readx; On January 3, 1933, the Northeast Army, with a total strength of 7,800 troops on both sides, and the Japanese army engaged in a fierce battle at Yulin Pass. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Xueliang, the current supreme commander of the Northeast Army and the deputy commander of the Navy, Army and Air Force of the Beiyang National Defense Army, who commanded in Beiping (formerly known as Beijing, changed to Beiping after the Wuchang Uprising overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China), received an urgent report from the commander of the 626th Regiment of the defending army guarding Yulin Pass requesting reinforcements.

Zhang Xueliang, who has been haunted since the loss of the three northeastern provinces, thought that his old father Zhang Zuolin was killed by the hateful little Japanese Kwantung Army, and now the Japanese actually have the courage to hit the idea on their heads, and the flame of revenge in the chest of new sorrow and old hatred is completely burning, and now Zhang Xueliang, the head of the Northeast Army, is fortunately not carried away by the anger of hatred.

However, it is still in a wait-and-see state under the periphery of Yuguan (since the "shelling of Yuguan incident" caused by the Japanese Kwantung Army in December last year), the top officials of the Beiyang Nationalist Government, including President Jiang Zhicheng, have repeatedly sent telegrams to warn the Northeast Army and Zhang Xueliang to maintain patience and restraint, not to break out conflicts with the Japanese, and to avoid haste and patience. All the officers and men of the Northeast Army had no choice but to swallow their anger and allow the Japanese troops outside the border to provoke and create incidents under their noses. At the same time, he called Gao Zihang, acting commander of the Northeast Army Air Force at Beiping Airport, and asked him to transfer 30 fighters from the airport to Yulin Pass to give air reinforcements to the defenders.

Before Zhang Xueliang called, since he came to Beiping from the Northeast, the Northeast Army Air Force was always in a tense state under the training of Acting Commander Gao Zihang, and there was not much left of the old and outdated fighters after Zhang Xueliang sent them to the Beiyang Nationalist Government in Nanjing (the fighters, bombers, and transport planes were all sent, and there were only a few special planes used by high-level officials of the Northeast Army, in order not to let the outside world see the weakness of the Northeast Army Air Force, Fortunately, in June last year, the young marshal spent a large sum of money to buy a batch of biplane zero fighters that are said to have beaten the Japanese Navy, Marine Corps, and Navy in Shanghai, which are the most advanced and unique in the world today.

Three days later, the newly purchased aircraft flew directly to Beiping Airport and the newly built Nanyuan and Beiyuan airports to be handed over to the Northeast Army for reception. Gao Zihang, in his capacity as acting commander of the Northeast Army Air Force (former Air Force commander Chen Haihua was on sick leave due to illness), ordered that all fighters, including those that did not participate in the operation, must be restocked with bombs and fuel. Sure enough, the plane was filled with fuel and ammunition, and the high command of the Northeast Army called ten minutes later.

More than 2,000 officers and men of the 626th Regiment of the Ninth Brigade guarding Yulin Pass continued to retreat in the face of the Japanese army's strong superiority in the sky and the ground and the sea, especially the Japanese fighters in the sky unscrupulously threw bombs and strafed the soldiers of the Northeast Army below who had no air defense capability. A large number of Japanese army and air planes raging in the sky were still ignorant and indiscriminately bombing ground targets.

At a speed of more than 700 kilometers per hour, the thick armor that can resist the shrapnel of 85-mm anti-aircraft artillery shells, the high-strength fuselage structure enables it to make all kinds of difficult flying skills at high altitudes, and the eight 12.7 mm large-caliber heavy machine guns installed on the fighter plane brought unprecedented powerful firepower in the air battle in Shanghai and the two-winged zero-type beating that has been in the limelight against the ground attack on the ground is a panic that cries for dad and mother, and it is no accident that it has reappeared in the sky over Yulin Pass.

Facts have proved that since the Shanghai "1.28" 19th Route Army after the Anti-Japanese War, this new type of fighter that has completely exploded all the biplanes in the world today has entered the field of vision of the top leaders of the Northeast Army, and the Northeast Army has found that there is no comparison with the broken ** of its own equipment. And secretly sent people to Shanghai to find Chen Jingtang to find the owner of the fighter Zhao Heng left in Shanghai several clone disguised arms dealers, after contact, proposed to buy a one-time 100 planes, if the effect is good, consider expanding the scale of procurement.

When Zhao Heng, who was far away in the four northwestern provinces, learned that the Northeast Army, which was now guarding the entire Hebei Province, wanted to buy this fighter to fight against small Japan, Zhao Heng, as the initiator of the fat beating of the Kwantung Army in the "September 18 Incident", out of consideration of enhancing the strength of the Northeast Army and keeping the Japanese occupying the three eastern provinces out of the Great Wall and delaying the Japanese invasion of North China, ordered the sales personnel outside to lower the price and give the Northeast Army procurement personnel preferential prices, and at the same time adjusted the weapons and equipment of the fighters. The original eight M2 large-caliber heavy machine guns of the two-wing Zero were reduced to six, but the firepower was still strong, and after the cancellation of two Browning large-caliber heavy machine guns, the benefits came out, that is, the ammunition fuel could be doubled, and the range was also increased.

