Chapter 62: Aerial Encounters
Shenyang City, garrison brigade headquarters.
Zhang Xinghan had already taken the guards to say goodbye to his family and returned to his headquarters, and Zhang Xinghua also bowed down to say goodbye to his parents, and went straight to Wang Yicai's third regiment to report.
In the war room of the brigade headquarters, as soon as Zhang Xinghan entered the door, several people in the room stood up to greet him.
Zhang Xinghan saw that Shen Xingye and Su Hanyun were all there.
"Travel, Brother Shen and Miss Su have been waiting for you for a long time." Guo Zhong greeted him and explained.
"Hmm." Zhang Xinghan nodded, took off his white gloves, walked in and said to Shen Xingye and Su Hanyun: "I'm sorry, I had a meal with my family, and I came late." ”
"Out of the way, out of the way." Shen Xingye and Su Hanyun hurriedly said respectfully.
"By the way, Brother Shen, Miss Su, have you had lunch?" Zhang Xinghan said suddenly: "If you don't eat, I'll let the cooking class give you the hour." ”
"Thank you for your concern, I've eaten." Shen Xingye said.
"I've eaten it too." Su Hanyun replied next.
"Oh, that's fine." Zhang Xinghan nodded and said to Guo Zhong: "Battalion Commander Guo, you go and call me Xiao Lizi." ”
"Yes!" Guo Zhong was ordered to turn around and leave.
Not long after, Xiao Lizi, the commander of the communications company, walked in quickly with him.
"Luza, are you looking for a lowly position?" Xiao Lizi looked at Su Hanyun and Shen Xingye, and saluted Zhang Xinghan.
"Well, Company Commander Li, this Su Hanyun is from Yenching University and is good at radio, and now I will send her to your communication company to assist you in your work." Zhang Xinghan pointed to Su Hanyun and introduced.
Xiao Lizi looked at Su Hanyun, who was as beautiful as a fairy, and said happily: "Really? That's great. ”
Zhang Xinghan looked at Su Hanyun, Su Hanyun was not stage frightened, and generously stepped forward and saluted Xiao Lizi: "Company Commander Li, Hanyun will work under your leadership in the future, please take care of it." ”
Although Xiao Lizi went to private school for a few years, and later learned a lot of knowledge with Zhang Xinghan, he was still far behind Su Hanyun, a high-achieving student.
Not to mention that such a beautiful young woman had saluted herself generously, and she was a little stunned for a while, and she blushed.
finally held back a sentence: "Where is the ......"
Zhang Xinghan also felt funny, and couldn't help laughing, waved his hand at him and said, "Okay, you wait for Miss Su to go to the communication company dormitory to arrange a place for her to live, remember to have a single room." ”
"Yes!" Xiao Li Ziru hurriedly stepped forward to answer the amnesty, walked to the door, and helped Su Hanyun leave quickly with her suitcase.
After Su Hanyun turned around and saluted Zhang Xinghan, she left with Xiao Lizi.
After Su Hanyun left, Zhang Xinghan said to Shen Xingye: "Yizhi, from now on, you will temporarily serve as the deputy commander of my guard battalion and my personal personal bodyguard, and when the time is ripe, I will arrange other official positions for you, do you have no opinion?" ”
"Thank you for the weight of the brigade, Shen Yizhi is not grateful, how can he be dissatisfied." Shen Xingye snapped forward and saluted.
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East Tower Military Airport.
Gao Zhihang led more than 20 combat and bomber planes to return smoothly, when the first batch of fighters completed the landing.
Liu Cuigang, deputy captain of the Shenyang Air Force and commander of the first detachment, led the second batch of mixed bombers to take off one after another in accordance with the agreement.
Preparations were made to continue the air raid bombardment of the Manchurian railway line east of Liaoyang.
As soon as the pilots of Gao Zhihang and other pilots landed, the ground crew began to get busy, refueling and reloading the plane, and the entire airport fell into a busy situation.
