Chapter 1116: Final Salute
"Sister-in-law, do you miss my brother?" With a slightly rounded face and a little baby fat, and two big black braids, the girl who was about twenty-eight years old smiled and laughed.
The other was a little older, with a goose egg face, bangs, and a very quiet and delicate woman's face quietly turned red, and she was shy but worried: "Your brother Huaiming sent a letter saying that the troops were going to retreat to Wuhan, but more than a month has passed, and there are many planes flying over, but there is no aircraft brigade of him, and I don't know what happened to him, I don't believe that your sister is not in a hurry." β
"Giggles, of course I'm in a hurry, but I'm not as anxious as your prospective daughter-in-law. Rest assured! Sister-in-law, my brother Huaiming was the best pilot of their class, how could the little devil be his opponent, he would definitely come back. And γγγγγγ The baby fat girl giggled, but her eyes were full of confidence and comfort.
"And what?" The quiet woman suppressed the sudden palpitations in her heart and asked curiously.
"And I will use eight sedan chairs to marry the anxious sister-in-law in front of me, and at this time next year, I will add a white and chubby nephew to Chen Nan! Cluck! The baby fat girl smiled like a flower, giggled and ran away first.
"Okay, you're a hard worker, you stop me, who's in a hurry? Who gave you what nephew? The quiet woman bit her lip and stomped her foot, chasing the girl's back and disappearing around the corner.
It's just that the blushing but happy face proves that the quiet woman is not only not angry, but the teasing of the future sister-in-law may be exactly what she wants.
Marry her beloved, have a group of children, and grow old, that's the happiness she wants!
However, China today is not an era of peace. Now China, the water is dire. In today's China, from North China to Southeast China, there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers and all the powerful armies in China are converging like these two battlefields.
Thousands of ordinary happiness seem to be within reach, but under the raging war, they can only drift away. Perhaps, in this life, it can no longer be touched.
Don't those good boys know? I don't know that the moment I go to the battlefield, maybe my family's happiness will end? Of course they do. But what can you do if you don't go? If you don't go, 40,000,000 people will never be able to touch happiness again.
They can only say sorry to their loved ones.
The two women who loved their brother and fiancΓ© deeply did not know that when they looked at the sky in the northwest, the person they loved had become one with the land of their motherland.
Again, there will be no return.
Half a month later, Zhou Dapeng, who led 15 fighter planes to transfer to Wuhan Airport, personally carried Liu Lang's body to Sichuan and sent him home after completing the cremation at the Sichuan base.
In the small courtyard paved with blue bricks, 15 pilots from across the ocean wearing the standard uniforms of the Chinese Air Force lined up in two rows and knelt in front of Chen Buping's parents' knees and kowtowed heavily, apologizing to the second elder on behalf of Chen Buping.
When they knelt, no one pulled them, because they were so resolute. That's a kneeling for comrades-in-arms, and it is a kneeling that belongs to them. Life, for comrades-in-arms and brothers, death, too.
Although Chen Buping said his real name before he died, these comrades-in-arms who lived and died together still like to call him Chen Buping, only in this way can they always remember the 21-year-old young man who finally entered their team, and always remember him introducing himself with a smile: "My name is Chen Buping, Chen of Erdong Chen, and I will sweep away all the injustices in the world." β
The parents were in tears, the little sister was teary-eyed, and the quiet woman who had been standing by the side was pale and scary.
The young man she loved, gone, her happiness was gone.
Fourteen-day-old newspapers are still on the table.
"24 to 1, the Chinese Air Force, on the front line of Shanxi Niangzi Pass, is full of brilliance." The newspaper headline made the second elder, who is the pilot's parents, take out the report sent by Liu Xueyuan's reporter from the front line of Niangziguan every time he has leisure time and taste it carefully.
Although the newspaper did not mention the number of the air force that won a brilliant victory because of military secrecy, the second elder always regarded all the air forces as his own son because his son was a member of the air force. Every time they won a victory on the front line, they would stay awake at night with excitement. Every defeat makes it even more difficult for them to sit still.
With joy and worry, they finally waited for the great victory of the Air Force. 24 to 1, what a glorious victory, unprecedented.
The only Japanese plane that was damaged and quickly fled the battlefield did not flee far, and finally crashed into the mountains forty kilometers away from the front line of Niangziguan, and the pilot parachuted, but when the Chinese search team found him, he was already a pile of bones.
