's separation, in 1946, Ling Weicheng and his four children finally met his murdered husband Xie Jinyuan in front of a tombstone in the Soong Ching Ling Cemetery in Shanghai.
It was 1936 ten years ago. At that time, Xie Jinyuan, who had a foreboding that the war of resistance was about to break out, first escorted three children and his wife Ling Weicheng who was pregnant with the fourth child from Shanghai to take refuge in Xie’s hometown, Jiaoling, Guangdong. The deputy commander of the 524th regiment of the 88th Division of the National Army, Xie Jinyuan and his eight hundred strong men who returned to the front line in the future will leave their blood and fame in the Shanghai Sixing Warehouse, but for an ordinary woman, This will be the beginning of their life and death separation.
Xie Jimin, who was born at the end of 1936, saw the ceramic portrait on the tombstone and saw his father who thinks about it day and night for the first time in his life. For the first time in his life, he called "Dad".
The 16-year-old eldest daughter Xie Xuefen, the second daughter Xie Lanfen, the 12-year-old son Xie Youmin, and the fourth son Xie Jimin, are standing with their mother Ling Weicheng in front of their father’s tombstone. They murmured:
"Dad, and Japan The human battle is over, but unfortunately you won’t be able to return home again!"
▲After the victory of the War of Resistance, General Xie Jinyuan’s widow Ling Weicheng and his four children
Yes, there were more than 300 in the eight-year war of resistance. The soldiers with 10,000 casualties are also the fathers or brothers of others. They shed their heads and blood for the freedom and dignity of our children and grandchildren. Most of them will never be able to return home.
▲Xie Jinyuan (April 26, 1905-April 24, 1941)
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They met at a wedding in 1927. At that time, Xie Jinyuan, who graduated from the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, was the best man and Ling Weicheng was the bridesmaid. Ling Weicheng, born in a merchant family in Xujiahui, Shanghai, is the jewel of the family. She graduated from Shanghai Southeast Sports College with a major in music. She is proficient in piano and violin and was a fashionable woman in that era; Xie Jinyuan was born in Jiaoling, Guangdong, and her father is A small trader whose mother is the daughter of a fisherman. After graduating from National Guangdong University (now Sun Yat-Sen University), Xie Jinyuan, who witnessed the country’s fragmentation, wrote and entered the Whampoa Military Academy. Before deciding to join the army, Xie Jinyuan took Ban Chao and Yue Fei as life models The poem wrote:
"The rivers and mountains are broken and hurt, and I will not be the hometown of the husband and wife. I voted for a long time from Ban Dingyuan, and the history is still alive."
Xie Jinyuan immediately participated in the Northern Expedition after graduating from the Huangpu Military Academy as a pioneer camp. Battalion commander. In 1928, he was seriously injured in the battle. After he was sent back to Shanghai for treatment, Ling Weicheng, whom he met at the wedding, came to visit. The hearts of the two young people got closer and closer. In 1929, they finally got married. Soon thereafter, there were two daughters and a son (the other son and posthumous son Xie Jimin was born in 1936).
After his wife and children returned to Guangdong, just before the Songhu battle, Xie Jinyuan wrote to his wife Ling Weicheng:
"Qiaoying My Wife Aijian: I will soon lead my troops into Shanghai Rime to participate in the war, and a special note will be taken to comfort me. Half of China’s rivers and mountains have been eroded by the day, the country is subjugated, and the disaster is caused by others. It’s my responsibility. If you don’t pay attention, there will be no children and grandchildren. Killing the enemy for the country is a revolutionary soldier’s ambition; and soldiers should not have families. , I have what I have today, and I’m sorry for the return of the family, my relatives are small, my heart is not iron stone, I can call without favor! But where my duty lies, I can’t take care of my family for the country. The condolences of old relatives, the upbringing of children Qing Lao is fully responsible for all housework measures, and the distraction of travelers is also avoided..." After the "July 7 Incident" in 1937, starting from August 1937, in order to effectively cooperate with the Northern War of Resistance, the direction of the Japanese offensive was changed from From north to south, it changed from east to west. The Chinese army invested more than 800,000 troops and took the initiative to attack the Japanese army in Shanghai. In more than three months, the Chinese army had more than 300,000 casualties and had to withdraw. A large unit out of Zhabei (Jing'an), and decided to have the 88th Division take the lead as a symbolic defense to show the Chinese people's will to resist the Japanese War in Shanghai.
