"I checked and found that after Captain Xie and his lone army were imprisoned, they still insisted on militarized management, but what exactly?" Li Yi asked again.
After all, I was not in power in those years, so a lot of information is missing, and many things that can be found today may not be able to be studied.
Therefore, many of the information that Li Yi could find were different.
But if you want to film the subsequent plot, this is very important and can provide him with a very critical reference.
Lao Yang took out his cigarettes, handed one to Li Yi, then lit it and took a puff.
"Yes, despite being imprisoned, the lone army still drills every day and cleans up the military appearance! But this is not what the merchant group and the islanders want to see. The merchant group is extremely afraid of this. Therefore, no one is allowed to enter or leave the military camp. Every day
The daily necessities can only be picked out by an old man.
Can you imagine what that long-term confinement means to those soldiers who have already experienced bloody battlefields?"
"The old man mentioned something. At that time, there were more than 30 white pigeons raised in the military camp. These pigeons could lay six or seven eggs every day. Whenever a hen hatched an egg, the soldiers would write their names on the eggs.
I look forward to the day when the little white dove flapping its wings can fly out of the cage with its own name.
Commander Xie, who was alone, had not had a good night's sleep since he entered there.
He appealed to the Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and published a newspaper requesting international support, claiming that the lone soldier was neither a defeated general nor a prisoner of war, and should not be treated in a way that was inconsistent with international law. The appeal was fruitless, and even a famous lawyer came forward, but nothing could be done."
Li Yi asked in confusion: "According to the situation at the time, they should be fully capable of breaking out, right? Why didn't they do that?"
Lao Yang smiled bitterly and said with a hint of sarcasm: "Yes, the guard was not strict at the beginning. Although they were disarmed, there were many people after all, and they were all soldiers. Soldiers who had experienced life and death did not want to break out.
It’s difficult to calculate.
In fact, Captain Xie once thought about breaking out of the siege. After all, for them, even if they die in the process of breaking out, it is better than being imprisoned and claustrophobic day after day. Therefore, he wrote a letter to Lao Chang.
Because Lao Chang had personally ordered the lone army to be commended and all officers and officers to be promoted to one level before, Commander Xie hoped to use this to plead for a diplomatic solution to the dilemma, and claimed that if it really didn't work, the lone army could riot on its own and break out of the encirclement.
However, Lao Chang replied: I wrote this letter on May 3, and I hope to endure all the hardships in order to safeguard the country's honor."
"Haha, how ridiculous. To protect the national honor, we actually have to rely on these people who are surviving after the war, on these imprisoned people. What kind of national honor is this?" Lao Yang couldn't help laughing angrily.
"You know, it's completely easy for a lone army to break through.
The guards of dozens of people from the merchant group of all nations seemed to be tight, but in fact they could not withstand the attack of hundreds of officers and soldiers.
Civil society groups have long been secretly contacting the lone army, and are willing to support them when they break out. By then, as long as they break out of the concession, the sea will be brighter and the sky will be brighter.
But... Lao Chang was afraid that the Lone Army would do this, so he repeatedly sent messages asking for "patience". Also considering the sensitivity of the international situation, the Lone Army never took any action and insisted on besieging the isolated city."
"Be patient, be patient, can you imagine, it's already that time, and Lao Chang still continues to ask them to be patient! Damn grandma, be patient!"
"On August 11, 1938, it was the anniversary of the first anniversary of the 88th Army's oath of war. The Gu Army decided to hold a flag-raising ceremony. Before the ceremony, the concession authorities were afraid that the islanders would take drastic actions when they saw the flag, so they forcibly requested that the flag-raising ceremony be held.
The flagpole was cut off by 8 feet. Gujun agreed to this exchange in order to successfully raise the flag on the anniversary.
But even this kind of flag-raising cannot be tolerated by the concessionaire team.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, the flag was raised. At 12 o'clock at noon, the commander of the merchant group entered the camp and demanded that the flag be lowered immediately. After being refused, more than a thousand troops from various countries in the concession gathered, armed with bayonets and clubs, broke into the lonely camp and came to seize the flag by force.
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Due to weapons control, the lone soldiers could only pick up chair legs and bricks to resist. In the end, under the offensive of tear gas, the lone army was defeated and the flag was taken away by the coalition forces. Four lone soldiers were killed and 111 officers and soldiers were injured.
