5.9 Eight hundred warriors and the tax police corps

When the fighting in downtown Shanghai finally stopped on October 27, the Japanese were a little agitated when they realized that the Chinese army had really abandoned the city they had held for more than two months. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon, the devils in downtown Shanghai found that there was a Chinese army that had not had time to withdraw in the Sixing warehouse, and in the eyes of these arrogant Japanese soldiers, the Chinese army should have been beaten by them a long time ago, and the "remnant army" in the Sixing warehouse building was simply a war feat that fell from the sky.

Who doesn't want to take advantage of it?

As a result, Japanese troops from all walks of life flocked from east to west, all wanting to show the "bravery" of the Imperial Japanese Army in front of the Westerners in the concession.

Unexpectedly, their first attack was met with the "800 heroes", and the Japanese troops who rushed up were blasted by Xie Jinyuan's subordinates with cluster grenades.

The Japanese attacked again under the cover of smoke.

However, their sneak attack was still repulsed, and the Japanese army's conspiracy not only failed to succeed, but instead carried the charge of arsonist in vain.

At 8 a.m. the next day, the Japanese launched their fourth attack.

Enemy planes circled over the Sihang warehouses one by one in an attempt to drop bombs, but because there were anti-aircraft machine gun positions on the roof of the Sihang warehouse building, the enemy planes did not dare to dive and bomb.

Dropping bombs from high altitudes, and fearing that they would bomb the British concession by mistake, the result was that they did not dare to throw bombs when they turned around in the sky, and the devil's army did not dare to use heavy artillery bombardment, so they had to continue to send infantry to attack.

Although the Japanese army had the spirit of 'bushido', they became powerless without the aircraft and artillery, and the defenders of the Sixing warehouse swept down condescendingly, killing the Japanese army and abandoning their armor.

Yang Huimin, the No. 41 Girl Scout of the Shanghai Scout Field Service Corps, saw the sun flag on three sides of the warehouse building and the British rice flag on one during the day.

When Yang Huimin took off his coat and presented the sweat-soaked national flag to the officers and soldiers, Xie Jinyuan and his subordinates were so excited that they shed tears.

Xie Jinyuan immediately ordered to prepare to raise the flag, because there was no flagpole on the roof, so he temporarily connected two bamboo poles to form a flagpole.

When the twilight was slightly dewed, more than a dozen officers and soldiers stood on the roof platform, facing the raised national flag, raising their hands and saluting. There is no music, no pomp, which adds to the sacred and solemn atmosphere.

At the end of the flag-raising ceremony, Xie Jinyuan personally sent Yang Huimin back. When Yang Huimin braved the bullets and rushed across the road and jumped into the Suzhou Creek, the concession area on the banks of the Suzhou Creek was full of people, cheering at the national flag waving in the wind on the roof of the Sixing warehouse, paying tribute to the warriors guarding the warehouse alone.

On October 29, the Japanese army openly claimed that it had completely occupied the area north of Suzhou Creek, and at the same time, the devils sent a large number of infantry to the Sixing warehouse again, led by tanks and chariots.

On the same day, Xie Jinyuan wrote a letter to his division commander Sun Yuanliang, reporting on the battle situation in the past few days and his determination:

"Master Yuanliang Jun Jian: The determination to sacrifice his job, abide by the will of Junzuo, and fight to the end. Before the task is fully achieved, never be rash and negligent, and succeed in becoming benevolent, and be familiar with the plan. The fortifications were strengthened for three days and nights and had reached the predetermined level. If the enemy comes to attack, he will not succeed. On the 27th, the enemy attacked again, and as a result, according to the report of the lookout sentry, more than 80 enemy were killed. At about 6 o'clock in the morning of the 28th, he personally sniped the enemy and killed one enemy. When the compatriots on the south bank of the river saw it, they clapped their hands and cheered. The current position is determined to wait for the task to be completed and make a heroic sacrifice! All prayers and thoughts.

Xie Jinyuan. At 10 o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th at the Sihang Warehouse"

In the early morning of the 30th, the Japanese attacked again, and the battle continued until the evening, and the Japanese never approached the Sixing warehouse building.

In the bloody battle for 4 consecutive days, Xie Jinyuan led the "800 brave men" to stubbornly resist the Japanese attack, sacrificing more than 10 people, wounding more than 30 people, and killing more than 100 enemies.

The battle of the Sixing Warehouse attracted countless attention, and domestic and foreign newspapers published the news of the bloody battle of the "Eight Hundred Heroes" in the Sixing Warehouse.

Someone made up a song "Song of Eight Hundred Heroes" based on this, which was widely sung:

China will not die, China will not die,

Look at the national hero Captain Xie;

China must be strong, China must be strong,

You see those 800 brave men fighting alone in the eastern battlefield;

There is artillery fire on all sides, leopard wolves on all sides,

I'd rather die than back down, I'd rather die than surrender,

Our flag is flying under artillery fire! Fluttered!

