Chapter 1,176 The waving flag and the order to retreat
The third day comes.
In addition to defense personnel, observers, and casualties, there were actually 345 people in the entire Sihang Warehouse!
And their enemies are countless times greater than them.
On the roof of Sihang Warehouse.
Commander Xie pointed to the airship floating in the sky and said: "Brothers of the Eighty-Eighth Division, there are observers from Western countries. Behind me are our own compatriots. We are not just here to resist the little days, we are
I am showing them that the Chinese people are still there, the Chinese soldiers are still here! The Chinese soldiers are still standing here! We soldiers have not retreated even a step. As long as we are here, Shanghai has not fallen, and Northeast China has fallen.
North China fell, but now, because of you, Shang Hai is still there!"
"yes!"
The sound spread to the other side of the river, and everyone's eyes focused on Sihang Warehouse.
They saw the fluttering flag, the military flag belonging to the Chinese army, being slowly raised.
This is the only flag belonging to China raised in the entire Shanghai.
"Fire for our fallen comrades!"
Gunshots rang out!
There were old people, women, and children, all looking at the flags flying on the roof of the four-row warehouse.
"China will not perish!"
"China will never perish!"
"Long live the Chinese nation!"
This flag makes everyone's blood boil.
The people on the other side of the river also cheered.
Just as the military flag was raised, the Japanese army became furious and desperately began to attack the Sihang Warehouse.
Yangguai and other newly recruited soldiers of the 88th Division were sent to protect the flag.
The Japanese army went completely crazy and sent fighter jets regardless of the tacit understanding they maintained with the concession.
For a time, the casualties of the soldiers at Sihang Warehouse increased greatly. Facing the strong firepower of the Japanese army, the soldiers at Sihang Warehouse were almost massacred one side.
The military flag gradually fell down, and a bloody hand supported the flagpole to prevent the military flag from falling completely.
Because Japanese aircraft wounded and killed many civilians in the concession, the Western countries in the concession were extremely dissatisfied.
Give a loud warning to them to evacuate immediately, otherwise it will be regarded as an act of war.
The military flag stood up again while shaking.
But those soldiers sleep forever under the military flag.
Everyone looked at this scene and burst into tears.
The remaining flag guards used their bodies to support the flag to prevent it from falling down.
However, another Japanese plane left and came back again. Bullets rained down from the sky. No matter how hard our flesh and blood bodies could resist, the remnant soldiers fell down one by one.
The military flag was crumbling. Finally, as the last flag guard was hit and could no longer be held up, the military flag slowly fell to the ground.
Thanks to the commander's order, everyone should not act without authorization and make unnecessary sacrifices.
Yangguai rushed out and re-erected the fallen military flag. Duanwu, who was originally afraid of death, also rushed out.
Japanese fighter jets flew in again, but due to protests from Western countries, the Japanese troops had to temporarily evacuate the planes.
Seeing the plane evacuating, Duanwu shouted excitedly: "Run away, run away!"
But Qi Jiaming's smile suddenly froze when he looked at him. Duanwu looked down, but he didn't know when he was shot in the waist.
Only then did he realize it, and he immediately collapsed to the ground.
After being carried back, his stomach was almost smashed. Xiao Hu Bei ran over crying, but was held back by a goat crutch.
Qi Jiaming held Duanwu's hand, but at this time Duanwu was already on his deathbed. He was trembling and blood was gushing out. He even thought Qi Jiaming was Xiao Hubei: "Little Hubei, don't be afraid.
And me!"
"Didn't we agree that when we get to Shanghai, we will take a boat to England, take my uncle and my mother with me? I miss my mother!"
"Xiao Hu Bei, didn't we agree that we would take pictures together when we arrive in Shanghai?"
Qi Jiaming reacted immediately. He called to reporter Qi Jiaming who was paralyzed there: "Come here!"
"Take a picture, take a picture! Let's take a picture together!"
He just kept repeating it.
In Fang Xingwen's camera, the life of Dragon Boat Festival stays at this moment forever.
