Cai Jiheng and Jack took a few ground crews and used a tractor to tow the Zero fighter to a spare runway at the far end of the airport. Cai Jiheng sat in the cockpit and began to check the instruments and various switches.

Jack stood outside the cockpit on the iron ladder, he felt very unsteady, and asked vigorously: "Crocodile, did you really greet the officer on duty at the tower?" ”

Cai Jiheng was busy and said perfunctorily: "Of course I said hello, today it is Hu Guangwen on duty at the tower, who is Hu Guangwen?" That's my fellow countryman, and we're not in a normal relationship. **Say, crocodile, are you okay with a plane? Do you want me to transfer two P-40s to escort you? I said no, just a test flight, at most around the airport twice and come down, I won't fly far. ”

Jack's face was suspicious: "Did he really say that?" I remember ** being a very serious person, and he didn't seem to be so accommodating. ”

"I said rattlesnake, are you bothered? You've asked the same question several times, and it's not like what a man does. Hurry up, help me pull the canopy up, you go down! Cai Jiheng said impatiently.

Jack admonished uneasily: "Crocodile, the electrician has adjusted the communication frequency on the plane, and you can use this channel to talk to the tower after you go to the sky." But remember, don't go to any other channel, or all the Japanese planes will hear you on the radio, unless you want to fucking talk to these sons of bitches in Japanese. ”

Cai Jiheng didn't look for Hu Guangwen, but Hu Guangwen refused, this is an unsmiling guy, he has always been alone and has no friends. Hu Guangwen said: "Lao Cai, I can't make the decision in this matter, if you want to take off on the runway, you must have an order from above, not to mention the zero plane, even your own P-40 must have procedures for returning, this is a matter of principle." ”

It's no wonder that people like Hu Guangwen have no friends, they are principled and systematic at every turn, if Lao Tzu has an order to take off, then what are you looking for? This kind of person is annoying wherever he goes, and the old monk's wooden fish is born to be knocked out.

Cai Jiheng is the kind of person who will not give up until he reaches his goal, and he must do everything possible to do what he wants to do. A good pilot is like a professional prostitute, the more women who pay attention to their skills, the better, and the pursuit of a good pilot is to fly as many and complex models as possible. Think about it, from the Pacific Ocean to Southeast Asia, from Hanoi to Manchuria, in such a vast operational area, there were thousands of Allied pilots participating in the operation, and how many of them had flown the enemy's Zero? This is not something that anyone can do if they want to, just for this reason, no matter how much Lou Zi provokes today, he has to do it, anyway, he Cai Jiheng is idle.

Jack pushed the iron ladder to the edge of the runway and waved to Cai Jiheng, who made a "V" gesture to Jack, but Jack gave him a very bad middle finger. This bastard, come back and clean him up, Cai Jiheng shook his fist viciously at Jack, although he himself was not sure if he could come back.

Cai Jiheng ignited the plane and slowly taxied on the runway. He hurriedly glanced at the route map, and calculated in his heart that the nearest enemy-occupied area from here is Nanchang, the straight-line distance between Nanchang and Hengyang is only five or six hundred kilometers, the maximum range of the Zero aircraft is 3,000 kilometers, and the maximum speed is 518 kilometers per hour, that is to say, it is enough to fly to Nanchang for about an hour, and the round-trip flight is more than 1,000 kilometers, and only a small half of the fuel is consumed, and most of the fuel saved is enough to fly to the Yellow River.

Cai Jiheng pushed the throttle to the end at once during the taxi, and the plane roared and increased its speed and began to sprint on the runway......

At this time, Major Hu Guangwen, who was on duty on the tower, suddenly saw a Zero fighter with the Japanese insignia taxiing on the spare runway, Hu Guangwen was shocked, he didn't expect Cai Jiheng to dare to take off forcibly, it seems that he really underestimated him before, but he didn't expect this to be a lawless guy, it's crazy.

Hu Guangwen picked up the intercom and shouted: "Crocodile, crocodile, I am the flight commander of the tower, I order you to stop taking off immediately!" I repeat, I order you to stop taking off at once! ”

Cai Jiheng in the cockpit sneered, he casually turned off the radio, pulled the joystick, and the Zero fighter jumped lightly at the end of the runway and took off......

Hu Guangwen on the tower threw down the microphone angrily, and he shouted to the staff officer on duty: "Quick, quickly connect me to the headquarters of the 14th Air Force, I want to find General Chennault!" ”

Cai Jiheng piloted the plane to climb rapidly to an altitude of 3,000 meters and changed to level flight, the Zero aircraft was really light, the turning radius was extremely small, and the climb was effortless. Cai Jiheng thought, this is probably the lightest fighter in the world, especially in the air, he feels like a piece of paper floating in the air.

Cai Jiheng determined the direction, increased his speed and flew to the northeast, and he turned on the radio casually.

"Crocodile, crocodile, I'm a rattlesnake, where the fuck are you flying? Why can't I see you? Jack's angry roar could be heard in the headphones, and it seemed that he had rushed to the tower, only there was a radio station.

Cai Jiheng replied lazily: "Rattlesnake, what are you doing at the tower?" Hurry up and take your people back to the workshop, and I'll be down in a moment. ”

"Damn crocodile, you liar, you didn't get approval at all, I can't trust you anymore. You're fucking coming back for me, right back! Or I'll blow your nose! ”

"Forget it, Jack, don't threaten me, you're not an opponent in a fight, what are you nagging about? Wait for me in the workshop, and I'll treat you to dinner tonight! ”

Jack's voice suddenly lowered: "Hey! Crocodile, this guy is complaining to you, he's already called the 14th Air Force Command, and he's talking about General Chennault. Crocodile, you're really going to be unlucky, be prepared. ”

"Rattlesnake, you don't have to worry about this, anyway, we are accomplices, two grasshoppers are tied to one rope, and no one can escape. Jack, you are not very interesting, if you are a little troublesome, you should first choose yourself, there are many such people in our Chinese history, and their names have been infamous for thousands of years. Jack, you can't be like that, or I'll be very sad. ”

Cai Jiheng looked under the wings, today's visibility is very good, the plane has entered the territory of Jiangxi, mountains, rivers, and large areas of green rice fields have been thrown behind at a rapid pace, the plane has reached a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour, and it is about to enter the enemy-occupied area, Cai Jiheng began to reduce the altitude.

Jack's voice came from the earphones: "Crocodile, don't worry, Old Jack will never betray a friend, you said, there is an old Chinese saying that you stick a knife in your friend's ribs, and Old Jack has always been like this......"

"Wait...... When I say rattlesnake, I'm talking about sticking a knife in the ribs for a friend, that is, as long as it's for a friend, it doesn't matter if you stick a knife in your ribs. You're the other way around, you're going to fucking stick a knife in my ribs, does that sound like a word? It's called killing friends, you know? ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. Crocodile, I have to confess to you, I scolded you with ** just now, but I don't really want to scold you, I just want to express that Old Jack is also a person with a great sense of justice, I think you will forgive me. Jack babbled.

"Hmph, if you don't say that you are not righteous, you are a villain if you say bad things about your friends behind your back, and real friends must praise each other...... Hey, fuck, there's a Japanese barracks down there, I've got to get back ......"

Jack exclaimed in horror, "God, where the fuck did you go?" How could there be a barracks for the Japanese? Crocodile, aren't you in the sky above Hengyang? ”

Cai Jiheng didn't care about answering, he turned off the radio, leaned over the wings and made a 180-degree bend in the air and flew back, just now a Japanese barracks flashed under the wings, a large number of Japanese soldiers in yellow uniforms seemed to be in line, Cai Jiheng decided to reconnoiter again in an ultra-low-altitude way, but don't make a mistake.