In the end, this important task fell on the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 524th Regiment, 262nd Brigade, 88th Division. In order to lead the soldiers to make the final resistance, Xie Jinyuan, deputy head of the 524th Regiment, took the initiative to stay for the battle. At that time, there were more than 800 people in the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment.After the fierce Shanghai Wanzaobang defense battle, almost all officers and soldiers of the whole battalion died, and the remnant of only 414 soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan was already the fifth batch of supplementary soldiers in the fierce war.
In order to cover the retreat of the large forces and defend the last position in Zhabei, Xie Jinyuan led more than 400 soldiers and retreated into the four-line warehouse originally used by the 88th Division of the National Army for the final battle. Here, they will use Four days and four nights of battle, compose a group of passionate men's fiery loyalty to the motherland.
is an arched building covering an area of 0.3 hectares, 64 meters wide, 54 meters deep, and 25 meters high. The four-row warehouse was originally owned by the Mainland Bank and the North Fourth Bank (Golden City Bank, Central South Bank, Mainland Bank and Salt Bank). The United Warehouse, which is composed of two parts: the mainland bank warehouse and the North Sihang warehouse, collectively referred to as the "four-line warehouse". Since there is only one Suzhou River away from the public concession actually controlled by the United Kingdom and the United States, the Chinese High Command decided to let Xie Jinyuan and His troops are here to make the last resistance, in order to fight the unyielding power of the Chinese army before international observation.
▲The four-row warehouse
under the siege of the Japanese army. Simply put, this is a lonely left-behind unit, a group of passionate men destined for tragedy who stayed in Shanghai for the last resistance. After
led his department into the warehouse of the four lines, Xie Jinyuan wrote to the old officer and the 88 division commander Sun Yuanliang, saying:
“Z10z is determined to sacrifice, and follow Jun’s intentions and strive to the end...success and plan. Familiarity... The current post is determined to wait until the task is completed and make a heroic sacrifice! "
In the will made with his subordinates, the soldiers shouted together: "I will deal with the enemy with one shot and one oath, and shed the last drop of blood. A considerable price must be paid to the Japanese invaders."
▲The Chinese army was fighting against the Japanese invaders
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On the night of October 26, 1937, the lone army of Xie Jinyuan, who led his troops to fight, finally entered the Sixing warehouse. After that, Xie Jinyuan's department immediately began to construct fortifications and waited until the arrangement. It was over. It was the early morning of October 27. In the warehouse of Sixing, Xie Jinyuan spoke to more than 400 soldiers, saying: "The warehouse is our last position, or it may be our grave. As long as we have one person, we Fight to the end with the enemy!"
At that time, the west and north sides of the Sixing Warehouse were occupied by Japanese troops, and the east and south were public concessions. As isolated islands surrounded by all sides, the 414 soldiers in Sixing Warehouse were destined There are more ills than good luck.
As the four-row warehouse stores tens of thousands of packages of grain, cowhide, silk cocoons and other materials, the warehouse walls are thick and high, and the public concession is separated by a river on the back. In addition, there are two more storages with hundreds of thousands of liters of gas nearby. The gas tank, once the gas storage tank is destroyed and exploded, the entire concession will be razed, which makes the Japanese army throw rat-traps when attacking, thus creating favorable defensive conditions for the Sixing Warehouse.
After counting the number of people and building the roster, Xie Jinyuan also ordered a death squad to be organized and personally controlled it just in case.
On the morning of October 27th, the final battle of the Four Lines Warehouse alone finally started. On the first day of the
battle, the four-strand lone army first lured the Japanese army out of the warehouse. When the Japanese army approached, Xie Jinyuan immediately ordered the hidden soldiers to destroy the Japanese army with cross fire. On the first day of the battle, the soldiers bombed them one after another. Two tanks were killed and more than 80 Japanese soldiers were killed.
