The popular movie "Eight Hundred" in 2020 is popular all over the mainland, and the film vividly reproduces the heroic deeds of the eight hundred heroes who insisted on the "Four Elements" warehouse in the "Four Elements" warehouse in 1937 during the Songhu War of Resistance, and the Chinese people were all moved.
However, after all, a movie is nothing more than an artistic expression, and its scenes and historical facts are slightly biased. In fact, Xie Jinyuan's troops, who were holding the "Four Elements" warehouse, were only a battalion of the 524th Regiment of the 262nd Brigade of the Kuomintang 88th Division, and more than 400 people were trapped in the "lonely camp" after exiting the "Four Elements" warehouse and entering the British concession, while Xie Jinyuan was brutally killed by the traitor Wang Jingwei.
After 4 days and 4 nights of bloody fighting in the "Four Elements" warehouse, 800 brave soldiers repelled several attacks by more than 10,000 Japanese Kou, killing more than 200 Japanese troops and wounding countless enemies at the slight cost of sacrificing 5 and 26 wounded.
On October 31, Chiang Kai-shek rewarded the officers and men of the 524th Regiment who insisted on sticking to the "Four Elements" warehouse, and ordered all officers and men of the regiment to be promoted to the first level, and to give preferential pensions to the families of the martyrs and the injured. At the same time, the regiment was ordered to abandon the last position in Zhabei, withdraw from the "Four Lines" warehouse, and enter the public concession.
After receiving the order to retreat, Xie Jinyuan and the eight hundred brave men had to tearfully withdraw from the "Four Elements" warehouse position and cross the bridge over the Suzhou Creek into the public concession.
Xie Jinyuan originally wanted to lead his troops through the public concession to the western front of Shanghai to return to the original troops, but did not want to enter the public concession as soon as he entered the public concession, he was disarmed by the British army under the pretext of being completely armed and detained in a temporary barracks in the dog farm in Shenyuan, Jiaozhou Road.
At the time, people called it a "lone camp."
Saying that it was a barracks, but there were no facilities inside, Xie Jinyuan led the soldiers to build a temporary barracks with reed mats because of their ugliness. The barracks were surrounded by a layer of solid barbed wire, and the gate was guarded day and night by armed armed merchants of the Ministry of Works and Bureaus of the Public Concession, who were guarded step by step and guarded layer by layer, and eight hundred brave men temporarily lost their personal freedom.
The public concession treated the eight hundred brave men very harshly, not only confiscating all their equipment, but also cutting off their supplies. After learning about this situation, the citizens of Shanghai extended a helping hand, donated money and materials, sent food and vegetables, and ensured the basic daily needs of the brave men.
After being trapped in the "lone army camp" for 12 days, Shanghai Nanshi was captured by the Japanese army, and the public concession was also surrounded by the Japanese army and became an isolated island. The "lone army camp" is on an isolated island, with no equipment and no supplies, and its situation is very dangerous.
However, Xie Jinyuan was overwhelmed with courage and never slackened his ambition to resist the enemy. This can be seen from the poems he wrote: bravely killing eight hundred soldiers, and relying on poetry for a hundred boredoms. Who pities the patriotic thousand lines of tears, speaking of the undead are uneven.
In the "lone army camp", the eight hundred strong men are no different from the "prisoners", and their personal freedom is strictly restricted, and they cannot move around at will, let alone allow them to take half a step out of the "lone army camp".
Although they were deeply imprisoned, the eight hundred brave men and men were strictly disciplined and still insisted on holding a flag-raising ceremony before the morning exercise every day, but they were wantonly interfered with by the concession authorities and were not allowed to hold the flag-raising ceremony. Helplessly, Xie Jinyuan led all officers and men to change the flag-raising ceremony to another kind of ceremony -- "spiritual flag-raising," that is, every morning before the exercise, all officers and men stood solemnly with their heads held high and marched to the sky to express their love for the motherland and their determination to resist to the end.
As the situation on the isolated island continued to deteriorate, the threats and inducements of the Japanese army and the Wang puppet government to Xie Jinyuan became more and more frequent.
The Japanese army had threatened to kidnap Xie Jinyuan at all costs, and the Japanese and pseudo secret service agencies had thrown out 500,000 yuan and the favorable conditions of the army division commander in order to bribe Xie Jinyuan, but Xie Jinyuan sternly refused.