Eight hundred strong men have one heart, and one hundred thousand strong enemies dare not stop,

We act strongly, we have great ambitions.

Compatriots rise up! Compatriots rise up!

Hurry up to the battlefield,

Take the example of the 800 mighty men,

China will not die! China will not die!

Every day, tens of thousands of spectators cheer for the 800 heroes on the south bank of Suzhou Creek. When Ms. He Xiangning learned the news, she made a special trip to the bank of Suzhou Creek to pay tribute to the warriors of the Sixing Warehouse.

Smollett, the commander of the British Army in the Concession Bureau, also gave a thumbs up: "I have fought in the European war, and I have never seen such a valiant army. ‘

Some international people admired it and shouted 'miracle'! The masses from all walks of life in Shanghai spontaneously came to the aid of the defenders in various ways.

On the shore of the South Bank Concession, bread, candy, fruit, canned food and other food are piled up like a hill. Citizens braved stray bullets and threw food at warehouses across the river.

The Japanese army had no way to take Xie Jinyuan, so they began to use some despicable tricks, under the diplomatic activities of the Japanese, the British wavered, they used the excuse that there was a huge gas cylinder standing in the south of the new garbage bridge in the concession, which was only a few tens of meters away from the Sihang warehouse, for the safety of tens of thousands of residents in the concession, asked Xie Jinyuan to evacuate, and expressed their willingness to help them enter the concession.

At midnight on October 31, he received an order from Nanjing, and Xie Jinyuan led his troops, with the cooperation of the British army, to rush across the North Tibet Road and enter the British Concession through the New Garbage Bridge.

Eight hundred brave men reluctantly evacuated the Sixing warehouse, where they had been fighting for 4 days and 4 nights, and they entered the barracks in the concession, where their weapons were confiscated.

Once again, the Japanese achieved their goals with their special means......

The plan of the highest authorities to make Xie Jinyuan persist until the meeting of the Nine-Power Pact was also in vain.

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Huang Haoran also thought about using the old man of the Green Gang and the 99th Army's lurkers in Shanghai to rescue Xie Jinyuan and 800 heroes in the concession, but the current situation in Shanghai is very chaotic, and the Japanese army of 200,000 is pressing the border, and what was easy for the old man to do now has become difficult.

Not to mention that Xie Jinyuan's popularity is so high now, both Japanese and foreigners are firmly staring at Head Xie and not relaxing for a moment.

Over the next few days, the main forces of the 3rd and 9th Divisions of the Japanese army fought with the Chinese defenders on the Suzhou Creek near Fanwangdu to Nanxiang.

Suzhou Creek is a tributary of the Huangpu River, from Fanwangdu to Nanxiang vicinity, the widest part of the river is about 100 meters, to the vicinity of Zhoujiaqiao is only 30 or 40 meters.

There are Shanghai-Hangzhou railway bridges and Zhongshan highway bridges at the south end of the river, and there are wooden bridges for cars in the Nanxiang area at the west end. Due to the wilderness in the western part of Hu, the degree of obstacle was extremely low, and the Chinese defenders could only rely on natural rivers to resist the Japanese after retreating from Dachang.

The main battlefield in Songhu has now been moved to the banks of the Suzhou Creek, and the Teaching Corps and the Tax Police Corps have also been engaged in battle.

Sun Liren, the historical "American general", appeared in Huang Haoran's field of vision.

Speaking of Sun Liren, he is really a legendary figure in the Central Army.

Sun Liren is a native of Lujiang, Anhui Province, a student of Tsinghua University in the 20s, a Chinese representative on the international basketball arena, and a cadet of the Virginia Military Academy in the United States.

'vii. Before the incident, Sun Liren served as the colonel of the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Detachment of the Tax Police Corps of the Ministry of Finance of the National Government. After the Battle of Songhu began, Sun Liren led his troops to participate in the battle of Yunzaobang and Dachang, taking the lead and being wounded in 13 places. Because of his remarkable achievements, he was commended by Song Ziwen and Kong Xiangxi, and was promoted to the commander of the 2nd detachment of the tax police regiment and the commander of the 4th regiment.

When the Shanghai defenders moved to the south bank of Suzhou Creek, Sun Liren led his troops to Zhouqiao to organize defense.

