The movie "Eight Hundred" brought a visual feast to the audience and dispelled the haze brought by the new crown, especially when the Chinese soldiers in the movie jumped out of the building with bombs and died with the enemy in rows, which earned enough tears for people.
At the end of the movie, after the eight hundred heroes in the Sihang Warehouse retreated to the other side of the river, the public thought that they could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but in fact, this was the beginning of the nightmare of the eight hundred heroes.
Of course, the movie will not tell the story behind this, so it will not have a promotional effect.
In real history, after entering the concession, the warriors of the Sihang Warehouse were disarmed by the British, imprisoned in the "lone army camp", and became prisoners.
It should be known that the team led by Xie Jinyuan was Chiang Kai-shek's concubine unit, and after the British disarmed, they found that the number of bullets reached 120,000 rounds, which was more than the total number of bullets in the 129th Division.
The fate of Xie Jinyuan and his subordinates was even more tragic, they were locked up in a small place in the British Concession, and one pass was 4 years. Even more heinous was that Xie Jinyuan was assassinated by four of his subordinates in 1941, and the other members were assigned to various places by the Japanese to do hard labor.
Soldiers who were originally heroic soldiers who killed the enemy on the battlefield ended up being taken prisoners, all thanks to Chiang Kai-shek.
On August 21, 1937, the Battle of Songhu broke out, and although the Nationalist army fought bloodily, because of Chiang Kai-shek's wrong command, the army was defeated again and again.
By the end of the war, the Japanese had already captured most of Shanghai, and Chiang Kai-shek hoped to win the support of Britain and the United States at the next international conference and mediate from it.
Backwardness means to be beaten, and this saying applies everywhere, how can Anglo-American imperialism offend a powerful Japan for the sake of a weak national government.
Although Japan was pried open by the United States to open the door to a new world, its learning ability was super strong, and after the Meiji Restoration, it had transformed into a beast.
How can an egoistic American British family offend a tiger for a cat?
So Chiang Kai-shek is a little too naïve, but his life is a speculative history, in Shanghai speculated in stocks, and then followed Sun Yat-sen mixed, do not want to make themselves strong, but always want to rely on others, is also a wall grass, a moment pro-Japanese, a moment pro-American.
In order to show Britain and the United States the determination of China to resist Japan, Chiang Kai-shek ordered his 88th Division to hold Shanghai for a "political show."
In the movie, the commissioner played by Huang Xiaoming once said: "Behind the war is politics."
Old Chiang kai-shek was a master of politics, otherwise he would not have become the leader of the Kuomintang.
Although Lao Jiang had a good idea, Sun Zhanyuan, the commander of the 88th Division under him, did not think so, and the 88th Division was all German equipment, the elite of the elite.
This is obviously an act of sending people to death, and Sun Zhanyuan can not do it.
So he played a little trick, leaving 420 people from the first battalion of the 524th Regiment to guard the Sihang warehouse, and let Xie Jinyuan serve as the acting regimental commander.
China's low-level soldiers did not have so many flowers and intestines, they only knew that the Japanese were invaders, executioners who killed their brothers and sisters.
Therefore, everyone was indignant, full of feelings of home and country, and vowed to stick to this and never let the Japanese go one step further.
Sometimes I really feel sad for them, a kind of sadness that I have become a pawn of the upper echelons.
The Sihang warehouse is far away from the Bank of the Suzhou River and the British Concession, and there are two large gas tanks 100 meters away, so the Japanese army does not dare to send heavy weapons to bomb, for fear of detonation and annoy the British.
If you fall behind, you will be beaten and bullied, and this sentence will not deceive me.
In order to make a strong reputation, Xie Jinyuan claimed that there were 800 strong soldiers and asked the soldiers to be ready to be martyred.
It's a war show, with actors, with audiences.
And Xie Jinyuan himself sent his wife and children to his hometown, obviously ready for sacrifice.
It has to be said here that if Chinese are united, the strength is very strong.
The citizens of Shanghai in the British Concession on the south bank saw that the Nationalist Army was fighting, spontaneously organized the donation of food and medicine, and raised 20,000 large cakes on the first day alone.
Xie Jinyuan's own supplies were abundant, and he held out in the Sihang warehouse for 4 days to repel several enemy attacks.
The battalion lost only 9 men, destroyed more than 200 enemy men, and consumed only one-tenth of the ammunition.
He could have held out for a longer time, but Xie Jinyuan received Chiang Kai-shek's order to retreat, which made him look confused.
The reason was simple, because the Sihang warehouse was close to the concession, and the Japanese army was afraid of hurting the British, so it put pressure on the British, and the British put pressure on the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek obeyed.
It can be said that Chiang Kai-shek's orders pit Xie Jinyuan, and after he retreated to the British Concession, he was immediately disarmed by the British.
This is a great shame, but the duty of a soldier is to obey orders.
Subsequently, the British put Xie Jinyuan's army in the "lone army camp" and guarded it, where they suffered all kinds of humiliation and torture.
In 1941, the Pacific War broke out, the British Concession was occupied by japan, and Xie Jinyuan, an anti-Japanese army, became a prisoner of the Japanese.
However, Xie Jinyuan himself was assassinated by Wang Jingwei's government to buy off his subordinates, which is simply a great irony.
For soldiers, if sacrificing on the battlefield is an honor, but Xie Jinyuan died at the hands of his own Chinese, which makes people both angry and sad.