A battle provided strong support to the army units on the front line, which really boosted the morale of the front-line officers and soldiers, but at the same time, it also caused heavy losses to the nascent Chinese Air Force.

The 4th Fighter Group, which had only three squadrons under its jurisdiction, was directly reimbursed for the loss of personnel and damage to aircraft.

Two bomber groups can almost be combined into a reinforced group.

However, the order to attack from the top remained unchanged.

The battle situation on the front line was extremely tense, and the reinforcements mobilized by the R Army from all directions had arrived in full swing, and President Jiang had already turned his eyes red, and all the troops under his command, including the only few German armouring divisions and the first army of Hu Zongnan, which he started from and was known as the "Imperial Forest Army", were all thrown into the Shanghai battlefield.

It's a solitary gamble.

On August 18, under the cover of naval guns and aircraft, the reinforcements of the R Army successfully landed in the Baoshan area on the north side of Shanghai, and then expanded the landing ground to cover the follow-up troops ashore, aiming directly at the flank of our troops in the Shanghai area.

On the same day, the air force again received an order to bomb the landing fleet of the R Army to cover the army units to block enemy reinforcements.

The moonlight was hazy, the cool breeze of the summer night was gently blowing, and the moonlight was like water, quietly sprinkled on the earth. Fireflies flickered with a faint light, like the elves of the night, bringing tranquility and serenity.

The peace was shattered by the sound of neat military boots, and it was the airport guards patrolling faithfully.

In the layers of hidden hangars, the orderly Lao Sha, wearing a military cap obliquely, jumped off the plane and patted the oil stains on his hands.

"Luckily, the rudder is not a big problem overall, but one of the connecting rods was discounted, and I replaced it with a new one for you, without delay."

Huang Guoxing handed over a cigarette, Lao Sha took it, and at the same time commanded his logistics soldiers to repair the skin of the plane, and later, he walked out of the hangar, and in a leeward place, let Huang Guoxing help him light the cigarette, took a puff, and scolded with a smile:

"Grandma's, your life is really hard, the whole team of planes is the most injured by you, front and back, a total of 36 bullet holes, the left wing does not need to be skinned, directly replaced with a new one, that's it, a key structural point has not been hit, it is this, I Lao Sha admires."

As he spoke, he gave Huang Guoxing a thumbs up.

Huang Guoxing wrinkled his brows and took a puff of cigarette, looked at the silver bracelet on his wrist by the moonlight, and chuckled, "Maybe, I am blessed by someone." ”

"Oh, I hope to bless you all the time. Today, the whole team of planes has folded by one-third, and all of them, counting the dismantling parts, can only be replenished, barely half of the squadron, and then drop, there will be no one. The oil is enough, and the 7.7 mm bullet is enough, and the 12,7 mm one is not much. ”

Lao Sha looked at the night sky, there was no joy or sorrow on his face, and he summarized this bit of family background in pieces.

Huang Guoxing had a cigarette in his mouth and did not speak, even though his eyes were already red from smoke, and he narrowed tightly, he did not take the cigarette off his mouth.

In just one day, he lost two of his best friends forever.

On August 19, the air force struck again, crossing the entire SH urban battlefield and heading to the Baoshan R Army landing site to carry out bombing missions.

The entire air force fought bravely and played a very high battle loss ratio, and in the face of the aircraft of the R Army, it was often one for two, or even one for three, but under the siege of the enemy's superior forces, it still suffered heavy losses.

In this battle, Huang Guoxing did not shoot down the enemy plane again, he changed the previous fierce attack, specially cooperated with his teammates, and saved his teammates in danger many times. But he was only one person, and it was impossible to take care of the entire battlefield, and he watched his teammates die countless times, but he couldn't do anything about it.

After Huang Guoxing's fighter squadron opened the air defense formation of the enemy planes, he saw the opportunity to pilot the planes, risked death to rush forward, and aimed at a cruiser of the R Army in an attitude that was almost diving, and dropped bombs at an ultra-low altitude.

"Little devil, taste the bomb!"

A few seconds later, a loud bang was heard, the bomb hit, and a burst of fire erupted on the cruiser of the R Army, followed by a martyrdom, and the eyes began to sink.

"Hit!"

The R warship was blown up and sunk, but before he could get excited, there was a burst of artillery sound behind him, and the approaching plane suddenly shook, and the instrument panel hands trembled and began to lose altitude.

Their tail was hit by anti-aircraft guns on the warships of the R Army.

