Chapter 348: Top Gun

Due to the serious deformation of the rear half of the nose, people can't get into it at all, and from the appearance of the nose, the plane should have exploded when it disintegrated, so the back half of the nose was burned to the way it is now. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In order to better feel whether there was a corpse inside, I gently leaned my whole body against the side of the nose, and then my head boomed, and countless memory fragments poured into my mind......

In 1930, the 19-year-old Du Xingguo applied for the Central Air Force Academy established by the Kuomintang in Hangzhou that year, and became the first batch of air force pilots to graduate with excellent results.

When Du Xinguo was 26 years old, he met the female teacher Yuan Ru, and the two fell in love at first sight. Because the war situation at that time was anxious, as long as it was in the sky, no one knew if they would be able to come back alive.

However, as a middle school teacher, Yuan Ru not only supported and understood Du Xinguo, but even envied Du Xinguo very much for being able to fly in the sky to resist the Japanese invaders. It's a pity that she is a woman, she can't carry it on her shoulders or lift it in her hands, and the only thing she can do is to teach her students to resist Japan and save the country!

In 1942, the third year of Du Xinguo and Yuan Ru's marriage, the Japanese bombed Hong Kong and Yangon in order to force the then Kuomintang government to surrender, and completely cut off the Burma road, so that a large number of Chinese aid materials could not be transported into the country.

In the face of such a grim situation, China and the United States were finally forced to decide to open a new route, which started from India in the west, crossed the Himalayas in the east, passed through the Nu River, and entered China's Yunnan and Sichuan through the Jinsha River.

This hump route has a more direct and terrifying name - the death route, and most of the pilots who can fly this route are Americans, including a few Chinese.

However, because China's aviation industry started late at that time, there were very few pilots who could really fly the Hump route, but Du Xinguo was one, and he even took the initiative to propose to his superiors to fly this extremely dangerous route.

When she was separated from her wife, Yuan Ru didn't tell Du Xinguo too much, because she knew that her husband, whether he was a soldier or a man, was worthy of her trust! Her only extravagant hope was that the child in her womb could see his father......

And Du Xinguo also handed over his favorite military medal to Yuan Ru, asked her to take it for safekeeping, and promised that he would definitely come back alive......

At that time, in order not to distract Du Xinguo, Yuan Ru did not tell him about her pregnancy at all, and it was not until later in a correspondence between the two that his wife told him the truth.

The difficulties that Du Xinguo faced when he first flew the Hump route were far more serious than he had imagined! Because the transport planes were not escorted, their planes were often attacked by Japanese fighters.

In order to evade the Japanese attack and reduce casualties, the air brigade could only be changed to night flights. However, flying at night has undoubtedly greatly increased the difficulty of flying, whether it is the high altitude of the mountains, or the Japanese Zero fighters, and of course, the unpredictable weather, they are all in front of them in the country of Du Xin, one after another fatal dangers!

Du Xinguo and the others often transported the expeditionary force from the south to India at night, and then when they returned from India in the middle of the night, the plane would be filled with gasoline and other war supplies, and if the plane crashed, the possibility of survival was extremely small.

At that time, the American aircraft navigation system they flew was not advanced, and Du Xinguo and his team mainly relied on landmarks to navigate, but once they encountered bad weather, they could not see the landmarks below to navigate, and they only relied on experience to "fly blindly".

Those who are lucky can escape death and go back and forth many times, but those who are unlucky can ...... Maybe you won't be able to come back once! But at that time, Du Xinguo and the others often had to fly more than 700 kilometers in 6 hours every day, and with such a high-intensity flight, no matter how good luck you are, it will not favor you forever!

On April 17, 1943, Du Xinguo received an order from his superiors that on his way back from India, he needed to transport an important German prisoner in addition to a batch of urgently needed war materials.

At that time, Du Xingguo slept during the day and flew in the second half of the night, so at 24 o'clock in the morning of the same day, Du Xinguo was ready to leave for China. Also in charge of escorting the German prisoner were a German translator, Brown, and a young American officer, Anderson.

As a pilot, Du Xingguo did not have the authority to know why the German prisoner was brought back to China, but it was not difficult to see from his experience that the German was not a soldier.

At this time, Du Xinguo found that Anderson was holding a small suitcase with a combination lock in his hand, which should contain some highly confidential and important things, and this thing was obviously related to the German!

Du Xinguo and Anderson dealt with each other a few times, and they were familiar with each other, and after a few brief greetings after they met, Du Xinguo started the plane and prepared to return......

At first, everything went well, but just as they were flying out of India, they were suddenly attacked by three Zeros. Because there is no escort plane, it is usually encountered in this situation, and experienced flight members can only find ways to dodge.

But even so, one of the engines of the C-87 driven by Du Xinguo was hit, and puffs of black smoke came out...... In order to save his life, Du Xinguo had to burrow into the clouds to hide.

Perhaps it was the deteriorating weather that scared away the Japanese Zeros, but by the time Du Xinguo's planes flew out of the clouds, the three Japanese planes had already disappeared from the sky.

At this time, Du Xinguo wanted to fly back quickly, hoping that he could also avoid the gradually deteriorating weather, but unfortunately this time God did not favor their plane again.

When Du Xinguo piloted the plane over a mountain peak with an altitude of 7 kilometers, he suddenly encountered strong winds, and the temperature inside the plane immediately dropped to more than minus 20 degrees, and the glass of the cockpit of the plane quickly froze.

At that time, it was already dark, and now Du Xingguo couldn't see the scenery in front of him even more clearly. As a result, at this critical moment, the plane's engine went wrong again, and two of them turned off at the same time!

In desperation, Du Xinguo had no choice but to report his last coordinate location to the base at this urgent moment, hoping that someone would find the important materials on the plane and the mysterious lockbox in the future......

All the memories of Du Xinguo came to an abrupt end with a loud bang...... When he finally died, he didn't have a chance to look at his unborn child.