The movie "Eight Hundred" only plays until the four lines retreat alone, and in the real history,
After retreating, they entered the concession, where they were immediately disarmed by the British and imprisoned in an abandoned Italian barracks near Singapore Road (present-day Yuyao Road) in Shanghai.
The barracks is surrounded by barbed wire,
The Chamber of Commerce also sent a White Russian army as a guard.
Before the fall of the Shanghai Concession, an average of more than 3,000 people from all walks of life went to visit the lone soldiers every day. Send them daily necessities and go around calling for a better life for them.
After the fall of Shanghai, the Four Elements Alone Army became the spiritual idol of Shanghai's people. They insisted on practicing in the lone army camp every day and raising the flag every day in the early morning.
The foreigners in the concession feared the Japanese and began to oppress the four-line lone army.
White Russian guards repeatedly broke into the barracks, grabbed the flag, and seized the flagpole. Once, in order to grab the flag, he also used weapons to kill four soldiers, wounded more than one hundred and twenty people, and captured Xie Jinyuan.
Later, the people were released because of the Shanghai citizens marching in protest.
Imprisoned for a long time, unable to see the day of the head,
Morale in the army was low. In order to motivate the soldiers, Xie Jinyuan demanded that the lone soldiers must adhere to physical exercise every day. I also asked the teacher to teach everyone to learn hyphenation and improve everyone's ideological awareness.
In addition, they learn life skills such as repairing cars and making soap.
On April 24, 1941, Xie Jinyuan was assassinated by four military traitors instigated by the Wang puppet government. Later, the lone army of the four lines was transferred to various places in batches to do hard work until the Japanese surrendered. Some of the lone soldiers were sent overseas by the Japanese to do coolies, and they were lucky enough to return to their homeland, and unfortunately they died in a foreign country.
The encounter of the lone army of the first and fourth lines
On October 30, 1937, the British in the public concession feared that the concession would be affected by the war, so they pressured Chiang Kai-shek to order the personnel of the Sihang warehouse to retreat.
Xie Jinyuan and Shangguan Zhibiao retreated to the public concession with more than 300 lone troops. At the beginning, Zhang Baiting, chief of staff of the 88th Division, and The British commander Smollet agreed: take advantage of the concession and drive to the base camp in western Huxi to return to the team.
Didn't expect that
As soon as they arrived at the concession, they were taken by the British into the basement of a warehouse. At four o'clock in the morning, the British coaxed them into handing over their weapons, saying that they were keeping them on their behalf.
Xie Jinyuan and others disagreed,
Chief of Staff Zhang Boting arrived and persuaded them to be patient for the time being.
Considering that the Sihang warehouse had been occupied by the Japanese, there was no way to return. The concessions repeatedly stressed that it was only custody, not surrender, and agreed to give them an IOU, and Xie Jinyuan had to accept the arrangement.
Unexpectedly, things changed after a few hours, and they were all sent to a vacant lot opposite 40 Singapore Road in Jiaozhou.
The vacant lot was a former Italian barracks, and there were only five tents in the open space, four of which were larger distributed around, and a small tent in the middle was where Xie Jinyuan and the translator rested. Later, after a lone struggle, the Council of Nations built them four bungalows a year later.
Due to the ineffective rescue of the Kuomintang, the lone army has been imprisoned in this military camp. Xie Jinyuan led the soldiers to fight for freedom while leading them to reclaim the wilderness to save themselves.
Weeding, leveling the ground, and building barracks were all done by the soldiers of the four elements themselves.
Xie Jinyuanxi made a lot of efforts to stimulate morale and improve the physical and psychological qualities of soldiers.
They eat two meals a day and live a very regular life. Usually get up at 4:30, breakfast time is 9 am, dinner is 16 pm. Turn off the lights at 21:00 at night and go to bed. In addition to the necessary activities such as washing and cleaning every day, the rest of the time is used for exercises, sports competitions, and one cultural class in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Entering the lone army camp in 1937, the illiteracy rate of this team was 85%, and by the beginning of 1941, it had dropped to 70%. Xie Jinyuan made them understand why they should fight through cultural education, and raised their patriotic awareness through the "flag-raising ceremony".