To tell the truth, the purchase money that Zhang Xueliang sent to Shanghai was only enough to buy 100 biplane zero fighters, and he did not plan to buy 50 more bombers (the two-seat version of the biplane zero fighter, which is generally added to the back of the biplane in this era), and the sales staff carried out Zhao Heng's preferential treatment to the end, and proposed to the Northeast Army procurement personnel that if they buy another 100 fighters, they will receive 50 bombers and send 300 aviation instructors to teach the Northeast Army Air Force how to fly for free.

As a purchaser of the Northeast Army, he did not dare to make his own decision, so he solicited Zhang Xueliang's opinion through a telegram, and for this reason, the young marshal held a meeting at the command post of the Northeast Army in Beiping to decide whether to buy 100 more fighters; at the meeting, after Gao Zihang and other air force personnel argued with each other, the major marshal finally took out a batch of gold, silver, and jewelry from his own property and escorted them to the purchaser, so 200 fighters and 50 planes plus 300 aviation instructors set off overnight and took off from a secret place and flew directly to Beiping Airport.

The old and slow 320 km/h Kawasaki Type 92 fighter of the Japanese Army Air Force, which had never encountered this powerful fighter, suffered a big loss in this air battle, and the two 7.7 mm heavy machine guns equipped on the nose could not even break the thick skin of the biplane Zero fighter, but fortunately, it would take some time for the Northeast Army Air Force to master this kind of fighter.

Afterwards, some people wondered why the Japanese Army Aviation still sent outdated and eliminated guys, and it was not clear whether they were sending food to the Northeast Army Air Force, but in fact, the relationship between the Japanese Army and the Navy was very bad. Regarding the biplane Zero fighter, the Navy did not give all the details to the unpleasant Army, but it was just a perfunctory matter. As for the army, it is happy to see the navy deflated, and it is opposed to the support of the navy, and it is not impressed by the unknown fighter plane that suddenly appeared in Shanghai to fight with the navy, believing that this is the incompetence of the navy and cannot even do a little thing.

Because Zhao Heng saved the entire Northeast Army on the night of the September 18 incident, Gao Zihang originally wanted to go to the Beiyang National Government Aviation School in Nanjing to join the Nanjing National Defense Air Force, but now he did not succeed, but continued to stay in the Northeast Army Air Force as his captain, and also took his wife and family to Beiping, but his temper on the front line has not changed. No, now in the sky above Yulin Pass, he piloted the biplane 01 and the lead plane of the biplane Zero from the sky to a height of less than a kilometer above the ground.

Before a Type 92 fighter plane, which was strafing back and forth at the officers and men of the Northeast Army who could not dodge on the ground, was hit by six whip chains fired by the high-altitude self-propelled vehicle that had swooped down, and the large-caliber bullets not only tore the shell of the plane but also hit the fuel tank of the fuselage, and the pilot of the Japanese plane, who had not recovered from his senses, turned into ashes in the sky in the ensuing explosion.

The rest of the fighters who followed closely after seeing that their commander and captain had made a good start, they cheered in the radio channel, and one after another fighters rushed down from a high altitude to strafe the obviously panicked Kawasaki fighters below, and an unlucky Japanese fighter just wanted to pull up to meet the Northeast Army fighters that were diving down, but they were directly hit into a fireball by the warhawks flying from the side.

"Baga, it's a Chinese fighter, all of them are scattered!!" The first class of the Nine-Hole Bai Ichiro Fei Cao relied on his alertness to turn the 92-type modified fighter under his seat in a different direction, and fortunately avoided the whip chain composed of six large-caliber bullets that strafed overhead. Feeling palpitating, he shouted loudly on his radio channel.

"Shinkawa-kun, help me!" The pilot of a Japanese fighter plane that was hit in the tail and was on fire, and seeing that the fire was about to spread, sent out a terrible cry for help through the radio channel in despair.

The sky was full of biplane Zero fighters, a Japanese twin-engine Type 87 heavy bomber with a speed of only 180 kilometers per hour had just dropped bombs on the ground on the heads of the infantry of the Northeast Army and was about to return to replenish the bombs, when a biplane Zero that had already aimed at it was followed and fired at a distance of 300 meters behind, and the whip chain of the bullet was lucky not to sweep the fuselage but to destroy an engine on the left side, The 450-horsepower Vulture III engine produced by the British Rolls-Royce Company was beaten into a pile of scrap metal and completely scrapped under the destruction of 12.7 mm bullets, which frightened the pilot of the bomber to shout for help on the radio, and the shooter in charge of the rear machine gun in the rear of the fuselage kept pointing his muzzle at the back, and the biplane Zero fighter, which was constantly swinging its flight attitude, desperately fired 7.7 mm bullets in an attempt to force back the air Grim Reaper.

Suddenly, a chain of whips flew and knocked the shooter into a mist of blood, and the 7.7mm machine gun was also smashed into a pile of parts by large-caliber bullets. Another biplane Zero flew from the right, and the whip chain was fired from the machine gun on the plane.