At night, opera was being sung on the stage across the river.
"That song was sung to us. Guojun walked all the way to Maicheng before, but today we have gained some face for them!"
Zhu Shengzhong looked into the distance and said: "My husband Xu Guo is really a blessing. Thank you!"
Behind him, Qi Jiaming took out Zhao Zilong's shadow puppet and performed "Changban Slope" shadow puppet show for the soldiers to boost their morale."
The surviving students were wiping away tears while reading a letter. Lao Tie asked curiously: "What are the children looking at?"
"Letter, a letter from an officer to his wife!"
"A letter of love? Nian Nian!"
The student read: "My wife loves Yuzhi. Now I am rushing to Luodian with the team to be ordered to provide reinforcements. It is my duty. But my hometown is poor and I have a young wife and young children, so I am inevitably worried. If you can be frugal at home, you can have enough food and clothing, and your parents are healthy."
If you are weak, you should add clothes and food as appropriate. When you grow up, you will still consider it appropriate to be a soldier, avenge your father, and be loyal to your country. One day, our flag will fly on the top of Mount Fuji, and our descendants will no longer be subjected to
Such humiliation."
Everyone who smelled it silently cried.
The fourth day of the Sihang Warehouse defense battle is coming.
When red crosses and white flags were laid on the Garbage Bridge, and when soldiers in Sihang Warehouse were seen, they walked out of Sihang Warehouse one after another.
The citizens on the other side of the river came out. They were surprised why the Chinese army came out at this time.
Time goes back fourteen hours!
Captain Xie said to the commissioner: "Look at the other side, the people are looking at us, and their enthusiasm for resisting Japan is getting stronger and stronger!"
As a result, the special correspondent said: "It will subside soon!"
"The enthusiasm of these people cannot change the situation of the war!"
"I don't believe it! History will remember this place! Remember these people!"
"Then I'll leave it to future generations to comment. I'll tell you the truth. The reason why you stick to the commission so far is because it is a show for the Western countries. If you stick to it, you will no longer be soldiers. When you see the ship on the other side,
An actor? Don’t turn this feat into a bigger laughing stock!”
Commander Xie looked at the commissioner with a look of disbelief on his face: "Is this how you define this battle?"
The special commissioner looked at him: "The war is all about politics! The concession authorities have promised you to withdraw. Withdraw! If this battle continues, it will be meaningless. The little hope you have brought will eventually change."
It will lead to greater despair. If you go out, you will lose your honor, but at least you can let these people survive. They are all flesh and blood, with parents and brothers!"
However, Captain Xie had long been determined to serve the country with his life: "The Chinese people only want to serve their ancestors as soldiers. When the country is broken and the family is broken, three hundred thousand brothers are lying outside. Now you tell me that they have flesh and blood? Yes."
Parents and brothers?”
"The government thought that this obstruction would leave room for negotiation, but the fact is not the case. Our strengths are too far apart. If the war continues and spreads across the country, the most ordinary people will suffer. They will
More bombings, more deaths, more separations."
Finally, he said: "The central army is almost exhausted. Leave some seeds for the ace army. Before retreating, there should be no new battles. Let the miscellaneous armies be left behind."
In fact, due to the inability to use heavy artillery and aircraft, and the special location of the Sihang Warehouse, the Japanese army was unable to quickly capture the Sihang Warehouse. Japanese diplomats and military leaders successively made explicit statements, threatening and intimidating the concession authorities to immediately
Measures were taken to eliminate the resistance of the "Eight Hundred Warriors" in Sihang Warehouse. The Japanese naval attache and fleet officers in China successively made speeches, threatening that the Japanese army would take extreme measures to deal with the Chinese defenders regardless of the consequences.
This means that heavy bombs will be dropped from aircraft and bombarded with long-range heavy artillery. If the bombs and artillery shells deviate from the direction and blow up the gas tanks on the south bank of the Suzhou River, it will cause very serious consequences. Under pressure from all parties, the Guo Army sent
The special commissioner came and asked Commander Xie to withdraw into the concession.
