On the afternoon of December 4, 1937, an infantry squadron of the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army marched to Dongshan Bridge. The outpost team was blocked by the defenders of Dongshan Bridge and hurriedly retreated. Then the two armies started a war. The Japanese army was at the foot of the Que (Tianque Mountain), and the Nanjing defense battle officially began.

When there were dense gunfire sounds from Dongshan Bridge, more than 800 officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade repaired fortifications with the help of more than 500 spontaneously organized civilians, and Xu Shijiu was also among them.

The 19th Brigade set up a lookout post on the 25-meter-high Hongjue Temple Tower, and Gao Shenxing squatted on it.

When Xu Shijiu looked up, Gao Shenxing was gesturing to the bottom. Shu Tongwen, who was resting next to him, was curious and asked Xu Shijiu: "Captain, what is Brother Shenxing talking about?"

Xu Shijiu stared at Gao Shenxing intently and said, "He is saying that there are about 150 people in Xiaojiben who attacked Dongshan Bridge, two pheasant necks (Type 92 heavy machine gun), nine skewers, six grenade censors, two trucks and four tricycles."

Shu Tongwen said: "Captain, can you teach me sign language?"

"Okay." Xu Shijiu smiled and said, "If we are still alive after this battle, I will teach you."

After saying that, Xu Shijiu turned his eyes to the men who were sweating and digging fortifications on the position, and shouted: "Dear fellows, thank you for your hard work these days. Now the Little Japanese-Unben condemnation team has reached the foot of Zutang Mountain, and the large army will soon come. You can leave quickly and leave the rest to us."

The civilians never went to the battlefield. Although they wanted to stay and continue to help the national army fight against the enemy, they were scared when they heard the sound of gunfire and left in a hurry. However, more than a dozen students refused to leave, and two female students were yelling to stay. Even if they could not go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, they also had to take on the battlefield rescue team.

Xu Shijiu lowered his face and scolded him. They were not afraid of it. They also said with a righteous saying that every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Fighting for the country and the nation is their power. Xu Shijiu had no choice but to let Shu Tongwen and Li Zihan take them all to the Guanyin Hall on the mountain and stay with Ergua and a dozen wounded people.

Not long after the students were taken up the mountain, a faint roar of engines came from the southeast sky. Xu Shijiu raised his telescope and saw more than 30 Japanese bombers. The deportation aircraft were shaped into three "human" formations and came out of the clouds, and rushed towards Nanjing Wucheng with great momentum. Judging from the aircraft model, this was obviously not a long-range bomber of the Japanese HNA, but a short-range bomber and deporter of the Land Airlines. Obviously, Guangde Airport has been lost.

These more than 30 Japanese planes did take off from Guangde Airport. Just three days after Guangde was lost, Japanese engineers repaired Guangde Airport. On December 4, more than 30 bombers of the 10th Team of the 3rd Flight Regiment directly under the Central China Front Army flew independently, and the destroyer (fighter) transferred from Pudong to Guangde and could bomb Nanjing at close range.

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Nanjing Ming Forbidden City Airport.

A harsh air defense alarm suddenly sounded. Le Yiqin, who was chatting in the combat duty room, rushed out of the lounge at a speed of 100 meters and rushed towards two Hawk-eagle-style biplane destroyers parked on the runway. Since the Battle of Shanghai, the Chinese Air Force has been fighting fewer and fewer aircraft, and now there are only six destroyers left.

However, four of them were specially used to protect Chairman Jiang's special planes, so only two of them could be launched to fight.

Le Yiqin climbed into the seat window while stepping on the wings, turned back to the tower before closing the porthole, and looked at the tower. Through the glass curtain wall of the tower, you could vaguely see a graceful figure standing in front of the take-off and landing console. Although the distance was very far, Le Yiqin could still clearly feel the concern and worrying eyes that the other party had cast.

Thinking of a beloved person praying for him and worried, Le Yiqin smiled on her face. She saluted the military salute to the tower, then threw a kiss, and then closed the porthole. After a moment, the propeller of the "2204" expulsion machine began to rotate rapidly, and the body began to slowly slide forward.

No one expected that the hero would be the last forever!

Soon, Le Yiqin's "2204" aircraft and Dong Mingde's "2501" aircraft rose into the air and set up a double formation in the air to meet the Japanese army fleet that was rushing from Guangde. Although they were 2-versus 36, they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of quantity, Cole Yiqin and Dong Mingde were not afraid of it. Le Yiqin even turned his head and made a gesture to Dong Mingde, meaning that the last air battle was not decided, and this time they decided again, Dong Mingde replied with an "OK" gesture.

The Japanese army fleet opposite had discovered Le Yiqin and Dong Mingde's landlines. Four destroyers quickly left the formation and rushed towards the "2204" and "2501" aircraft. The remaining 32 bombers were left, but the destroyers did not pause for a moment and flew straight to the Ming Forbidden City Airport and Xiaguan Wharf.

