Fortunately, we grew up in peacetime, without the baptism of fire, without the upheaval and displacement, without the experience of starvation, and we lived happily. The happiness we have today is bought by countless heroes and martyrs, who are like monuments remembered in our hearts.
In order to commemorate the martyrs and commemorate their heroic deeds, we have filmed films and TV dramas based on them, so that we can further understand these heroes and their heroic deeds through these works.
The movie "Eight Hundred" takes us back to the heroic deeds of only 400 people who stayed in the warehouse at that time and fought alone for four days and four nights. The protagonist of the film is based on the hero leader Xie Jinyuan. For the sake of the country and the people, these heroes persevered to the end and did not give up, and were willing to sacrifice.
The heroic deeds made our blood boil and tears in our eyes. In addition to being moved, we think about the people behind these heroes but they are not always well known. The hero Xie Jinyuan sacrificed, and his wife, Ling Weicheng, who was only 35 years old, not only had to support his elderly father-in-law, but also had four minor children, and his life was difficult, and he was often harassed. Life is miserable, and she has been refused to ask for help in the most difficult times, how did she survive?
Xie Jinyuan was born in April 1905 in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, to a poor rural family. At that time, the society took the thought of Dr. Sun Yat-sen as the mainstream, and was influenced by this progressive idea from an early age, although he was born into poverty, he had the desire to defend his family and defend the country from an early age.
In 1925, Xie Jinyuan graduated from university with a smooth degree, because he was influenced by progressive ideas from an early age, he resolutely entered the Whampoa Military Academy and devoted himself to the patriotic cause.
Xie Jinyuan has participated in countless wars, and Xie Jinyuan is also heroic. At this time, Xie Jinyuan also grew from a soldier to an excellent regimental commander, leading the team and making many military achievements. In August 1937, the Songhu War broke out, and the Japanese officers were arrogant and wanted to occupy Shanghai for three days.
At that time, most of their elite troops were dispatched in Shanghai, and it was inevitable to take Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek sent troops were inferior to the Japanese troops, and a large number of positions in Shanghai had been lost. In order to preserve his strength, Chiang Kai-shek could only retreat, but before retreating, he left a few hundred troops behind, so that the world could see his determination to defend his homeland to the death.
This team was the 524th Regiment led by Xie Jinyuan. In order to cover the withdrawal of the large troops, Xie Jinyuan led a team of four hundred people to garrison the Sihang warehouse, because this warehouse is easy to defend and difficult to attack. This hundreds of troops faced thousands of Japanese troops, Xie Jinyuan understood that this battle must be fierce, and he led the soldiers to defend the last position and swear to coexist with the warehouse.
In the following days, Xie Jinyuan led the soldiers to resist the fierce attacks of the enemy again and again, and in the face of enemy artillery fire, Xie Jinyuan and the soldiers did not flinch. Later, Xie Jinyuan received a retreat order from his superiors, and he could only lead the soldiers into the concession, but the British army asked them to hand in their weapons and put them under house arrest.
The whole team was placed under house arrest for four years, and during these four years, Xie Jinyuan and the soldiers were always studying and practicing diligently, without decadence. Because of fear of Xie Jinyuan's strength, the Japanese army sent people to attack Xie Jinyuan many times, but Xie Jinyuan cleverly evaded them. This did not work, and they thought of other ways.
He bribed Xie Jinyuan's soldiers, and the four of them stabbed the defenseless Xie Jinyuan to death with sharp weapons. In this way, the hero who was only 37 years old died tragically at the hands of his compatriots. The bad news of Xie Jinyuan's murder reached his hometown, and his wife Ling Weicheng was grief-stricken and heartbroken.
After Xie Jinyuan's sacrifice, the burden of the family was pressed on Ling Weicheng, and the already embarrassing life was even worse, taking care of the family alone, young and old, and living a difficult life. After the death of her husband, she came to Chongqing with four children and tried her best to hope that Chiang Kai-shek would help solve the problem of her children going to school, but she did not receive a clear reply. She can only take the child back to her hometown in Guangdong to live. In order to live, she suffered from life, doing all kinds of dirty and tiring work, or insisting that the children read and write.
In 1945, Ling Weicheng returned to Shanghai and met the veterans who had followed her husband, who had a very difficult life, were helpless, and they had long been forgotten. Ling Weicheng couldn't bear it, and went to Chiang Kai-shek for help many times, but he was prevaricating back.
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Until the founding of New China, Ling Weicheng asked Chen Yi, who was the mayor of Shanghai at the time, for help, explaining his plight and those veterans. With the help of the mayor, they lived a stable life. Ling Weicheng also fulfilled her husband's duties as the head of the regiment.
The war makes us remember this hero Xie Jinyuan, and behind this hero is another heroine, let us pay tribute to these great heroes!