On the morning of October 27, 40 or 50 Japanese soldiers took advantage of the high tide and morning fog to use small rubber boats connected in advance as pontoon bridges, smuggled to the south bank, and hid in the coal storage hole under the cliff about 2~3 meters high. After Sun Liren discovered this situation, he immediately commanded two squad leaders to erect four thick steel plates on the shore as a parapet, and threw more than 100 grenades in a row to blow up the enemy's rubber boat pontoon, and then set fire to more than a dozen bundles of cotton bales soaked in gasoline, and pushed them into the coal storage hole under the cliff, most of the Japanese soldiers were burned to death, and the remnants were also killed, and the battle took only more than two hours, and the Japanese troops who were about to smuggle to the south bank were all wiped out. This battle was the most resourceful, the least casualties, and the most beautiful counterattack battle of the Central Army in the Battle of Songhu. (99th Army is not included)

Sun Liren's tactics were very appetizing to Huang Haoran, although in the eyes of the generals of the other Central Army, this style of play was somewhat intriguing.

The Tax Police Corps is a very special force, in addition to Sun Liren, an "American general", whose food and work methods are very similar to Huang Haoran, in many other places, the Tax Police Corps also has the same tricks as the 99th Division.

The Tax Police Corps was a private armed force established by Soong Ziwen in 1932 when he was Minister of Finance.

As the name suggests, the Tax Police Corps is supposed to be an irregular force used to collect taxes from anti-smuggling. However, under Song Ziwen's painstaking management, the Tax Police Corps became an elite force that could not even be compared with the Class A regular army at that time.

The Tax Police Corps is supported by the surplus salt tax that is amortized annually from the loans of the banks of the eight countries. All establishments, equipment, and personnel are all based on Song Ziwen's wishes, and others have no right to intervene.

The same is true of the 99th Division, although it belongs to the establishment of the Central Army, but the few broken guns and a few small money allocated by the Ministry of Military Affairs are not even worth a fraction of the daily expenses of the 99th Division, and the 99th Division's supply depends on Huang Haoran's overseas investment income and the money obtained through various crooked and evil ways, in essence, the 99th Division is also Huang Haoran's personal army.

In addition to the fact that the source of funds does not depend on the Ministry of Military Affairs, the weapons and equipment of the 99th Division and the Tax Police Corps are also very different from those of other units in China.

The weapons and equipment of the 99th Division were selected by Huang Haoran, and the domestic weapons used were all the top domestic products at that time, and more weapons and equipment were purchased through underground channels.

The weapons and equipment of the Tax Police Corps do not depend on the Ministry of Military Affairs, and are all procured by the Ministry of Finance itself, drawing on the strengths of European and American military powers.

At the beginning, it was mainly the purchase of American-style equipment, equipped with Oligen anti-aircraft cannons, Vickers amphibious fighting vehicles, and the rifles were mainly German-made 1924 standard Mauser series guns or Belgian FN1924/30 rifle guns.

Later, the Kuomintang government allowed the Tax Police Corps to have the weapons and equipment of the German regular army. The rifle is mainly the German-made 1924 standard Mauser series gun, the light machine gun is mostly imported Czech ZB26, the heavy machine gun is mostly the Maxim 24 water-cooled heavy machine gun, the pistol is naturally the famous 7.63 mm Mauser M1932, and even equipped with the "Carden. Lloyd" ultralight tank.

Judging from the weapons equipped by the two troops, basically the 99th Division of the Tax Police Corps has them, and light weapons can be used in addition to Thomson, and the trump card of the Tax Police Corps is the chariot, and the trump card of the 99th Division is artillery.

If these two troops can be kneaded together, it will really be the first trump card of the Chinese army.

From this point of view, the 99th Division and the Tax Police Corps are too similar, from personnel to equipment, and even the commander's operational thinking, even the unpopular status in the Central Army is exactly the same.

In the army of the Nanjing government, only two units, the Tax Police Corps and the Central Teaching Corps, can make Huang Haoran look at them.

The teaching corps is the royal forest army of the highest authority, and Huang Haoran can only think about it, but the tax police corps is very different, although the combat effectiveness of the tax police corps is definitely not below the central teaching corps, but the situation of the tax police corps in the Nanjing military system is a little embarrassing.

This is mainly due to the fact that the tax police corps is not a "descendant" of Miao Zhenghong.

Song Ziwen even made trouble several times for the tax police corps and the highest authorities.

First of all, Song Ziwen did not tell the truth to the highest authorities from the beginning, and the highest authorities always thought that the tax police corps was just an insignificant small force, and Song Ziwen had always made it a means to hide from the world, so the origin of the tax police corps was a bit unjustifiable.

This was followed by the 1932 year of "I. At the time of the 28 "Incident, Song Ziwen was already deeply aware of the serious threat posed by Japan. He flew to Peking several times to hold talks with Zhang Xueliang and Tang Yulin. In order to cope with the sudden incident in North China, he secretly negotiated with Qian Zongze, director of the Longhai Railway Bureau, to prepare more than 30 trains, concentrate them in Haizhou, and transport all the tax police regiments to Zhengzhou at once, ready to leave for Beiping.

