Chapter 547. "Wings of the Sky" 8
Bang dang, bang dang. Yi.
The train entered the station, Huang Guoxing was wrapped in blood-stained bandages on his body and head, his arms were tied to a simple hanging board, leaning against the window, looking at the crowd on the platform with blank eyes, adults, children, well-dressed on weekdays, and now they are all scrambling to get on the train.
Ignoring the cries of the passengers, a group of soldiers pushed them all out of the way and squeezed them onto the train.
This is the first time I've seen such a scene, and Huang Guoxing doesn't remember.
Anyway, every time I went to a station, it was like this, the R army landed in Jinshanwei, Songjiang was in danger, hundreds of thousands of defenders were about to be dumped by the R army, and the retreating troops were stubble after stubble.
His carriage was a special train for wounded soldiers, full of wounded, and there was a smell of potion mixed with bloody gas in the air.
In the battle that day, the air force completely existed in name only, and only 6 of the 14 planes that attacked were able to fly back with all their tails and tails, the field airfield was also abolished, and the remaining personnel and planes were all incorporated into the Nanjing Garrison Brigade of the Air Force.
In the end, he was rescued by his army brothers, and because he belonged to the air force and had preferential treatment, he was specially transferred to Suzhou and boarded the wounded train to Nanjing.
Before leaving, the commander of the Sichuan army also thanked himself.
Thanks to him for flying the plane to support his brothers, although the actual effect is not much, but it gives his brothers hope, the support of friendly forces, and the worthiness.
Huang Guoxing was surprised, it was all in the air before, although he was also fighting against the R Army, but it was not so intuitive.
And that day was the first time he had seen the blood and cruelty of the battlefield up close, the bullet flew through his ear, the moment it hit the person's body, it could bring out a cloud of blood mist, and the shock wave from the shell made him feel like a boat in a big wave, which would capsize at any time.
He didn't understand why, why it was so dangerous, and these army brothers had to sacrifice their lives to save him.
They don't know each other.
Dozens of lives in exchange for him, is this deal worth it?
On the battlefield, the soldiers resisted the advance of the R Army with their lives, and the brethren were not afraid of death?
He asked the chief what was in his mind.
The chief laughed as if he had heard a great joke, until tears broke out of his eyes.
"I'm afraid, how can I not be afraid, I'm not afraid of death, but what's the use of being afraid."
"The country is like this, the nation is like this, these soldiers behind me, they can't even write their own names, they have never left their hometown in their lives, but they know that they are Chinese, you are their comrades-in-arms, and you are the brothers of the Air Force who have come to support them."
"You and I were born in this era, sacrifice is the price we must pay, if we don't pay, our son will pay, and if we don't get a good grandson, we will have to pay, our generation, all dirt, mud, or. Let's pay. ”
"Your air force is all high-level talents, knowledgeable and educated, much stronger than us mud legs, you are the hope of the nation, let's go, retreat, this country will have to rely on you to hold up the sky in the future."
Hopefully~
Huang Guoxing was silent, and he was sent away from the front line, leaving the blocking position that covered the retreat of hundreds of thousands of brothers.
He was the only one.
The train arrived in Nanjing, and Huang Guoxing was transferred to the Central Hospital.
His injuries were actually quite serious, his arms and sternum were fractured, and his head was grazed by shrapnel from the explosion.
That night, the doctors left behind at the Central Hospital performed emergency surgery on him, his arm was immobilized, and more than a dozen stitches were re-stitched on his head.
The next day, he saw his acquaintance in the hospital, Li Kaiyang, a former instructor at the aviation school.
"I am now a logistics staff officer at the Aviation Command. If you didn't go to the battlefield like Lao Zhang, would you look down on me? Li Kaiyang peeled apples for Huang Guoxing.
"Heh, what's there to look down on, where is not the same, look at Nanjing now, I heard the air raid siren in the morning."
Individuals have their own choices, Huang Guoxing never minded this, didn't he also want to be transferred to the rear at first.
It's just that when it comes to Instructor Zhang, he has a faint pain in his heart.
In the last lesson of the aviation school, the pilot told them that he must cherish his life and never die with the enemy, but in the end he said one thing and did another, and collided with the enemy plane in order to save him.
