Chapter 57: Xie Jinyuan

On February 16, 1932, after the 19th day of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Zhang Zhizhong went to the battlefield. Late at night 15 days before departure, he got up and opened the window and wrote a suicide note facing his hometown: "It is the autumn of the survival of the country and the nation, and as a soldier in the middle of the country, I should go to the frontier to fight and defend my sacred territory, but I beg for a horse leather shroud, and I am unwilling to endure humiliation and steal my life, such as unfortunate sacrifice, I hope to arouse the whole people to resist the war of resistance with a bloody head, go forward and follow, persist in fighting, resist power, and defend our country's land ......"

Early in the morning of February 17, Jin Zhao got up early to watch the recruit training. After a few days of recruitment, the Reading Force Group has expanded to more than 500 people, but most of them are newly recruited recruits, and less than 200 people are elite soldiers summoned by Jin Zhao through the system. The situation in Shanghai is critical, and the war is about to break out, Jin Zhao naturally wants to step up the training of these recruits, Jin Zhao naturally will not be stupid to think that after a few days of intensive training, these recruits can become elite soldiers, but this can at least increase their chances of survival on the battlefield, Jin Zhao does not want these hot-blooded young people to become cannon fodder on the battlefield.

"Brother Meng Bo, don't come here if you haven't seen you for many years!" Jin Zhao was watching intently, and suddenly there was a hearty laugh behind him. Jin Zhao couldn't help frowning, and couldn't help but scold in his heart, I said! Meng Bo is the character of Jin Zhao. But in the army, few people call Jin Zhao the word, and his subordinates naturally call Jin Zhao the Jin battalion commander, and now he should be called Jin Regiment Commander. As for the bosses such as Weng Zhaoyuan and others, most of them called Jin Zhao's name, although during the Republic of China, it was a bit disrespectful to call him by his name, but after all, it was not as serious as in ancient times. In addition, Jin Zhao has never been a responsible person, he always causes trouble, and his boss has a headache when he sees him, so he naturally will not be polite to Jin Zhao, so he usually calls him by his name. As soon as he thought of this unlucky word, Jin Zhao couldn't help but scold in his heart, Meng Bo? Lao Tzu's morning erection is real, and occasionally he will have dreams. This word that Jin Zhao feels extremely sad is that his father is looking for someone to help him start, and Jin Zhao's father is also a big boss, so naturally he will not know some college scholars. When Lao Jin got a middle-aged child, he was very excited, found an old talent he knew, and gave Jin Zhao such a name, and by the way, even the words were chosen. According to the convention, men will only take the words after the crown salute at the age of twenty, and of course, there are also people like Jin Zhao and his father who take the words in advance. Although Lao Jin hung up before Jin Zhao grew to the age of twenty, the dead ghost Jin Zhao still used the sad word Meng Bo given by his father according to Lao Jin's meaning.

Jin Zhao heard someone call him Brother Meng Bo, and knew that someone from outside had come to look for him. Looking back, I saw a man in his twenties dressed in a major's uniform walking towards him with a smile, Jin Zhao looked at it carefully for a long time before digging out the information of the person in front of him from the depths of his memory, so he greeted him with a smile, "Brother Zhongmin!" What kind of wind is blowing, it actually blew you, brother. ”

Jin Zhao grabbed the hand of the person who came, followed by a bear hug, and said with a smile, "Brother Zhongmin, farewell to Huangpu, we haven't seen each other for five years!" It's rare to see you today, you and my brother don't get drunk and don't return, by the way, Brother Zhongmin, aren't you serving in Wuhan? How did you get to Shanghai? ”

The visitor smiled and said, "I naturally came to Shanghai for official business, so let's do official business first, and then continue our personal relationship." Saying that, the man brushed up, saluted Jin Zhao with a standard military salute, and said loudly, "Report to the chief, Xie Jinyuan, the chief of staff of the major of the 19th Route Army's Reading Force, came to report, please instruct." ”

Yes, the person in front of him is Xie Jinyuan. Now Xie Jinyuan is still a small major staff officer, and his reputation is not obvious. However, at the time of the Battle of Shanghai on August 13, Xie Jinyuan became famous in the first battle and became famous at home and abroad.

In 1937, in the Battle of Songhu, after the outbreak of the "August 13" Anti-Japanese War, the army suffered repeated setbacks and continued to increase reinforcements. On October 26, the army broke through the Dachang defense line in an attempt to cut off the rear road of the [***] team in Zhabei and Jiangwan, and the situation was very critical. Xie Jinyuan was ordered to lead 411 officers and soldiers of the first battalion of the 524th Regiment to the south, stay in Zhabei, and cover the retreat of the large army. Xie Jinyuan led his troops through the enemy's heavy artillery fire and entered the Sixing warehouse in the north of Suzhou at 2 o'clock in the morning of the 27th. He was ordered to lead his troops to defend the Sixing warehouse in Shanghai, held on for 4 days and 4 nights, repelled 6 attacks by the Yue army, and was compared with the 500 righteous soldiers of Tian Heng when the Chu and Han Dynasty were fighting with the newspapers and media at that time, and was called "800 strong men", and Xie Jinyuan's British name was also widely praised by the people. Soon, a song titled "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes" was also created: "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 in the eastern battlefield. There is artillery fire on all sides, and jackals on all sides, preferring to die rather than retreat, and would rather die than surrender. Our flag is waving in the encirclement! Waft! Waft! Waft! Waft! Eight hundred strong men have one heart, and 100,000 strong enemies dare not be it. Our actions are magnificent! Our integrity is magnificent! Fellow citizens! Get up! Fellow citizens! Get up! Hurry up to the battlefield and take the 800 heroes as an example. China will not die! China will not die! "The deeds of the head of the regiment Xie leading the 800 heroes to fight the Sixing warehouse alone and bloodily, along with this song "Song of 800 Heroes", spread all over the north and south of the river, inside and outside the Great Wall, inspiring countless Chinese sons and daughters to fight for the country and resolutely resist the Yuekou.

However, the ending of Commander Xie and the eight hundred heroes is inevitably embarrassing. After holding on to the Sixing warehouse for four days and nights, Regiment Commander Xie was ordered to withdraw into the Shanghai Concession. The British army in the concession was disarmed under the pretext of being placed in a temporary barracks on the edge of Jiaozhou Park. Xie Jinyuan always wanted to return to the team, but the Shanghai concession was reduced to an isolated island and there was no way out. At that time, the Lone Military Camp became a beacon shining throughout Shanghai, and people visited it every day. Xie Jinyuan governed the army very strictly, raised the flag, went to work, studied every day, and lived in an orderly manner, and everyone was waiting for the day to return to the battlefield. The unfortunate incident occurred in the early morning of April 24, 1941, when four unscrupulous soldiers colluded with the outside world and were bribed by Wang's puppet political axe and became Han annihilation. Taking advantage of the early time, he slammed Xie on the head and chest with a dagger and an iron pickaxe, Xie bled and fell to the ground, and died soon after, at the age of 37. The incident shook the nation. The next day, a funeral ceremony was held in the lonely military camp, and more than 60,000 people went to mourn. In December of the same year, the Combined Fleet attacked Pearl Harbor, the base of the US Pacific Fleet, and the Pacific War broke out.

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