Speaking of this, Lin Sen sighed again and continued: "After Sun Hao, the last emperors of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen almost all followed the same pattern and repeated the tragedy of history. The absurd Chen master Chen Shubao, when Han Baohu, the general of the Sui Dynasty, knocked on the Suzaku Gate, he also hugged Zhang Lihua's slow "Yushu Backyard Flower", leaving the laughing stock of 'Han Baohu outside the door, Zhang Lihua upstairs'. ”

The more Lin Sen's words were spoken, the more he heard them, the more he heard them, he couldn't help laughing, and said to Lin Sen: "Old Lin, I understand what you mean, please rest assured, I am a person who is loyal to the country through and through, and I will never surrender to the Japanese." I will fight to the end! ”

As he spoke, he suddenly opened his cuffs, took out a diary, flipped through it and said to Lin Sen: "Look at it, in my diary, almost every day I write the oath to resist the war to the end, and the man should die in the border field, and bury his ears with a horse leather shroud." ”

Lin Sen's gaze revealed a suspicious gaze.

The bald head swore and said, "Why is Lin Lao still not at ease? Do you know? I want the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate with Todman in order to buffer the speed of the Japanese attack, and to use the negotiation to fatally delay time, so that our side can prepare for a counterattack. Wang Chonghui of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can testify to these. ”

Lin Sen was finally convinced, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "I had a nightmare last night, so I came to bother you today, even if I didn't say it, even if I didn't say it, bother and bother." ”

He said goodbye and regretted the mansion.

The relocation of the capital was prepared in an orderly manner, and the troops of the Battle of Songhu also began to retreat to the rear.

At this time, with the meeting of the 'Nine-Power Pact' about to be held, the bald head urgently needs to fight a beautiful battle in Shanghai to show China's determination to resist the war, in the hope of winning international attention.

Strategy influences strategy, strategy influences tactics, and tactics affects combat.

Therefore, the highest is political strategy, and strategy is secondary, although the Battle of Songhu failed, it does not mean that political strategy failed.

At present, one of the biggest political strategies is actually to arouse the attention of the great powers to pay attention to the Sino-Japanese war and even intervene in mediation, based on such a political strategy, the bald head must persist in resistance in Shanghai, and only by persisting in resistance can the will of the Chinese army to resist the war be demonstrated, and only then can the praise of the great powers against China be demonstrated.

Only then will the great powers be willing to intervene in mediation.

If you don't want to fight, why should the great powers help you?

The war has lasted for 75 days, Zhabei is the first place where the Battle of Songhu started, and the 88th Division, which was the first to open the prelude to the Battle of Songhu, has also held Zhabei for 75 days.

With the Songhu battlefield, various units have been withdrawn one after another, and now they have become the last troops in the urban area to resist the war, the 88th Division will also be withdrawn as planned, and there will be no more Chinese troops in the Shanghai area.

Tossing.

Late at night on October 25, the bald head finally made up his mind, and Zhabei still ordered Pai to stay in a group. When the main force retreated westward, he wanted to leave a lone army on the north bank of Suzhou Creek to fight a battle for the whole world to see.

"Xia Yuan!"

This is not the first time that this name has appeared on the table, and the bald head looks at the exploits made by this name.

The combat effectiveness of the troops left behind must be able to go up, not only to be able to hold on to Shanghai, so that the great powers can see China's determination to resist the war, but also let the great powers see the combat effectiveness of the national army.

But unfortunately, with the end of the battle, he never received any information about this god of war, as if he had disappeared.

According to folk rumors, the god of war died in the counterattack of Fuzaohama, but no one knows whether this is the case.

So far, there has been no news about the God of War, as rumors have been heard.

Not only are many superiors of the national army paying close attention to this matter, but even the newspapers in many cities are quite concerned about the god of war, but unfortunately there is no news about him from the front.

Now the time is pressing, the front-line troops are retreating to the rear, there is only the 88th Division left in Shanghai, and only one unit is transferred from the 88th Division to stay in Shanghai, and it is too late to find this god of war at this time.

Early the next morning.

