
In 1940, the Nationalist government Wang Jingwei could not withstand the abduction of the Japanese, resolutely became a traitor, and established a pseudo-Nationalist government in Nanjing. Xie Jinyuan was famous and naturally became the first object of co-optation, and Wang Pseudo-Xu was a high-ranking official Houlu, but he was rejected by Xie. Xie Jinyuan's determination to resolutely resist Japan stung the Japanese, and they regarded it as a thorn in their flesh and wanted to get rid of it quickly.
Previously, the Japanese sent people to carry out assassinations many times, but Commander Xie rarely went out, and there was patriotic support outside, and it was difficult for the killer to get started. This time, Nichi came up with a plan, using heavy money to bribe the people around him, and then looking for an opportunity to do it. Hao Dingcheng, Zhang Wenqing, Long Yaoliang, and Zhang Guoshun were not determined and were willing to be the lackeys of the Japanese for money.
One morning, Xie Jinyuan led the team out of the exercise as usual, found that Hao Dingcheng and the four people were absent for no reason, so they went to the dormitory to check, just inside, Xie Jinyuan was suddenly attacked, because of excessive bleeding, seriously injured and died. The 37-year-old anti-Japanese hero did not die on the battlefield, but died at the hands of traitors, which makes people feel sad.
When the bad news came out, the people of Shanghai were saddened, and everyone spontaneously went to mourn the hero and asked the British authorities to severely punish the murderer in order to comfort the hero's spirit in heaven.
Traitors and lackeys never had a good end. Hao Dingcheng's four men were caught by Xie Jinyuan's men on the same day, and everyone beat them up violently, and then handed them over to the concession for handling, and finally, the authorities complied with the people's will and sentenced the four people to death, which calmed the anger of the people.