Afterwards, in order to prevent the Lone Army from mutiny, the White Army regiment once again broke into the Lone Army camp and kidnapped 17 officers, including Commander Xie. The other officers and soldiers had no other choice but to go on a hunger strike in protest.
In the small garden of the solitary army camp, four new graves stood side by side. In front of each grave, the bloody clothes worn by the flag-protecting soldiers when they sacrificed were held high on bamboo poles. The solitary army sat around the graves and remained silent for only four days.
A large number of soldiers fainted and died. After hearing that their heroes were bullied in this way, citizens came to build up their momentum. The Jiaozhou Road, Jinyao Road, and Changping Road leading to Gujun Camp were packed with people every day.
In the end, the Ministry of Industry and Industry agreed to return the national flag, release the quarantined officers, open the lone military camp, and provide a 1,000 yuan pension to each of the four soldiers who died."
Li Yi let out a sigh, the real history is far crueler than the movie.
Compared with the soldiers who died on the battlefield, these people are more tragic.
Lao Yang continued: "In 1939, although the Lone Army Camp allowed the public to come to express condolences, the will of the eight hundred heroes in the camp inevitably collapsed after being trapped for more than a year."
"Crash?" Li Yi asked.
"Yes, it collapsed! How could it not collapse? At the end of March 1939, two soldiers died of illness one after another. On the night they were buried, a soldier from the machine gun company disappeared. The next night, the squad leader of the first company led two soldiers to escape overnight.
Leave the lonely military camp.
Before escaping, he left a note saying: "After the three of us go out, we will do something good and come back to see the leader."
Later, the commander of the first company conspired to assassinate the regiment leader. He planned to write an article and publish it in the newspaper, then take the poison Lysal himself and fight Xie Tuan with a kitchen knife.
You must know that he has been with the army for nearly 10 years in the north and south. During the Sihang Warehouse defense battle, he had a chance to escape, but insisted on risking his life to return to the army. He has a strong military demeanor. He and Commander Xie have known each other since 1932.
After 1934, we were in the same brigade and often discussed with each other how to lead troops, and our friendship was very good.
The former old comrades-in-arms wanted to fight each other with swords and axes. Not for anything else, but because Commander Xie insisted on executing the order and sticking to the lone army camp, and refused to find another way out for the lone army. Even people like him are like this, let alone others.
Soldier.
However, this assassination failed because it was discovered in advance.
But by 1941, although the Pacific War had not yet broken out, Britain, the United States and other countries saw the momentum and withdrew, and the Japanese and puppet regime actually took control of the concession. Foreign capital withdrew, the industrial bubble burst, prices soared, and even eating became a problem for the lonely army.
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The lone soldier who once had a clean and tidy appearance began to frequently contradict his superiors, slack off at work, and even fight in order to steal a bite of food. In the past, Commander Xie's punishment for erring soldiers was just confinement. Now, he even has to form a team of 10 people
The law enforcement team used whips and sticks on every soldier who made mistakes.
It seems that at first, only a few whips were needed to be effective, but later on, several people even needed to take turns to execute the punishment.
Just at this moment, an untimely letter announcing the good news arrived.
The writer was the squad leader who led people to escape in 1939. In the letter, he wrote:
"Yu has become the company commander! Yu was a guerrilla in northern Jiangsu, belonging to the ninth guerrilla zone. He specializes in fighting yellow dogs and puppet soldiers. Yu has 104 brothers, 11 machine guns, and more than 60
rifles, and a small steel cannon that was handed over. The company under Yu has a county commander in the guerrilla zone."
After taking the letter from Commander Xie and reading it, the squad leader's former superior, the company commander, burst into tears, feeling so sad that he couldn't express it to others.
On April 24, 1941, Lone Force's high-pressure valve finally detonated.
That day, Captain Xie was stabbed to death beside the playground.
Shangguan Company Commander, who stopped the four murderers, was also stabbed 6 times and was seriously injured.
The perpetrators were four lone soldiers...
They all had personal vendettas against Commander Xie, but no one could explain why they chose to assassinate Commander Xie.
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In July of that year, the court sentenced four people to death for murder. What happened behind the scenes and whether someone was behind the scenes has been a mystery ever since.