Gu Zhutong, the supreme commander of the National Army in the Shanghai Theater, made a phone call to the headquarters of the 88th Division, and Gu Zhutong told the division commander Sun Yuanliang on the phone, "The chairman wants the 88th Division to stay in Zhabei and defend Shanghai, what is your opinion?" ”

Sun Yuanliang thought for a while and replied: "I don't agree, if we die one person, the enemy will also die one, and even if we die ten people, and the enemy will die one, I will be willing to stay in Zhabei and defend Shanghai." But the most worrying thing is that we are isolated here, slaughtered by the enemy at will, that is not worth it, let alone honorable. ”

However, the bald man's mind had already been decided, and he said in a speech on the front line of Suzhou Creek: "This means that the spirit of our Chinese revolutionary soldiers, if we have a base area, we should die if we have to be ordered, and fight to the death with the enemy." Let people from all over the world know that we Chinese soldiers have the degree and spirit to fight for doctrine and die defending the country. ”

After much deliberation, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 88th Division, finally decided to send a reinforced battalion under his command to hold the north of Suzhou Creek, led by the 524th Regiment attached to Xie Jinyuan.

Their position is where the headquarters of the 88th Division is located, and the four rows of warehouses are located.

It is the end of the month, the autumn wind is becoming more and more desolate, what cannot be blown away is the gunpowder smoke and blood in Shanghai, and what cannot be taken away is the bones all over the ground.

An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood.

"Dachang has fallen, and the battle to defend the Sixing Warehouse is about to begin." Xia Yuan was wrapped in a large thick cotton jacket pulled out of the ruins, took off his dirty military uniform, wore a felt hat on his head, and pulled tea with his beard, and his face was like a withered face.

Wang Sangou was curled up in the corner, still asleep, and he didn't care about the war in Shanghai.

In the past few days, they have also been waiting for news.

Wang Sangou didn't dare to leave alone, he was unclear about the situation in the rear, and if he returned to Jinling independently, he was likely to be shot as a deserter, and finding someone to follow him was the safest thing at the moment.

Xia Yuan is that candidate.

They stayed here more to check the situation on the front line, and secondly, to wash off the smell of gunpowder on their bodies.

Xia Yuan was not worried about the defense of the Sixing Warehouse.

Most of the future films about the defense of the Sixing Warehouse have been artistically processed, riding a white horse to meet the Japanese commander, and a group of people standing tall around the flag, just to make the movie look more tragic.

In fact, the Sihang Warehouse was the reserve warehouse of the four banks of the mainland and Jincheng in those years, and the west and north sides of the warehouse had been occupied by the Japanese army at this time, and the south side was separated from the Suzhou Creek by the public lease, and the east side was also close to the public concession.

As the division headquarters, the warehouse has sufficient storage of grain and ammunition, and there is no need to worry about the consumption of grain and ammunition.

On the eve of the Anti-Japanese War, he sent his wife and children back to his hometown. ”

On the 26th, Xie Jinyuan was ordered to retreat with Yang Ruifu, the commander of the first battalion, and concentrated on the Sixing warehouse.

Late at night.

The reinforced battalion successfully entered the four-line warehouse.

In the process of fighting and retreating, the commander of the third company and the battalion commander Yang Ruifu were injured.

At dawn on the 27th, all 400 people entered the Sixing warehouse, and in order to confuse the Japanese army, they claimed 800 people.

This unit was the first battalion of the 524th Regiment, which was originally a reinforced battalion, with more than 800 people, and all of them died in the tragic battle of Fumohama.

And the army led by Xie Jinyuan is already the fifth batch of supplementary soldiers, most of them are members of the Hubei Security Regiment, very young, and they all lack combat experience, so more than 400 people, alone into the Sixing warehouse, to face the two crazy Japanese troops.

They all knew very well in their hearts that there was no return before.

In the early morning of the 27th, the Japanese army discovered the Chinese troops in the Sixing Warehouse and immediately launched an attack, and when they approached the Sihang Warehouse, they were fiercely attacked by the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse.

In this battle, dozens of enemies were killed, and after the arrival of the Chinese army, they knew how to build fortifications and came prepared, and there were almost no losses in this battle.

Reinforced concrete buildings, most of which are more than 30 centimeters thick, the Japanese army's 75-caliber guns cannot penetrate at all, the guns are even more useless, and the bombs of the aircraft are not so easy to accurately hit the Sixing warehouse, not to mention that the river is the public concession, in case the shells fall in the public concession, the Japanese army will inevitably be condemned by the international community.

This is exactly what the bald head is doing.

Therefore, the Japanese army did not dare to use too heavy firepower, for fear that if it did not hit the Sixing warehouse and hit the concession, the situation would not be very good for the Japanese army.