From beginning to end, the conversation between the two lasted less than 20 sentences.
……
"By the way, I saw Wanyu before."
Hearing the word Wanyu, Huang Guoxing's eyes were full of surprise.
"She, how is she?"
The frontline battlefield was lost, everywhere was shifting and retreating, and in October, normal letters could not be delivered, and Huang Guoxing had not received any news from Xiao Yuer for more than a month.
"It's okay, I heard her say that she withdrew to Nanjing with the school last month, and in order to find your information, I came to the aviation headquarters every day to squat. If I hadn't met her on a business trip to the headquarters that day, I don't know how long she would have to wait alone. ”
Huang Guoxing seemed to see a thin figure, and in the chaotic situation, he came to the aviation headquarters every day to inquire about his news, and his eyes couldn't help but become distressed.
"Surgical equipment, medicines, hurry up and pack, classify the wounded and sick, contact their departments, and tell them that the hospital is ordered to transfer and can't manage so many wounded."
There was another commotion in the hallway, and the hospital was preparing to retreat.
If even the war support department like the hospital has to be withdrawn, it means that the above already thinks that Nanjing cannot be saved.
"Instructor Li, where is Xiao Yu'er now? Did she transfer with the school? ”
Li Kaiyang glanced at Huang Guoxing, sighed, and recalled the girl who was indifferent to her persuasion in the face of her persuasion, but just bit her lip and stubbornly shook her head.
He said to Huang Guoxing quietly:
"Withdraw, I deceived them, their school's retreat sequence is relatively high, and the retreat was arranged last month. But this girl is very stubborn, she doesn't want to leave in order to wait for you. The whole school can't wait for her alone, you have to know, how expensive is a retreat position now, and then there was no way, I directly lied to her, saying that you were going to be transferred directly to Wuhan, not Nanjing, which allowed her to keep up with the school team. ”
"Wanyu is a good girl, don't live up to it, forget it, this dog's world, what am I doing here."
Li Kaiyang shook his head and smiled self-deprecatingly.
Huang Guoxing knew that what Instructor Li said in the second half of the sentence was that as soldiers, in this era of war, they really couldn't help themselves, let alone live up to them.
"Alright, it's almost time, I still have some business to attend to." Li Kaiyang looked at his watch, and then leaned over and whispered: "The front line has collapsed, and Lao Jiang ordered a complete retreat to Nanjing, but the inside news is that Nanjing has been abandoned and the capital will be moved directly to Wuhan, and before the end of the month, all our personnel and materials will be transferred to Wuhan, and I will be in charge of this now." ”
"You recuperate for two more days, and after the injury is stabilized, I will pick you up."
Before leaving, Li Kaiyang stood up and hesitated, opened his mouth several times and closed it, but then turned his back and whispered to Huang Guoxing:
"Captain Gao, sacrificed."
Huang Guoxing's eyes suddenly widened, and his lips trembled and asked:
"He, didn't he go to receive Soviet planes?"
"When he was in transition, he encountered an R Army plane coming to bomb him, and in order to rescue the plane, he just.
“.”
Li Kaiyang didn't dare to look back at Huang Guoxing's eyes, just patted him lightly on the shoulder, turned around and left.
Huang Guoxing looked at the ceiling blankly.
Oh, it's gone!
At the end of 1937, Huang Guoxing was in the Wuhan Army Temporary Hospital, and saw his longing little fish again.
The two were still wearing single clothes when they were separated, and it was already the middle of winter when they met again, not to mention that Huang Guoxing had already experienced life and death on the battlefield and walked before the ghost gate.
Yang Wanyu watched him with a bandage on his head, a hanging board on his arm, leaning on the hospital bed, the stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, but the tears on his face couldn't stop flowing down, half joy, half distress.
He was wounded, but at least, he was alive.
"Guoxing~"
"Little Fish"
Yang Wanyu carefully threw herself into Huang Guoxing's arms, looked at the bandages on his body, and asked in a trembling voice, "Are you okay?" ”
Huang Guoxing didn't leave a single tear on the battlefield, he tried his best to control it, but he still couldn't hold back, he collapsed at this moment, and tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes.