The fresh blood of the Japanese pilots who were wounded by the branches attracted a group of wild wolves in the Taihang Mountains, and the poor fourteen small pistols in the south did not even kill a wild wolf, and the pilots weighing more than 130 pounds became the most delicious meat of the wild wolf pack, and they were gnawed cleanly.
On the day the news came out, the whole country shook, and the whole world shook. However, due to the problem of transmission, except for the newspapers of the 2nd Theater of Operations in Shanxi, neither the declaration nor the newspapers of the central government in Nanjing had enough photos to corroborate. However, the Japanese invaders rarely did not speak out, and all the Japanese media remained silent, only launching round after round of offensives on the southeast battlefield and the Xinkou battlefield.
That also proved the authenticity of the Niangziguan air battle victory from the side, as time went by, the end of the first battle in the Niangziguan theater, the photos of the Japanese aircraft that fell in the Niangziguan mountain area were all out of the blue, all the doubts were silent, and the wreckage of 24 Japanese planes was presented in front of the world, and the people who were concerned about this war between China and the weak were issued the most powerful declaration.
The Chinese Air Force has never given up defending its own airspace. Chinese Air Force, invincible.
However, whether it was victory or defeat, the handsome young man became the only one. Never to come back.
A huge pain filled the heart of this weak woman.
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The woman may not know that because of the sacrifice of her fiancΓ©, at the moment when she saw the sad Zhou Dapeng go away, the murderous Liu Lang issued three military orders in a row, and then issued three more killing orders. Directly sent all the Japanese troops in the encirclement, to be exact, 99 percent of the Japanese, to hell.
Many years later, this battle is still criticized by many military research scholars, who believe that Liu Tuanzuo's three orders for killing are too cruel. It's just that most of those people are Japanese.
"I ordered the Panshi Battalion to arrive at the battlefield as quickly as possible and enter the battle, the guard platoon of the independent regiment and the guard company of the 386th Brigade marched 3 kilometers from the ambush position to participate in the battle, and the baggage company except the necessary remaining personnel, and the rest of the personnel joined the engineer company to participate in the battle.
Inform all units of the army that they must not take the enemy lightly, use superior firepower to smash the enemy's resistance a little bit, and then annihilate it; At the same time, I ordered the battalion and company commanders, this time, what I want is not how many devils have been killed and wounded, but how many devils have died. Defend your own defense line, gradually compress the living space of devils with superior firepower, and not let go of a devil.
All Japanese soldiers who participated in the battle, killed; In the service of the Japanese, kill; Those who are not combatants but refuse to surrender and resist, kill; Regardless of gender, regardless of nationality; β
The three murderous orders are Liu Lang's tribute to this outstanding pilot of the Chinese Air Force. I use the life of the devil of an infantry brigade as a memorial.
The fighter plane that was still burning was on the side of the battlefield, and the heroic spirit of the hero had not gone far, and he should still be able to see the final victory of the battle.
After giving the military order, with a squad of guard soldiers, Liu Lang and the future general went straight to the crash site of the 119 number fighter, he wanted to fulfill his promise, collect the remains of the pilot, and hand them over to Zhou Dapeng in their entirety.
The commanders of the front battlefield were Regiment Commander Xu and Zhang Ruhao, and the commanders of the rear battlefield were Liu Dazhu, commander of the bayonet battalion, and Ling Hong, commander of the Panshi Battalion, with a total of more than 5,800 people, and more than 3,000 devils were pressed to death on the battlefield within a radius of only 2 kilometers.
This time, the Japanese army had no artillery or planes, so they relied on a few pitiful mortars and mountain guns, as well as light and heavy machine guns hiding in Tibet, and relied on less than 2,000 38 covers and dozens of grenadiers to survive. If the more than 5,800 Chinese officers and men who occupy the advantage of terrain and have more than 90 light and heavy machine guns, dozens of mortars, more than 800 semi-automatic rifles, more than 100 submachine guns and 2,000 single-shot rifles cannot defeat them, this battle will not be necessary.
With nearly twice the strength and nearly five times the firepower, this was probably the only battle in which the Japanese had been beaten in terms of firepower since they entered North China.
Of course, this was the last battle of the 40th Infantry Brigade.
The fire of the fighter plane was quickly extinguished, and the colonel personally wiped the body with clean water, and the major general personally wrapped himself in a white cloth, and a good cedar coffin that had been prepared for the burial of the body. It was chosen by the future general himself before the battle to express the meaning of the decisive death in the battle of "Dawn".
Extremely honored.
In the midst of the war, Liu Lang expressed in his own way the last tribute to the Chinese Air Force pilot, who was much younger than himself but never had any chance to get old.