Yang Deyu (also known as Yang Deyu), the commander of the 1st Platoon of the 1st Company in the Lone Army, learned the "Song of Righteous Qi" at that time. In 1942, Yang Deyu escaped with more than 30 comrades-in-arms. After the liberation, his first thought was to return to the battlefield to fight Japan, and changed his name to Yang Yangzheng.
After Xie Jinyuan was stabbed, the lone soldiers were taken to the car by the Japanese soldiers in batches and sent to various places to do hard work, and the farthest sent overseas. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, thirty-four lone soldiers working as coolies in Papua New Guinea returned to their homeland, but there were still some who had died in a foreign land.
The whereabouts of the two or four lone soldiers
There were 420 men when the four lone troops entered the warehouse, and 377 people fought by the 30th. Some of the personnel were seriously injured and did not retreat with everyone, but were directly sent to the international hospital in the public concession, including the battalion commander Yang Ruifu. After Yang Ruifu recovered from his injuries, he was instructed by Xie Jinyuan to quietly evacuate the hospital and finally return to the base camp.
As the army withdrew, it was sniped by the Japanese, and two soldiers were killed during the battle. When crossing the river, one person jumped into the Suzhou Creek, swam directly to the public concession, and later returned to the large army
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Another 346 people all entered the lone army camp in Shanghai.
In August 1942, about 70 lone soldiers were transferred to Nanjing Xiaoling to work, and Wan Lianqing and 8 others successfully escaped. Wan Lianqing then joined the Expeditionary Force to Burma and returned to the battlefield.
At the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wan Lianqing, who was reluctant to fight a civil war, retired from the army and became a small police chief, and died in 2001.
The following year, 28 more people escaped from Nanjing Xiaoling, all of whom joined the New Fourth Army and guerrillas. At the end of 1942, more than 100 lone soldiers were sent to Anhui to work as coolies, of which More than 30 people, including Yang Yangzheng and Lei Xiong, escaped.
They wanted to return to the army, and the acting regimental commander Lei Xiong died of scarlet fever in Hebei.
Yang Yangzheng and more than 20 comrades-in-arms arrived in Chongqing and learned that the army could not be restored, and could only be disarmed and returned to the field together.
Because he was blind in his left eye during the Battle of The Four Elements, Yang Yangzheng was left in the Chongqing Disabled Soldiers' Correctional Institution and died in Chongqing Marbles Stone in 2010.
Some of the lone soldiers who did not escape were later taken overseas.
In 1947, thirty-four people returned from Papua New Guinea.
Australian Government in 2008
During a search in the field for the wreckage of a World War II aircraft, an accident occurred
Three graves of Chinese soldiers were found in a dense forest.
After investigation, it was buried inside
Buried are Chinese soldiers who fought in the Sixing Warehouse in 1937.
epilogue
The fierce battle in the Sihang Warehouse for 4 days and 4 nights was tragic and touching, but what was even more shocking was what happened later.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered Xie Jinyuan and others to retreat, and Xie Jinyuan and Yang Ruifu repeatedly reiterated: Everyone has already made a life and death situation, please ask the chairman of the committee to be perfect, let us be loyal to the country! However, the soldiers took it as their duty to obey orders, and they retreated to the concession at their behest. Later, under the coaxing of the Guild of Nations and the persuasion of the chief of staff Zhang Baiting, he was disarmed.
Faced with a desperate situation, Xie Jinyuan did not want to bow his head. Led more than 300 lone soldiers to practice in the barracks at all times and raise the flag. The Chamber of Commerce sent White Russian soldiers to stop it. They snatched away the flag, and Xie Jinyuan let everyone watch the empty flagpole "spiritual flag raising" every day. In order to raise the flag, four of the four brave men were killed by white Russian soldiers, and more than one hundred and twenty people were wounded.
The evil deeds of the foreigners of the Chamber of Commerce of All Nations have further stimulated the patriotism of the soldiers.
After Xie Jinyuan was stabbed, they were sent to various places to do hard labor. Lucky enough to escape, they joined the Expeditionary Force, the New Fourth Army, and the guerrillas, and continued to fight the Japanese to defend the country. The unfortunate went to the desolate land of overseas, buried their bones in a foreign land,
At the time of his death, the tombstone was also engraved with a pattern of blue sky and white sun full of red.
They are the "Eight Hundred Heroes", China's anti-Japanese heroes!