The lonely bloody battle in the four-line warehouse on the north bank of the Suzhou River has also deeply affected the hearts of countless people on the south bank of the Suzhou River. Across a Suzhou River that is only tens of meters wide, the Chinese people watched the battle on the south bank, reaching the highest peak. The crowd of tens of thousands of people witnessed the bravery of the lone soldiers, and many people in the South Bank couldn't help but burst into tears.
was at this moment, a female soldier stood up.
As a member of the Scout of the Shanghai Boy Scouts Field Service Corps, 22-year-old Yang Huimin later recalled, “It was the morning of October 27,...I saw Sun flags planted around the four-line warehouse on the garbage bridge. , On the one hand I couldn’t express my anger, and on the other hand, I thought of this four-row warehouse. Since our army is holding on, if a blue sky, white sun and a red flag were raised on the top of the four-row warehouse, this The general sun flag was dim, what a solemn and splendid thing! So I went to the city government to report to Secretary Zhang, please send it to the four-row warehouse for our military application for the production of a large flag."
Residents in the concessionAfter agreeing, Yang Huimin then wrapped a red flag with a blue sky and white sun on the ground. He was wearing a boy scout uniform. After passing through the barbed wire in the concession in secret, "creeped over many sandbag piles again. In about two hours, I finally Climbed to the four-row warehouse, presented the national flag to Deputy Xie Tuan and Battalion Commander Yang, and saluted them the most."
▲The boy scout Yang Huimin risked his death and sent the national flag
to the eight hundred soldiers. Two days later, on October 28, 1937, the first Chinese national flag was raised in the four-row warehouse, which made all the spectators on the south bank of the Suzhou River cry. Seeing that the Chinese defenders were unable to attack by force, the Japanese army immediately dispatched a detachment of more than a dozen people to sneak downstairs of the Sixing Warehouse. Under the cover of the iron plate above their heads, the Japanese army desperately dug the wall wave and tried to install explosives in the wall to blast the wall. , Thereby forcibly opening the breakthrough.
At the very moment, the 21-year-old death squad member Chen Shusheng strapped himself full of grenades. After pulling the fuse, Chen Shusheng jumped down from the sixth floor and died with a dozen Japanese soldiers, smashing the Japanese conspiracy to bomb the wall. Just before the sacrifice, Chen Shusheng wrote a suicide note to his mother:
, "I give up my life for righteousness, and my child wants it."
Seeing that the wall failed, the Japanese soldiers charged with tanks to cover the infantry. Xie Jinyuan led the soldiers in the four-row warehouse. Condescendingly, he continued to attack the Japanese with grenades and cross fire. At that time, due to the fact that the Sihang Warehouse was close to the concession, the Japanese army feared that artillery would fall into the concession and cause controversy. Therefore, they did not dare to attack with heavy artillery. However, they continued to bombard the Sihang Warehouse with light artillery such as howitzers. According to the lone soldiers guarding the Sihang Warehouse, Use the Japanese bombing gap to fight back.
At that time, apart from the lone army of the Four Lines Warehouse in Shanghai, other areas of the city were already occupied. Witnessing the bloody battles of the soldiers on the north bank of the Suzhou River, people from all walks of life in the concession on the south bank of the Suzhou River also organized spontaneously, taking advantage of the gunfire. Smuggling supplies to the Sixing warehouse alone was touched by the courage of the Chinese soldiers and civilians. According to the warning from the Japanese soldiers, the British soldiers who guarded the concession did not dare to provide assistance publicly, but they also turned a blind eye to the Chinese soldiers and civilians who secretly crossed the border for assistance. default.
Although there were only 414 people guarding the Sixing Warehouse at that time, Xie Jinyuan, in order to inspire and confuse the Japanese army, to reporters who sneaked into the Sixing Warehouse to interview, declared that there were 800 people guarding the Sixing Warehouse. News of "eight hundred heroes" fighting alone began to spread widely.
▲The four-row warehouse in the fierce battle
arrived on the night of October 28 and passed the telephone line sent by the Chinese soldiers and civilians in the concession. Xie Jinyuan informed the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce personnel who stayed behind in the concession that the boy scout Yang Huimin had sent it bravely. The national flag is unfortunately small, so I asked whether another larger national flag could be sent over. The soldiers prepared to raise the national flag on the roof of the four-row warehouse to inspire the confidence of all citizens.