The Zero fighter once again swept over the barracks at a low altitude, and this time Cai Jiheng saw clearly, thousands of Japanese soldiers stood in a line on the playground, and several officers in yellow tweed uniforms stood on a platform, as if they were talking, and those officers waved to Cai Jiheng excitedly. That's right, of course they know the Zero, and they also know the red plaster insignia on the fuselage, and they are paying tribute to their pilots.

Cai Jiheng came back again, his right hand turned on the shooting safety on the joystick, and the plane entered the dive. Jack was right, the Zero fighter did not have a good dive speed, but for ground target shooting, slow has the advantage of being slow, which can improve the killing effect. Seeing that the playground full of Japanese soldiers was getting closer and closer, Cai Jiheng pressed the launch button fiercely, and two 20mm machine guns and two 7.7mm machine guns roared under the wings, and the colorful tracer bullets drew a shining trajectory, and the dense rain of bullets hit the ground of the playground into flying sand and rocks, as if the pot was opened, and the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard were thrown down a large ......

Cai Jiheng particularly noticed that the officers standing on the stage were directly hit by shells, and the bodies of several officers flew out of the distance lightly...... It's fun! This is simply not a battle, it is a one-sided slaughter!

Cai Jiheng's adrenaline suddenly increased, and he yelled excitedly, fortunately he turned off the radio just now, otherwise he would have to scare the rattlesnake out of illness.

The Zero fighter swooped three times in a row over the playground, turning the bottom into a veritable slaughterhouse. Cai Jiheng calculated for a while, and felt that he couldn't fight anymore, he had to save some ammunition, who knows what danger he would encounter when he returned. The only regret of this sortie is that he didn't bring aviation **, which has to complain about the rattlesnake, how does he know Cai Jiheng's plan, this guy stubbornly thinks that there is no need to hang ** for the test flight, and Cai Jiheng is not easy to say, so he has to give up, otherwise it will be doubly lively today.

Cai Jiheng pulled the control stick to make the plane climb to an altitude of 5,000 meters and changed to level flight, he checked the fuel and ammunition, there was still more than half a box of oil, but there was not much ammunition, there were more than 30 shells, and there were more than 400 machine gun bullets, which was not enough to fight for a minute. Cai Jiheng is really unwilling to return like this, for today's test flight, he caused a lot of trouble, even General Chennault was alarmed, and he didn't know how to explain it when he went back, he would definitely be punished, and he might even be confined. Cai Jiheng didn't think much about this issue, during the war, it was the time to employ people, whether to put an excellent pilot in a confinement room or in the cockpit of an airplane, the commanders should be able to settle the account. Anyway, it's messed up, so you can do whatever the chief likes.

Cai Jiheng glanced at the route map, it didn't matter, his mind was like a calcium carbide spark suddenly flashed a trace of inspiration, the route map showed that Cai Jiheng's position at this time was exactly on a route, this is the Nanchang Airport Japanese army land attack aircraft [1]

The route of the sortie in the direction of Chongqing.

In March 1939, Nanchang fell, and on April 21, the Third and Ninth Theaters of the National Army jointly launched a counteroffensive against Nanchang, and the Chinese and Japanese armies fought fiercely for 18 days, and the National Army fell short and failed to recapture Nanchang. After the Japanese occupied Nanchang, they expanded the Nanchang airfield, making it an advance base for the bombing of Chongqing. Cai Jiheng knew for a long time that Nanchang Airport was home to a large number of Type 1 land attack planes and Type 96 land attack planes, and this huge group of planes was specially designed to carry out strategic bombing missions in the direction of Chongqing and Chengdu.

At this time, Cai Jiheng's mind flashed a series of performance data about the land attack aircraft, this kind of Japanese Navy land-based bomber is divided into three models, one or three, two two, three or four, of which the first and third type of practical ascent limit is the highest, the flight altitude can reach 9660 meters, its cruising altitude is usually 7000 meters, and the zero fighter can climb to 10000 meters, if at an altitude of 9000 meters to wait for the rabbit to do its ticket, it should be a good deal.

Cai Jiheng has carefully studied this kind of bomber, its weakness is obvious, the fuselage armor of the type 1 land attack aircraft is weak, only a 20 mm tail gun and three 7.7 mm machine guns, the defensive firepower is obviously insufficient, plus the fragile fuel tank contains a large amount of fuel, usually as long as one round of strafing, this bomber will turn into a fireball, the Allied pilots are very disrespectful to call it "a lighter on the spot", Cai Jiheng simply called it a "lighter".

On Cai Jiheng's record sheet, there is no record of shooting down bombers, and it is no wonder that every time he is ordered to intercept the Japanese bomber group, the opponent's escort fighters will rush over desperately and fight with Cai Jiheng, not giving him a chance to aim at the bomber at all. Cai Jiheng calculated that a land attack aircraft had a crew of seven, and if it aimed at its fuel tank, the first round of firing would turn it into a fireball, and the seven crew members would not have time to parachute. It's a good deal, with dozens of bullets in exchange for seven lives and a bomber, this input-output ratio is really too good.

Thinking of this, Cai Jiheng pulled the nose of the plane, and the plane climbed up to an altitude of 9,000 meters. If you don't, there's nothing to lose. As the saying goes, if there are dates or not, you will beat it with a rod.

Cai Jiheng stared at the fuel gauge on the dashboard, as long as the fuel was reserved for flying five or six hundred kilometers, the excess fuel could be consumed on waiting, and he had enough patience. He listened attentively to the radio broadcasts in the past few days, and the air battle that broke out in the vicinity of Chongqing showed that the Japanese still had not given up their intention to carry out strategic bombing of Chongqing. In fact, since August 1943, the strength of the Chinese and American air forces has gradually become stronger, and they have basically mastered the air supremacy in southwest China, although the Japanese army has not given up the air attack on Chongqing, but in fact it is difficult for the Japanese bombers to approach Chongqing, and the air battles between the two sides often take place in the peripheral areas far away from Chongqing.

Cai Jiheng speculated that this route was an ideal route for ambushes, and that these Japanese bombers and escort fighters were already far away, and they had already engaged in an air battle with our fighters near Chongqing, which consumed most of the fuel and ammunition, and if we sent a squadron of fighters here to ambush it at leisure, we could completely annihilate this group of planes if we were not able to make trouble. A few more ambushes like this can basically eliminate the air threat to Chongqing.

Why can't the commanders of the 14th Air Force think about it, this kind of air guerrilla tactics is often a recipe for profit.

There were some black spots in the distance, Cai Jiheng thought excitedly, Cai's luck is good, you can come whatever you want, these "lighters" who are looking for death are finally here! The black dot was getting bigger and bigger, and he gradually saw that it was a land attack aircraft in a formation of eight planes, flying at an altitude of about 7,000 meters, and at an altitude of 1,000 meters above the bomber formation, there were also escort Zero fighters, also in a formation of eight.

Cai Jiheng excitedly pushed the joystick, and his plane whizzed down from a height of 9,000 meters, and at this time, the escort Zero fighter group had already discovered the lone Zero, they did not react, and still maintained their formation.

Cai Jiheng estimated that they must have been calling on the radio, trying to get in touch, at least Cai Jiheng's appearance had not aroused their suspicions. That's right, that's what he wants, it only takes two minutes, and with these crucial two minutes, he can break through the defensive line of the escort fighters and go straight to the bomber group.