Shen Chongzhi tried many times, but the plane still couldn't be pulled up, which was in peacetime, he could still choose to make a forced landing with his flying experience, but at the moment he was on the battlefield, and there was no such opportunity at all.

He immediately made a decision and shouted to Chen Xichun, the co-pilot and navigator behind him:

"Chen Xichun, the plane is out of control, you hurry up and parachute!"

"Shen Chongzhi, what are you going to do! You see Lao Tzu is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death! ”

One after another, anti-aircraft shells exploded next to their plane, and the two looked at each other and smiled in the rain of bullets, both understanding what they were thinking.

"Goodbye, brother!"

The bombers swooped down at full speed and under the horrified gaze of the enemy sailors.

In their ears is the oath they once stepped into the aviation school.

"Our bodies, planes, and bombs should be wiped out along with the enemy's warship positions!"

In that day's battle, Huang Guoxing's aviation unit made two waves of sorties at the Baoshan landing position of the R Army, and originally planned a third wave of attacks, but it really couldn't be fought, and the personnel and planes needed to be replenished.

Huang Guoxing climbed out of the cockpit, his body was as waterlogged, and the shirt inside the flight jacket was soaked.

People can still force themselves, but the flight can't stand it, and none of the remaining planes in the whole brigade are intact.

The entire Jianqiao Airport is half empty compared to when it departs in the early morning.

Captain Gao Zhihang gritted his teeth so that he didn't let himself cry.

Later that day, after Huang Guoxing heard that Shen Chongzhi had died with the enemy ship, he finally lost control and his eyes turned red.

His last friend from the aviation school also died.

The next day, he received a reply from Xiao Yu'er.

A row of handsome small words jumped on the paper.

"Zhijun fought for the country, and felt that the glorious school had issued a transfer plan and would move to Nanjing in the near future, and everything was fine at home, so there was no need to worry. I pray for you day and night, and I hope that you will take care of your body on the battle array. If there is an accident, you are like a flying eagle, and I am like a small swallow, and I will be with you for a long time."

Huang Guoxing seemed to see the little fish at home, what kind of mood did he write this reply.

Xiao Yu'er is shy on the surface, but he is the most tenacious in his bones, the battlefield is dangerous, Huang Guoxing no longer has the optimism at the beginning of the war, in such a war, no one dares to guarantee that he can survive.

If he dies, what will Xiao Yu'er do?

He wanted to move to the rear now, for the sake of Xiao Yu'er, he would rather be a deserter, but the smiling faces of his friends floated in front of his eyes, and he hesitated.

Huang Guoxing held the letter in his hand, his fingertips continued to exert force, and finally closed his eyes, muttering that he didn't know what to say.

As if apologizing, but I don't know who I'm dealing with.

The air force rested for a few days, it was said to be resting, but it was not without combat missions, but they were all small-scale missions carried out on the scale of the squadron. The rear was barely replenished with some supplies, including 5 aircraft and several pilots.

In the past few days, Huang Guoxing has to lead the team to take off once a day, either to carry out reconnaissance missions in front of the front, or to defend the airport.

Jianqiao Airport has become the most front-line airfield in the entire Songhu battlefield, and the R Army has to send planes to bomb every day, but fortunately, the planes in this era do not have high requirements for the runway, and if they are hit by a few bombs, as long as the crater is filled with soil and the road surface is simply smoothed, they can continue to be used.

With the continuous arrival of reinforcements from the R Army and the consolidation of the Baoshan landing ground on the north side, the R Army began to besiege the county town of Baoshan, once Baoshan was lost, the flank of the entire Songhu defenders would be completely exposed to the landing force of the R Army.

On August 25, the order was issued again, and the air force went on attack to support the Baoshan front.

By the end of August, the air force's sortie had indeed hindered the pace of the R Army's advance to a certain extent in a strategic sense, and had won a little time for the army to deploy strong generals on the flanks. However, as a result, the air force units in the entire theater have lost their essence and lost their air supremacy on the battlefield.

At this point, there is no longer the ability to make a large-scale sortie.

Huang Guoxing's record has accumulated to 4, and only one is short of being called an ace pilot, which is a very good record, but it is meaningless to the situation.

There were very few comrades-in-arms left with whom he was familiar, and the entire Fourth Fighter Group could only make up the number of squadrons that could take off normally, and the bombing group was completely crippled and completely lost the ability to attack.

In mid-September, the Chinese defenders began to run out of strength, the front-line troops were all disabled, and the loss of all kinds of weapons and equipment and elite veterans made the combat strength of the troops deteriorate.