The lone army wept in blood and it was incumbent. Therefore, the Shanghai navy residents who stayed behind in the concession acted quickly. By tying the aid materials to the travel bag behind them, and then crawling, from the night of the 28th to the early morning of the 29th, the aid workers finally put the two national flags, Two long bamboo poles, a flag rope, and urgently needed materials such as salt and medicine were sent to the warehouse of Sixing.
The largest of the three national flags received by the Four Lines Lonely Army was raised overnight on the top floor of the Four Lines Warehouse. The other two smaller national flags were hung on the sides of the Four Lines Warehouse. Later, China on the south bank of the Suzhou River The military and civilians recalled: "In the area where Zhabei is all occupied by the enemy and the sun flag is everywhere, I see our national flag flying above the four-row warehouse where 800 warriors swear to stay behind."
Three days, in the early morning of October 29, 1937, people in the concession on the south bank of the Suzhou River suddenly discovered that a huge national flag fluttering in the wind was raised on the top of the four-row warehouse under the siege of the Japanese navy, army and air force. This made the Chinese people who witnessed the scene on the other side all moved. The newspaper reported at the time:
"At the beginning of the morning, the national flag fluttered, and the people across the river took off their hats and bowed and were moved to tears."
▲Photographs from the concession , The four-row warehouse in the middle of the war, please pay attention to the flag
flying in the upper right corner. Seeing that the frontal attack failed, the Japanese army sent sailors to try to sneak into the warehouse through the Suzhou River. Fortunately, the soldiers fought back and shot and killed the invading Japanese army after they discovered it. TheyA total of more than 40 enemies were killed, still firmly in control of the four-line warehouse. On the battlefield, Xie Jinyuan took advantage of the gap to write poems to inspire the soldiers:
"Kill the enemy bravely eight hundred soldiers, resist the enemy’s pride in poetry; who pity Thousands of patriotic tears, when it comes to widowhood, the bloody battles of the eight hundred warriors of
also made people from all over the world watching the battle on the other side of the Suzhou River feel deeply moved. The London News Chronicle published an editorial saying: "The Chinese army resisted in Shanghai. The achievements of the Japanese army are indeed one of the most brave pages in any country’s historical records." The English "Damei Evening News" also published an editorial saying: "We have witnessed the heroic spirit of the Chinese Army in Zhabei, and will leave a deep impression in our minds. The Chinese army’s bravery in combat is unprecedented, and it will last forever.” Major General Smalley, the commander of the British army stationed in the public concession, also said: “We are all soldiers who have experienced the European War, but I have never seen The Chinese'death fighters' finally defended Zhabei more bravely and more heroically."
▲ In 1937, this flag flying on the four-row warehouse made countless people in the concession cry. The battle is still going on. On the fourth day, October 30, 1937, the Japanese army, who had been unable to attack for a long time, became so angry that they continued to blast the Sixing warehouse with 37mm flat-fire artillery, and used gasoline to set fire everywhere around the warehouse, launching gas viciously into the warehouse. Bullet, trying to kill all the eight hundred strong men in the warehouse.
At that time, there were two gas storage tanks with a gas storage capacity of hundreds of thousands of liters near the Sihang Warehouse. If they were hit by war and exploded, the entire concession would be razed to the ground. This made the concession authorities worried. Under 100,000 fires, the concession authorities continued Put pressure on the Chinese government to require the 800 strong men to withdraw from the warehouse on the condition that they can be allowed to evacuate into the concession, and then the concession authorities will send troops to cover and escort the "lone army from the concession to the west of Shanghai."
In view of the continuous requests of the concession authorities, seeing that the Chinese defenders’ intent to fight with unyielding spirit in front of international observations has been achieved, the government dispatched personnel to instruct Xie Jinyuan to lead his troops out of the battle and retreat through the concession. At that time, Xie Jinyuan had already He made the oath of "serving the country to the death and vowing to coexist and die with the four-line warehouse." Therefore, he was always reluctant to retreat. For this reason, the Shanghai Garrison Commander Yang Hu asked Zhang Boxing, Chief of Staff of the 88th Division. After several persuasion, finally Xie Jinyuan reluctantly decided to retreat.