Cai Jiheng dived at a large angle and passed through the escort fighter group at a lightning speed, but they still did not react, but just shook their wings strangely to indicate that they were asking. Cai Jiheng ignored it, he condescendingly swooped down on a bomber at the far edge of the formation, and stubbornly latched the sight to the position of the enemy plane's fuel tank. The target is getting closer and closer, the huge body of the enemy bomber seems to be rushing towards it, and it is about to collide together, Cai Jiheng violently pressed the cannon launch button, and the only remaining 30 shells formed a fire dragon in a few seconds, and drilled into the belly of the enemy bomber, Cai Jiheng's eyes suddenly burst out of a huge fireball, and the enemy bomber was wrapped in raging flames in an instant......

Cai Jiheng deftly rolled to the left to get rid of the bomber group. As he climbed upward, the fireball exploded with a thud, and the Type 1 land attack aircraft disintegrated in the air, and countless fragments flew up one after another, falling to the ground......

Cai Jiheng's goal was achieved, and the bomber had only a short twenty or thirty seconds from being hit to disintegrating, and its seven crew members had no time to parachute. This is the theory that Cai Jiheng has always advocated: to destroy enemy pilots to the greatest extent, and not care about the number of enemy planes shot down. From the point of view of seizing air supremacy, the loss of pilots in a war is irreversible for either side.

Cai Jiheng didn't dare to delay for a moment, he climbed to a height of 9000 meters and changed to level flight, pushing the throttle to the top, this sudden increase in speed made the plane tremble violently, this is a dangerous operation, which will lead to the disintegration of the plane at any time, but Cai Jiheng can't take care of anything, he has already taken a big advantage, what he has to do now is to run desperately for his life, otherwise once the eight escort fighters surround him, his life will be at rest.

Cai Jiheng has always been quite confident in his flying skills, after a series of dazzling aerobatic maneuvers, he thought that he had gotten rid of the entanglement of enemy fighters, he looked back proudly, but he was really startled, a Zero aircraft had bitten him to death......

Damn, it's so hanging! The reason why the devil pilot hasn't fired yet is because he hasn't found the right angle yet. However, being able to bite him unconsciously is enough to show that Cai Jiheng has met an opponent today, and this kid's flying skills cannot be underestimated. Don't forget, there are seven zeros behind it, it's not okay to play like this, you have to think of a way to escape for your life, and it's a technology to fight at this time.

Cai Jiheng pushed the control stick violently, and the plane pierced the ground at an almost vertical angle, 5,000 meters, 3,000 meters, 1,000 meters...... Cai Jiheng's plane still descended at a vertical angle, he changed the angle slightly at an altitude of 500 meters above the ground, the plane changed to a 45-degree angle dive, a string of bright red and shiny tracer bullets swept over Cai Jiheng's cockpit, his hand holding the joystick moved slightly, the plane made an S-shaped dodge in the air, and another string of tracer bullets grazed under the wings......

Cai Jiheng made another high-speed dive and rolled the plane, and he looked back again to find that the Zero was still following behind......

Cai Jiheng sneered, okay, boy, the skills are good, if you have the ability, you can play whatever I want. Cai Jiheng's plane was changed to level flight at an altitude of 10 meters above the ground, and the Zero plane was also changed to level flight at the same altitude.

Cai Jiheng thought to himself, yes, today is a bump, this kid is a stunned man, a tendon, he has only one purpose, that is, to chase to the ends of the earth, and to beat down this guy who is pretending to be the imperial army, and he will not give up until he reaches his goal.

Cai Jiheng couldn't help but scold: "Bastard, how much money did your emperor give you?" Just chase Lao Tzu so relentlessly, okay, aren't you playing? Let's fly lower. ”

Cai Jiheng pressed the nose slightly, the plane dropped three meters, he pushed the aircraft throttle to full speed at a height of seven meters, this is really a fate, only this kind of ultra-low altitude flight can test the overall quality of the pilot, this is not only a contest in flight technology, but more importantly a contest in psychological quality. An airplane with a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour flies at full speed at an altitude of seven meters above the ground, and any earthen hill or even a big tree will cause the plane to be destroyed and people killed.

Cai Jiheng was suddenly pleasantly surprised to find that the Japanese pilot was finally timid, not only did he not descend in height, but instead rose a few meters. Ha ha! His skills are not good, and his guts are not good, so you will continue to follow, and when Hengyang Lao Tzu hits you, you will also knock your kid down.

Cai Jiheng turned on the radio and changed a few channels casually, he wanted to find a channel that could talk to the Japanese pilot, he finally heard the Japanese conversation of Wow Wow Wow, what they were saying Cai Jiheng didn't understand, he joked in English with the throat transmitter: "Hey! Which bastard is following me? ”

A slightly hoarse Japanese voice came from the "eight-grid ......" headphones.

Cai Jiheng no longer knew Japanese, and he knew that this was a curse, so he immediately scolded back in Chinese: "X your mother!" Then he turned off the radio station without waiting for the Japanese to scold back.

The Japanese pilot finally lost his patience, he didn't want to play anymore, so he suddenly pulled up the nose of the plane, obliquely turned the wing 180 degrees, it seemed that he also had scruples, this is the occupied area of the national army, once his plane is hit, whether it is a forced landing or parachuting, the consequences are not good.

Cai Jiheng's reaction was extremely fast, he almost subconsciously pulled up the nose of the machine, and also made a 180-degree turn upward. Just now he was bitten by the enemy plane, completely lost the ability to fight back, in addition to making a series of dodging actions to protect himself, almost fell into a state of passive beating, in Cai Jiheng's flying career he has never been so embarrassed.

He has always been a competitive person, and he can't tolerate anyone being disrespectful to himself, just now this devil pilot chased him for more than 200 kilometers, and fired at him several times, which greatly hurt Cai Jiheng's self-esteem, because he has always chased others to fight, and this time he actually let others chase more than 200 kilometers like a dog and a rabbit, which is really intolerable.

Cai Jiheng turned around, increased the throttle and chased after him, and at this time all the shells loaded on it had been exhausted, leaving only 400 machine gun bullets. Cai Jiheng turned on the radio casually, regardless of whether the other party understood Chinese or not, he scolded viciously: "Bastard, you have played enough, want to go?" No way! I haven't played enough, today I'm chasing you to Nanchang and I'm going to beat you down! ”

The hoarse voice came from the earphones, speaking in Japanese, Cai Jiheng couldn't understand, and he yelled impatiently in English: "Fuck you!" There's a kind of you don't go! ”

The Japanese pilot actually knew English, and he scolded back in English: "Fuck you! There is a kind of you go with me and go to Nanchang to do a one-on-one fight! ”

Yo, this kid can speak English? Cai Jiheng pushed the throttle to his head all of a sudden, he let it go, and he must beat this kid down today.

The distance between the two planes is getting closer and closer, and Cai Jiheng must keep talking to distract the devil's attention.

"Hey! Japanese, what's your name? Lao Tzu does not kill the nameless rats, report the name! "Cai Jiheng played psychological warfare.

"Fujino Uchigoro, captain pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy, what about you?"

"Crocodile! Captain pilot of the mixed regiment of the Chinese and American Air Forces. Cai Jiheng made reservations, he didn't want the enemy to know his real name, and at this time, all the pilots of the Japanese army on this channel, the flight commander on the tower, including the listening department, were listening.

There were thick clouds in front of him, and Cai Jiheng was happy in his heart, it would be easy to do with the clouds, which would make the technical and tactical level of both sides have a wider operating space.

It seems that the opponent also thought of it with Cai Jiheng, and the hoarse voice suddenly rose an octave: "Crocodile, then let's start......" The zero machine in front of it suddenly increased its speed and flipped upward, flying backwards from the top of Cai Jiheng's head in an inverted way, and disappeared into the clouds. There was almost no warning of this maneuver, and even a less skilled pilot would have been bitten by his tail.

