Today, the ill-fated movie "Yu Bai" is finally released.
"Eight Hundred" depicts the tragic story of the Kuomintang eight hundred heroes defending the Shanghai Sixing warehouse for 4 days and 4 nights. If you only watch movies, we don’t know how this war started, how it evolved, and how it ended?
To know the true history behind this movie, let's first talk about why the movie has twists and turns. When
first publicized, the film party invited Qin Han, the son of the war commander Sun Yuanliang , to the platform, which aroused dissatisfaction among netizens, because before the war started, Sun Yuanliang abandoned the soldiers and ran away! Letting this "runaway general" son stand is tantamount to an insult to the eight hundred heroes .
The story of the eight hundred warriors is a corner of the Battle of Songhu
To understand the eight hundred, you must understand the Battle of Songhu. In August 1937, the battle of Songhu and broke out. The Kuomintang organized 700,000 troops against Japan’s 300,000 troops. However, it was unexpected that the Kuomintang troops would be dumped in their own territory by the Japanese army. "Master" Chairman Chiang had to leave a small portion of his troops to fight guerrilla warfare in Shanghai to contain the Japanese army. This includes the eight hundred warriors who stick to the four-row warehouse .
The Battle of Songhu had many purposes. One was that Chiang Kai-shek was facing the pressure of the nation’s war of resistance and had to declare war on Japan; the other was to show off for Europe and the United States, hoping to concentrate superior forces and fight a beautiful turnaround, so as to gain support from European and American countries. And mediation. But I didn't expect that the army was defeated like a mountain. Instead, I saw the Kuomintang army's vulnerability. Therefore, most European and American countries stand on the side of Japan.
The real command of the eight hundred warriors is not Sun Yuanliang, but Xie Jinyuan
After the defeat of the Songhu Battle, Chiang Kai-shek assigned Sun Yuanliang to stay and command the urban guerrilla warfare, but Sun Yuanliang was a greedy man who was afraid of death. , But ran away. Nominally,
left Xie Jinyuan with 524 regiments. In fact, there is only one battalion. Most of the soldiers in this battalion are recruits from Hubei who have been in the army for less than 3 months. The only heavy weapon is 4 Type 24 water-cooled marks. Qin machine gun. The battle of
was very fierce, and a dense array of bullet holes can still be seen on the walls of the four-row warehouse.
The eight hundred warriors on the front line desperately resisted, but Chiang Kai-shek began to consider compromise. Some foreigners persuaded the defenders to surrender and submitted a petition to Chiang Kai-shek. But the Japanese general Matsui Ishine was very cunning. He pretended to agree to a cease-fire, but in fact he kept secret and suddenly attacked. This Matsui Ishigen Chinese will never forget, because he was the executioner of the Nanjing Massacre.
Xie Jinyuan saw the Japanese army saying nothing, so he had to resist desperately. However, his superiors asked to retreat, but he had no choice but to retreat to the concession. The four-line warehouse could only change hands to the Japanese army. The fate of
was even more disturbed. The guns were handed over and imprisoned for 4 years. The ending was bleak
376 of the 800 warriors successfully retreated into the concession. There was no celebration or feasting for them. The British immediately confiscated their weapons and kept them in detention. Lang Qiang went to prison and was imprisoned for 4 years.
After the Pearl Harbor incident broke out in 1941, Japan invaded Shanghai Concession . The warriors who adhered to the four-line warehouse became Japanese prisoners. Xie Jinyuan was commanded to be killed by Wang Puppet. The rest of the warriors were sent to various concentration camps by the Japanese. Cruelty to death, only a few managed to escape.
This is the ending that the movie "Yai Bai" did not tell us. The hero retreated to his own country, but was imprisoned by foreigners. For 4 years, no one helped them, and finally became the Japanese army.The captive was tortured to death.
There is such a scene in the movie "Eight Hundred", one side is the war of four rows of warehouses, and the other is the bright lights of the concession. I think that when the fighting ceases for a day, they look forward to the lights on the other side.
