Shanghai, the British Concession near the Suzhou Creek.

Although Shanghai is now a mess, but inside the concession, still maintain good order, the British army guarded the concession gate, often clashed with the Japanese, the main reason is the British, refused to allow Japanese soldiers to enter the concession for inspection, and the result often ended in the victory of the British, the concession is now like a paradise in the flames of war.

The rich continue to be drunk and dreamy in the concession, the poor are struggling at the bottom, and more ordinary people are on the banks of the Suzhou Creek in the concession, observing the Sixing warehouses in the distance.

This is a habit, there is also a belief, every day, as long as they look at the blue sky and white sun flag on the roof of the Sixing Warehouse is still fluttering, their hearts are very stable, a large group of people sit on the bank of the Suzhou Creek every day, staring at the top floor of the Sixing Warehouse in the distance, day after day.

Even if there were stray bullets flying around, even if the British patrols came to chase them, even if the Japanese patrol boats were shouting for them to get out of the way from the shore, they still stuck here, staring at the sunny day.

But today, early in the morning of November 2, there was a loud bang from the Sixing warehouse.

Before all the people on the other side of the Suzhou Creek could react, they saw that the flagpole was standing, and it suddenly and slowly fell to the side.

"Poured, poured!"

"It's down!"

"The flag is down!"

"Don't pour!"

In the exclamation of all the people, the national flag on the top floor of the Sixing warehouse slowly fell, and finally slowly fell from the top floor, and everyone's eyes were staring at the national flag, watching him fall little by little.

When the national flag fell, there was a death-like silence around, and no sound came, and then a girl standing in the front suddenly cried.

Soon the cry infected everyone, and the thousands of people gathered around cried together, and their current spiritual pillar collapsed, representing the last resistance in Shanghai, which no longer existed.

"Brothers, sisters, compatriots, let's not cry, we should be proud!" At this time, a young man with a bullhorn who shouted various slogans every day wiped his tears, stood on a high place, and shouted loudly.

"The soldiers of the Sixing Warehouse, with a crowd of 800 people, fought against tens of thousands of Japanese people, held on for six days, killed more than 10,000 Japanese prisoners, wounded countless enemies, and killed countless Japanese officers, although they have all sacrificed, but their spirit should be remembered, do you still remember the songs we wrote for them? Follow me and sing along! ”

"Good!"

The young man immediately found a high place and stood up, and slowly spoke: China will not die, China will not die, you see the national hero Commander Xie.

China will not die, China will not die, you see those 800 heroes fighting alone to defend the battlefield, all sides are artillery fire, all sides are jackals, would rather die in battle than retreat, rather die in battle than surrender.

Our flag fluttered and fluttered and fluttered in the midst of the encirclement.

Eight hundred strong men have one heart, 100,000 strong enemies cannot stop our great actions, our heroic compatriots get up, compatriots get up and hurry up to the battlefield, take the eight hundred heroes as an example, China will not die, China will not die, China will not die, China will not die, China will not die, China will not die, China will not die! It won't die! It won't die!

Everyone present, everyone sang this song together, at first the sound was not loud, everyone was slowly, choking, but as everyone stopped crying, the voice became louder and louder, the song fluttered over the whole Shanghai, as long as the people who heard this melody, whether they could sing or not, they were singing and singing in unison.

(This song is called "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes", which is a song written by Du Taosheng and composed by Xia Zhiqiu, which was later renamed "China Will Not Die" and widely sung, and later changed its name to "China Must Be Strong" after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.) This song was used as an interlude in the movie "Rich Corps")

The people on the banks of the Suzhou Creek sang this song over and over again, again and again, for a long time, sending off the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse, so that these heroes could walk the last part of the road.

On the fourth floor of the Sixing warehouse, the huge explosion on the fifth floor collapsed the floor slab on the fifth floor, and Yamaguchi Kazuki, who was waiting for news on the fourth floor, heard a huge explosion from the roof, and then felt the ground shake, and before he could stand firmly, there were large pieces of concrete and other things falling on the roof.

One stone slab after another and various things, fell from the roof of the building, and the Japanese soldiers who did not react in time were instantly buried in the rubble, and Yamaguchi Kazuki was the most miserable, his head was hit by a large stone slab and became flattened directly.