After the traitor Wang Jingwei established a puppet national government in Nanjing, he also gave Xie Jinyuan a high-ranking official Houlu in a vain attempt to promote his obedience, and once appointed a high-ranking official to act as a lobbyist, and Xu Yi, a high-ranking official of the commander-in-chief of the army, Houlu, was severely reprimanded by Xie Jinyuan: "Er and other acts, conscience is lost, confess thief as father, willing to be Zhang Bangchang, willing to be a slave to the country." I was born as a Chinese, died as a Chinese ghost, to protect the country and the people as my duty, Yu Zhi has decided, by no means any willing words and inducements can move, Hugh with dogs is not as good as words to defile me, you go quickly, Hugh nonsense. ”
In order to show their will, and at the same time to better encourage everyone to strengthen their confidence, it is required that all officers and men should put the general interests of the nation first and the interests of the country first, swear allegiance to the motherland to the death, and resolutely not be national scum. To this end, Xie Jinyuan also publicly made a will, reiterating his determination to die to serve the country" ": The situation in Shanghai has deteriorated, the concession itself is difficult to protect, and the enemy's attempt against men is inevitable. The great husband is born brightly, and he will die in the light, and the man will seek benevolence and benevolence in the righteousness of death and life, and the will of Taishan Hongmao will be careful. There must be a death in life, and death in the here and now is also the pleasure of life. "The awe-inspiring spirit of righteousness that sees death as a homecoming is overflowing with words.
Eight hundred brave men were trapped in the "lone army camp" for 4 years, always adhering to their loyalty to the motherland and never doing anything harmful to the national character and personality.
At about 5:00 a.m. on April 24, 1941, as usual, Xie Jinyuan led the soldiers to exercise early. Hao Dingcheng, Zhang Wenqing, Zhang Guoshun, Long Yaoliang, and four other soldiers, who had been bribed by the traitor Wang Jingwei, deliberately arrived late, and just when Xie Jinyuan asked the reason, the scum of the four nationalities who had been prepared earlier suddenly pulled out their daggers and iron pickaxes prepared in advance, and aimed at Xie Jinyuan in a frenzy...
Caught off guard, Xie Jinyuan was hit in many key places in the head and chest, fell to the ground, bleeding profusely, and died on the spot, only 36 years old. The scum of the four nationalities was also chopped into meat paste by the officers and soldiers on the spot.
Whining and lamenting, sadly lamentable, the famous anti-Japanese hero did not die on the battlefield, but died at the hands of the national scum.
As soon as the bad news of Xie Jinyuan's death came out, the whole country was shocked. At the same time of shock, the electricity flew from all over the place like snowflakes. The next day, the officers and men of the "LoneLy Barracks" held a coffin ceremony for Xie Jinyuan, and subsequently, in just a few days, more than 300,000 people from compatriots from all walks of life in Shanghai went to the "Lonely Barracks" to mourn, and the traffic in Shanghai was blocked.
Chiang Kai-shek, Lin Sen, He Yingqin, Kong Xiangxi, Zhu Jiahua, and Gu Zhu, and other important Members of the Kuomintang also wrote inscriptions to express their condolences, and Chiang Kai-shek also sent a telegram to the whole country to express his condolences and issued an order to pay Xie Jinyuan's wife a special pension of 50,000 yuan, and the children left behind were raised by the state.
On May 8, Chiang Kai-shek again explicitly praised Xie Jinyuan and posthumously awarded him the title of major general of the army.
Chiang Kai-shek also sent a telegram to commend all the officers and men who adhered to the "lonely barracks," praising them as "loyal to the Japanese," and Mao Zedong also highly praised the eight hundred heroes as "national models."
On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War broke out.
Subsequently, the Japanese army openly entered the concession in an attempt to reorganize the officers and men of the "lone army camp" into a puppet army, but it was resolutely resisted by all officers and men.
Under the pressure of the Shanghai people and the public concession, the Japanese did not dare to kill the eight hundred heroes in the "lone army camp", and then sent them all to the areas occupied by the Japanese army to serve as coolies. Among them, some of the officers and men sent to Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, with the cooperation of the underground party of the CPC, experienced all kinds of difficulties and dangers and finally escaped to heaven, while the remaining brave soldiers were not so lucky, and experienced nine deaths in the areas occupied by the Japanese army.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, only more than a hundred brave men who served as coolies in the area occupied by the Japanese army returned to Shanghai, choosing to settle around the cemetery of regimental commander Xie Jinyuan and guard the tomb of their beloved regimental commander, who did not leave for many years.
The Kuomintang government ordered that Jiaozhou Road, where the "Four Elements" warehouse was located, be changed to Jinyuan Road and a monument was erected as a memorial.
[Adhere to the original, do not forget the original heart, remember the history, taste life, welcome attention, common progress】