Fortunately, at this time, armed forces from all over the country gradually arrived in Shanghai, but the situation was only a little better, I have to say that in this era, President Jiang's descendants are the best in the country in terms of equipment and personnel quality, they are not good in front of the R army, and the local troops can only use human lives to resist.

By the end of October, the SH urban area has been basically lost, except for the 88th Division of the first division to stay in the four lines of warehouses, all the defenders have retreated to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek, many senior generals from a strategic point of view, suggested to retreat to the second line, the command has issued an order to retreat, but because the international "Nine Nations Conference" is about to be held, President Jiang pinned his hopes on international intervention, on October 28, and withdrew the retreat order, with political strategy over the strategy, asking for a counterpoint. The sea area stubbornly held to the death, "defended Shanghai at all costs."

A field airfield on the outskirts of Hangzhou in early November. (Jianqiao airfield has already been completely destroyed in an air raid by the R Army)

Huang Guoxing walked out of a field tent, fetched a basin of water, wiped his face casually, and then put on a military uniform.

Just over a month later, his beard was unshaven, his eyes were sunken and bloodshot, and he never saw his former demeanor again. He lit a cigarette, walked into the command tent, and sat down casually, playing with his pocket watch in his hand.

Turn on, close, turn on, close.

Because there is his beloved in it.

He hadn't seen Xiaoyu'er for almost two months, and a recent letter said she had just arrived in Nanjing with her school.

"Sir Huang, what is your pocket watch usually like a treasure, let us see what mysteries are hidden."

"Fuck off." Huang Guoxing put away the pocket watch.

"You don't know, that's the most beloved thing of our Huang Squadron, and the photo of my sister-in-law is inside."

Several recruits in the tent followed suit, they were the last cadets of the aviation school, and they had only been replenished after primary flight training.

"Sir Huang, let's take a look, I've heard before that my sister-in-law looks like a shy flower in the moon, sinking fish and geese, and only Chief Huang has this good fortune in the whole team, and when the time comes, I have to let my sister-in-law introduce us to a few sisters."

Huang Guoxing flicked a handful of cigarette ash and sneered, "There are no doors, let's talk about it when you are alive." ”

"Yo, that's over, there's no chance." The recruits who had just started to heckle looked disappointed.

said that he was a recruit, but he also flew with Huang Guoxing for a month, and he had already looked down on life and death, so he made a joke about this.

Deputy Captain Li Guidan walked in.

"The Gao Brigade has returned to Nanjing to report on its work and go to receive a batch of Soviet aid planes."

"Yo, there's a new plane coming, that's great."

The eyes of the people in the tent were excited.

Li Guidan also laughed twice, and then straightened his face.

"It's not too early to be happy, the new plane is coming, everyone has a share, but you can choose, but, first give me the fucking order to live, the Songjiang battlefield, cover the army to block it."

Due to the stalemate in the fighting, the casualties gradually increased, and the R Army once again increased the strength of three divisions and regiments, and landed at Jinshanwei on the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, preparing to strategically encircle the Chinese defenders from the south side of Shanghai.

The defenders in the Hangzhou Bay area have long been mobilized to the main battlefield in Shanghai, and now only the 67th Army of the former Northeast Army and the Sichuan Army have just retired from the main battlefield to recuperate.

In order to cover the retreat of all the defenders, the two teams went up without hesitation.

The air force also received the task at this time, covering the army at all costs.

On the same day, the air force received the last batch of reinforcements from three planes, led by an acquaintance of Huang Guoxing.

"Instructor Zhang!?"

"Oh, Guoxing."

"You, why are you here too?"

"The war is difficult, and as an Air Force man, I should also contribute."

The instructors of the aviation school have all gone to the front line, which shows that the Chinese air force has reached the point of exhaustion, and in this battle, the aviation team, counting the support of Instructor Zhang, can barely scrape together 14 aircraft, which is less than the size of a squadron before the war.

On the Songjiang battlefield, the army tried its best to block the R Army, not only had to endure the ground artillery fire of the R Army's superiority, but also from time to time there were RB planes in the sky to drop bombs, and even the fighters were constantly diving at low altitudes and strafing the army positions.

On a position, a Japanese fighter roared past, a series of bullets hit the trench, stirring up a blood mist, looking at the fallen body of his comrade, a soldier couldn't help it, picked up a machine gun and fired at the plane in the sky.

Dada-da

However, it is difficult for light machine guns to keep up with the speed of the aircraft.

