Shanghai, the British Concession near the Suzhou River.
Although Shanghai is now a mess, good order is still maintained inside the concession. British troops guard the gate of the concession and often clash with the Japanese. The main reason is that the British refuse Japanese soldiers to enter the concession for inspection, and the final result is often
It ended with the British victory, and the concession is now like a paradise in the midst of war.
The rich continued to feast and live in the concession, while the poor were struggling at the bottom, while more ordinary people were observing the Sihang Warehouse in the distance on the banks of the Suzhou River in the concession.
This is a habit and a belief. Every day, as long as they look at the blue sky and white sun flag on the roof of the Sihang Warehouse, they feel very peaceful. A large group of people sit by the Suzhou River every day, staring into the distance.
On the top floor of Sihang Warehouse, day after day.
Even if there were stray bullets flying around, even if the British patrol came to hunt them down, even if the Japanese patrol boats on the shore shouted at them to get away, they still stayed here, staring at the sunny day.
But today, in the early morning of November 2, there was a loud noise from Sihang Warehouse.
Before all the people on the other side of the Suzhou River could react, they saw the standing flagpole suddenly slowly falling to the side.
"It's down, it's down!"
"fall down!"
"The flag is down!"
"Don't fall!"
Amidst the exclamations of all the people, the national flag on the top floor of Sihang Warehouse slowly fell down, and finally fell slowly from the top floor. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the national flag, watching it fall little by little.
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When the national flag fell, there was a deathly silence, and no sound was heard. Then a girl standing at the front suddenly started crying.
Soon the cries infected everyone, and thousands of people gathered around cried together. Their spiritual pillars now collapsed, representing Shanghai's last resistance and no longer existed.
"Brothers, sisters, compatriots, we should not cry, we should be proud!" At this time, a young man holding a loudspeaker and shouting various slogans for his organization every day wiped his tears and stood on the high ground.
everywhere, shouting loudly.
"The soldiers of Sihang Warehouse, with a force of 800, fought against tens of thousands of Japanese, held for six days, killed more than 10,000 Japanese invaders, wounded countless enemies, and killed countless Japanese officers. Although they have all died, they
The spirit of the people should be remembered. Do you still remember the songs we wrote for them? Everyone, follow me and sing together!"
"good!"
The young man immediately found a high place and stood up, and slowly said: China will not die, China will not die, look at the national hero Captain Xie.
China will not die, China will not die. Look at those eight hundred warriors fighting alone to defend the battlefield. There are artillery fire and wolves on all sides. They would rather die in battle than give in, and would rather die in battle than surrender.
Our flag is fluttering, fluttering, fluttering amid the siege.
The eight hundred heroes are of one mind. A hundred thousand strong enemies cannot stop our actions. Our actions are heroic. Our integrity is heroic. Compatriots, get up. Compatriots, get up and rush to the battlefield. Take the eight hundred heroes as an example. China will not fall. China will not fall.
, China will not perish, China will not perish, it will not perish! It will not perish! It will not perish!
Everyone present sang this song together. The voice was not loud at first, and everyone was sobbing slowly, but as everyone stopped crying later, the voice became louder and louder. This song
Flying over the whole Shanghai, everyone who heard this melody, whether they could sing or not, were singing in unison.
(This song is called "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes". It was written by Du Taosheng and composed by Xia Zhiqiu. It was later renamed "China Will Not Fall" and became widely sung. Later, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was renamed "China Will Be Strong".
”. This song was used as an interlude in the movie “Fortune”)
The people on the banks of the Suzhou River sang this song over and over again, over and over again, to send off the defenders of the Sihang Warehouse, so that these heroes could walk the final leg of their journey.
A huge explosion on the fourth and fifth floors of the Sihang Warehouse collapsed the floor of the fifth floor. Yamaguchi Kazuki, who was waiting for news on the fourth floor, heard a huge explosion from the top of the building, and then felt
The ground shook, and before I could stand firm, large pieces of concrete and other things fell from the roof.
One after another, stone slabs and various objects fell from the roof of the building. The Japanese soldiers who did not react in time were instantly buried in the ruins. Yamaguchi Kazuki was the most miserable. His head was hit by a large stone slab, and he was directly hit.
become flat.
There was silence around the Sihang Warehouse. The Japanese commander Masaki Ito, a few hundred meters away, put down the telescope in his hand a little tiredly: "Have you taken it down?"
The staff officers beside him heard the huge explosion just now, and some were not sure whether the Sihang Warehouse had been captured. They looked worried: "It should have been captured. There are only a few defenders left. There are hundreds of us."