Cai Jiheng reacted almost synchronously, and he also pulled up the nose of the plane and flipped it backwards, entering the clouds......

Visibility in the clouds dropped to almost zero. Milky white, cotton-wool-like clouds wrapped the plane, and now both sides were hidden in the clouds, and neither knew the location of the opponent, and the eyes were full of white chaos, which made people feel depressed.

Cai Jiheng's mind flashed the scene of Liu Lihua and Ren Tanghui nose to nose in the Beijing opera "Three Forks", the two sides fought against each other in the dark night when they couldn't see their fingers, no one could see anyone, and the knife grazed each other's back and head, but the opponent in the dark was at a loss......

The scene at this moment is somewhat similar, with two pilots staging a "Three Forks" in the thick clouds.

Cai Jiheng looked at his watch, the time was 12:30 p.m., which means that the direction of the sun should be due south and slightly west. Cai Jiheng adjusted the direction according to the compass, flew straight to the south, and rushed out of the clouds at once......

Cai Jiheng was happy in his heart, this was like two people fighting in the dark, one of them suddenly touched the light switch and grasped the initiative, but he didn't turn on the light immediately, waiting for the most favorable opportunity. At this time, Cai Jiheng was the one who touched the light switch, and he was already eighty percent sure of winning in this one-on-one air battle.

Cai Jiheng climbed 100 meters upwards and made a flexible turn, at this time he was in the best position, just wait for a while, and the opponent would appear immediately.

30 seconds later, the Zero also rushed out of the clouds against the light, Cai Jiheng had been waiting for this moment for a long time, he took advantage of the moment when the opponent's pilot had a blind spot in the backlight, condescendingly, with his back to the sun to attack the opponent. The ......first round of shots shattered his opponent's cockpit cover, and in an instant, debris flew all over the sky to verify the effectiveness of his shot.

Cai Jiheng happily circled, ready to admire how the opponent entered the spiral and fell to the ground, but when he saw the plane, he was taken aback, the pilot was actually alive, and he increased the throttle and fled to the northeast. It's really evil, this kid is simply invulnerable, the cockpit cover is broken, and he is still alive? Cai Jiheng didn't think much about it, he pressed the nose of the plane and dived down, biting the other party to start a pursuit......

The opponent's flying skills are indeed good, he made a series of evasive moves in an attempt to get rid of the tail bite, but Cai Jiheng naturally did not allow him to get rid of it, and still bit him to death......

Cai Jiheng put his right hand on the shooting button, looking for the best shooting angle, there were not many bullets, and he would not shoot easily without absolute certainty.

Gradually, Cai Jiheng discovered a little rule, the opponent's dodging action seems to be a bit of a habitual routine, he usually dodges to the left first, and then flashes to the right.

Cai Jiheng sneered, the opponent finally showed his flaws, in this kind of fierce confrontation with life, the small habits that he usually inadvertently developed often killed him. Cai Jiheng seized the moment when he flashed to the left, and deliberately adjusted the nose to the right, sure enough, his next action was to flash to the right, which happened to hit Cai Jiheng's muzzle, he pressed the firing button suddenly, and the machine guns on the wings on both sides fired, and a string of shiny tracer bullets drilled into the tail of the Zero machine......

Compared to the six 12.7 mm machine guns on the P-40 fighter, the machine gun firepower of this Zero fighter is still much worse. Cai Jiheng readjusted the angle and fired the last more than 100 rounds of bullets in one go, half of the horizontal tail of the Zero was knocked off, and black smoke also came out of the tail and fell to the ground......

Cai Jiheng said coldly: "Hey! Fujino Uchigoro, can you still hear me? Crocodile greetings, we'll see you in the next life! ”

He wanted to lower the altitude and go down to see the crash of the Zero, but the fuel gauge had already turned red, and now he had to return, this Zero was General Chennault's treasure, and in case of a slight mistake, the old man would have to peel off his skin.

Cai Jiheng pulled up the nose of the plane and climbed to an altitude of 2,000 meters to change to level flight. Hengyang can be seen from afar, and it will be possible to land in about 10 minutes.

He just began to think about how to end up after landing. Rattlesnake said that a bottle of whiskey would be enough to shut the kid's mouth. Although Hu Guangwen is not easy to speak, he can't decide on the punishment of Cai Jiheng after all, the hatred of a ground service major can't pose a threat to him, this kid is at most a complaint.

The real killer is the boss of the 14th Air Force, General Chennault, this old man is not easy to mess with, especially his relationship with Chairman Chiang and Madame Chiang, he is a friend who talks about everything, if the old man is really angry, he will send Cai to a military tribunal if he is not good.

Until the plane landed, Cai Jiheng didn't come up with a countermeasure......

On the arid plain of central Henan, two military jeeps sped along the road from Yexian County to Xuchang, setting off a yellow belt of sand and dust.

On the first jeep sat several heavily armed guards.

In the front seat of the second jeep sat Adjutant Major Shen Guangya, and in the back seat sat Lieutenant General Liu Changyi, commander of the 15th Army of the Provisional National Army, and Major General Cai Jigang, the supervisor of the Military Commission, both of whom were silent.

Cai Jigang looked out of the car window worriedly, the battle situation was as he expected in advance, the main division of the Japanese army broke through the defense line at the place he was most worried about, and then the troops were quickly interspersed and divided in several ways to seize the battle support point of the national army, and its mechanized troops moved south quickly without stopping. Only 10 days after the start of the war, the Japanese field corps attacked the city and conquered the city, and its vanguard troops were already under the city of Xuchang, and Xuchang, an important town in central Henan, was in danger.

Cai Jigang knew that he must not criticize his superiors, not even say a word of complaint, not only could he not say it, but he also had to quickly assist the First War Zone Commander's Department to clean up the mess.

Liu Changyi and Cai Jigang were under the urgent order of Deputy Commander Tang Enbo to go to Xuchang to discuss the matter of defending the city with Lu Gongliang, commander of the newly formed 29th Division. Tang Enbo's order was: to defend Xuchang, contain the Japanese invaders, and cooperate with the breakout friendly forces to implement the battle plan!

As a war supervisor assigned by the Military Commission, Cai Jigang did not know the campaign plan of the First Theater Commander's Department, nor did he know the actual situation of the troops on the front line, and his mind was like a mess at this time. According to the report of the air force pilots, tens of thousands of Japanese troops have encircled Xuchang, but the encirclement has not yet been closed.

Cai Jigang knows very well in his heart, what to defend Xuchang? Just rely on a disgruntled new 29th Division to resist the devastating attack of tens of thousands of Japanese troops? Is there something wrong with this Chief Tang's brain?

Liu Changyi, Cai Jigang and his entourage were surrounded by scattered Japanese troops several times on the way, and the guards on the guard car resisted desperately, several adventures, even Liu Changyi and Cai Jigang personally took the *** into the battle, the body of the two jeeps was full of bullet holes, and the guards were killed and three were wounded. They arrived at the Monk Bridge 18 miles north of Xuchang at noon on the 27th, where the 86th Regiment of the newly formed 29th Division was located.

Yao Changren, commander of the 86th Regiment, was taken aback when he saw the army commander's jeep covered with bullet marks, and hurriedly asked Liu Changyi and his entourage if they were injured. Liu Changyi didn't care about greetings, and immediately entered the position with Cai Jigang to inspect the construction of the fortifications.

Cai Jigang walked around the position, and he found that there were many ordinary people in civilian clothes among the soldiers of the 86th Regiment repairing fortifications, so he asked Yao Changren about the identities of these people. Yao Changren reported that he was a newly replenished strong man in the supplementary regiment, and he had not yet had time to receive military training, and now it was too late for training, so he had to count one as one and pull him to the position to study on the spot.