"It's nothing, it's all minor injuries, I'm fine, it's just, I miss you very much."
"I'm never going to part with you again."
Yang Wanyu cried bitterly, at this moment, she regretted it, what family, country, what nationality, all were left behind by her, she only thought that the lover in her heart could be safe.
Huang Guoxing's lips squirmed, opened several times, but he couldn't speak, and when he saw Xiao Yu'er again, his heart was indescribably excited, especially Xiao Yu'er's sentence, don't separate.
He wanted to say that to Wanyu, let's go, come back to the United States with me.
Huang Guoxing knew that as long as he said at this moment, his little fish would definitely go with him and leave this war-torn motherland with him, wasn't this his original idea.
But he couldn't open his mouth.
He couldn't.
Because he owes too much.
Zhang Xigu, Shen Chongyu, Yan Haiwen, Captain Gao, and Instructor Zhang have the smiling faces of comrades-in-arms, teachers, and superiors.
And the dozens of army brothers who traded their lives for him.
It's all he owes.
In the end, he didn't say anything, he could only hug Xiao Yu'er hard and experience this rare reunion.
Except for the war on the front line, everything seems to be getting better, Wuhan is far away from the front line and has become the so-called big rear, Huang Guoxing was recuperated in the hospital for three months, and Xiao Yuer also settled down in Wuhan with the school.
After Huang Guoxing recovered from his injuries, he returned to the army, but because he was injured in the arm, he was not directly assigned to the front line, and because he was one of the few elite pilots who survived during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, he served as a temporary instructor to teach the newly recruited pilots of the Air Force battlefield experience.
At the end of 1937, the party signed the "Non-Aggression Pact between the two countries" with the Soviet Union, and obtained a loan of 250 million yuan from the Soviet Union to purchase a large number of military supplies. Among them were a large number of Soviet aircraft, I-15, I-16.
In order to unify logistics, these planes were all assigned to front-line combat units, and Huang Guoxing's landline plane was replaced by one of the few American-made Hawker 75s (P-36s) pulled out of the warehouse.
In the past few months in Wuhan, it may have been the happiest time since he started the war with Xiao Yuer.
The two rented a small yard near the river in Wuhan, and everything was arranged warmly according to Yang Wanyu's preferences, just like home, and it was a rare life for two people.
Huang Guoxing takes the students at the flight base every week and goes home on weekends, while Yang Wanyu normally goes to school to teach the students, sometimes they cook together, sometimes they walk together by the river, and sometimes they go to the city market together to buy some of her favorite snacks for Wanyu.
Xiao Yu'er's smiling face raised again is all Huang Guoxing, and he wants to accompany her at the end.
Because he knew that the peace in front of him was only temporary, and he had already prepared for it.
Sure enough, the good times did not last long, and in May 1938, the R Army captured Xuzhou, and in order to force the Guodang government to surrender, the deployment of Wuhan began, and the air raids began again.
In fact, as early as the beginning of 1938, the Guodang government had already moved its capital to Chongqing and turned Sichuan into the rear of the entire anti-Japanese battlefield, but because there were too many personnel and materials that needed to be transferred, it had to transfer a small number of necessary government functional departments in advance, and quite a lot of government organs and important institutions, including schools, teachers, doctors, scientists and other social pillars, were stranded in Wuhan and were being transferred to Sichuan in batches and phases according to priority.
People are good to say, but it is the factory machinery and equipment that has been relocated from all over the country.
At that time, many military factories were evacuated to Wuhan, such as the Jinling Arsenal transferred from Nanjing, and the local Hanyang Iron Works in Wuhan, which were the most important steel and military industries in China.
At this time, there were as many as 256 enterprises in Wuhan that were preparing to relocate inward, accounting for 55 percent of the total number of factories in the country at that time; once these personnel, equipment, and factories fell into the hands of the enemy, they would not only cause a heavy blow to China's already weak military industry, but also finance the strength of the Japanese army, further widening the gap between the two sides in military equipment, and worsening the entire form of the War of Resistance.
It is very difficult for these huge things to be transferred to the rear of Sichuan.