So, after guarding the Four Lines Warehouse for four days and four nights, on the evening of October 30, 1937, the eight hundred soldiers took advantage of the thinning of the Japanese artillery and used three machine guns as a cover, first extinguishing the Japanese searchlights. , And then the remaining soldiers concealed and rushed into the concession through the new garbage bridge. After all the soldiers retreated into the concession, Xie Jinyuan was the last one to evacuate from the four-line warehouse.
In the four days and four nights of the battle, 414 athletes, known as 800 heroes, eventually killed more than 200 Japanese soldiers at the cost of 9 killed and wounded more than 20 people. Surrounded by tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, it was magical. To break through.
▲The lone soldiers who withdrew into the concession
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After the four-strand lone army retreated into the concession, in view of the Japanese threats, "if the lone army is allowed to return through the concession, they will drive into the concession to chase the lone army", the British army then abandoned the agreement and tried to forcibly disarm the four-strand lone army. Xie Jinyuan initially vowed not to let it go. , The soldiers clashed with the British army, but the government sent people to persuade the lone army to disarm temporarily. Unexpectedly, after disarming, the British army immediately turned their faces. Not only did they not escort the lone soldiers out of the country, but also directly detained 800 strong soldiers.
Subsequently, the lone soldiers were imprisoned in an open space of about 15 acres in the public concession, surrounded by barbed wire fences. The concession authorities also sent the White Russian soldiers of the "Commercial Corps of All Nations" to guard the lone soldiers. This camp was used to detain the lone army. It was originally a wasteland where garbage was thrown away and the nearby residents abandoned dead babies, surrounded by weeds, and muddy ground when it rained, and living conditions were very bad.
Due to the damp and lack of food and clothing in the resident, in addition to the soldiers who were killed and wounded and transferred for treatment, more than 350 solitary soldiers were detained. In just over a year, more than ten people died of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and mental disorders.
At that time, people from all walks of life in the concession organized one after another to deliver medical treatment to the detained lone soldiers. Despite this, they failed to die on the battlefield, but were besieged and detained in the concession, which also made the soldiers mentally depressed. At that time, solitaryThe soldiers kept more than 30 pigeons in the detention camp. Every time these pigeons lay their eggs, the soldiers wrote a name on the pigeon eggs, hoping that one day the little white pigeons that broke out of the shell could lead them to escape. day.
In view of the plight of the soldiers, all parties in the concession also acted actively and expressed that they could assist the lone soldiers to break through. For this reason, Xie Jinyuan successively asked Chiang Kai-shek to allow the lone army to break through and return to the army through various parties, but Chiang Kai-shek in order to maintain the so-called "International influence", but replied that "Shangwang endures all hardships to maintain national honor." After four consecutive requests for permission to break through to no avail, Xie Jinyuan fell into chronic insomnia.
In order to maintain the discipline of the army, Xie Jinyuan insisted on leading the lone officers and soldiers to raise the national flag every day. The life of the soldiers in the detention camp is arranged according to the three contents of education, production and sports. The daily arrangements are: 4 in the morning. Get up at 9:30, morning exercises and military training from 5:00 to 7:00, and the Belarusian team of the International Chamber of Commerce to check the number of people at 8:00. Dinner at 9:00, classes from 10:00 to 11:30; dinner at 16:00, and martial arts coaches from 17:00 to 19:00. Or sing, rest from 19:30 to 20:00 and go to bed at 21:00.
In order to improve the life of the lone army, Xie Jinyuan also led the lone soldiers to level the ground, build their own houses, and gradually open soap, socks, towels and other factories. In addition to subsidizing living expenses, they even donated thousands of yuan to support the national army. The Anti-Japanese War, "with hard work, waiting for the light to come."
▲Xie Jinyuan led the lone army to hold a flag-raising ceremony in the detention camp
For this lone army forcibly detained by the British army, Shanghai residents in the concession also often visited, "Every day people come and go, as if believers flock to the holy land." At peak times, there are even thousands of condolences in the detention camp every day. In a few days, hundreds of people come to visit and condolences.
