The passenger plane seized the opportunity and fled the battlefield at full speed.
Only when it arrived over Nanjing did two fighter jets painted with blue sky and white sun came to escort the plane.
The plane landed at Daqianchang Airport.
The family walked out of the cabin in shock.
Chen Zikun inspected the plane, the fuselage and The wings were full of bullet holes, but God bless me, the engine and transmission were not hit, and no family members were injured.
It was really a blessing.
There was a roar in the sky, and the green-feathered and yellow-winged fighter jet landed gracefully.
Everyone stopped and watched the kingfisher taxiing on the runway.
After it stopped, a blond pilot jumped out with a child-like mischievous look on his face. smile.
He was actually a foreign pilot.
Chen Zikun stepped forward to chat.
It turned out that this man's name was Robert Short, a native of Washington, USA.
He had served in the Army Air Corps.
Now he is a salesman for Boeing Company agents.
He is also a flight instructor at the aviation school of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Nationalist Government.
He has discounted green feathers and yellow wings.
The plane was a Boeing 218 fighter jet.
It had just arrived in Hongqiao and was about to transfer to Nanjing when it encountered this air battle.
Robert immediately used the cowboy spirit to join the battle group and saved the lives of the Chen family.
Facing the ladies' thanks, Robert felt a little shy.
After chatting for a few words, he said goodbye and left.
He ran back to the fighter jet and prepared to put it into storage.
Suddenly, he saw a boy standing by the tail fin, gently stroking the aircraft, with piety in his eyes.
When he saw Robert When he came over, the boy raised his right hand to his forehead and gave a military salute like an adult.
Robert stood at attention solemnly and returned the salute to the boy.
This boy is Chen Zikun's eldest son Chen Bei, who is eleven years old this year.
No one dared to fly anymore and took the train back to Jiangbei from Nanjing.
Chen Zikun stayed in Nanjing as counselor of the Military Commission and took care of everything.
Based on the experience and lessons of the Songhu battlefield, Chen Zikun put forward many insights, such as the use of barbed wire.
Their use caused great obstacles to the Japanese infantry.
Our army lacked anti-tank weapons and automatic weapons.
We should import a large number of rapid-fire Mauser pistols, 13mm anti-tank guns, etc., develop anti-tank mines, and purchase mines, high-power anti-aircraft guns, etc.
These proposals were approved by Chiang Kai-shek, but funds were tight, so for the time being, they could only talk about it on paper.
Returning to his apartment, Chen Zikun said angrily: "The funds have been used to suppress the Communists.
If more were spent on the Nineteenth Route Army, we would not fight.
It was so tragic.”
Of course, this was just what I was talking about when I was bored at home.
The 19th Route Army was a miscellaneous local army, and it could not be better spent on the anti-Japanese front line.
How could Lao Jiang be willing to spend money to equip them.
The phone rang, Liu Ting went to pick it up, and it turned out to be a long-distance call from Jiangdong.
Xia Xiaoqing said worriedly that her son had been absent-minded since the call back, and he had no energy to do anything.
Could it be that he was sick from fear?
An idea flashed in Chen Zikun's mind.
His son's expression in front of the fighter jet was like the way he had stood next to the locomotive.
This boy was probably obsessed with airplanes.
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"Xiaoqing, don't worry.
My son has unrequited love.
I have a way to solve it."
Chen Zikun said with a smile.
"Fart, my son is unrequitedly in love at just a few years old.
Do you want to help him find a child bride?"
"Of course not, just wait."
Chen Zikun hung up the phone and asked someone to find a few airplane models from the aviation school and send someone to send them back to Jiangdong.
As expected, Xiaobei couldn't put them down.
A week later, the bad news came.
Robert Short was outnumbered in an air battle to protect the refugee train.
He was attacked in turn by Japanese fighter jets and shot down on the outskirts of Wu County.
The Japanese base camp once again changed generals, and Army General Shirakawa Yoshinori became the commander.
On March 1, 10,000 Japanese troops from the 11th Division landed at Qiyakou on the Yangtze River and occupied the town of Liuhe behind the Chinese army.
Zhang Zhizhong, the commander of the Fifth Army, heard the news and rushed to send troops for reinforcements.
The troops were expensive and fast.
Our army lacked transportation.
He anxiously thought of the French precedent of using taxis to mobilize troops during the European War, and wanted to imitate it.
However, most of Shanghai's cars were in the concessions. , foreigners would not lend a helping hand.
There were originally few cars in Huajie, and they were destroyed by the war.
Only eleven cars were collected, which was a drop in the bucket.
It was of no avail and they could only watch the Japanese troops land.
The Nineteenth Route Army and the Fifth Army were attacked from both sides and suffered heavy casualties.
In order to preserve their strength, they could only retreat to the second line of defense, namely the Huangdu, Jiading, and Taicang lines.
On March 3, the Japanese army declared an armistice after occupying Zhenru and Nanxiang.
Six days later, the deposed emperor Puyi took office as the ruler of Manchukuo in Changchun, under the reign of Datong.
The League of Nations investigation team arrived in the Northeast.
After some so-called investigations, they proposed a peace plan, that is, maintaining Manchuria's autonomy in the name of China, but in fact it was still occupied by Japan.
In order to achieve benefits, this plan was flatly rejected by Japan.
In late March, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations.
However, China, which had always counted on the support of the League of Nations, did not receive any substantial help and was dejected.
The prestige of the League of Nations has been greatly damaged since then.
The war finally stopped.
Zhabei suffered heavy losses.
Thousands of shops were destroyed, tens of thousands of houses collapsed, and people were displaced.
The richest place in China turned into a scorched earth.
Both China and Japan claimed victory.
For China, this was the Sino-Japanese War.
