What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In China's history, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression has always been a knot that the Chinese people cannot avoid, especially in the former Battle of Songhu, where the Nationalist government gathered 800,000 troops to fight with the Japanese army, but it was beaten to abandon its armor and retreat in an all-round way. It can be said that it is a very failure, but there are also many stories to sing and cry, the most well-known of which is the story of General Xie Jinyuan and his eight hundred brave soldiers who stubbornly defended the Sihang Warehouse.
Shanghai Concession
The Sihang Warehouse is close to the Suzhou Creek, and the opposite side of the river is the British concession, so the soldiers of the Sihang Warehouse can directly see the prosperity and luxury of the concession, but why has the war started, but the concession can always be safe and stable.
The first reason is that the concession is nominally Chinese territory, but in fact it is a british colony, the concession this place can be said to be a country within a country at that time, so in this way, if the Japanese attack the concession, they are attacking the British, and at that time Britain had a strong navy to defend British overseas interests, and the Japanese navy was far from being able to compete with the British navy, so the Japanese did not dare to attack, and the concession was relatively peaceful.
The second reason was that in Shanghai at that time, in fact, the British concession not only had the British, but also the Americans, because when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's army attacked Shanghai, the British and the United States merged the concession in order to defend against the taiping heavenly kingdom's attack, and later in order to prevent similar things, the American and British concessions were merged into the public concession. Therefore, when the Japanese attacked Shanghai, they not only offended the British, but also the Americans, and it was not worth the loss to do so, so the Japanese would not attack the concession.
It was precisely for this reason that the concession became the only relatively peaceful existence in war-torn China at that time, but such a place has always been controlled by the great powers, and under the rule of the great powers, this place is of course a drunken fan.