One day when it was getting dark, dozens of young students came to visit collectively. This was the fifth group of students who came to visit that day. After Xie Jinyuan came out to receive again, he wrote in his diary that night: "I have to simply say After speaking, they bowed to me before leaving. It can be seen that the young people are depressed and confused.”
But Xie Jinyuan also suffers from insomnia, and the lone army is rejected when he breaks through the siege. This makes Xie Jinyuan a pawn to maintain the so-called "international influence" of the government. Sad and indignant. On the other hand, intrusions from the Japanese army and the Wang Puppet regime came from time to time. After the Wang Puppet regime came to power, Chen Gongbo became the mayor of the puppet Shanghai. He repeatedly persuaded Xie Jinyuan to surrender and ask Xie Jinyuan to become the puppet first front army. Commander, Xie Jinyuan tore the commission to pieces and scolded the traitor: "My parents are both Chinese, and my son is also a Chinese. The Chinese will never be a running dog for foreigners!"
On the other hand, the concession authorities infringed on the detention camps from time to time. On August 11, 1938, the lone soldiers decided to raise the flag in the detention camp to commemorate the first anniversary of the 88th Division’s swearing officer’s expedition. After an aggressive move, he forced the lone army to cut off the flagpole by 8 feet. The lone soldier agreed to this condition in order to be able to raise the flag smoothly on the anniversary. Unexpectedly, on the day of raising the flag, the concession authorities sent more than 400 Belarusian soldiers to force the flag to be lowered. The lone soldiers with their bare hands stood up to protect the flag. They did not expect that the Belarusian officers and soldiers killed 4 people with butcher knives and injured more than 110 people. In order to prevent the lone mutiny, the Belarusian officers and soldiers also abducted 17 officers including Xie Jinyuan. Under the pressure and protests of people from all walks of life, the concession authorities finally agreed to release Xie Jinyuan and others and gave 1,000 yuan each to the four dead officers and soldiers. Compensation.
Although faced with heavy pressure from the Wang Puppet regime and the lewd prestige in power in the concession, Xie Jinyuan's saddest thing came from the gradual change in military aspirations.
Because Xie Jinyuan did not dare to break through under the pressure of Chiang Kai-shek, the lone army also had a lot of opinions. First, a company of squad leader Li Yongcheng led two soldiers to break out to join the guerrillas, and then, a company commander’s official goal was also because of Xie Jin. Yuan was unable to break through and tried to assassinate Xie Jinyuan, but fortunately he was stopped in time after being discovered.
By 1941, the British and American concession authorities gradually abandoned their control over the concession due to the high pressure of the Japanese army on the periphery, so that the Japanese and puppet regime gradually took control of the actual control within the concession. At that time, as the war of resistance progressed, prices continued to soar. The life and diet in the lone army became more and more difficult, so that some soldiers would fight each other in order to eat a few more bowls of rice, and the military spirit inside the lone army became more and more unstable.
In view of the fact that the Wang puppet regime is constantly aloneInternally infiltrated and induced surrender, Xie Jinyuan cursed: "Z9z, "You have acted like you, have lost your conscience, recognized the thief as your father, would like to be Zhang Bangchang, and willing to be a slave to the country. I was born as a Chinese, and died as a Chinese ghost. It is my bounden duty to defend the country and the people. , Yu Zhi has decided, and he cannot be moved by any willingness and temptation. Hugh will stigmatize me with the inferior words of a dog. You go quickly and stop talking nonsense."
In view of the severe surrounding situation, Xie Jinyuan wrote a letter to his parents in 1939. It reads:
"Respect for the parents:
... A man who lives brightly will also die upright. Men are careful about the righteousness of death and life, seeking benevolence and benevolence, and the decree of Taishan's feathers. The heroic spirit of the male will always be fragrant. Therefore, the dangerous environment of this day is never taken into account by the male. As the day when the enemy is hijacked, the male will become a benevolent. There must be death in life, and death in this situation, the happiness of life is also
... …If the
male corpse is found, it should be buried in the cemetery of the soldiers who died in the War of Resistance against Japan. This letter can be published after the male’s death, which is also the male’s pre-made will. The
male Jin Yuan wishes to
on September 18th, 28th. Shanghai Lone Army Camp"
▲During his detention, a patriotic businessman presented Xie Jinyuan with a white horse. This is also the source of the white horse in the movie "Eight Hundred"
. In the difficult situation, Xie Jinyuan felt that he would eventually encounter unexpected events. The hunch was finally called a prophecy. On April 24, 1941, when Xie Jinyuan led the officers and soldiers as usual morning exercises, the four high-ranking soldiers Hao Dingcheng, Long Yaoliang, Zhang Wenqing, and Zhang Guoshun, who were bought by the Japanese and puppet regime, suddenly rushed forward. The prepared dagger and other lethal weapons stab Xie Jinyuan violently, causing Xie Jinyuan to be killed on the spot. He was only 37 years old.
