After all, Gu Ji and Lao Ren are still on errands, and there are many big and small things in the French Concession every day. Especially now that No. 76 frequently enters the rental industry to arrest people, it is actually a diplomatic incident.

Gu Ji is busy with high-level affairs, and Lao Ren, as a middle-level cadre, has to deal with a lot of things every day. It wasn't until the end of the evening that Lao Ren hurried to the clinic, took off his hat and scolded No. 76 over there, and those traitors were all deflated and indiscriminate.

"Brother Pu doesn't know yet, right? When the Sixing warehouse was fighting badly......"

Now that he is familiar with it, Lao Ren's address to him has also switched from Mr. Pu at the beginning to Brother Pu.

At the beginning, the situation of the Nationalist army in Shanghai to resist Japan is very clear, although the results of the war are very clear today. In the newspaper, Pu Su also had a general understanding of the situation at that time, but what he heard from the witnesses was different.

At that time, after the Nationalist army retreated from the first line of defense in Shanghai, all kinds of traitors who had been hiding in the city took the opportunity to rise. Because of the particularity of the concession, many traitors were originally hidden in the concession.

As soon as the guns rang out, even though the concession was a neutral zone, the Chinese people living in it were unanimously and resolutely supportive of the War of Resistance.

A few days later, a traitor who worked as an interpreter for the Japanese army in the French Concession was recognized on the road, and everyone rushed up and punched and kicked him, and he beat him for about ten minutes until he was beaten to death.

Similar things happened that day in Xiafei Road and several other places. The Japanese military authorities immediately lodged a strong protest with the concessions, which believed that they could not control the matter.

They replied to the Japanese side that this kind of spontaneous behavior of the masses could not be prevented at all. Let the Japanese themselves withdraw those traitors and Korean lackeys into their Hongkou defense area.

After that, the traitors in the concession basically disappeared and did not dare to appear in public. There were a few trustees who were too late or reluctant to leave to ask Lao Ren to ask for protection from the patrol room, but Lao Ren naturally didn't want them.

Now a few traitors of the year have become No. 76, and they are considered to be people of the puppet national government, and they have begun to tremble and show off their power again.

Pu Su then asked about the war that year, and Lao Ren's expression immediately became solemn. After thinking about it for a while, he said that the national army was not all cowards, and the battlefield of Yunzaobang was won. The Wusong Fort also caused great losses to the Japanese ships, and the German Krupp artillery of the Nationalist Army blocked the river for a time.

The Ichi Warring States Army dispatched the elite to fight the Japanese army for a decisive battle. Countless Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded, and not many Japanese were able to escape back to the warships, and most of them were annihilated by the national army.

Later, the Japanese army dispatched planes to bomb and naval guns to open fire, and under the cover of sea, land and air firepower, a large number of marines dispatched to capture the Wusong Fort, and by the way, Baoshan was also occupied.

After the capture of Baoshan, a group of Japanese ronins and Koreans who came with the Japanese army, as well as some traitors, began to burn and loot, and robbed for three days in a row.

Until now, if the common people in the areas controlled by the Japanese army see that the Japanese army does not bow 90 degrees, they will be beaten half to death at the least, and they will be killed instantly. Therefore, it is too humiliating for ordinary people not to go to the Hongkou Defense Zone.

"Slaves in the dead country are not made by people!"

Speaking of this, Lao Ren took a sip hatefully.

In fact, he felt much better than most Shanghai residents, at least not in the French Concession. And he is also a privileged class.

The French had signed a concession agreement during the Qing Dynasty (April 6, 1849), which was the case in Shanghai when he was born. Therefore, I don't think that the concession is an encroached territory, but I think it is similar to renting a house......

In fact, this kind of understanding was also relatively common among the people at the bottom at that time.

In Lao Ren's narration, the citizens of Shanghai at that time could be described as united. The wounded soldiers of the national army, the materials at the front and other affairs, people from all walks of life rushed to do it. There are people who have money to pay, and everyone does not seek fame and fortune.

During that time, the fighting on the Dachang side was particularly fierce, and it was fought back and forth for more than a month, repeatedly tug-of-war, and it was not until the end of October that the national army was ordered to retreat. The retreat was covered by two battalions of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division, commanded by the regiment commander Han Xianyuan.

These two battalions were stationed at the division headquarters, that is, the Sixing warehouse.

The Japanese wanted to pursue the retreating Nationalist troops, and the two battalions covering were in the Sixing warehouse and opened heavy fire to block the attack.

Lao Ren said that at that time, many people in the concession climbed to the high-rise buildings to watch the exchange of guns and bullets. The Japanese did not dare to use heavy artillery, because next to the warehouse was a large gas bag.

