Yesterday, director Guan Hu’s "Yu Hundred" filming sparked a movie-watching boom. The former site of the four-line warehouse located on the Suzhou River in Shanghai has entered the attention of many people from an obscure and unpopular memorial hall. I believe that with the movie’s popularity , Here will become a new check-in point for many people to Shanghai. Many netizens sincerely said: "After watching "Eight Hundred", I just want to go to the Shanghai Sixing Warehouse Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall to lay flowers and bow deeply."
The Sixing Warehouse Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall is located in the center of Shanghai, away from Tibet on the Suzhou River. The road and bridge are close at hand, and you can walk from the bustling Nanjing Road Xizang intersection. There are not many visitors here on weekdays. The reason why it is called Sixing Warehouse is that it is a trust warehouse jointly funded and constructed by the four banks of Old Shanghai Jincheng, Zhongnan, Mainland China and Salt Industry. It was built in 1931. It was a six-story building with an ordinary appearance of reinforced concrete structure, with a construction area of 20,000 square meters. It was the tallest and largest building in Zhabei at that time. During the battle of in Songhu and , Xie Jinyuan led the 1st Battalion of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division of the National Revolutionary Army (known as the 524 regiment to the outside world) and more than 420 officers and men were trapped here for 4 days and 4 nights, fighting with the aggressive Japanese army. . In order to confuse the Japanese army, Xie Jinyuan claimed to have 800 people, so it was called " eight hundred heroes " in history.
On August 13, 2015, on the 78th anniversary of the Battle of Shanghai, Shanghai invested a huge amount of money to renovate a new Sixing Warehouse Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall officially opened. The western wall of the building deliberately retains traces of war. The dense bullet holes and gaps made by shells on the wall silently tell of the tragic scene that happened here 83 years ago.
At that time, the National Revolutionary Army 420 more than 420 officers and soldiers who were trapped in the four-line warehouse held the belief that they must die. From the lieutenant colonel’s regiment attached Xie Jinyuan to the ordinary first soldier, each wrote a letter of will to his family. Walking into the memorial hall, you can see a huge letterhead between the two group sculptures. This is the letter Xie Jinyuan wrote to his wife Ling Weicheng on the eve of the Songhu Battle.
"My Wife’s Love Lesson:
will soon lead his troops into Shanghai Song to participate in the war, and special revisions will be made to comfort the long distance. I am half of China’s rivers and mountains, eroded by the day, the country is subjugated and the scourge of species is lost. , The descendants have no class. Killing the enemy for the country is the revolutionary soldier's ambition; and the soldier is not suitable for a family, I have it now, and the complex is weak, my relatives are small, my heart is not iron stone, I can have nothing Familiar? But the duty lies in the country’s responsibility, and we cannot take care of the family. Lao Qing takes full responsibility for the condolences of the old relatives, the upbringing of children, all the measures of housework, and the distraction of travellers..."
This is a memorial hall. The model of the four-line warehouse in the house. At 6 o'clock in the morning on October 27, 1937, the Japanese army surrounded Sixing Warehouse from all sides. Since the east and south sides of Sihang Warehouse are concessions, and there are two huge gas tanks 100 meters away. In case of an explosion, the British will strongly counterattack, so the Japanese dare not use planes or use them. For heavy artillery bombardment, only light artillery fire, machine guns swept and arson was used everywhere. The Chinese defenders' machine guns and grenades in the
warehouse fought back fiercely at the Japanese army. On the first day, they repelled multiple attacks by the Japanese army. More than 80 Japanese soldiers died, while none of the Chinese defenders died!
The next day, the Japanese attacked again, and the Chinese defenders continued to fight back bravely. The Japanese army, which had been unable to attack for a long time, organized a squad of more than a dozen people, and sneaked to the bottom of the warehouse under the thick steel plate, trying to use explosives to blast a breakthrough on the bottom wall of the warehouse. Because this is a dead spot for shooting, the Chinese defenders could not shoot the Japanese. At the moment of the moment, the 21-year-old death squad member Chen Shusheng was strapped with grenades and high explosives, opened the fuse, jumped from the 5th floor, and jumped into the Japanese army who wanted to carry out blasting. With a loud noise, Chen Shusheng and a dozen Japanese soldiers returned home together. This scene shocked the people watching the battle on the other side of the Suzhou River!
Late on the 28th, Yang Huimin, a 14-year-old boy scout girl, risked her life in the dark night to send a national flag to the guards of the Four Lines Warehouse. In the early morning of the 29th, the Chinese national flag was slowly raised on the roof of the four-row warehouse. Although the Japanese army organized firepower to take the national flag down, it failed to succeed. The Chinese people in the concession on the other side of the Suzhou River were so excited that they took off their hats to pay tribute, Chanting slogans. Shanghai’s "Shenzhen" reported that day: "The morning sun came early, the national flag was fluttering, and the people across the river passed by here, taking off their hats and bowing, and were moved to tears." The bloody sacrifices made by the guards of the Four Lines Warehouse won the sympathy and support of the international community. On October 30, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries demanded that the fighting be stopped for "humanitarian reasons." The Chinese side believed that the purpose of sticking to the Sixing Warehouse had been achieved, and ordered the troops to withdraw from the Sixing Warehouse on October 31. On October 31st, Major General Smalley, the commander-in-chief of the British Army in Shanghai, personally came to the Suzhou Creek New Garbage Bridge (now Tibet Road Bridge) to command the British forces to suppress the Japanese firepower and cover the safe evacuation of the warriors. In just four days, Xie Jinyuan led the Chinese soldiers to repel dozens of Japanese attacks, killing more than 200 Japanese soldiers and wounding countless people. Our side only killed 9 people and wounded more than 20 people. The four-line warehouse defense battle was a complete victory.
The film did not reveal the ending of the nearly 400 heroes, because the ending is really tragic and extremely depressing. After retreating into the public concession, these guards were sent to the Jiaozhou Road Barracks (later called the lone army camp) for custody. During the period of detention, the four-strength lone army remained unyielding and maintained a national integrity that was not afraid of violence. However, in the early morning of April 24, 1941, Xie Jinyuan was stabbed to death in the solitary army camp by four soldiers bought by Wang Puppet No. 76 spy during the morning exercises. He was only 37 years old when he died. The National Government posthumously awarded him as a major general of the army infantry, and 250,000 Shanghai citizens went to the solitary camp to mourn General Xie Jinyuan.
December 8, 1941, after the outbreak of the Pacific War. On December 28, 1941, the Japanese army took over the isolated army camp from the public concession authorities. After failing to persuade the surrender, the Japanese dispersed the solitary officers and soldiers to Xiaolingwei in Nanjing, Nanxing Bridge in Hangzhou, Yuxikou in Wuhu, Anhui, and even Papua New Guinea as laborers. The solitary officers and soldiers adhere to the national integrity, rather than being traitors, and fight against Japanese forces in various forms. But most people are tortured to death while working as laborers. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, the surviving nearly 100 lone officers and soldiers were able to reunite in Shanghai.
"Heaven and earth are heroic, and the ages are awe-inspiring." The two walls of the memorial hall are engraved with the names and military ranks of all four heroes. The people will never forget them, the "eight hundred heroes" will go down in history forever!