At that time, the Sichuan-Han Railway had not been completed due to historical reasons, and the best way to enter Sichuan was to take the Yangtze River waterway.
And Wuhan and Yichang, as stops on this winding 1,300-kilometer waterway, gather a large number of people and materials.
The R Army began to press on Wuhan step by step, and the great retreat began again.
In June of the same year, the Battle of Wuhan began, and the airport could not be directly set up on the front line, Huang Guoxing and Wanyu moved to Yichang with the troops, and at the same time, the government offices, factory equipment, and personnel in Wuhan City also came to Yichang, a small city on the Yangtze River.
At this time, the situation was even more urgent than in Nanjing, because there was only this one waterway, and units and personnel from all over the country had to be evacuated, and the retreat sequence of Yang Wanyu's Normal University wanted to be backward.
Huang Guoxing had no choice on his side, and the air force was dispatched again to cover the sky of the Wuhan battlefield.
However, unlike the army, the air force is more technical, and it is not possible to take to the air for three or two months of training, and even if it is barely lifted into the air, it is the result of delivering food under the enemy's experienced pilots.
In just over a month, the Air Force has accumulated a small half a year's family fund, and it has been squandered again, most of the trainees brought out by Huang Guoxing have also died, and the R Army has surrounded Wuhan on several sides, and they know that Yichang, which is not far behind Wuhan, has gathered China's only remaining industrial equipment and talents, and is in full swing to transfer and retreat, and they sent the Air Force to start bombing Yichang.
The air force ordered, at all costs, to defend the conduct of the Great Retreat from Yichang. Huang Guoxing also went into battle again, piloting a fighter plane to defend the sky of Yichang.
The fact that the planes of the R Army came to bomb every other day on average, and the size of the fleet was getting larger, indicated that the front-line airfields of the R Army were getting closer and closer.
During this period, his landline has changed once, and he has hit the enemy plane twice, becoming an ace pilot with 6 shot down records.
But Huang Guoxing's comrades-in-arms are sacrificed every day, and the number of fighters that the air force can now lift off every day is only in single digits.
He has been dreaming a lot lately, dreaming of Zhang Xigu, Shen Chongzhi and Yan Haiwen, as well as Captain Gao, Instructor Zhang, and dozens of army brothers.
On this day, after some thought, Huang Guoxing still found Instructor Li, invited him to drink, and put his things into a small box and handed it to him.
"Instructor, help me save it, and if anything happens to me, help me hand it over to Xiao Yu'er."
"Fuck off, don't talk nonsense, I don't care, I'm going to give it to you." Li Kaiyang held the wine glass, his eyes were red, and the moment Huang Guoxing handed over the small box, his heart was like a mirror.
Huang Guoxing smiled and waved his hand, and said:
"Hey, let's not talk about this between us, just in case, you don't know my level yet, it's more than enough to teach you, the little RB who can shoot me down hasn't been born yet, haha."
"Niang Xipi, you dog."
Huang Guoxing drank the last glass of wine, thought about it, and took off the silver bracelet on his wrist again, and also put it in a small box.
Perhaps, the little fish will be able to use it in the future.
……
On August 4, 1938, Wanyu's school finally began to retreat, and Huang Guoxing sneaked out of the base today.
He's going to send a small fish.
By the river, the two hugged each other for a long time.
"Guoxing, I don't want to leave, I don't want to leave you."
"What stupid things to say, you withdraw first, and I will be able to arrive later, but when the time comes, let's meet together in Sichuan."
"Well, then you have to take care."
"Don't worry."
The two seemed to have endless words, but the boat didn't wait for anyone, and Huang Guoxing could only watch Wanyu wait for the ferry.
It was a three-story steamer with the Minsheng Company brand, which was already full at the moment, and Wanyu stood on the side of the ship, her eyes were red, and she kept waving at him.
Suddenly, the air defense siren sounded, Huang Guoxing's face changed, and he immediately jumped into the military vehicle and drove to the airport in the suburbs.
At this time, no one pursued what he was doing, and when the logistics saw him, they hurriedly greeted him.
"Lieutenant Huang, the plane is ready, hurry up to meet the enemy."
