Chapter 44: Air Combat (1)
"Master, the Japanese are calling, come with us!"
In Kunshan, in a dilapidated Taoist temple, a young man in a Taoist robe knelt in front of an old Taoist holding a broom and pleaded loudly.
The young man is the head of the Ming Shan Dao, and the old man is the head of the Yuan Hui Dao.
This dilapidated Taoist temple is naturally the place where Li Bin crossed into Han Bin at the beginning, and was later requisitioned as a field hospital.
Because it is a field hospital, it has been bombed by planes, and now this dilapidated appearance is caused by Japanese bombs, but fortunately the main hall has not been too badly damaged.
And this field hospital was hastily evacuated two days ago, and the doctors, nurses, and wounded were all transported away, leaving only a mess all over the ground.
Looking at the discarded bandages and medical waste all over the ground, there is still a little Taoist temple.
Daoist Mingshan was not worried about his master, so Han Bin and the others got off the train in Kunshan, and then wanted to pick up Daoist Yuanhui and the others to leave.
Because Daoist Yuan Hui lent the Taoist temple to the army as a field hospital, if the Japanese army found out, they would definitely not let him go.
Daoist Yuan Hui stopped the broom in his hand, looked at Mingshan with a kind face, touched the other party's head, and shook his head with a smile, "Mingshan, I'm already old, I can't follow you to resist Japan and save the country." This Taoist temple was passed on to your master by your ancestor, so I must stay and keep it, you can take Ming Fei and a few of them together.
Our Taoists, in the prosperous era to close the mountain to cultivate, in the troubled times down the mountain to save people, this is a tradition of thousands of years! β
"Master, just come with us!" Mingshan said anxiously.
However, no matter how Mingshan persuaded him, Daoist Yuanhui never agreed, but cleaned the clutter on the ground of the Taoist temple as if no one was around, wanting to make this small and dilapidated Taoist temple look more tidy.
In the end, Mingshan had no choice but to leave the Taoist temple with Ming Fei and the other three junior brothers, leaving only Daoist Yuanhui and Mingshan, a senior brother whose leg was blown off by a devil's plane, to stay in this dilapidated Taoist temple.
Mingshan knew that he might not be able to return here for many years if he left.
Leaving the Taoist temple, Han Bin and the others went directly to the train station, but when they arrived at the train station, they found that the train station was chaotic at this time.
There was a cry and a large number of civilians who wanted to leave Kunshan.
But where did the train pull so many people?
"What to do? We won't be able to squeeze in the train! β
Seeing the crowded railway station in front, Wang Chengpeng said in a hurry.
There were not many of them, in addition to the four Taoist leaders of Mingshan, there were also a group of more than a dozen students from Tongji University.
There were a group of twenty people, and most of them were helpless students, although many of them were carrying rifles left over from the hastily retreating army, but only Han Bin could really use a gun, and the others didn't shoot at all, and they carried guns just to deter some people with ulterior motives.
However, Han Bin's pistol marksmanship is not bad, but the rifle can only be used reluctantly, but the marksmanship is really not flattering, after all, he has never used this thing in his previous life.
"I can't take the train anymore, the train target is too obvious, and it's easy to be bombed by the devil's plane. Let's take the big road, go to Suzhou, you all bring your guns, if you have the opportunity, I will teach you how to use it, we have to rely on these self-defense.
Those who are soldiers are no longer reliable, and they can only rely on us at this timeγγγγγ β
The troops who watched it ran faster than ordinary people like himself, and Han Bin kept complaining in his heart.
Of course, you can't completely blame those soldiers for this, after all, they are all predators who fought bloody battles with the Japanese army on the Songhu front, and it is estimated that the officers above, especially the senior officers, have to be blamed.
However, not all armies could be withdrawn, such as the 88th Division, which retreated to the concession, Xie Jinyuan.
The battle to defend the Sixing Warehouse was indeed very tragic, but Xie Jinyuan's more than 400 people were actually political victims.
The 88th Division, as a German armament division and a descendant of the Central Army, wants to retreat, and it can retreat before, how can it be surrounded by the Japanese army in the Sixing warehouse.
And Xie Jinyuan's more than 400 people were deliberately left behind.
As for the reason!
It is to demand that a certain period of time be held in order to win the forthcoming nine-nation pact to condemn Japan's acts of aggression, and at the same time to arouse the attention, sympathy, and solidarity of international public opinion for China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Lao Jiang's idea is very good, but unfortunately it is useless, Britain and the United States and other countries are not as good as Lao Jiang's wishes.
Although in the end, the remnants of Xie Jinyuan retreated to the concession after holding on for four days and nights, they did not dare to offend the Japanese concession and directly disarmed the remnants of Xie Jinyuan, and then monitored them.
Of course, there is another reason why Lao Jiang and Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 88th Division, can ruthlessly abandon these hundreds of people.
Because the more than 400 people who stayed in the Sixing warehouse did not have much of the old foundation of the 88th Division, because of the tragic fighting before, the 88th Division also suffered heavy losses, and experienced five new recruits.
There are also miscellaneous troops such as the 67th Army and the 21st Army that desperately blocked the enemy in Songjiang and Jiaxing.
Afraid of something, before Han Bin finished speaking, there was a roar in the sky.
Han Bin suddenly looked up and saw the devil plane coming from the east, and hurriedly shouted, "Hide quickly, stay away from the train station, it's a devil fighter!" β
The arrival of the devil fighter made the already chaotic railway station even more chaotic. The restless crowd began to scatter and flee, shouting and screaming, one after another, and many people did not die at the hands of the Japanese soldiers, but died under the trampling of the feet of their compatriots.
And Han Bin and the others hid in a building early because of Han Bin's quick reaction.
Not long after they hid, eight Japanese Type 95 biplane carrier-based aircraft began to dive.
Dense bullets swept the crowd on the ground, mercilessly reaping the lives of Chinese soldiers and civilians. There were also some troops who had not yet withdrawn, and they raised their guns and fired at the Japanese planes.
But machine guns are not capable of fighting nimble fighters, and rifles are even worse.
Han Bin is not qualified to laugh at the 'stupidity' of these soldiers, these people don't know that they hit a stone with an egg, but they still stand up.
Han Bin hated, hated why there was not a single fighter plane in front of him, otherwise he would definitely let these Japanese planes come and go.
Let them know that even if China's aviation is not strong, China's sky is not a place where the Japanese army can act arbitrarily.
It's a pity that he is just an ordinary person now, and unless he goes to the Central Aviation School, he will not be able to contact fighters at all.
Just like in previous lives, pilots are not for everyone.
The weak anti-aircraft fire on the ground also startled the Japanese pilots, and after careful observation, they found that it was a rifle, and they were relieved.
Seeing the resisting Chinese troops, the Japanese pilots sneered with contempt, pressed the trigger of the on-board machine gun, and shot at the Chinese soldiers.
As the machine guns swept by, the soldiers who were still fighting back just now were directly beaten into a sieve.
Just when Han Bin was filled with a sense of powerlessness, two planes suddenly flew in the western sky, different from the Japanese fighters painted with plaster flags.
Those two planes were painted with the logo of the blue sky and white sun flag, but in front of the eight Japanese planes, the two Chinese fighters looked particularly thin!