Cai Jigang asked: "How many troops does the 86th Regiment have now?" ”

Yao Changren replied: "Even the non-combatants are less than 1,000 people, and more than half of them are newly recruited strong men, and only those above the platoon commander are veterans. In fact, the 85th and 87th regiments are not much better, and now the total strength of our 29th Division is only more than 3,000 people. ”

Cai Jigang was taken aback: "Commander Yao, as far as I know, your new 29th Division should have four regiments, why are there only more than 3,000 people?" ”

"That's right, our 29th Division nominally has three infantry regiments and a supplementary regiment. It sounds like four regiments are a lot, but in fact, our 86th Regiment fought a vicious battle with the Japanese army on the Yellow River defense line, and the whole regiment suffered two-thirds of the casualties, and basically lost its combat effectiveness. The 85th and 87th regiments were already not fully staffed, and they also suffered a lot of losses near Zhengzhou, and the supplementary regiment was composed of strong men, which had not yet completed training and basically had no combat effectiveness, so our new 29th Division was only equivalent to the strength of a brigade. ”

Cai Jigang secretly complained in his heart, but he couldn't show it in the slightest. The big war is imminent, morale is very important, and the spirit can only be drummed up but not discharged. He looked at the hastily constructed defensive position with a gloomy expression, and felt a chill in his heart, but he didn't expect that the Xuchang defenders only had more than 3,000 people, except for a small number of mortars, and there were no heavy weapons, how would this resist the tiger and wolf army composed of tens of thousands of Japanese troops? What does Townberg think? Why send a miscellaneous division who is not satisfied to guard Xuchang? It seems that the battle for the defense of Xuchang has not yet begun, and the outcome seems to be ironclad. Cai Jigang wanted to ask Liu Changyi, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back.

In the headquarters of the newly formed 29th Division in Xuchang City, Liu Changyi and Cai Jigang met the division commander Lu Gongliang. Lu Gongliang was born in the sixth phase of Huangpu, and since 1937 he has participated in almost all the battles in the North China Battlefield, and has served as the chief of staff of the 13th Army and the senior staff of the 31st Group Army.

Cai Jigang and Lu Gongliang have known each other for a long time, and they are still friends with each other, so they met quite affectionately.

Lu Gongliang held Cai Jigang's hand and joked: "Brother Yunhe, you, the war officer, can sit in Luoyang and use the phone to point out, why bother to come all the way to the lonely city of Xuchang to die?" ”

Cai Jigang said with a smile: "I'm here to join in the fun, last time in Luoyang, you and I still have an unfinished game of Go." Brother Gongliang, you are a person, I will obey you in the war, but you will not accept the game of Go, let's set up another game in the evening, I can let you have three sons. ”

"In the end, it is the war supervisor sent by the Military Commission, holding the sword of Shang Fang in his hand, who does he want to trouble him, he just needs to cut it first and then play it, and then say it after cutting it with a sword, it's really a good errand, I can't wait to exchange it with you." Lu Gongliang gave Cai Jigang a punch in the chest.

Cai Jigang pulled Lu Gongliang aside and whispered: "You tell me the truth, with your more than 3,000 people, are you sure to hold Xuchang?" ”

Lu Gongliang looked at Liu Changyi, who was studying the map, and whispered: "To be honest, I can't keep it at all!" Don't say that I only have 3,000 people, even if it is 10 times more, what about 30,000? I can't hold it anymore! But...... Since there is an order, if you can keep it, you must keep it, and if you can't keep it, you must keep it. The enemy's next target must be Luoyang, as long as we can win time for the defense of Luoyang, it will be worth it if our new 29th Division is exhausted. ”

Cai Jigang looked at Lu Gongliang and was speechless for a while.

"Brother Yunhe, you follow me to see the positions of each regiment, and by the way, you will also give us guidance on the work, and then I will not keep you, you will immediately go to the Luoyang Theater Commander's Department to hand over the errand, the sooner the better!" Lu Gongliang urged.

Cai Jigang said dissatisfiedly: "I just hit you when I arrived, it's too boring, right?" Division Commander Lu, don't forget that I was sent by the Military Commission to supervise the battle, how can I supervise the battle before the battle starts? ”

Lu Gongliang's expression was grim, and he said unceremoniously: "! Our newly formed 29th Division has been in battle for a long time, and I, the lieutenant general and division commander, have fought a few battles more or less, and I don't need other people's guidance. ”

Cai Jigang knew Lu Gongliang's intentions, and it seemed that he was ready to die, but he didn't want to take Cai Jigang's life.

Cai Jigang got up and said coldly: "Senior Commander Lu, tell your adjutant to find me a *** right away!" From now on, I and Adjutant Shen Guangya, together with the two guards, will join the new 29th Division battle sequence, unless there is an order from the peak, I will never leave Xuchang one step, the city is alive in me, and the city is broken and I am dead! ”

Lu Gongliang widened his eyes: "Supervisor Cai, can you leave?" If you don't go, I'll have the guards tie you up and throw you into the car......"

Cai Jigang ignored it, walked directly to Liu Changyi and said loudly: "Commander Liu, Division Commander Lu wants us to go to the positions of each regiment to have a look, can we go?" ”

Liu Changyi threw the scale on the table and said, "Let's go, let's see what the new 29th Division has to do!" ”

"Yes!" Lu Gongliang stared at Cai Jigang, and swallowed back the words he wanted to scold.

Lu Gongliang led Liu Changyi and Cai Jigang to inspect the fortifications of each regiment. In Cai Jigang's eyes, the city fortifications were repaired quite well, and the city wall of Xuchang was demolished after the Central Plains War, leaving only the earthen enclosure. At this time, the inside of the earthen enclosure had been hollowed out, and the bunkers were built, and all the firing ports were aimed at the moat up to 60 meters wide, and one semicircular fortification after another was built on the outskirts of the moat, including machine gun bunkers, communication trenches, and barbed wire. Further out are the deer barricades and minefields. At the forefront of the defensive position was an anti-tank trench 4 meters wide, 4 meters deep and 400 meters long, which was designed to deal with the Japanese Type 95 tanks.

Cai Jigang was very satisfied with it, and secretly praised in his heart, Lu Gongliang really had a set of troops to lead the troops, and these city defense fortifications were very professional from design to construction. The bunker group and the ring fortifications, the communication trenches and the fire support points are all perfectly matched, and as a temporary civil fortification, it is already perfect.

Lu Gongliang squinted at Cai Jigang and said defiantly: "I said Chief Cai, please give guidance to our division's work on behalf of the Military Commission!" ”

Cai Jigang didn't mind his sarcasm, and said officially: "The fortifications in the north are the best, generally speaking, the enemy army attacks from the north to the south, and the defenders naturally attach the most importance to the defense of the north. However, I think the enemy is likely to attack the city from the south, because the fortifications to the north of the city are strong and it will be difficult to break through in a short time. If you choose to attack the city from the south, it will avoid a hard fight and prevent the defenders from breaking through from the south. ”

"Then the enemy is not afraid that we will break through from the north?" Lu Gongliang asked rhetorically.

"The north is the direction where the enemy is coming, and the reinforcements are endless, the enemy may not have this worry, I suggest that more troops be transferred to strengthen the defense of the south of the city, Commander Lu, if you don't believe it, just look at it, the enemy will definitely take the south of the city as the main direction of attack." Cai Jigang said with certainty.

"Good! Commander Cai has a point, I agree! Give me reinforcement of the south of the city at once. Liu Changyi made the final decision.

