Exactly an hour later, the door to an operating room opened, and the doctors and nurses who came out of it had gloomy faces. Seeing their appearance www.biquge.info Lin Jun's heart seemed to be slammed by a hammer, and he couldn't breathe. The doctor who took the knife shook his head at the pilot, who was wearing the medal "Defender of the Republic": another comrade died.

Silently walking into the operating room, seeing the comrades-in-arms covered with white sheets on the operating table, Lin Jun stepped forward and lifted the sheets covering the martyr's head, and saw a young face lying calmly, as if asleep.

Looking at his eternally sleeping comrades-in-arms, Lin Jun's tears flowed uncontrollably. This is Szepan Bidrovich Shakov of the 3rd squadron, a native of Odessa, Ukraine, who is only 25 years old this year and is not yet married.

Lin Jun finally understood what it meant when the man had tears and didn't flick, but he was sad before he was sad. His father once told him that the saddest thing for a soldier is when his comrades die. Lin Jun's father once shed tears on the battlefield in Vietnam, and now it is Lin Jun's turn to leave his tears on Spanish soil.

"Brother, go all the way!" Silently said to his deceased comrades.

Lin Jun's Glickie and Juan also left tears, what a good comrade, how to leave! The young man usually liked to play the harmonica, but his comrades could no longer hear his sound.

Helping his comrades-in-arms straighten their uniforms again, Lin Jun slowly covered the sheets, and said to the hospital leader who came in: "Push it away, we will send his clothes over, let the martyrs walk neatly." Saying this, Lin Jun couldn't help crying.

"Comrade pilot, the other two surgeries have also ended, and they have been relatively successful." said the hospital leader.

Immediately walked out of the operating room, and just out of the door, Lin Jun saw a person, a person that all Chinese people remember: the great internationalist warrior Dr. Henry Norman Bethune was in front of him.

Dr. Norman•, a great internationalist warrior of Canada, who was deeply respected by the Chinese, also served the Spanish people as a member of the International Column in 1936.

Lin Jun came to Henry Norman-Bethune in three steps and two steps, stood up with a "snap", and saluted: "Hello, Comrade Bethune, the Soviet Union Aided the First Fighter Group of Spain to salute you!" ”

Bethune saw a comrade dressed as a pilot salute him, and although he could not understand what he said, he could still hear that it was a comrade from the Soviet Union. He already knew that a large number of Soviet air forces had come to Spain to help the Spanish people in a just war, and that the wounded who had just undergone his surgery were the Soviet pilots who had been wounded in the air battle to defend Madrid today.

"But he has just arrived in Madrid, how can this Soviet pilot know him?" There was something strange about him.

"Hello, Comrade Pilot." Bethune said in English.

Lin Jun can still understand this sentence, although his English level remains at the level of "hello, goodbye".

Bethune's translator translated English into Spanish and Glitsch into Russian, so that Lin Juncai and Bethune established a linguistic communication.

"Thank you, Dr. Bethune, for saving our wounded, you are a great internationalist fighter!" Lin Jun once again expressed his sincere gratitude to him.

"This is the vocation of a doctor, and it is also the responsibility of a professional. It is an honor for me to serve comrades who have come to help the Spanish people fight. Bethune was very calm.

The wounded man had been punctured in the lungs by two bullets and was in critical condition when he arrived at the hospital. Bethune, who had only arrived at the hospital for a day, was a world-renowned thoracic surgeon, and he was the chief surgeon of this operation. The wounded man's left lung was shattered, the doctor was exhausted by the intense operation, and Bethune's face was still not very good-looking.

For Bethune, a comrade with a lofty spirit of internationalism, Lin Jun admired him incomparably. At the beginning of 1938, Dr. Bethune traveled thousands of miles to break through many obstacles and came to Yan'an. In June of the same year, he entered the Jinchaji anti-Japanese base area and led the mobile medical team to be active in SXHB and SXHB provinces. He was always at the front line regardless of the danger and performed medical operations on the spot, which greatly reduced the deaths of the sick and wounded and saved the lives of many fighters. At the same time, he also helped Fang Zhaoyuan and other medical personnel of the Eighth Route Army improve their medical standards and trained a group of qualified medical workers for the troops. His extreme responsibility for his work and his extreme enthusiasm for his comrades and the people have won the respect and love of the cadres, fighters, and fellow villagers in the base areas. During an operation, his finger was accidentally cut and became infected, and the rescue was ineffective, and he unfortunately passed away. His image will always live in the hearts of the Chinese people.

Bethune introduced the wounded to Lin Jun, as long as the infection was passed, life could be guaranteed, but the pilot comrade named Nikolai Ivanovich Rakov had more than half of his left lung amputated, and he could no longer fly into the air.