The public concession sent a note to the Japanese military that once the gas pack exploded, a mile radius would be affected, and the Japanese army itself was in this range, so the two sides only fired at each other across the shore and never fired artillery.

The head of the regiment, Han Xianyuan, took the lead and died on the same day. Deputy Regiment Commander Xie Jinyuan continued to command, fighting day and night with 800 strong men.

During the Anti-Japanese War of the Zhabei National Army, the citizens of Shanghai have been continuously transporting supplies and food for the labor army. However, the road from the concession to Zhabei was interrupted after the Sixing warehouse was opened, and the materials were piled up on the side of the Suzhou Creek and could not be transported to the opposite side.

Everyone could only watch the 800 heroes fighting alone, and this scene also shocked the world at that time.

Lao Ren's original words: "Foreign reporters and foreign businessmen from all over the world are watching the battle on the other side, and many foreign reporters are taking pictures. After the shooting, they all took off their hats and saluted the strong men in the warehouse on the other side. I wished I could be ...... across the other side at the time."

Pu Su didn't think that the last sentence was bragging about Lao Ren, who always liked to talk big. He can understand that as a Chinese, it is very natural to have that kind of thought in that kind of scene.

Then Lao Ren told a touching scene he saw with his own eyes.

At that time, the telephone line between the concession and Zhabei was no longer available. There was a man here who knew the language of the flag and volunteered to wave the flag to the lone army on the other side of the river, asking them what they needed.

As a result, the opposite flag replied: "You don't need anything, you just want a national flag!" ”

Everyone knew the request from the other side at that time, but there was no way to send it across the river. Then Lao Ren said that he saw a girl soldier wrapping a national flag in a tarpaulin, jumping into the river in the rain of bullets and swimming to the opposite side to hand the flag to the defenders.

For a while, the applause on both sides of the strait was like thunder, and Lao Ren said that he was in tears. It didn't take long for the flag to rise on top of the warehouse opposite.

Lao Ren went on to say a lot, including the battle that took place in Nanshi.

Pu Su believed that the anti-Japanese attitude of the Nationalist Government was undoubtedly resolute at that time, and he really wanted to set up a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Shanghai.

Helpless, it is difficult to return. In the face of such an aggressive government as Japan, which has been planning for decades, although it is a small country, it is a sea power country with ships and aircraft. The war is also powerless, and the outcome is inevitable.

Since he talked about the war that year, Lao Ren also mentioned the wall of the concession.

The concession wall that Pu Su saw on the way to the workshop last time was actually not there before.

The French Concession is close to the southern city of Huajie, and the iron fence at the intersection of the Republic of China has long existed. However, starting from the diagonal bridge to the west of Huxi, it was originally not fortified. As soon as the cannon sounded, the French Concession calculated that the war would not end easily, so it built a two-zhang high wall along the entire concession of Lujiabang from the diagonal bridge overnight.

It took thousands of workers to complete the brick wall in three days, and Lao Ren also sent patrols to supervise the site for three days. (It's almost inconceivable to do such a lot of work in three days.) You can look at the map of the French Concession)

The same is true of the Public Concession. Along the defense area, around the entire concession, sandbags were laid on the one hand, and barbed wire fences were erected on the other hand, so as to ensure the safety of the citizens of the concession.

Therefore, it makes sense that it was not easy to live in the concession at that time. It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Wealthy people fled to Hong Kong, and those with military and political backgrounds were not allowed to leave, and the Nationalist Government also ordered them to board ships. Those who had no money fled in the direction of Zhejiang, and those who had money and could not leave their homeland poured into the concession.

The citizens of Shanghai also experienced a lot during that period, and they had a lot of experience in escaping. The Little Knife Society, the Battle of Mud City, the advance of the Northern Expeditionary Army and the exchange of fire between the Feng Army...... As long as there is a war, the citizens will run to the concession, and in the general people's concept, "the concession will always be a stable place." ”

But this time, many well-informed people with information from other countries had a hunch that war in the Pacific was also imminent.

At that time, the concession would not be able to maintain this stability.

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What is written here is basically a historical record. If you are interested, you can find it on Baidu.

Now that we are beginning to recognize the merits of the Nationalist Army in the frontal battlefield of resistance against Japan, I would like to roughly describe it as a violation of the ban.

"An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood!"

Salute to all the soldiers who fought for the country and sacrificed their lives honorably!

The Girl Scouts do have their own people to send flags.

Lin Qingxia played the prototype character in the movie "Eight Hundred Heroes".

On the night of October 28, Yang Huimin wrapped a 12-foot-long national flag of the Republic of China under the scout uniform he was wearing, braved the danger of war, set off from the public concession and successfully swam across the Suzhou Creek, and was received by General Xie Jinyuan, who delivered the national flag to the Sixing warehouse.