Man Tang and Tie Zhu were pouting on the position of the newly formed 29th Division Supplementary Regiment to repair the fortifications, and the platoon leader of the pockmarked platoon was sitting shirtless on a sack and smoking dry tobacco.

The two brothers should be unlucky, the new 29th Division wants to guard Xuchang, and there is a shortage of manpower, Mantang and Tiezhu are ignorant, and they even hit the replenishment regiment with food.

The platoon commander of Mazi pulled the heads of the people in the middle of the strong men he had just caught, and found that the full hall and the iron pillar were still clever, so he decided to keep them in his platoon. The two of them were confused, and they became soldiers in the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Company, and 8th Platoon of the 86th Regiment of the 29th Division of the National Army.

What made the two brothers feel even more unreliable was that they were called to the company commander to give a lecture. The commander of the third company, surnamed Chen, is a native of Tangshan, Hebei Province, and always carries a "mirror box" with a wooden shell on his back, and on his feet is a pair of suede shoes with an open mouth, and there are some suspicious blood stains on the uppers. Mantang estimated that the shoes were picked from the corpse of the devil. On the road just now, Company Commander Chen shot and killed the strong man who tried to escape, leaving a deep impression on Man Tang and Tie Zhu, this uncle is not easy to mess with, and he should be careful when he is on an errand in the future.

Company Commander Chen's lecture was very distinctive. "You!" He pointed to Mantang, "I can see that you are not a fuel-efficient lamp on dog days, and your eyes have not been idle along the way, dripping and turning, and you want to run, right?" ”

The hall smiled with a smile: "Sir, if I don't run, no matter how fast I run, I can't outrun your old man's box cannon." ”

"Well, it's good that you understand the dog's day, in the future you will be the soldiers of our third company, Lao Tzu is your company commander, work hard for Lao Tzu, fight well, Lao Tzu will be promoted to your officer, do you understand?"

"Understood, understood......"

"Well, being a soldier and fighting devils is a face-revealing thing, what did Chairman Jiang say? There is no division of the earth...... What's going on? Jute seeds, tell me ......"

Company Commander Chen didn't seem to have much culture, and said with a heart that this uncle didn't know how to become a company commander.

The platoon commander Mazi took a step forward, touched his heels, and recited aloud with his chest straight: "There is no distinction between east and west, north and south, and no distinction between men, women, old and young, all of whom should have the determination to fight for the country and fight to the death against the enemy." ”

"Yes, that's what I said, the national disaster is at the head...... Well, no one can be idle, there is money to contribute, and there is a strong contribution...... Well, both of you, do you have money in the family? ”

"Nope! If you can't even eat, where will you get the money? The hall replied loudly.

Company Commander Chen's remarks seemed to lack logic, and he seemed a little incoherent: "Well, look at you as a goods with no money, if you don't have money, you have to work hard, and I have no money, so Lao Tzu, like you, has to contribute to the country!" After a while, the devil is coming, give Lao Tzu a good fight! There's nothing to be afraid of, the devil is also meaty, and a hole is still a hole when you shoot it......"

"Report to the sir, we will grow crops, we won't fight, and we haven't even touched a gun, what should we do?" The hall asked boldly.

"Can't fight? Then I don't care, find your platoon commander, it's his business. Mazi, these two boys will be handed over to you, find two military uniforms for them to wear, teach them how to load bullets and put guns, if these dog-day recruits don't die after a battle, they are serious veterans. After speaking, Company Commander Chen turned around and left.

The platoon commander of Mazi brought two sets of torn military uniforms to the two of them, the uniforms were full of dirt and bloodstains, and they could barely see that they were earthy yellow, and the badge on the chest did not know what color it was.

"Brother, there's a hole in this dress, isn't it a gun hole?" Tie Zhu held up the military uniform to the whole house.

Man Tang glanced at it hastily and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Well, eighty percent of them were taken from the dead body." Sir, aren't we the national army? Why can't you even mix a new dress? ”

The platoon leader of Mazi was impatient: "You can make do with it for your dog's day, and it's not a new aunt." To tell you the truth, you don't know how many days you can wear this tattered military uniform, and if you don't make trouble in the first day, you will die on the first day, and you will still be fucking picky? ”

A sergeant came up with two Hanyang-made rifles, leaned the rifles against the breastwork of the trench and said, "These are your guns, each with a base of 30 rounds of ammunition and four hands." The platoon commander will teach you how to load and shoot in a moment. ”

Tie Zhu curiously touched the Hanyang-made rifle, and after playing twice, he lost interest, his eyes were fixed on the Czech light machine gun behind the platoon commander and said, "Platoon commander, can I use that gun?" ”

The platoon commander of Mazi turned around and smiled: "Little rabbit, you still want to fight a machine gun with your small body?" The milk wool hasn't faded yet, and this machine gun screams, and it doesn't shake you apart? Alright, it's good if you can play with the rifle well, come here, I'll show you how to use it. ”

The platoon commander of the pockmarks simply taught the loading and aiming of the rifle, how to unscrew the lid and pull the string with the hand.

Tie Zhu fiddled with his rifle and asked, "Platoon commander, what should I do when the devil arrives?" ”

"Then fight with him with a bayonet, do you still need to ask?" The platoon leader was impatient again.

"How do you spell?" Tie Zhu didn't see the platoon commander's impatience at all, and still asked unrelentingly.

The pockmarked platoon leader was angry: "Why the hell are you asking about it?" The war will start in a while, and it's too late for Lao Tzu to teach you. How? If you want to fight hard, you won't fuck headlong and use your head as a bayonet! ”

Mantang unscrewed the lid of his hand ** according to the platoon leader of the pockmarked platoon, put the metal ring on the little thumb, he gestured, and asked suspiciously: "Platoon commander, no, this ring is put on the little thumb, what should I do if I throw this iron lump and drag it back?" ”

The pockmarked platoon leader was angry: "Drag a fart!" How can I teach you, you can throw it, don't just throw it behind your mother's head, where is there so much nonsense? ”

The platoon commander of Mazi scolded and crawled to the chest wall, but suddenly saw two well-made tall riding boots appear on the chest wall, he looked up sharply and found a major general wearing a yellow tweed military uniform standing on the trench, which frightened him a lot, and hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Hello sir!" Huang Guangcheng, second lieutenant platoon commander of the 8th platoon of the 2nd Battalion of the 26th Regiment of the 29th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, listened to the commander's instructions! ”

Cai Jigang had just walked here accompanied by Lu Gongliang, when he heard the platoon commander Mazi reprimanding the soldiers. The hems of the iron pillar military pants are actually one high and one low, which looks very funny, and the military appearance and discipline of the two are simply a mess.

Cai Jigang frowned and stared at the platoon commander of Mazi and said, "Second lieutenant, I want to remind you that you need to be patient in training recruits, it seems that your two recruits have never touched a gun, and you have the responsibility to train them to be excellent soldiers." ”

"Yes! Humble duty understands! ”

Cai Jigang didn't have a good impression of this second lieutenant at all, and in his opinion, letting untrained recruits into battle was just nonsense, and there was no point in sending them to death. Confucius understood this more than 2,000 years ago, and there is a sentence in the Analects that "if you don't teach the people to fight, you will abandon it". Confucius believed that to let untrained people fight was to abandon them. Cai Jigang is very disgusted with the irresponsibility of these junior officers, but what can be done? Nearly seven years into the war, the casualties among the officers at the company and platoon level in the army were so great that the junior officers who had received military academy education and experience in leading the army had already suffered casualties in the early days of the war, and there seemed to be no better way than to select officers from among the soldiers.