At this moment, an airplane on the other side dropped a bomb, and after a bang, only a broken machine gun remained on the battlefield.

"Little devil, Lao Tzu is your ancestor~~"

The surviving warriors could only curse with blood and tears, but they had nothing to do.

At this moment, in the sky, a small group of black dots came out against the light, and a single dive shot down two R Army planes.

"Look, our plane, it's our plane, oh oh oh~~"

This group of young warriors, in order to resist foreign enemies, left their hometown and crossed thousands of miles to come to Shang. In the naval battlefield, many of them died in the enemy's shells and aerial bombs without even seeing the enemy's face, and they were always bombed from head to tail by the planes of the RB people.

It's hard to imagine how much of a shock their confidence was brought to their confidence by the sudden explosion of their own plane.

In the sky, Huang Guoxing was still pressing, and he still didn't worry about these recruits under him.

"Fighter jets give up altitude and go to the ground to strafe, little devils, you guys are really crazy."

Pulling up in a straight line in front of the fighter jets, that is the way to seek death, the R Army planes were in chaos for a while, and they could only flee from each other, Huang Guoxing led the team to start the hunt.

Instructor Zhang's landline has just been supported today, and he has not had time to brush the number, but the whole scene is the most fierce for him, with excellent flying skills, chasing one enemy plane after another, like a beast that has just been released from the cage, screaming to eat people.

It's just that probably because of the lack of battlefield experience, it has always been a long burst, and if this continues, the ammunition will be easily exhausted.

Huang Guoxing noticed this, thinking that when this battle was over, he would vaguely mention it to Instructor Zhang after he went back.

During the battlefield, the planes of the R Army fell down one after another, and just when the Chinese pilots were extremely excited, reinforcements from the R Army arrived.

A group of R-Ben fighters came over, and the scene turned around in an instant.

The recruit who had just coaxed Xiao Yuer's photos was gritting his teeth and constantly getting rid of it, he was bitten to death by three Japanese planes, Huang Guoxing suddenly killed at a tricky angle, and a series of point shots directly injured one.

The recruits were saved, but it also attracted the hatred of the R Army to Huang Guoxing.

The pilots of the R Army were shocked and surprised when they saw Huang Guoxing's plane.

His Hawker III, numbered 2216, after two months of fighting, has made the R Army grit its teeth, every time they bite a Chinese target, there is always this 2216 out to stir up the situation, save the Chinese pilot, and then he himself with excellent flying skills, every time he escapes from the pinch.

"The China Air Force, 2216, he appeared again, come over and beat him together."

The commander of the R Army gave the order fiercely.

In an instant, the planes of the R Army on the battlefield rushed towards Huang Guoxing, a total of 6, flanking him front and rear, surround him.

Da da.

The bullets grazed by his side one by one, the throttle was pulled to the maximum, the engine burst out with a deadly roar, rolling, rolling sideways, Huang Guoxing controlled the plane to do difficult flight maneuvers, but it was still dangerous.

His teammates also came to support, but it didn't help, there were too many enemy planes, and they were biting Huang Guoxing to the death, and they were bound to shoot him down here today.

The fuselage was constantly shot, and with a snap, the right wing was completely shattered, and the control of the plane instantly became much more difficult.

"Let's go, let's go~"

His teammates were also falling, he knew that today was more than lucky, he shouted for his teammates to retreat, but they still surrounded and supported as if they couldn't hear.

Sudden protrusion

Another series of bullets, the tail of the plane was directly exploded, and the handling was completely lost.

Huang Guoxing took the parachute on his back and wanted to abandon the plane and parachute, but the pilot of the R Army on the dog day was like a shark smelling blood, and still did not let him go, and a series of bullets hit the plane and forced him back into the cockpit.

Seeing another R Army flight swooping down towards him, the R Army pilot had a hideous expression, his fingers had been pressed on the machine gun switch, Huang Guoxing's plane was no longer able to control, and he made a big dodge move, and he could only wait for death at this moment.

At this moment, a plane that had not had time to be numbered suddenly rushed into the air and hit the dive line of the R Army plane.

With a bang, the two planes disintegrated in the air.

So, is it Instructor Zhang? Instructor Zhang gave me the last lesson at the aviation school?

Huang Guoxing's face was shocked, but the situation did not allow him to think about it, in this moment's effort, the plane had dropped a lot, and this altitude could not open the umbrella bag at all, so he could only grit his teeth and control the joystick, hoping that the plane could make a successful forced landing.