Lin Jun believed in Bethune's superb medical skills, and this must have been the best result. As for the future work of Comrade Nikolai Ivanovich Rakov, Lin Jun already had a plan: he could be sent to the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy to engage in teaching and research, and excellent pilots would be welcome to any post, and Arkhipov would certainly be happy to accept an excellent pilot to work in the teaching and research department of the academy.

Another wounded was hit by a bullet in the abdomen, and after the operation, there was no danger, but a small intestine that was more than 10 centimeters shorter, leaving no sequelae, and he could return to the army after one month of treatment.

Lin Jun was embarrassed to disturb the work and rest of several doctors, so he asked the hospital to take care of the wounded and then left. He had to rush back to the airport, where he had a lot of things to solve. In fact, there is no need for Lin Jun to say more, the Army General Hospital will also use the best medical conditions to take care of the injured pilots, but out of politeness, Lin Jun still said it.

Lin Jun was moved by the large number of Madrid citizens waiting for news at the entrance of the hospital, and he asked Glic to tell everyone that the pilot was out of danger and thanked everyone for their concern. The hospital will use the best medical technology and nursing care to take care of the injured comrades, please rest assured, please go back, it will disturb the work of the hospital here.

The citizens listened to Lin Jun's words before leaving the hospital. Lin Jun did not say anything about the sacrifice of comrades, this is to reassure the citizens.

While Lin Jun was waiting for the results of the operation in the hospital, Yakov and Grandqi at the Madrid airport were also busy. They instructed ground crews to quickly inspect the planes, refill the planes that could still rise into the air again, and have mechanics repair damaged planes to prevent another attack by the rebels.

A total of 76 enemy planes were shot down, and 8 of their own planes were lost in the air battle, and after landing, it was found that one of the Yi-15s had no repair value and could only be disassembled as accessories. And the number of downed enemy planes was largely confirmed by friendly forces on the ground and Spanish comrades.

The air battle counted only the results of the air contest: 8 to 76, an incomparably huge victory, a huge victory that had never been seen in the history of the Soviet Air Force! It is to put this record in any war is a huge victory!

The record includes 26 Henschel-51s of the Condor, 24 SM-81s of the Italian Air Force, and 4 CR32s and 22 Junkers 52s of the Franco rebels. Among its own aircraft losses, 4 I-15 and 5 I-16 aircraft, including the scrapped one, and 6 of our own fighters were lost in the battle with the "Condor".

This air battle was a slap in the face to the German-Italian fascists and Franco rebels, and the world's air forces will soon know and remember the name "Soviet Aid to Spain's 1st Fighter Group"!

And in the preliminary statistics of individual results, the leader of the 1st squadron И-I-I-Kobets, the leader of the 2nd squadron Sergei Ivanovich Grytsev, the leader of the 3rd squadron Vasily Aleksandrovich Zaitsev, and the deputy captains of the squadron Andlupuv and Yakov have all entered the ranks of the "trump cards".

Yakov, Sergey and Zaitsev each shot down 5 enemy planes, Kobets shot down 6, Andlupuv shot down 4, and with the last record, his plane will have 8 red five-star markers. And all the participating pilots have a record, including the comrade who returned to the airport without being injured in the forced landing, and the pilots who attacked this time did not return empty-handed. However, after the statistics came out, it was found that there were nine enemy planes that had been shot down unclaimed, and everyone knew that this was the result of the comrades who died and were still being rescued in the Army General Hospital.

Although the results of the battle were huge, everyone was still not happy, because some comrades-in-arms who got along day and night died on this land. All were working intensely, and there was no laughter that should be after a battle victory.

Lin Jun, who returned to the airport, first visited the three comrades in the airport hospital, and their operations had been completed. The operation was successful, and he could return to his post after a month, which made Lin Jun's nervous heart half relieved.

Out of the hospital, I walked to the place where the plane was being repaired. Vasily, the head of the mechanic team, told Lin Jun that there are now 16 planes that can be lifted into the air at any time, and after emergency repairs, by tomorrow another 5 to 7 fighters will be able to restore combat effectiveness, but other planes and spare fighters that are still waiting to be assembled will not be handed over to the pilots until a few days later.

Lin Jun was already very satisfied with this result, so that the combat effectiveness of his brigade was basically still there.

Finding Yakov and Grandi, "I would like to have a meeting in the evening, with the participation of all the pilots on duty, to sum up the situation of this battle." ”

Yakov and Grandch also wanted to sum up, since the captain said so, a meeting was also the best way.

In the afternoon, the Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic and Minister of the Army, Largo Caballero, returned to the airport to express his gratitude to the Air Force for its heroic act in defending Madrid, to congratulate him on the great results achieved and, of course, to express his condolences on behalf of the Government of the Republic to the fallen and wounded pilots.

Lin Jun asked Yakov, the highest-ranking Soviet leader at the airport, to deal with this Largo Caballero, he was not in the mood to deal with this person, and now there was more important things to do.