"Come on, little Japanese has no money!" Le Yiqin suddenly pushed the joystick, and the landline jumped up. Two Japanese destroyers on the opposite side whizzed past under his landline with dazzling flames. Le Yiqin rolled and dived, biting one of the Japanese destroyers from behind and fired violently. The scorching bullet immediately splashed over like raindrops.

However, the Japanese pilots on the opposite side were not simple. They easily got rid of Le Yiqin's lock after rolling horizontally twice in a row. Not only that, the Japanese deporter that was rolling and escaping continued to make two slants in a row, and incredibly detoured behind the Le Yiqin's mount and bit Le Yiqin's tail in turn.

A cruel reality that cannot be denied is that after more than three months of fierce air battles, the Chinese Air Force was already dying, while the Japanese HNA and the Land Airlines were getting stronger and stronger. At the beginning, the Japanese aviation army seemed unfamiliar with combat skills, but over the past few months, both psychological and technical and tactical qualities had a qualitative leap!

On the eve of the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, the technical and tactical qualities of the Japanese aviation army reached its peak, which made the US Air Force unable to find the north. If it weren't for the huge gap in industrial manufacturing capabilities between Japan and the United States, the US Pacific Fleet would not have made a comeback. The history of World War II would have probably been rewritten.

During these four years, the Chinese Air Force has actually been a sparring role in the Japanese Air Force.

This is the sorrow of a weak country, the sorrow of a weak country without an industrial foundation, nor the aviation industry.

Le Yiqin immediately realized that he had encountered a strong enemy. The Japanese deportation aircraft that was rolling and fleeing had already detoured behind him and bit his landline. Another Japanese deportation aircraft made a big turn in front and turned around to lock him up. Le Yiqinton was caught in the front and back attacks of two Japanese deportation aircraft.

Le Yiqin kept rolling, 8 characters horizontally and 8 characters down, and struggled to avoid the Japanese machine guns, but could not get rid of the locks of the two Japanese troops. In an instant, Le Yiqin suddenly had a bold and crazy idea. He no longer dodged left and right, but slowed down and faced the Japanese aircraft ahead.

The machine guns of the two Japanese aircraft in front and rear hit Le Yiqin's landline almost at the same time. In an instant, thick smoke rose from the body of the "2204" fuselage, and then the fuselage began to sway left and right, and began to slowly fall. The Japanese deportation aircraft whistling from both directions in the front and rear were blocked by the smoke and the fuselage of the "2204" aircraft, and the exact direction of the wingman was not discovered. Given that the "2204" aircraft was swaying left and right side by side and fell, the pilots of the two Japanese aircraft instinctively chose to jump, and then collided head-on on the head of the "2204" aircraft, and exploded with a bang.

"Haha, little Japanese have no money, I have no masters." Le Yiqin laughed loudly, then opened the porthole and leaped down. Unfortunately, the parachute was not opened normally. As a result, Le Yiqin hit the ground with heavy head. A generation of ace pilot who shot down four Japanese aircraft alone in the first air battle between China and Japan died heroically at the age of 23.

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When Le Yiqin's "2204" aircraft fell from the sky with rolling smoke, Chairman Jiang inspected the fortifications of Tianbao City on Zijin Mountain accompanied by a large group of senior generals such as Tang Shengzhi, Qian Dajun, Liu Xing, Luo Zhuoying. Chairman Jiang looked a little dark. He realized that the time he stayed in Nanjing had begun to be calculated in seconds.

Chairman Jiang’s love for the city of Nanjing is unimaginable to outsiders. He likes it so much that even though he knows that the dynasties that have established their capital in Nanjing in history were short-lived dynasties, he still set the capital in Nanjing. However, now, Chairman Jiang is about to leave his beloved Nanjing Wucheng, and he doesn’t know if he has a chance to come back.

In addition, Chairman Jiang was also worried that Tang Shengzhi would have a strange intention. Although Old Tang said beautifully now, how could he know that he would not become the second Qi Xieyuan when the Japanese army was at the city? If Tang Shengzhi really surrendered to Japan in Nanjing and formed a pseudo-government, then Jiang's national government would immediately become a local government.

Among the senior generals accompanying him, only Tang Shengzhi could understand Chairman Jiang’s complex mood at this time.

After Tang Shengzhi failed to overthrow Jiang, he was forced to flee Wuhan on a Japanese ship. He was almost the same at that time. Moreover, Tang Shengzhi could vaguely guess that Chairman Jiang was still a little worried about him. He sighed and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Tang is not very capable, but he still has backbone. He stayed in Nanjing this time and no longer had the idea of ​​separation."

Chairman Jiang looked at Tang Shengzhi with complicated eyes and said, "Brother Meng Xiao, don't say the word "death easily."
Chapter completed!