introduction
"Out of the Plug": "But make the Dragon City fly in, do not teach Humadu Yin Mountain." The movie "Eight Hundred" around the National Day in 2020 was really on fire, and Xie Jinyuan's name resounded again decades later. The plot of the film is based on the fierce Battle of Songhu in August 1937, when 800,000 Nationalist troops resisted 300,000 Japanese troops, successfully breaking the Japanese ambition to destroy our country in 3 months. In the end, this battle annihilated more than 40,000 Japanese troops at a huge cost of 200,000 casualties in our army, wrote a magnificent chapter of anti-Japanese resistance, and also played the courage of our army.
01
At that time, the main force of our army had been withdrawn, and those who remained were hundreds of brave soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan, and the flag planted on the Sihang warehouse where they were located was also the last side of our army in Shanghai. At that time, the task entrusted to Xie Jinyuan by the 88th Division was extremely difficult, that is, to continue to attack the Japanese army invading China until the last moment. Xie Jinyuan knew that he was a lone army and would not have any assistance, so he said to his soldiers: "This is our grave."
▲Four-line warehouse real shooting
After entering the Sihang warehouse, Xie Jinyuan commanded the soldiers to collect all the materials in the warehouse and block all the exits, leaving less than half of the windows on the second floor for shooting. He distributed the only ammunition he had to each soldier proportionally, and bundled grenades together to create great lethality in subsequent battles. According to the "Records of the Sihang Warehouse", "Xie Jinyuan screened a part of Xiao Yong's soldiers to form a death squad, hoping to give the Japanese army a fatal blow in the battle."
▲ Xie Jinyuan
After all the combat work was completed, Xie Jinyuan asked every soldier who was guarding the Sihang warehouse to write a suicide note and register all 423 people, hoping that after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the chinese people would remember the names of these heroes. Judging from all the indications, both Xie Jinyuan and ordinary officers and men were ready to fight to the death and become benevolent.
02
On October 28, the battle came as scheduled, and Xie Jinyuan and more than 400 warriors repeatedly thwarted the Japanese attack in four consecutive days and nights, killing more than 200 Japanese troops, while the defenders of the Sihang warehouse sacrificed more than 50 people. Once the Japanese army formed an "ironclad array" to try to destroy the wall of the Sihang warehouse, and the ordinary weapons in the hands of the soldiers were helpless, so someone stood up and hung a grenade and resolutely jumped from the second floor to die with the Japanese army. The iron bones of our soldiers were vividly demonstrated in the battle of the Four-Line Warehouse.
▲Our army fought against the Japanese army
The national flag of our country on the Sihang warehouse stood firmly, which greatly inspired the people, and all sectors of society began to use various methods to help the defenders of the Sihang warehouse, some told them the intelligence of the Japanese army, some secretly connected telephone lines for them, and even the foreign soldiers in the concession were also touched by Xie Jinyuan's spirit, calling the defenders of the Sihang warehouse "brave Chinese death squads."
▲ The bridge crossing scene in the movie
Due to the unique location of the Sihang warehouse, which was only separated from the British and French concessions by a river, the crazy attack of the Japanese army also caused a lot of losses to the concession, so the British and French countries began to put pressure on the Japanese army and the Nationalist government, in this case, Xie Jinyuan had to give up resistance and lead the troops into the concession. However, after entering the concession, they were disarmed and arranged to be guarded by the Russians in a 15-acre area.
03
In 1940, Wang Jingwei established a treasonous puppet regime, and he admired Xie Jinyuan and repeatedly sent people to try to win him over with heavy money, but they were all rejected by Xie Jinyuan's righteous words. This made Wang Jingwei angry, since he could not be used by me, he could not become a helper for the enemy. Therefore, under the arrangement and planning of the Japanese puppets, four of Xie Jinyuan's men were plotted to carry out the assassination operation.
▲The architecture of the Shanghai Concession
In the early morning of one day, Xie Jinyuan led the soldiers to get up and run as before, in the process Xie Jinyuan was almost defenseless, so Hao Dingcheng, Long Yaoliang, Zhang Wenqing, and Zhang Guoshun saw the opportunity to suddenly launch an attack on Xie Jinyuan, and Xie Jinyuan was outnumbered and eventually seriously injured and fell to the ground. Although Xie Jinyuan was sent to the hospital, due to his serious injuries, he finally died heroically, only 37 years old, which can be described as a heroic ambition to die before he was paid, and it was regrettable that he was martyred.
▲ People say goodbye to heroes
The news of Xie Jinyuan's assassination and sacrifice quickly spread in society, and people accused the Japanese puppet regime of going to mourn spontaneously at the same time, and for a time Shanghai was empty of people, and everyone hoped to see the last side of this hero who desperately defended Shanghai. According to statistics, at least 300,000 Shanghai citizens went to Xie Jinyuan's troop garrison at that time. However, Hao Dingcheng, Long Yaoliang, Zhang Wenqing, and Zhang Guoshun were violently beaten by Xie Jinyuan's subordinates and sent to the lending authorities, and finally sentenced to death.
epilogue
The defense battle fought by Xie Jinyuan and hundreds of his warriors at the Sixing Warehouse was an important battle against Japan that has gone down in history and textbooks. Although the scale of this battle was small, it was of far-reaching significance, especially in reviving the morale of china's military and people who had been frustrated in the Battle of Songhu. Although General Xie Jinyuan was killed at the hands of a villain, his heroic deeds have been passed down to this day, which is touching and admirable.