The Japanese could only conduct ground operations with infantry.

More than 400 people who stick to the Sixing warehouse, and they are German armor divisions, with quite sophisticated weapons and equipment, including mortars, machine guns, and all kinds of guns, Xie Jinyuan is quite talented in command, he has placed light and heavy machine guns on every floor, and there is a lot of food and ammunition in the warehouse, and he is not afraid of the consumption of ammunition at all.

There were also a large number of sacks filled with soybeans and wheat, and the four lines of defenders lined up the sacks on the door of the warehouse and the walls of each floor.

Xie Jinyuan equipped the entire Sixing warehouse into an airtight fortress.

The building on the west side of the Sixing warehouse has been occupied by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army used this four-story building to bombard the west side of the Sixing warehouse with flat-fire guns and machine guns.

The defenders of the Four Lines quickly took advantage of the gap blown up by the Japanese and launched a counterattack on the opposite side.

For two whole days, the heroic lone army of the Sixing Warehouse was attacked by several times the Japanese army, and steadily held the Sixing Warehouse, Xie Jinyuan asked the troops to put the Japanese army in, and then used light and heavy machine guns and grenades to push the Japanese army back.

The defenders who held the Sixing warehouse did not suffer too many casualties.

Due to the backing of the prosperous concession.

As a result, there are never-before-seen wonders on both sides of the Suzhou Creek.

Yingmei in the concession remembered that he sat in a café by the river, drinking coffee leisurely while watching the fierce battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies.

After several days of perseverance, the bravery of the Chinese army infected them. They saw that the Chinese army would rather die than give in, and the subsequent London report turned the Sino-Japanese war on a earth-shaking reversal, which changed the international people's perception of China very, very much.

The newspapers often say that it is heroic and incredible.

The war in the West was completely different from the Sino-Japanese war.

Even in the case of war, the Western world has signed many agreements and rules.

Their troops all have surrender criteria, and when they meet this standard, they can drop their guns and surrender under a white flag. He was also quite lenient in his treatment of prisoners of war, the most famous of which was that the Italian prisoners of war built their own prisoner of war camps.

And the medical soldiers, on the battlefield is even more sacred, the two sides of the war will never shoot each other's medical soldiers, they are quite clear in their hearts, they will always be injured one day, medical soldiers can save their lives, and therefore, in World War I and World War II, medical soldiers never take weapons on the battlefield, they also wear eye-catching red crosses, so that the opposing soldiers see that the enemy is a medical soldier, they will not shoot at it.

These medics never care if they are helping their own people or their enemies.

It is often seen that in the field hospital of my own home, there are wounded soldiers from the enemy camp.

This period did not change until the Pacific War.

The Japanese devils don't care if you are a medical soldier or what kind of soldier, let alone whether you hold a gun or not, so in the Pacific War, the casualties of medical soldiers were very high, and even medical soldiers began to pick up guns and fight with Japanese devils.

Therefore, when they saw that the defenders of the Sixing warehouse were isolated and helpless, they still resolutely refused to surrender, and in the face of several times the strength of the Japanese army, they stubbornly resisted and resisted, which brought a great shock to these Western gentlemen.

Even President Roosevelt's special envoy arrived in Shanghai, and after seeing the defense of the Sixing warehouse, he was quite surprised, how could the Chinese army be so able to fight at once.

Especially from the end of August to September, the defense line of the Nationalist army was quite difficult, so President Roosevelt's special envoy was quite surprised, and said in a telegram to President Roosevelt that it was very difficult to imagine that the Chinese army had such great resistance, especially the lone army of the four elements, and even displayed amazing bravery.

In the case of a foreign shock that the Chinese defenders fought so stubbornly.

The Chinese people in the concession also gathered on the south bank of the Suzhou Creek, applauding and cheering, shouting loudly to remind the Chinese army of the Japanese army's sneak attack route.

The British, as neutrals, advised the lone soldiers in the Sixing warehouse to give up resistance, and the answer was: "We live for China, and it is not a pity to die." ”

The major media and newspapers published the bravery and resoluteness of the defenders of the Four Elements, encouraged by the 'Eight Hundred Brave Men' who held the warehouses of the Four Elements, and despite the heavy casualties of the Chinese army, more and more young people asked to join the army.

The battle to defend the Sihang Warehouse undoubtedly affected the Chinese people in the concession and changed the perception of Chinese abroad.