There should be no problem with attacking!"
Now none of the Japanese officers dare to guarantee that the Sihang Warehouse will be captured. Tens of thousands of people attacked for six days, but they failed to capture 800 people. Hundreds of people attacked and tried to capture dozens of garrisoned warehouses.
, it seems that a zero needs to be added.
"Send another team up to see what happened!"
"yes!"
The matter of attacking the Sihang Warehouse ultimately fell on Ito Masaki. After all, he had been fighting for so long and had experience, so he could be used to take the blame if something went wrong.
When a brigade under Ito Masaki climbed to the fourth floor, they found that the fourth and fifth floors of the Sihang Warehouse had been connected, and the fifth floor had collapsed. The headquarters that had previously stood on the fourth floor could no longer be found.
You can see corpses lying on the ground, as well as some body parts buried under the rubble.
"Help!"
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, help me!"
Some of the Japanese soldiers who were still alive shouted for help, but the soldiers in this brigade did not dare to move to save people. They were not sure whether there were other Chinese defenders inside the Sihang Warehouse.
Hundreds of people held guns and carefully groped forward in the warehouse, turning their heads to look elsewhere from time to time, looking for possible enemies.
In this way, after a group of Japanese soldiers inspected the Sihang Warehouse from top to bottom, they were sure that there were no Chinese defenders in the Sihang Warehouse and that the Sihang Warehouse had been taken down by them.
"Division Commander, we have taken down the Sihang Warehouse!" The captain rushed into Ito Masaki's headquarters with excitement on his face. He fell several times along the way and couldn't control the excitement on his face.
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Ito Masaki's face showed joy: "Have you won it? Great, let's go!"
"Division Commander, we haven't thoroughly inspected the warehouse yet. We don't know if there are still some wounded soldiers inside. After we inspect it and make sure it's safe, you can go in!"
Ito Zhengxi nodded, sat down in his seat, sat back in his seat again, and continued to wait.
About half of the Japanese regiment entered the Sihang Warehouse again and became busy again. The first thing was to count the results of the battle.
The Japanese soldiers moved all the corpses of Chinese soldiers they could find out of the warehouse, and in order to prevent the wounded soldiers from pretending to be dead for a sneak attack, the Japanese soldiers would shoot each corpse before approaching the corpse to make sure
It will only be dragged after death.
These Japanese soldiers were silent throughout the whole process. Almost every corpse they saw, except for the corpses that had been properly placed before but not placed, all maintained a fighting posture.
Some corpses had been cold for a long time, but they still held weapons tightly in their hands and stared forward. They did not look like they had been sacrificed at all. When several soldiers approached, they did not dare to touch them easily, for fear that the soldiers would take them.
Use grenades and kill them together.
In the end, more than 180 corpses were found from the Sihang Warehouse. In addition, even if the Japanese turned the entire Sihang Warehouse upside down, they did not find any more corpses. They seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
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"Only more than one hundred and eighty corpses?"
After Ito Masaki repeatedly confirmed the number of corpses, he looked at the officer beside him.
"Ha Yi, division commander, we searched the entire Sihang Warehouse and only found 180 corpses, no more corpses!"
Ito Masaki walked quickly again, scanning all the corpses. These sacrificed Chinese soldiers were very thin. Ito Masaki couldn't believe that this group of people actually blocked his attack.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. Baga, you must have missed something else. Where is the fourth floor and the fifth floor? Have you found them all? Didn't there used to be a sixth floor in the Sihang Warehouse?"
Ito Masaki was pacing back and forth. There were only over a hundred people, but he actually blocked the empire's tens of thousands of troops for six days? If this news were to spread, the Japanese would become the biggest joke in the world, even worse than the Italian army.
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"The Chinese army is very cunning. They must have used some method to hide the body and dig it in the ground. They must dig it out for me!"
The Japanese soldiers became busy again, and this time they began to dig three feet into the ground. In any case, the Japanese did not want to believe that their victory was only more than 100 people, not even 200 people.
"Tell those reporters not to write nonsense and not to take photos!"
"Hayi!"
The Japanese are very concerned about the situation at the Sihang Warehouse. Ito Masaki's position at the division headquarters has reporters accompanying the army. If there are only so few results, Ito Masaki may not even be able to keep his position as division commander.
"Sir, some corpses of our warriors were found on the first floor. They were piled together, but there were no clothes on the corpses!"
"Nani?"
After Yi Dongzhengxi heard this, he froze on the spot. He had a bad idea in his mind, and rushed to the first floor like a madman to check the area mentioned by his men.
