Recently, because Guan Hu's "Eight Hundred" was released on major platforms, so I decided to brush this movie twice, which was nothing, but after watching it a second time, I found that we were all deceived by Guan Hu, in fact, the eight hundred people are not so glorious, and even the end is extremely desolate, you can use the abandoned son to describe this group of soldiers, then, today we will talk about the real "Eight Hundred" is what the situation is.
First of all, unlike in the movie, the soldiers took the initiative to stay, the real Eight Hundred were left by them, and the old Chiang Kai-shek at that time thought that a unit should be left in Shanghai so that it could gain a certain advantage in international public opinion in the future, but the order above was to leave a division of troops, and under the subcontracting of things layer by layer, the number of troops left behind was reduced again and again, and in the end, there were less than 400 people left.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are discarded pawns, the purpose of their real adherence here is just to show a performance for foreigners, because the entire Battle of Songhu was a military action made by Lao Jiang in order to internationalize the situation, but what he did not expect was that the Songhu Battle was lost, and Lao Jiang wanted to leave a division of troops for foreigners in the concession to see, but later the remaining troops were deleted and deleted, and finally 400 people were left to Xie Jinyuan, and Xie Jinyuan lied that it was 800 people in order to confuse others. So there is the saying of eight hundred.
In addition, Guan Hu deliberately exaggerated the fierceness of the entire Japanese army in the movie, because the outside of the Sihang warehouse at that time was the British concession, so that the Japanese army did not dare to use heavy artillery to bomb, so the Japanese army's offensive was not so fierce, but sent a small group of troops to attack the Sihang warehouse, but in the movie, it evolved into the Japanese army using large troops to attack the warehouse.
What is even more ironic is that at the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 88th Division, where the warehouse troops were located, received 260,000 silver dollars allocated by the Nationalist government to build combat fortifications, but he did not expect that Sun Yuanliang had embezzled all the war funds, resulting in the Battle of Songhu, many troops died in the artillery attack of the Japanese army because they did not have money to strengthen their positions, and even did not see the face of the Japanese army.
What is even more ironic is that after the Negotiations between the Nationalist Government and the British Government, they agreed to withdraw Xie Jinyuan's troops to the concession, but when they withdrew to the concession, they were disarmed by the British army, and all of them were treated as prisoners of war. They were targeted by the British, and even Xie Jinyuan was killed by his own men.
Later, with the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army began to enter the concession, once again captured the former Eight Hundred, sent them all to the Pacific Battlefield, and finally at the end of World War II, there were less than 100 people left alive, and more ironically, Sun Yuanliang, who abandoned them, did not forget to wash himself in his old age, and all the credit for the troops he abandoned was deducted to his own head.
So, this is why I said don't be deceived by Guan Hu's movie, I found that Guan Hu really doesn't know how to say people for some time, he has been engaged in small actions in the open and in the dark, such as the "King Kong Chuan" made some time ago, people actually wear a US Navy hat, and even poke in the movie to say what the Americans let us go, I really don't know how to say Guan Hu.