"I checked and found that after Commander Xie and his lone army were imprisoned, they still insisted on militarized management, but what are the details?" 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 a cigarette, handed one to Li Yi, then lit it and took a puff.
"Yes, despite being imprisoned, the lone army still drills every day, and the military appearance is neat and tidy! But this is not what the merchants of all nations and the people from the island country want to see. The merchants of all nations are 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 fluttering 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 request for international support, claiming that the lone soldier was neither a defeated general nor a prisoner of war, and should not receive such treatment that was inconsistent with international law. The appeal was fruitless, and even a famous lawyer was unable to do anything. "
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. Calculation is difficult.
In fact, Captain Xie once thought about breaking out. 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 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.
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However, Lao Chang replied: I wrote on May 3, hoping to endure all hardships to safeguard the country's honor. "
"Haha, how ridiculous. To protect the national honor, we actually have to rely on these people who have survived 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 impact 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 Lone Army would do this. He repeatedly sent messages asking for "patience". Also considering the sensitivity of the international situation, Lone Army never took any action and insisted on besieging Gucheng. "
"Be patient, be patient, can you imagine, it's already that time, and Lao Chang still continues to ask them to be patient! Damn it, grandma, be patient!"
"August 11, 1938 was the anniversary of the first anniversary of the 88th Army's oath of war. The Lone 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, and forcibly demanded 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 noon, the commander of the merchant group entered the camp and demanded that the flag be lowered immediately. After being rejected, 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.
Due to weapons control, the lone officers and soldiers could only pick up chair legs, bricks, etc. 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. In this battle, 4 lone soldiers were killed and 111 officers and soldiers were injured.
Afterwards, in order to prevent the Lone Army from mutiny, the White Russian Regiment once again broke into the Lone Army Camp and kidnapped 17 officers, including Commander Xie. Other officers and soldiers had no choice but to go on a hunger strike in protest.
In the small garden of Gujun Camp, four new graves stand side by side. In front of each grave, the bloody clothes worn by the flag-protecting soldiers when they died were held high on bamboo poles. The lone soldiers sat around the grave and remained silent. Within four days, a large number of soldiers fainted and died. Hearing that their hero was being bullied in this way, citizens came to build up their momentum. Jiaozhou Road, Jinyao Road, and Changping Road leading to Gujunying 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 of relief. 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 Lysol himself and fight Xie Tuan with a kitchen knife.
You know, he has been with the army for nearly 10 years in the north and south. During the defense battle of Sihang Warehouse, he had a chance to escape, but he insisted on risking his life and returned to the army, showing a deep military demeanor. He and Commander Xie had known each other since 1932. After 1934, they were in the same brigade. They often discussed with each other how to lead troops, and their friendship was very good.
Former old comrades-in-arms, but they can't wait 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. This is true even for people like him, let alone other soldiers.
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 situation and withdrew, and the Japanese and puppet regime actually took control of the concession. Foreign investment has withdrawn, the industrial bubble has collapsed, prices have soared, and even eating has become a problem for the lonely army.
The lone soldier who once had a clean and tidy appearance began to frequently contradict his superiors, slack off at work, and even resorted to fighting just 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 10-member law enforcement team to whip and stick every soldier who makes a mistake.
It seems that at first, it only took a few whips to be effective, but later, it even took several people to take turns to execute the punishment.
Just at this moment, an untimely letter announcing the good news arrived.
The writer is 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.
In July of that year, the court sentenced four people to death for murder. What is the story behind the scenes and whether someone is manipulating it has become a mystery since then.
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