The incident was discovered by Liu Zhi, chairman of Henan Province, who called the highest authorities to inform him. The old man was furious and said that he should call the tax police corps to return to the original defense, otherwise he would disarm. Wen Yingxing, who served as the head of the regiment, did not dare to disobey and led his troops back. The highest authorities were still not angry and forced Song Ziwen to resign from the post of finance minister and "go abroad for inspection".

The highest authorities could not tolerate such a powerful presence in the non-descendant army, so he ordered Huang Jie, the commander of the Second Division stationed in Xuzhou, to take over as the head of the Tax Police Corps. The army that Song Ziwen had painstakingly managed was easily annexed by the highest authorities.

What is ridiculous is that Huang Jie soon became obsessed with the activities of the Blue Coat Society and neglected his own duties, coupled with the fact that Song Ziwen's old forces still occupied a considerable number of positions in the Tax Police Corps, so the infighting in the Tax Police Corps continued, which finally led to lax training and a decline in combat effectiveness.

Although the tax police corps also performed brilliantly in the Songhu War of Resistance, it was still a little incommensurate with the strength of this army.

In particular, the casualties of the troops were somewhat outrageous.

By 3 November, the number of casualties had exceeded 5,000 and was growing.

Since the "ownership problem" of the tax police corps has not been resolved until now, their logistical support has not been smooth.

The central army regarded them as outliers, and the local troops regarded the tax police corps as their "descendants," and the tax police corps suddenly became a veritable "sandwich biscuit."

A large number of wounded were sent to Wuhan, and the troops of the Tax Police Corps in Songhu were fighting fewer and less.

Huang Haoran knew that the highest authorities had long planned to "digest" the tax police corps, but Commander Huang also had his own little Jiujiu.

That is, he intends to snatch some meat from the mouth of the highest authority to eat.

The soldiers of the Tax Police Corps are all elite soldiers, and Huang Haoran is really unwilling to let such a big bargain slip away from his hands.

How high is the quality of the soldiers of the Tax Police Corps?

Here's an example:

After the signing of the Songhu Agreement in 1932, the Tax Police Corps was transferred out of Shanghai and went to the Lianghuai area east of Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu for training. With the support of Soong Ziwen and the German advisory group, the Tax Police Corps established an officer corps and a military corps in the suburbs of Haizhou, and officers and soldiers were transferred in turn to strengthen shooting training.

In 1933, during the Tax Police Corps, he participated in shooting competitions held by 48 military-level units. The 4th Regiment of Sun Liren's Tax Police accounted for 7 of the top 10 individuals and won the first place in the group.

The quality of the soldiers of the Tax Police Corps can be seen from this.

Huang Haoran looked at the large number of wounded people of the Tax Police Corps who passed through Changshu every day, and his eyes were about to drip blood, and he couldn't wait to immediately turn all these high-quality soldiers to the 99th Army.

But such an order is not good to come out of the mouth of his military seat, so Huang Haoran was so anxious that he went around in the underground headquarters.

It was Fan Jie, the chief of staff, who understood Huang Haoran's intentions, and Fan Jie, in the name of helping to rescue the wounded, intercepted a part of the wounded of the tax police corps, and Huang Haoran immediately praised Fan Jie with a smile all day.

So Shen Lao Er was not happy, and Shen Yuanlong thought to himself that Fan Jie hadn't done something terrible, didn't he just get back a few wounded soldiers? The eldest brother praised him to heaven.

"Leading the team to rob people"? This is my second Shen's specialty.

As a result, Shen Laoer's 99th Division immediately joined the ranks of "human traffickers", and in the next few days, the wounded soldiers passing by Changshu by the Tax Police Corps were changed from the previous "deception" of the army staff officers to the "open robbery" of the 99th Division!

Thanks to the fact that it is now wartime, the "disappearance" of more than a thousand wounded has not attracted the attention of the supreme commander of the Tax Police Corps, after all, it is not a smooth road from Shanghai to Wuhan, who knows what accidents will occur on the way?

A few days later, the wounded soldiers were on the list of the dead.

As a result, the Ministry of Military Affairs became the main wrongdoer, and issued a large amount of pension to the Tax Police Corps.

Seeing that his "sale" of "abducting and selling people" did not attract the accusation of his superiors, and that the "dividends" of "trading" were too big, Haoran began to acquiesce to the various units of the 99th Army to "work overtime" at some slightly farther intersections to "rob people".

The wounded soldiers of the Tax Police Corps were "robbed and killed" by the 99th Army, and the fish that "escaped" began to fall through the net less and less, and finally, they became extinct.

Now when the combat meeting is held every night, the first thing Huang Haoran asks is:

"How many people did you abduct today?"

The face of the wealth fan made Shen Laoer, Wang Huanzhi, and Wang Shankui sweat profusely......

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