Cai Jigang picked up the rifle, loaded the bayonet and said to Mantang and Tiezhu: "Come, you two come here, I will talk about the basic essentials of fighting bayonets." ”

The hall and the iron pillars climbed up to the breastwork and stood respectfully.

Cai Jigang put on a standard assassination posture with a gun at a 45-degree angle and began to explain: "The taboo of fighting a bayonet is to first stab vigorously and expose all the front of the body in front of the opponent, which is very dangerous. You have to calm down and find a way to lure the opponent to stab first with a feint, at this time, as long as you ** down, use the strength of your forearm to block the opponent's bayonet, immediately push the bayonet forward, and stab the opponent with the power of the opponent's forward rush......"

Tie Zhu gestured with his gun and asked, "Sir, did you stab yourself in the heart?" ”

Cai Jigang said: "No, experienced veterans will not target the enemy's chest when assassinating, because then the bayonet can easily get stuck in the middle of the ribs, and the best part of the attack is the enemy's abdomen." Remember! Be sure to use the barrel of your gun to block the opponent's thrust, not your bayonet. Because the bayonet was too thin and the weight was not enough. Also, fighting in a white-knuckle battle is always courage first, technique second, hand-to-hand combat relies on a momentum, no matter how good your skills are without guts, it is useless......"

Cai Jigang demonstrated with action while speaking, and listened absentmindedly in the hall, and still fought with bayonets? ! He didn't plan to learn at all, Mantang had already made up his mind, once the battle started, don't let him seize the opportunity, as long as he has the opportunity, he will take the iron pillar to smear the soles of his feet - slip away. Fuck it, this country is not his full house, he can't afford to shed blood for the country.

Cai Jigang put down the rifle and didn't say more, he knew very well in his heart that there were too many recruits, where could he teach them, or leave it to fate! Years of war experience have shown that the mortality rate of new recruits who first go to the line of fire is often about 80 percent. As long as you can survive under the enemy's artillery fire, you can be considered a passing veteran in a real battle.

For the brothers of the newly formed 29th Division of the National Army, the night before the war was really difficult, and few of the brothers were afraid that few would be able to sleep. Everyone knew very well in their hearts that when it dawned tomorrow, they would not be greeted by the beautiful morning glow before dawn, but the blood and death brought by iron and fire. Fighting a war is the same as betting on treasure, it all depends on luck, and life or death depends on tomorrow.

That night, Cai Jigang barely closed his eyes, and at first he wanted to write a suicide note to his wife, but when he picked up the pen, he didn't know what to write, and finally he decided not to write anything. Starting from the Battle of Songhu in 1937, in nearly seven years, Cai Jigang has lost count of how many suicide notes he has written...... But Cai Jigang survived every time, and the carefully worded and passionate suicide note was always written in vain, and every time he found a place where no one was there and secretly burned it with shame. Over time, Cai Jigang was already embarrassed to write a suicide note. Originally, a professional soldier, it was your fate to shroud the body of horse leather and spill blood on the battlefield, is there any suspense in this? If so, why bother?

That night, Cai Jigang asked Adjutant Shen to sleep first, but he carried a Thompson *** around the position, chatting with the heavy machine gunners for a while, patiently teaching a few recruits how to use a rifle to aim, and even stood for a small sentry who had just turned 16 for two hours.

In the dead of night, Cai Jigang sat behind the machine gun bunker, looking at the starry sky and falling into deep thought......

When he was a student at the Virginia Military Academy, Cai Jigang was still a theater lover, he was an actor in the school's amateur drama club, and often rehearsed plays with some classmates, acting in nothing more than Shakespeare's classic plays. Generally speaking, Cai Jigang can only run tricks and has no chance to play the male lead. This is not because his classmates discriminate against Orientals, Cai Jigang himself admits that with his appearance, if he plays a protagonist such as Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, it is easy to turn the tragedy into a comedy. However, when he graduated from the military academy, Cai Jigang finally got a male number one, and finally showed his face.

According to the plan, the finale of the graduation ceremony will be "Hamlet" performed by the amateur drama club. Cai Jigang played the role of Hamlet's lover Ophelia, because there were no girls in the military school at that time, so the female roles in the play were all replaced by boys, because the Caucasian people are tall, in comparison, Cai Jigang, who is 1.78 meters tall, seems a little small and exquisite, so director Ellen made a final decision and designated Cai Jigang to play Ophelia.

Cai Jigang was very annoyed, he resolutely refused to do it, and even threatened to quit the drama club, and finally made such a fuss that even the principal came forward, and he reluctantly agreed after the principal did the work. But on the day of the performance, Barthes, the pillar of the theater club and the actor of Hamlet, was admitted to the hospital with acute appendicitis. Director Ellen was so anxious that she wanted to fill the gap herself.

The classmates disagreed, Ellen was not a school student, he was the school librarian, almost 50 years old, weighed 250 pounds, and his huge belly often overwhelmed him, which was no joke, if Ellen had come to the stage with a big belly, this image of Hamlet would have made Shakespeare under the Nine Springs angry again.

In fact, in the amateur drama club, the most familiar with Hamlet's lines should be Cai Jigang, he often works with Barthes on his lines, and he can memorize Hamlet's lines with his eyes closed. Cai Jigang asked Ellen to consider that he could play Hamlet. Ellen scratched her scalp and thought about it for a long time before agreeing to let him try it out.

So Cai Jigang recited the famous monologue with emotion:

"To live or to perish, it's a question worth considering. Which of these two acts is more noble, silently enduring the poisonous arrows of fate, or standing up against the endless sufferings of the world and sweeping them away through struggle? ”

Cai Jigang still has some talent for drama, a monologue has not been recited, Ellen's tears flowed down, he hugged Cai Jigang with the impulse of an artist, and announced: Among the graduates of the Virginia Military Academy in 1930, there will be a great figure, he may not be able to become a general commanding thousands of troops, but he will definitely be a great performing artist in the future.

Thinking of this, Cai Jigang couldn't help but smile bitterly, Ellen is not a prophet after all, he is just a librarian, an amateur theater lover, and his prophecy is worthless. After graduating from the military academy, 14 years have passed, and Cai Jigang has not become a performance artist, but has become a general.

Cai Jigang looked around at the moonlit position, tomorrow at dawn, this place will be a terrible hell, countless lives will melt and disappear in iron and fire. Although human beings invented war, they are so small and helpless in the face of the ruthless war machine.

That night, Lu Gongliang, the commander of the defending army in Xuchang and the commander of the newly formed 29th Division, did not sleep, and he wrote a letter to his wife Fang Lianjun under the horse lamp of the command post. Lu Gongliang's small block letters are extremely beautiful, and his wife has to praise them every time she replies to a letter: My husband, your handwriting is as beautiful as your person.

There will be a war tomorrow, and according to the usual practice, Lu Gongliang should write a suicide note to his wife.

In appearance, Lu Gongliang does not look like a general, he has an elegant face, excellent eloquence, and loves classical literature, is good at writing poetry, and is recognized as a Confucian general. After graduating from the sixth phase of Huangpu, he entered the 89th Division of the 13th Army of the National Army, and has been leading the army for 16 years. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Lü Gongliang has been fighting on the front line of the North China battlefield, the Battle of Taigu in Jinzhong in 1937, the Battle of Taierzhuang in 1938, and the Battle of Northern Hubei in 1939...... After fighting a lot, Lu Gongliang is also used to it, and he thinks that his luck is always very good, and he can live until the day of victory.

Lu Gongliang finally finished writing the letter, handed the letter to the adjutant, and then took out the **** from the holster, disassembled it, and wiped it carefully. This is an American-made Colt M1917 military ****, which was a gift from Cai Jigang when he went to Chongqing two years ago to report on his work. Lu Gongliang likes this pistol very much, this kind of 45 caliber pistol is satisfactory whether it is self-defense or self-destruction, and Lu Gongliang has always carried it with him as a pistol.