For the first time since then, they dared to confront the Japanese army head-on, which proved that the Japanese army was not indestructible.
In more than a month of fighting, more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded.
Although the casualties were greater, it was still an improvement.
For Japan, the three northeastern provinces were completely swallowed up.
Although they lost troops and generals, they did not lose face, and their strategic goals were achieved.
Coupled with the strong response from Britain and the United States, they did not continue to be aggressive.
In April, the family members of the deceased American pilot Robert Short came from the United States.
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The Chinese side held a grand funeral in Shanghai.
Chen Zikun took his son to attend the memorial service.
Xiaobei wore a replica flight jacket and a leather flying hat with goggles.
He stood solemnly in the memorial crowd.
The memorial service was hosted by an Air Force colonel, who announced that Short would be awarded the honorary rank of Captain of the Chinese Air Force.
Looking at Xiaote's portrait, Xiaobei asked Chen Zikun: "Isn't this the person who saved us last time?"
Chen Zikun said: "Yes, that's him.
He died.
Today we hold a ceremony to commemorate him."
Xiao Bei said: "How did he die?"
"Shooted down by a Japanese plane."
"Why, he is so powerful, little Japan is no match for him."
The child was simple-minded and couldn't figure out this problem.
Chen Zikun touched his son's head and said: "There are too few people in our country who can fly airplanes.
It is difficult for him to defeat four people with two fists.
He was outnumbered and was attacked by a small Japanese, so he died."
Xiaobei nodded seriously, looked at Short's portrait and said, "I will learn to fly a plane in the future."
Chen Zikun said: "Flying a plane is different from practicing martial arts.
You can't fly a plane without mastering scientific knowledge and understanding the instruments."
Xiaobei, who had always had extremely poor academic performance, suddenly fell silent.
This was only the first funeral that Chen Zikun took his son to attend.
Next was the collective funeral of the fallen soldiers of the Tax Police Corps.
This force was formerly the Beiyang Jiangdong Army Special Agent Regiment and later evolved into the Anti-Smoking Law Enforcement Corps and the Ministry of Finance Tax Police Corps. , the current designation is the Independent Brigade of the 87th Division of the Fifth Army of the Central Army, but no matter how it changes, they are still Chen Zikun's soldiers.
After more than a month of fierce fighting, more people died than in the previous eight years.
The Japanese army's combat effectiveness far exceeded its domestic opponents.
The soldiers fought very hard.
They were often suppressed by enemy artillery shells and air strikes.
People were killed every day.
The area where they were stationed in Wusong, All the houses were destroyed, corpses were everywhere, the stench was unpleasant, and it was extremely tragic.
Xue Bin's troops suffered more than 300 casualties and 500 minor or serious injuries.
The casualty rate was more than half.
They were basically disabled.
The bodies of many comrades could not be found because Wu Song was occupied by the Japanese army and the camp could never return. .
This funeral was held for ten soldiers who died in the military hospital.
There were ten thin-skinned coffins, an honor guard, and a crow squatting on a dead tree.
At the officer's command, the honor guard raised their guns and shot into the air.
The crow Spread your wings and soar into the sky.
The bugler puffed up his cheeks and sounded the lights-out signal.
Ten coffins were put into the pit.
The comrades silently shoveled the soil with shovels and piled ten graves.
All the soldiers present raised their hands in salute and did not put them down for a long time.
After these two incidents, Chen Zikun felt that his son had grown up a lot overnight.
Perhaps he could understand the sorrow and responsibility of being born in such a suffering country.
After the armistice, there was time to deal with the delayed matters.
Yan Jinan was seriously injured and was still lying in the hospital.
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According to the foreign doctor, it would take at least a year and a half to recover from this kind of burn, because the large area was severely burned and the internal organs were also damaged.
Right The arm was amputated and the burn marks on the body were irreversible.
The only good thing was that his face was not burned.
The Yan family handed over a good-looking young man into their hands, but he was so seriously injured and became a one-armed disabled man.
This made Chen Zikun feel very guilty and wanted to help Yan Jinan find a wife.
In fact, he did have Many passionate young women volunteered to marry him, but Yan Jinan said that he did not want to delay the happiness of other girls' lives.
His only wish was to go back to his hometown of Cangzhou.
Chen Zikun agreed to him and asked a doctor from the burn department and two nurses to accompany him back, and asked the railway bureau to hook up a special train to escort him.
Since he didn't have time to go with him, he asked Yan Qingyu to accompany his brother back.
After arranging Yan Jinan's affairs, Chen Zikun remembered that Tang Yan had asked him for help when the war broke out.
Now he had time to ask, Qing Feng said that I would go find Reporter Tang.
Chen Zikun thought for a while and said forget it.
I'd better go there myself.
Finding an old lover shouldn't be done with much fanfare and effort, so Chen Zikun went to Tang Yan's apartment in the French Concession with only two followers.
The car drove to the door of Tang Yan's house.
Shuangxi and Qingfeng stayed in the car.
Chen Zikun came down and knocked on the door.
When he pushed the door, it opened.
There was a young man standing inside the door, hiding one hand behind his back and saying with a smile: " May I ask who you are looking for?"
Chen Zikun said: "I'm looking for Tang Yan, you are" The man said: "I am her colleague at the newspaper office.
Reporter Tang is sorting information upstairs.
Please come in."
Chen Zikun walked in.
The man closed the door, showed the Browning musket hidden behind his back, and said in a low voice: "Don't move."
Chen Zikun said: "Are you from the patrol room or from the Party Affairs Investigation Section?"
The man shouted: "Stop being so wordy and be honest."
He searched Chen Zikun skillfully and pulled out a Colt pistol from his arm.
His eyes suddenly lit up and he shouted to the person upstairs: "Deputy Team leader, we caught a big fish
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