General Xie Jinyuan was born in Meizhou, Guangdong Province. 1925, studying at Guangdong University (now Sun Yat-sen University). 65438+ In February of the same year, he was admitted to the Fourth Political Department of Huangpu Military Academy. 1926 10 graduated, served as platoon leader in the first division of the National Revolutionary Army and participated in the Northern Expedition. He was wounded in the battle with Sun in Jinan, and later served as commander of Wuhan fortress, Henan provincial security department, deputy head of the regiment and chief of staff of the brigade. Transferred to the 19th Route Army Cai Tingkai Department, 1932 participated in the "December 28th" Shanghai Defence War. 1937 When the "August 13th" Sino-Japanese War broke out, he served as the chief of staff of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Army Division and participated in the Battle of Baziqiao in Zhabei. Later, he served as deputy head of the 524 th regiment. After the sacrifice of the colonel, he took over as the colonel and led the troops to the North Railway Station. He confronted the Japanese army for more than two months. 10 year1October 26th, the Japanese army madly launched an attack on the garrison line. He led a battalion of more than 400 officers and men to stick to the warehouses in Suzhou and Hebei to cover the retreat of large troops. 10 year1On October 27th, thousands of Japanese troops invaded. He calmly responded and called on the strong men to "hold their ground and swear to fight the Japanese army to the end!" After a day of fierce fighting, more than 80 enemies were killed. The news that he led the troops alone to defend the dangerous building and vowed not to surrender quickly spread throughout Shanghai, attracting attention at home and abroad and praising it as "eight hundred heroes". In the early morning of the 28th, officers and men raised the national flag of the Republic of China on the roof of Sihou Warehouse, expressing their determination to defend the dignity of the motherland and vowing to fight the invaders to the end. Then the enemy's offensive became more and more fierce and the situation was sinister. On the 29th, he wrote a suicide note: "Jinyuan is determined to die for the country, and vowed not to retreat easily, nor to drag out an ignoble existence for a while. Jin Yuan will ask the Japanese for a considerable price before he dies. I will fight the enemy with one shot and one bullet! " On the 30th, Chiang Kai-shek's power of attorney was received. 3 1, the enemy attacked four rows of warehouses with aircraft artillery (below). Under the cover of three machine guns, he led the troops out of the tight encirclement and retreated into the concession. Stick to the warehouse for 4 days and nights, repel dozens of Japanese attacks, annihilate more than 200 enemies, and write a very heroic page in the history of China's Anti-Japanese War. He was praised by his superiors and promoted to colonel. After the troops retreated to the concession, they were ready to fight again. They were disarmed by the British army and sent to the "lonely barracks" on Jiaozhou Road, where they were humiliated. Full of grief and indignation, he led the solitary army to sing the national anthem every morning, held a flag-raising ceremony, and went out to class. The Ministry of Education did not forget the personality and national dignity of patriotic soldiers. On the morning of August 1938, 1 1, the national flag was raised to commemorate the first anniversary of the "August 13th" Anti-Japanese War. Xie Jinyuan and his four company commanders were surrounded by foreign troops of the international business group that afternoon, and attacked the barracks and took the national flag. He commanded a strong man to fight, four strong men died, and 100 people were injured. He was sent to the Bund Central Bank Building for solitary confinement. He ordered a hunger strike. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was forced to make concessions, send them back to the lonely camp, return the national flag, pay for the dead brave, and apologize for this incident. 1940 In March, the traitor Wang Jingwei set up a puppet national government in Nanjing, and sent personnel to lure him in as a senior official of the commander-in-chief of the army. He sternly denounced: "Your behavior is immoral and you regard the thief as your father. You would rather be a Zhang Bangchang than a conquered person. I was born in China and died as a ghost in China. It is my bounden duty to defend the country and serve the people. I have made up my mind that I will never be moved by any sweet words and inducements. Don't defile me with words worse than dogs. Go, don't talk nonsense. " (The picture above shows Xie Jinyuan and his four company commanders. )

Xie Jinyuan's tomb shows that the combination of hard and soft is ineffective. 194 1 In April, four traitors bought by Japanese puppet troops were stabbed to death during morning exercises on the 24th. The news of murder shocked the whole country. On may 8, the national government issued an order to posthumously award him as a major general of the army. Shanghai 65438+ ten thousand people went to pay homage. Mao Zedong highly praised eight hundred heroes as a "national model". Jiang Zhongzheng praised him as "loyal to the sun". After the founding of New China, Shanghai established Jinyuan Middle School as a memorial. 1In the spring of 983, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government rebuilt the mausoleum in Hongqiao Wanguo Cemetery (namely Soong Ching Ling Cemetery) to show its brilliant achievements of "participating in the Anti-Japanese War and dying for the country".