Like Cai Jigang, Lu Gongliang was ready to sacrifice at the beginning of the war, but God seemed to favor him extraordinarily, after nearly seven years of war and countless brutal battles, Lu Gongliang actually survived unscathed, which can not but be said to be a miracle.

But on the night of April 27, 1944, Lu Gongliang had an ominous premonition, he felt that his life had entered the countdown, and in the dark he even saw death with black wings......

In this world, no one will always be lucky. Since the outbreak of the war, Chinese soldiers have fought to the death. In the early days, the air force was completely annihilated, the weak navy sank in tragedy, the army was repeatedly defeated and fought in a sea of corpses, millions of soldiers fell on the battlefield, and the people who can survive to this day are already very lucky.

Lu Gong's conscience was very clear in his conscience that in this battle of Xuchang, although Chairman Chiang of the Chongqing Command had strictly ordered him to defend it, Tang Enbo did not have the determination to defend it, otherwise he would not have just put a new 29th Division with a broken structure here, and the lack of troops was just an excuse, the 29th and 87th armies were near Xuchang and could be transferred in one day, and Tang Enbo was just using the lives of thousands of soldiers of the new 29th Division to perfunctory Chiang Kai-shek's orders.

With a mere 3,000 men armed with light weapons to meet tens of thousands of elite Japanese troops armed with tanks and heavy artillery and close air support, the result was undoubtedly to hit a stone with an egg. Lu Gongliang could only make up his mind to die, and he had no other choice.

Lu Gongliang stuffed the bullets into the pistol's nest one by one, and then put the pistol into the embossed cowhide holster. This gun has never been used, and for senior generals, the pistol is generally just an ornament, and once it is used, it is probably the last minute.

All this should be over, and tomorrow or a few days later, the new 29th Division may not exist. Thinking of this, Lu Gongliang was a little relieved.

The brothers were huddled in the trenches and slept. The heartless iron pillar had already fallen asleep with his head on the sack, but Mantang couldn't sleep at all, and he had been thinking about how to escape. Just now he wanted to go around the position, and by the way, he stepped on the road. Who knew that he walked less than 100 meters along the traffic trench and met the swimming whistle, the two swimming posts seemed to be recruits, and they were very two-pole-shaped, one of them was highly nervous, and the gun rang out at the same time as he asked for the password, and the bullet swept over the head of the full hall, he didn't expect the sentry to be so stunned, he was so frightened that his whole body was soft, and he suddenly lay down in the traffic trench and shouted: "Don't shoot!" Your own people, your own people's ......"

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the position of the 86th Regiment immediately became tense, and the regiment commander Yao Changren wore trousers and carried a gun out of the concealment department, shouting as he ran: "All companies enter the position, machine gunners, each is in place!" ”

So the companies were busy for a while, and all the combatants went into firing positions. The platoon commander of the 3rd company was standing on the sack fortifications to pee, and as soon as the gunshots rang out, the platoon commander of the pocks scared half of the urine back, he didn't care about lifting his pants, and picked up a heavy machine gun and prepared to fire......

It was not easy to figure out that the commander of the 3rd Company, Chen Company, was scolded by the regiment commander Yao Changren. After the regiment commander left, Company Commander Chen had nowhere to get out of the fire, so he kicked the pockmarked platoon commander. The platoon commander of Mazi naturally felt wronged, and after the company commander left, he gave Mantang two more slaps, and the matter came to an end.

Mantang felt very desperate, he didn't expect the national army team to fight well, his mother's staring is a must, each soldier's range of activity is only a few tens of meters, beyond this range, there is a suspicion of escape, if you don't make a good trouble, you will be shot and killed, this is really troublesome.

Mantang thought about it a lot, but he couldn't figure it out, why did he come to fight? What does it matter to him to fight? Of course, the chief said that the war is to defend the country, but what is the country? The Governor didn't explain it. Mantang's head hurt when he thought about this problem, and he didn't come up with a reason.

According to Mantang's idea, the county magistrate is considered to represent the country, but he has never met the county magistrate, he has only heard of it. The only person I have seen in the hall who can represent the power of the state is the chief of security, but the chief seems to be in charge of collecting all kinds of taxes and nothing else. The common people starved to death by the disaster, did he serve as the chief of security? It doesn't seem to be.

It seems that the relationship between the state and the common people is that the state wants to collect taxes from the people, and it does nothing but collect taxes, this is the state. Although Mantang has no culture, he still has some simple reasoning ability, and he always feels that something is wrong, but how is it wrong? He couldn't say it clearly for a while, and it seemed that he still had to think about it.

For example, if a farmer does not have land of his own, he has no choice but to plant land for the landlord, and the grain he lays should be divided with the landlord according to the agreed conditions, whether it is four or six shares, or five or five shares, and you should give the landlord this part of the grain. Why? Because people go out of the land, you make efforts, so each takes his own share. Isn't that clear? When you mention the country, you don't understand this thing? The state is different from the landlord, the landlord gives you the land to plant, but what happened to the country? Nothing comes out, nothing comes out and you still ask you to donate taxes, and if you don't give it, you can't do it, how do you talk about this? If a land is mainly rented to the peasants to plant, and at the end of the year, all the harvest in the field is taken away, and nothing is left for the peasants, so who will give the landlord the land? Everything in the world is right if there is a coming-and-going, and if there is a coming-and-going, it is called unreasonable.

The state is a bit unauthentic, you deal with it is to come and go, it can ask you to collect taxes, if you have a problem and ask the state for help, there is no fucking door. Also, if you just collect taxes, why do you have to take care of a war? Mr. Chen said that now the country is in trouble, and the people should be considerate of the country...... But then again, when did the country ever understand the people? The people were starved to death and the state didn't care, and when the country needed someone to shed blood and die, then it remembered the people again. Mantang finally opened up a little, if you want to say that what is the most unreasonable in this world, I'm afraid there is only the country.

The hall made up its mind to defend the country, and the chief said that he would not listen to it. Whoever likes to fight will fight, Tong Mantang is not interested, if you have to force me to fight, this is easy to do, and when the war starts, the opportunity will come, anyway, the two legs are on your body.

The distant horizon was constantly flashing with red light, and there was a faint thunderous sound of artillery and the roar of tank engines, and there was silence on the outer positions of Xuchang City, who knows what it will become here tomorrow. The house is full of thoughts of his parents and sister in Gangzi Village, a hundred miles away, what can I do? I didn't think so much about it when I left, I only thought about the 100 catties of rice, and I didn't even see my father's face, and now the brothers suddenly disappeared, and the family had a falling out.

Mantang thought a lot, thinking about his parents and sister, thinking about the few acres of dry land that had not been watered, and the turtle grandson of Ma Lao Wu, he couldn't just forget about killing Hei Nier, and he must break his dog's leg if he catches this dog day one day......

Mantang thought of everything, but he didn't expect that today was the last night of his peaceful life, and in the future, he and Tie Zhu would have to suffer in fear and pain, and they would have to go from the world to hell a few times, and no one could control their fate.

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The Type 1 Land Attack Aircraft is a twin-engine land-based long-range bomber equipped by the Japanese Navy in the Pacific War, which was designed and manufactured by Mitsubishi Internal Combustion Engine Co., Ltd. together with the Type 96 Land Attack Aircraft. In April 1941, the Type 1 land attack aircraft was officially put into service, and began to replace the Type 96 land attack aircraft, which can reach a range of more than 6,000 kilometers and can carry 800 kg of aviation**.