There was silence around the Sixing warehouse, and the Japanese commander a few hundred meters away, Ito Masaki, put down the telescope in his hand a little tiredly: "Have you taken it?" ”

The staff officer beside him heard the huge explosion just now, and he was a little unsure whether he had taken the Sixing warehouse, and his face was worried: "It should be taken, there are only a few people left in the defenders, and there should be no problem for us to attack with hundreds of people!" ”

Now none of the Japanese officers dared to say that the Sixing warehouse must have been taken down, tens of thousands of people attacked for six days, but they did not take 800 people, and hundreds of people attacked and wanted to take down dozens of garrisoned warehouses, as if they needed to add a zero.

"Send another brigade up and see what's going on!"

"Yes!"

The matter of attacking the Sixing Warehouse finally fell on Ito Masaki, after all, he has been fighting for so long and has experience, and he can also be used to take the blame if something happens.

When a brigade under Ito Masaki climbed up to the fourth floor, he found that the fourth and fifth floors of the Sixing Warehouse had been penetrated, and the fifth floor had also collapsed, and the headquarters that had stood on the fourth floor before could no longer be found, and only the corpses in one place could be seen, as well as some stumps buried under the rubble.

"Help!"

"Pain, pain, pain, help me!"

Some of the Japanese soldiers who were not dead shouted for help, but the soldiers of this brigade did not dare to move to save people, and they were now unsure if there were any other Chinese defenders in the Sixing warehouse.

Hundreds of men cautiously groped their way through the warehouse with guns in hand, occasionally turning their heads to look elsewhere, looking for possible enemies.

In this way, after a group of Japanese soldiers inspected the Sixing warehouse for a while, they dared to determine that there were no Chinese defenders in the Sixing warehouse, and the Sixing warehouse had been taken down by them.

"Division commander, we have taken down the Sixing warehouse!" The captain rushed into Ito Masaki's headquarters with an excited face, and fell several times along the way, and the excited expression on his face couldn't be controlled at all.

Masaki Ito's face showed joy: "Did you take it?" Great, let's go! ”

"Division commander, we haven't thoroughly inspected the warehouse, I don't know if there are still some wounded soldiers inside, after we check it and make sure it's safe, you can go in!"

Ito Masaki nodded, sat down in his place, sat back in his place again, and continued to wait.

About half of the Japanese entered the Sixing warehouse again, and once again began to get busy, first of all, to count the results.

The Japanese soldiers removed all the corpses of Chinese soldiers from the warehouse, and in order to prevent the wounded soldiers from pretending to be dead, the Japanese soldiers would shoot each corpse before approaching it, and only drag it after they were sure that they were dead.

The Japanese soldiers were silent the whole time, and almost every corpse they saw, except for those that had been properly placed and had not been placed, remained in a fighting position.

Some of the corpses had been cold for a long time, but they were still holding their weapons tightly in their hands, their eyes were staring ahead, not at all like sacrifices, and when a few soldiers approached, they didn't dare to touch them easily, for fear that the soldier would take out a grenade and die with them.

In the end, more than 180 corpses were found from the Sixing warehouse, and in addition, even if the Japanese turned the entire Sixing warehouse upside down, they did not find any more corpses, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.

"Only a hundred and eighty corpses?"

After repeatedly checking the number of corpses, Ito looked at the officer beside him.

"Ha Yi, division commander, we searched the entire Sixing warehouse and only found one hundred and eighty corpses, no more corpses!"

Ito Masaki walked briskly again, sweeping over all the corpses, these sacrificed Chinese soldiers were very thin, Ito Masaki couldn't believe that it was this group of people who actually blocked his attack.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible, Baga, you must have missed something, what about the fourth floor, what about the fifth floor, have you found them? Didn't the four-line warehouse still have a sixth floor in the past! ”

Ito was pacing back and forth, only a hundred people, and he actually blocked the empire's tens of thousands of troops for six days? If this news were to get out, the Japanese would become the biggest joke in the world, even inferior to the Italian army.

"The Chinese army is very cunning, they must have used some method, hid the corpses, went to dig in the ground, must dig them up for me!"

The Japanese soldiers were busy again, and this time they began to dig three feet into the ground, and in any case, the Japanese did not want to believe that their results were only more than 100 people, not even more than 200 people.

"Tell those reporters not to scribble, not to take pictures!"

"Hayi!"

The Japanese are very concerned about the situation in the Sixing warehouse, and there are reporters accompanying the army at the location of Ito Masaki's division and regiment headquarters, and if there is only such a little success, Ito Masaki may not be able to keep the position of division commander.

"Sir, the corpses of some of our warriors were found on the first floor, they were piled together, but there were no clothes on them!"

"Nani?"

When Ito Masaki heard this, he froze in place, had a bad thought in his mind, and rushed to the first floor like crazy to check the area that his subordinates said.