Huang Guoxing took one last look at the little goldfish in the nose, jumped on the plane quickly, pulled the cockpit canopy, started the engine, and after a while of sliding, he soared directly into the sky.
The R Army came to bomb Yichang again, but because of the scarcity of our planes, we could not control the bomber force at all, so we could only give priority to the fighters.
Huang Guoxing locked on one and bit him to death.
In the crosshairs, enemy aircraft slowly appeared.
Sudden protrusion.
A burst of burst fire directly disintegrated the plane in the air.
Huang Guoxing rushed through the group and shot down two enemy planes in a short time, but he was also seriously injured, the tail was damaged, the flight control was reduced, and there were few rounds of ammunition left.
There are few local fighters left in the sky, and he can no longer fight, ready to return.
At this time, a call came over the radio.
"The port needs support, the opposing bomber force is bombing our fleet, and it needs support."
Huang Guoxing thought of Xiao Yu'er, and immediately pushed the joystick and turned to the direction of the port.
Sure enough, the enemy bombers were unscrupulously dive bombing, in the face of civilian ships, they were carrying 100 kg of small bombs, a bomber can carry a lot, but even this level of bombs, not these river ships can resist, one bomb is enough to blow up a ship.
At this moment, the surface of the river is already covered with fragments of boats, countless people who have fallen into the water are wailing in the river, and there are many river boats in the distance, which are fleeing desperately. But no matter how fast it is, how can it be faster than an airplane.
An R-Army bomber once again locked onto a target.
A three-story steamer with the Minsheng Company brand.
Little fish's boat.
Huang Guoxing's face was pale, he stepped on the accelerator to the end, and rushed over directly.
Gritted teeth and aimed at this bomber.
"Give me death."
Sudden protrusion. Click.
The machine gun ran out, and the bullets only splashed a few innocuous sparks on this bomber.
It dropped bombs.
Huang Guoxing's eyes were locked on the bomb.
There was a bang, and the water splashed.
The bomb was not concentrated and landed on the side of the ship, causing the steamer to shake on the river.
Huang Guoxing was so horrified in his heart, he seemed to hear the screams of the teachers and students on the boat, and saw Xiao Yu'er's nervous and helpless face. His eyes were torn and he flew over to show his presence and drive the bomber away.
However, the bomber was not afraid of him at all, but pulled it up, aimed at the ship, and launched a dive again.
"Grass!"
Just as Huang Guoxing was losing his mind, an R-Force fighter jet behind him slashed quickly, and a series of bullets hit his cockpit.
"Oh, it turns out that there are teammates in ambush"
The corners of Huang Guoxing's mouth were bleeding, only to feel that his breathing was getting heavier and heavier, and a ball of blood stained from the flight suit in front of him, and he was shot.
"Whew...... Whew......"
Staring at the bomber, Huang Guoxing used the last strength of his body to push down the control stick desperately, aiming at the route of its dive.
"Don't think about it. If you succeed, I'm ~day your mother~~"
A P-36 fighter with a small goldfish painted on the nose, a mutilated tail, and bullet holes, crashed into the R Army bomber.
The sharp wings were like opening a canner, directly knocking the enemy plane in two, and his own wings were also broken, Huang Guoxing looked back, and kept looking at the three-story steamer with the brand of Minsheng Company, he smiled, until his eyes were flooded by the river.
He recalled the last words he had said to Wanyu in his diary.
Although Instructor Li is a little greedy for life and afraid of death, he is still reliable.
She should see that Xiao Yu'er is the most obedient.
"Wanyu, my little fish, my teammates have all died, and I can't escape death, I was young and frivolous, I made a promise to you, but now I can't fulfill it, I mistook your youth, I really regret not being at the beginning. After I'm gone, please leave me behind and find a happy life for yourself, don't sacrifice, don't read! ”
"If any bird comes to him, I will come to see you."
"If I see you lonely under the Nine Springs, my soul will be scattered."
Thank you for the ZHR1234 big guy's tip.
This original is basically finished, and there is still a little bit of the end of the movie in the next chapter.
The first time I wrote it, I didn't control it well, I'm really sorry.
I hope you all have a sea of Han.
(End of chapter)