(The movie "Eight Hundred")
The "Eight Hundred Heroes" guarded the Sihang Warehouse for four whole days, standing still like Mount Tai. At the same time, a girl scout named Yang Huimin also risked sending the national flag into the Sihang warehouse, and the "Eight Hundred Heroes" used this national flag to hold a flag-raising ceremony under the eyes and noses of the Japanese army.
Across the river is the public concession, and the Chinese and foreign people have seen this feat and are amazed by it, believing that if there is such a spirit, China will never die. Of course, the ideas of Europeans and Americans are sometimes different from those of Orientals. Foreigners not only praised the warrior spirit of the "Eight Hundred Heroes", but at the same time felt a little incredible. In their view, if a unit has done its best and should not throw sacrifices, surrender, or retreat, how can it know that there is no hope of victory and continue to hold on?
A more realistic problem for the public concession is that at the southern end of the river bridge leading to the concession by the Sihang warehouse, there is a huge gas cylinder. This gas cylinder is only a few tens of meters away from the four-line warehouse, and the gun does not have long eyes, in case it hits the gas cylinder, it will explode. As a result, envoys from various countries took notes to intercede and asked the Chinese government to arrange for the evacuation of the lone army in the Sihang warehouse as soon as possible, and even Song Meiling received many similar requests.
What Chiang Kai-shek wanted was originally attention, and now almost the whole world knows the name of the Sixing Warehouse, of course, there is no need to let the defenders die in vain.
Originally agreed to be covered by the British troops in the concession, the 524th Regiment quickly passed the concession along the bridge and then met the large troops on the south bank of the Suzhou River, but they were discovered by the Japanese during the retreat.
The Japanese army is no longer dry, lao tzu has suffered for so many days, you want to go away, there is no way! They warned the concession authorities: "Hurry up and extradite the defenders to us, and if we dare to let them return, we will rush into your concession in pursuit of you, regardless of diplomatic rules." ”
At first glance, the Ministry of Works of the Concession had no choice but to come and not to be guilty, neither extraditing nor releasing, but detaining Xie Jinyuan and others. On the same day, Chiang Kai-shek ordered that all the "eight hundred heroes" below Xie Jinyuan be promoted to the first level as a reward.
From the day they were detained, the weapons of the lone army camp were confiscated by the Ministry of Works, and although they were unarmed, they still raised and lowered the national flag in the camp on time like the regular army in the country.
The Ministry of Works was terrified, hoping that they would lower the national flag so as not to be seen by the Japanese as a breeding incident, but the Lone Army Camp did not back down. When the military police came to collect the national flag, they used their fists and stones to deal with it, and later held a collective hunger strike, ignoring the bread and rice sent by the Ministry of Works and Bureau, and casually knocking them to the ground!
For these grandfathers, the Ministry of Works bureau has no way at all, and can only apologize. This was true in the concession, and then all of Shanghai fell and fell into the hands of the Japanese army. Unable to stand the bullying, the brave men took up stones and sticks and fought with the guards, and twice in a row.
Because of the fame of the "Eight Hundred Heroes", even the Japanese did not dare to do harm easily, so they had to change their locations and transfer them from Shanghai to Nanjing Prison.
When they arrived in Nanjing, they said they would pick up the dung. The "Eight Hundred Heroes" were furious: What, let us do this, dare to insult us!
Someone took the flat burden of picking up the dung, clicked, and unloaded the arm of a Japanese guard. At this point, the devils were really hairy, and they set up machine guns around them--since they were waiting for you, it was better to surprise you all.
At that time, Xie Jinyuan had already been killed, and the acting regimental commander said a word, leaving the Japanese speechless: "We are not prisoners, but you treat us as prisoners. ”
Afraid of you, the Japanese army lowered the muzzle of the gun, and from now on did not dare to detain the "eight hundred brave men" in a concentrated manner. This is also almost anecdote that has never been seen before in the Japanese prisoner of war camp.