Although the 4 murderers were captured by other lone soldiers, the soul of the lone army is gone. After
learned of the bad news, as many as 300,000 people from all walks of life in the concession went to express their condolences, and the National Government ordered Xie Jinyuan to be awarded as a major general of the army infantry. After that, the machine gun company commander Lei Xiong in the lone army took over as the acting commander. Continue to lead the lone soldiers to deal with the Japanese and puppet regimes.
▲The lone soldier helped Xie Jinyuan to help the spirits
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Afterwards, the lone soldiers were collectively dragged to an abandoned airport in Baoshan, Shanghai. The Japanese and puppet regime gave the choice that the lone soldiers would either join the puppet army to eat and drink, or they would be dispatched to do coolies, even though they were sent to do coolies since 1937. There was a lot of dissatisfaction during the four-year detainment from 1941 to 1941, but in the face of justice, the soldiers did not hesitate to turn back and made the choice to die rather than surrender to the puppet army.
As a result, more than 300 solitary soldiers were disassembled by the Japanese and puppet troops, more than 100 solitary soldiers were escorted to Yuxikou, Anhui Province to load and unload coal, more than 100 people were taken to Nanjing Xiaolingwei to grow vegetables and raise horses, and more than 100 people were taken there Hangzhou Xiaoshan worked as a coolie, and the remaining dozens of lone soldiers who resisted the most fiercely were sent to an island in Papua New Guinea in Southeast Asia as a coolie. Z1z
was taken to Yuxikou, Anhui, among the lone soldiers who loaded and unloaded coal. In the end, 29 successfully escaped. These fighters then requested to re-enlist and restore the establishment, but they were ruthlessly rejected. After that, more than 20 of them were disarmed and returned to their hometowns.
The lone soldiers who were detained in Nanjing to grow vegetables and raise horses were often forced to wrestle with the Japanese. For those who dared to beat the Japanese, the Japanese directly assassinated them inhumanely. In addition, these soldiers even killed them. It was used by the Japanese as a test for germ warfare, causing at least 9 of them to become ill and die. Z1z
was forcibly escorted to Papua New Guinea. Dozens of lone soldiers were forced to build an airport for the Japanese army. They were grouped in groups of six, and each group could only be allocated a catty and a half of food per day. Due to insufficient food, the project could not keep up. As the progress progressed, the Japanese army randomly dragged the soldiers out to kill others. In the end, of the 50 lone soldiers escorted to Papua New Guinea, 14 unfortunately died there. Until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, 36 people experienced thousands of hardships. After all the hardship, he finally returned to the motherland.
▲The three surviving lone soldiers who were sent to Papua New Guinea
until August 15, 1945, when Japan announced its unconditional surrender. After that, the lone soldiers were freed one after another. At that time, except for Xie Jinyuan who was traitorous in 1941 In addition to the assassination, Yang Ruifu, commander of the 1st Battalion, 524th RegimentSuffering from serious injuries, he eventually died due to severe injuries in 1940.
The 1st Battalion and Company Commander of the Lone Army 524 Regiment, which once clashed with Xie Jinyuan, Shangguan Zhibiao, escaped from the hands of the Japanese in 1943, and then served as the captain of the local guerrillas to deal with the Japanese army. In 1948, Shangguan Zhibiao transferred to Taiwan. He eventually died in Taiwan in 1967.
A small number of lone soldiers, such as the soldier Wan Lianqing, fortunately returned to the regular army. After Wan Lianqing escaped the control of the Japanese invaders in November 1942, he then joined the Chinese Expeditionary Force to Burma. In 2009, the veteran finally died at home.