Bang.

With a loud bang, Huang Guoxing shook violently, the plane smashed on the grass, the landing gear broke instantly, the fuselage was crooked, and then the wings disintegrated, jumping away, the whole plane taxied on the ground for dozens of meters, before slowly stopping, and the huge impact made Huang Guoxing fall softly in the cockpit and fainted.

His last consciousness was as if the place where he had landed was a battlefield.

It is indeed a battlefield full of bullets.

A plane suddenly crashed into the middle of the battlefield, as if to put a stop on both sides, and the soldiers on both sides invariably burst into flames.

The scene was quiet for a moment.

View from above.

Huang Guoxing's plane is flanked by two criss-crossing trenches, bunkers and fortifications are not lacking, sandbags full of bullet holes can be seen everywhere in the front of the trenches, broken craters emit faint green smoke, and a few branches that have been blown off by shells are still crackling and burning.

The two trenches were full of soldiers, the Guo army was in rags, the uniforms were tattered and covered with blood, and the Japanese side was stronger, but it was also limited, and it was also covered with traces of mud and sweat.

The soldiers on both sides were a little confused.

It was the first time I saw a plane crash landing in the middle of the battlefield.

The smell of gunsmoke was in the trenches at the moment, and the sudden ceasefire had exacerbated the tense and heavy atmosphere.

R Army trenches.

"Report Shaozuo, there is a Chinese plane on the battlefield that has made a forced landing."

"Huh? Is the pilot still alive? ”

"I feel like I'm fainting."

"Yo Xi, pilot. Catch alive. ”

"Hey!"

On the side of the national army.

A man who looked like an officer, rushed into the trenches at the forefront.

"What's the matter, why is it so hot, has the R Army stopped attacking?"

"Report sir, it looks like an Air Force brother has fallen."

"Falling?"

The officer picked up the binoculars and leaned down on the trench to look out.

Sure enough, a plane stood in the middle of the battlefield, and from his point of view, he could still see that the pilot was unconscious, but, at this level, he should not be dead.

"It's not good, the Air Force brothers are dangerous, the little devils are dispatched, they want to catch the live and shoot the enemy."

Bang bang bang. Da da.

The gunfire on the battlefield was heavy again, and the R army squad was directly driven back, and several times in a row, they did not succeed in touching the position of the plane.

The commander of the R Army was annoyed.

"Baga, order the artillerymen, fire at the plane, take out the pilot."

Tom tom. Three shells exploded next to the flight, and one of them exploded directly into the tail of the plane, completely shattering the tail.

Huang Guoxing, who also woke up from the shell, didn't see the direction clearly, and forcibly climbed out of the cockpit.

Maybe someone blessed him in the dark, and he turned out the direction of the fruit army.

"Sir, the little devil is angry and wants to kill someone, hey, the Air Force brothers are not dead, they just came out."

The young officer's face turned pale, he took out his pistol, and shouted:

"Machine gun cover, the 1st platoon and the 2nd platoon rushed with me to save the brothers of the Air Force."

A veteran next to him hurriedly pulled him over and eagerly persuaded: "Company commander, it's not good, the little devil's firepower is too fierce, and if he rushes like this, he is taking the lives of his brothers to add to it." ”

The officer looked at the center of the battlefield, and the two machine guns of the R Army were one on the left and one on the right, sweeping with crossfire, and one after another tracer bullets hit the plane behind Huang Guoxing, blazing with fire and dust.

He gritted his teeth and gritted them, but still commanded:

"No, the lives of Lao Tzu are not valuable, the lives of the Air Force brothers are precious, they just came to save us, do you still want the stupid birds of the devils to throw bombs on our heads, prepare."

The veteran hesitated again and again, and finally slapped his military hat down, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "I will be the first to plank, the company commander, you stay, and I will take people with me." Melon babies, follow Lao Tzu. ”

After that, he picked up his gun and jumped out of the trench first, but the officer didn't have time to hold him. Immediately afterward, the soldiers followed and charged without hesitation.

"Machine gun, machine gun cover ~~~~"

The shooter was full of rage, and the muzzle of the gun was full of fire, and the yellow bullet casings kept shooting out.

Huang Guoxing was lying under the plane, his eyes were about to split, and he saw one army brother rushing towards him against bullets and artillery fire.

One by one, the body was constantly shot and fell, but when one fell, another one rushed up, without fear.

I'm sorry, it's a little bit close, but it's definitely over tomorrow.

(End of chapter)