The Eight Hundred

During the early days of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and on a greater scale World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Shanghai, which became known as The Battle of Shanghai. After holding back the Japanese for over 3 months, and suffering heavy losses, the Chinese army was in full retreat. The Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan of the 524th Regiment of the under-equipped but elite German trained 88th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, leads 452 young officers and soldiers to defend the Sihang Warehouse against the 3rd Imperial Japanese Division consisting of around 20,000 troops on a heroic suicidal last stand against the Japanese under an order by Generalissimo of Nationalist China, Chiang Kai-shek.