The boy scout Yang Huimin, who once risked his death to escort the national flag to the lone soldiers, was framed by the movie star Hu Die during the Anti-Japanese War, and Hu Die’s lover Dai Li ordered to be held in prison for four years until Dai Li died in a plane crash in 1945. Later, Yang Huimin was free again. In 1992, Yang Huimin finally died in Taipei at the age of 78.
Xie Jinyuan’s widow, Ling Weicheng, took four children after the war in 1946, and finally arrived in Shanghai from Jiaoling, Guangdong for more than two months. After ten years of separation from her husband, she finally lived in Yin and Yang. In the distance, I saw my husband who thought about it day and night.
At that time, Xie Jinyuan, the heroic leader she once loved, only left a shallow grave and a ceramic portrait on the tombstone. The best man
who saw each other in love with her at the wedding will never come back. After the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan, the country soon fell into a civil war, so the lonely old company commander Shangguan Zhibiao came forward to organize lone soldiers and soldiers, and soon gathered more than 100 people in Shanghai, and received Xie Jinyuan’s widow Ling Weicheng and others. Five mothers and children, the lone soldiers tried to help themselves in troubled times. They once wanted to operate a bus route from the original solitary barracks to the Waibaidu Bridge, but they were obstructed by monopoly forces. Later, the lone soldiers wanted to occupy the Japanese army's legacy. The Dada Wharf in Dada was operated and rescued, and more than 30 people were detained by the Nationalist Government. In desperation, the lone soldiers tried to organize the lone army production service agency to produce lone army products, but they did not expect the lone army to deal with it but absconded with money.
The lone army was desperate. The commander of the Kuomintang Third Front Army, Tang Enbo, came forward and said that the lone soldiers could be taken in, but the lone soldiers who refused to fight the civil war again unanimously chose to refuse. After that, the lone soldiers scattered all over the world, some returned to farming, and some Living on the streets, some handymen, well-known "eight hundred heroes" in China, have been scattered all over the world.
until 1947, at that time, Zhu Shengzhong and other four lone soldiers were killed and robbed because of inflation and lack of life. They were finally sentenced to death by the court. This was also the last time the lone soldiers appeared in the newspapers in troubled times.
▲After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Xie Jinyuan’s widow Ling Weicheng took a photo with the lone soldiers
In 1985, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Anti-Japanese War Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolutionary Military Museum specially exhibited Xie Jinyuan led the eight hundred lone soldiers who stood by the four. Photographs of deeds in the warehouse. When a media reporter came to the Soong Ching Ling Cemetery to visit Xie Jinyuan’s tomb, he unexpectedly discovered that there were lone soldiers who had built a shed next to Xie Jinyuan’s tomb to guard the tomb of General Xie Jinyuan. For the interview, the lone army also said: "I have guarded the tomb for 40 years. If there is a good arrangement for the tomb of Head Xie, I will return to my hometown with peace of mind."
Xie Jinyuan's widow Ling Weicheng has been alive. In 1991, after her death, her children buried her in the Soong Ching Ling Cemetery in Shanghai according to her last wish. Before her death, she said that she would be with her husband Xie Jinyuan forever.
In 2005, Yang Yangzheng, a platoon leader of the 1st battalion, 1 company, 1st platoon commander of the 524th Regiment of the Sixing Warehouse, also visited Xie Jinyuan’s grave. In front of the grave, this was 91 years old. The veteran couldn't help crying. He stood up and saluted at the grave and said:
, "Z10z report to the head, Yang Deyu came to see you !"
When he stood by the four-line warehouse, his real name was Yang Deyu. After Xie Jinyuan was assassinated and killed, he felt gratitude. Leader Yu instructed "to raise the heaven and earth's righteousness" during his lifetime, and then he changed his name to Yang Yangzheng.
▲In 2005, the 91-year-old lone army veteran Yang Yangzheng visited Xie Jinyuan’s grave.
In 2010, the last of the eight hundred soldiersThe lone soldier Yang Yangzheng finally died in Chongqing at the age of 96.
Since then, there will be no more than 800 strong men in the world.
