Songlu Huiguo National Army 800,000 troops against 300,000 Japanese troops, although this battle ended in failure, but it shattered the Japanese army three months to destroy China's luxury dream, so the battle lasted for three months, the Chinese army killed and wounded 300,000 people, the Japanese army killed and wounded more than 40,000 people, although the casualty ratio is very large, but this battle for China is of great significance, in the case of the disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, it is already very good to have this result.
Xie Jinyuan
In this battle, many anti-Japanese heroes emerged, such as Xie Jinyuan, who graduated from the huangpu fourth term, and at the end of the Battle of Songlu, almost all of Shanghai was planted with the plaster flag of the Japanese army, and only one Chinese flag was still flying in Shanghai, and the defender of this Chinese flag was the "eight hundred heroes" led by Xie Jinyuan.
Mrs. Xie Jinyuan and her children
When the Chinese troops at the Battle of Songlu were preparing to retreat, our side prepared an empty city plan, 100,000 main troops retreated, leaving a small force to garrison the main points, so that the Japanese army did not know the truth, to win the main force to retreat time, this arduous task was given to the 524 regiment led by Xie Jinyuan, when he received the order, he decided to swear to complete the task, and made a request to the division commander Sun Yuanliang, hoping to leave him with enough ammunition.
The Japanese attacked the Sihang warehouse
When the division commander found him and issued the order, he had already made clear the danger of this mission, saying: "This is a lone army, doomed to have no backup, and it is very likely that he will be martyred." Xie Jinyuan did not have a hint of fear after hearing this, gathered his soldiers to the headquarters, pointed to this land and asked loudly, "Where is this place?" The soldier replied that this was the headquarters of my division, and Xie Jinyuan said firmly: "This is our grave!" After listening to the regimental commander Xie Jinyuan said, none of his soldiers were afraid, when the Japanese army attacked, Xie Jinyuan ordered all officers and men to write a suicide note first, and registered the officers and soldiers who were present to fight against the thieves, hoping that after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, future generations would remember their merits and dedication.
The citizens of Shanghai expressed their condolences to Xie Jinyuan's troops
When Xie Jinyuan's troops marched to the south of the New Garbage Bridge, because there were large gas tanks here, if it was detonated, most of Shanghai would be reduced to ashes, so the concession authorities in Shanghai asked the Chinese government to withdraw from this lone army, and the British army even promised to cover the retreat of the lone army, but when the lone army entered the concession, it was disarmed by the British army and detained in the lone army camp.
Soldiers of the Nationalist Army
Because the Japanese army had threatened the concession, if the lone army returned through the concession, the Japanese army would drive into the concession to pursue the lone army! Therefore, the lone army that had been dealing with the Japanese Kou for a long time was imprisoned in the lone army camp, and when Chen Gongbo became a pseudo-mayor, he repeatedly persuaded him to surrender and promised him the commander-in-chief of the army, but Xie Jinyuan sternly refused, and finally, the puppet government saw that Xie Jinyuan had no hope of surrendering, so it bribed four of his subordinates. When the news of Xie Jinyuan's death came out, more than 300,000 people in Shanghai went to mourn Xie Jinyuan, and the Nationalist army posthumously named him a major general, and his four traitors were also sentenced to death.