The telephone from the concession to Zhabei could not be reached, and a person who knew the flag volunteered to raise the flag with the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse, asking them what important aid they needed, and the other party also replied with a flag that he didn't want anything, just a national flag.

Adjacent to the Sihang Warehouse, close to the side of the concession, is a two-story cigarette paper shop, which has long been emptied, and has become the only passage between the Sihang Warehouse defenders and the concession.

In the afternoon of this day, Ye Chunnian, the head of the Boy Scouts, led Yang Huimin and other 6 Scout Corps members to the edge of the concession, they not only brought a large number of supplies, but also a special national flag.

In the movie "Eight Hundred", the bridge section where the people risked their lives to transport telephone lines was completely fabricated to reflect the patriotic enthusiasm of the people.

In the early morning of the 29th, Zhabei was occupied by the Japanese army except for the Sixing warehouse, and bloody sun flags were hung everywhere.

The concession on the other side of the river was full of citizens watching the war, and every citizen of Shanghai in the midst of the war looked at the national flag slowly rising on the roof of the Sixing Warehouse, which aroused the excitement of all the Chinese citizens watching, and some of them burst into tears of excitement.

Someone also made up a song.

"Song 800 Heroes"!

'China will not die, China will not die. ’

'Look at that national hero, Captain Xie! ’

'China will not die, China will not die. ’

'Look at those 800 brave men fighting alone in the eastern battlefield. ’

There are also.

'China will not die, China will not die. ’

'Look at that national hero, Captain Xie! ’

'I'd rather die than back down; ’

'I'd rather die than surrender!' ’

'Rise up, fellow citizens, and go to battle quickly, and follow the example of the 800 mighty men!' ’

On October 31, this lone army had been holding on to the Sixing Warehouse for four days and five nights, repelling six Japanese attacks, and the five-story gray building of the Sixing Warehouse stood majestically in the rain of artillery fire and bullets.

The '800 Heroes' fought bravely and won people's infinite sympathy and support.

However, at this time, Xie Jinyuan received an order to retreat, and the siege of the Japanese army for several days brought great pressure to the public concession authorities, and in the southeast corner of the Sihang warehouse, less than a hundred meters, stood two huge gas canisters, once the Japanese shells deviated and the gas canisters were ignited, it would be a major event that endangered the people of the concession.

Half of Shanghai will also be affected.

The authorities of the Public Concession contacted the Chinese government diplomatically and demanded that they be ordered to retreat alone from a humane standpoint and avoid fearless sacrifices.

The defenders of the Sixing Warehouse received an order to defend the Sixing Warehouse.

Soon, however, the bald head gave the order to withdraw the four lines.

The military order was like a mountain, Xie Jinyuan weighed it again and again, and decided to take the overall situation into account and accept the order.

That night, 24 o'clock.

Xie Jinyuan ordered a breakthrough, taking advantage of the darkness, the troops rushed across the North Tibet Road in turn, rushed across the garbage bridge over the Suzhou Creek, and the cunning Japanese army blocked the bridgehead with dense firepower, and many soldiers did not fall in the bloody battle of holding the Sixing warehouse, but fell in the breakthrough.

In the rain of enemy bullets, Xie Jinyuan commanded the soldiers to use all light and heavy weapons to suppress the enemy's firepower.

The fighters who returned fire replaced the machine-gun ammunition with steel-core bullets, which were able to penetrate the steel plate, and the machine gun had twenty rounds of bullets in one shuttle, and the twenty rounds had not yet been fired, and the enemy's shells fell on the roof.

Under the cover of light and heavy machine gun fire, the defenders who broke through successfully entered the British area of the Public Concession, and they were welcomed by the officers and men of the British Marine Corps guarding the concession.

Xie Jinyuan was the last to withdraw, and he burst into tears.

Robert, a French expatriate, witnessed the heroic group of Chinese soldiers, "these teenagers stood still, holding German-made rifles and German-made steel helmets, their faces full of tears, trembling with excitement, and roaring like wounded animals." ”

On the same day, the concession authorities sent the lone soldiers to the Shanghai Horse Race Hall and disarmed.

Then take a truck to the lonely military camp on Jiaozhou Road.

On the road, in front of the house and behind the house, it was full of people who welcomed the lonely heroes of the four elements, they gathered on the streets, surrounded the road to the water, the car drove and stopped, and it was difficult to reach the lonely army camp.

What will greet this group of lonely soldiers will be an even more tragic fate.