In addition, the second batch of mixed aircraft led by Liu Cuigang is not much different from Gao Zhihang's first batch of mixed aircraft in terms of quantity, with more than 10 fighters and more than a dozen bombers.
Liu Cuigang was born in 1909 and is now 20 years old, and is the second largest pilot in the Northeast Air Force Air Force after Gao Zhihang.
Liu Cuigang piloted a Gao Delong fighter, followed by the escort of two wingmen, and led the entire group of planes to fly eastward in the sky.
Then, when Liu Cuigang and the others had just flown to the airspace between the lighthouse and Liaoyang, a large number of military fighters painted with plaster flags suddenly burst out of the clouds.
Liu Cuigang's face was shocked, and he hurriedly pulled up the fighter plane to meet the enemy, and at the same time shouted at the wireless walkie-talkie: "There are enemy planes, all bombers cancel the bombing, return immediately, and the fighters will cover with all their might!" ”
"Roger!" Although the machine suddenly appeared, they didn't seem to have discovered Liu Cuigang's mixed fleet in advance, and the two sides only encountered.
After all, at this time, the air forces of both sides were not equipped with radars or even early warning aircraft, and combat and reconnaissance still relied on the pilots' own eyesight.
At this moment, the good training and excellent psychological quality of these Chinese pilots, who can be called the most elite of this era, were vividly displayed.
After receiving Liu Cuigang's order, all the pilots began to act in a panic, the bombers began to turn around, and the fighters pulled up and circled and then went straight to the plane, which was also preparing for battle.
An aerial encounter began, and if Zhang Xinghan learned about the performance of these air force pilots, he would probably send a telegram of gratitude to Zhang Shaoshuai, who was far away in Beiping, and then go to Zhang Dashuai's grave to offer incense to express his gratitude.
Because they have left themselves the most elite Chinese Air Force of this era, a large number of them graduated from the French Air Force School, and the pilots who hold the international pilot graduation certificate are undoubtedly the most precious military branch at this time.
You must know that even Jiang Gong's Central Air Force was officially established in 1935 to form combat effectiveness.
And regardless of the size of the fighters, the number of pilots cannot be compared with the Northeast Army at this time.
After Liu Cuigang pulled up and turned around, he had already stared at a ** fighter plane that was flying in a turn, and the flight speed of the plane in the air was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, the ** fighter had entered the range of Liu Cuigang's heading machine gun.
Liu Cuigang had already seen the sun flag pattern on the wings and belly of the devil fighter, and he immediately opened fire.
Two 12.7mm caliber heading machine guns and a 20mm cannon suddenly opened fire, and a dense rain of bullets rushed towards the ** machine like a chain of fire in the air.
......As soon as the plane turned a corner, a series of sailing machine gun bullets rained down, smashing the cockpit and nose of the plane into a thousand holes, and the devil pilot in the cockpit was even beaten into blood.
The **-type fighter that lost control suddenly emitted billowing black smoke and quickly fell downward at an alarming speed.
After a while, a deafening explosion was heard on the ground, and fire and smoke rose into the air.
At the same time, more than 10 other pilots also locked onto the target and opened fire, and some of the planes that reacted quickly also fired back.
For a time, bullets crisscrossed the sky, crisscrossing like tongues of fire, and from time to time planes were hit by bullets and falling in smoke, and some planes were directly killed by dense firepower.
However, without exception, it was the plane that fell and exploded, because the Gao Delong fighter was slightly more advanced than the ** aircraft of the plane, plus Liu Cuigang and other pilots were all well-trained, and they had participated in the air battle against the Soviet Union and the battle against Shi Yousan, which can be described as rich combat experience.
Therefore, after more than ten minutes of fighting, only one Gao Delong was slightly damaged, and although the tail kept smoking, it could still fly.
The army had already been shot down and wounded seven planes, and suffered such heavy losses, and the remaining dozen or so planes turned around and ran away in fright.
Liu Cuigang ordered the damaged fighter plane to return home, and he personally led his comrades-in-arms to drive the fighter plane to launch a pursuit of the defeated and fleeing group of Yue military planes.