Chapter 46 Chapter 9 The sun bathed in blood (5)

The Chinese pilots witnessed the Soviet planes carrying out air strikes on the enemy, which was greatly encouraged and morale was greatly boosted. Yu Shicheng and his comrades always stayed at high altitude with a hundred times vigilance, and never gave the enemy an opportunity.Because the closer the battle is to the end, the more dangerous it is. At this time, my aircraft does not have much fuel left, and the air combat is not good for me. However, the bomber has a large target and a slow speed, and the consequences of encountering enemy aircraft are even more unpredictable.However, the Japanese fighter jets did not appear that day, which greatly relieved the pilots. The Chinese and Soviet fleets completed the mission without interference, and then the formation returned victoriously.

Unexpectedly, an accident happened at the end of the battle. A foreign plane of unknown origin suddenly broke into the airspace of the war zone, which surprised the Chinese fighter jets.It was only when they caught up with the enemy that they realized that it was an American biplane trainer plane, and the pilot was waving to them triumphantly.It turns out that this daring American is none other than Chennault, the legendary hero of the American "Flying Tigers" who is destined to be famous all over the world.The adventurous Lieutenant Colonel Chennault, as Chiang Kai-shek's private observer, had flown a trainer plane to the battlefield many times in person. Later, he mentioned to others that he was deeply impressed by the perfect cooperation between the Sino-Soviet fleet.

When Yu Shicheng drove the fighter plane back to the rear airport that day, the young pilot couldn't help feeling a bit of regret. He saved his desire to shoot down the enemy plane with his own hands for the next battle. Scouts lurk at the front of the enemy's line, and their task is to indicate the target for our aircraft to bomb. Not long after dawn, there was a thunderous roar of motors in the sky, Xiao Jingang quickly raised his head, and he saw a dark cluster of aircraft appearing in the southern sky, which soon covered the sky like dark clouds.The old scout was almost stunned. If he hadn't known in advance that this was a large-scale air strike by our army, he wouldn't have believed his eyes.

This time it was the Japanese who were caught off guard and made a mess. Xiao Jingang could see clearly through the binoculars that the Japanese soldiers in the trenches were running around in a panic like ants being poured by boiling water.An enemy commander swung a long knife and tried to organize firepower to shoot into the air. However, the short-range firepower on the ground hardly poses a threat to the aircraft and is basically useless.Now it's the turn of the Chinese to raise their eyebrows.The scouts repeatedly fired signal flares into the air, and those happy elves flying into the sky were simply festive fireworks for the Chinese people.

As the planes dived and bombed, the weak resistance of the Japanese was immediately submerged in the turbulent waves set off by the bombs, and the intensive carpet bombing of the heavy bombers completely shattered any illusions that the Japanese had escaped the blow.The earth shook violently, flames rose into the sky, the Nemesis sang happily, the death elves danced wildly, the enemy's fortifications were turned into ruins, and severed limbs were thrown high into the air.Regardless of the danger, the Chinese officers and soldiers stood up and cheered loudly, and the position became a sea of ​​joy.

After the bombing was over, the enemies who were lucky enough not to be killed came out of the ground to repair the fortifications. Suddenly several fighter jets came out, and the revenge bullets poured down on the enemies like a torrential rain.This kind of ultra-low-altitude sneak attack is the result of Chinese pilots learning from the enemy. Japanese aircraft often use this carbine-back tactic to kill Chinese soldiers and civilians, which is just in line with the theory of "rule people with their own methods, and treat them with their own bodies". When I visited Taiwan in 2001, Mr. Wang Dagan, an old man of the Anti-Japanese War in Taiwan who participated in the recovery of Luowangzhai Railway Station, said to me with emotion: This battle was probably the most exciting battle fought by our army in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.The anti-Japanese morale of our army is not bad at all. The officers and soldiers are not afraid of sacrifice and march forward bravely. If this is the case in all battles, I am afraid that the Japanese will not dare to bully us like that.

Mr. Xing Fuzhi, another veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, said: The recovery of the Luowangzhai Railway Station is of course inseparable from the bombing of the aircraft. If our army has always controlled the air, the future battles will definitely not be that kind of result. The old man's eyes showed a complex expression of infinite vicissitudes.I believe what they are trying to tell me is that China would not be what it is today if there were not too many "ifs".But the old man didn't say anything after all. Aircraft bombing destroyed the enemy's painstakingly managed defense line, and razed all the strongholds and artillery positions that blocked our army's attack to the ground.Next, our army attacked like a tide, and officers and soldiers rushed into the enemy's fortifications from all directions. Except for some remnants of the enemy who had died and fled in the direction of Lanfeng, most of the Japanese devils were either killed by planes or wiped out by the unstoppable Chinese officers and soldiers.The lost land was finally regained, and the national flag symbolizing victory was raised at Luowangzhai Railway Station.Xiao Jingang led the scouts to the enemy headquarters, and the documents they seized proved that the enemy was indeed a brigade (division)!

Later, when cleaning the battlefield, Xiao Jingang accidentally seized an extraordinary trophy. It was a Japanese army knife that looked extremely elegant and extraordinary.The saber is hung on the wall of a bedroom, the brass scabbard is beautifully carved, and the handle is inlaid with a golden chrysanthemum, a symbol of noble status.Xiao Jinjin was puzzled, because he knew that the golden chrysanthemum was the imperial emblem of the Japanese royal family. Could it be that this sword was actually a military sword bestowed by the emperor?The imperial saber is often only given to a very small number of high-ranking generals, and it is regarded as the "soul of the soldier" and the highest honor. So who is the owner of this imperial saber?Why didn't he even take away the imperial saber that was more important than his life? Could it be that he was beaten to death?

The scout held his breath, and carefully drew out his cold saber.When he saw a row of Japanese kanji engraved on the blade, he couldn't help but let out a cry. It turns out that this row of Chinese characters is - "Doihara Kenji". After investigation, it was found that the enemy chieftain Kenji Doihara was not killed. He escaped hastily under the cover of the remnant's desperate efforts, and he couldn't even take the imperial saber away.The news that the head of the enemy division was almost captured alive was immediately reported to the base camp through radio waves, and the imperial saber was quickly sent to the Kaifeng headquarters, and then transferred to Wuhan, becoming one of the most important trophies of the Chinese army since the War of Resistance.General Li Hanhun, Commander-in-Chief of the First Route and Commander of the Sixty-fourth Army, once recorded in detail in his memoirs the capture of the military sword bestowed by Doihara. —The Personal Experience of the Former Kuomintang Generals in the War of Resistance Against Japan (published by China Literature and History Publishing House in 1995).