Before breakfast, after all the rookies' sweat had dried, Zhou Zhihan asked them to collectively soak in a large pond inside the airport for ten minutes.
After the beginning of autumn, the days are hot and the nights are cold. The cold water in the morning can help rookies quickly recover their physical strength and increase their resistance.
Rookies are confused about this. Military doctors say that hot baths are good for blood circulation, and cold baths after exercise can easily make you sick.
Zhou Zhihan's tone was cold and he didn't have time to explain to them. Anyway, just do what I tell you to do.
All the rookies felt that the chief instructor had a cold face all day long. Except during teaching time, he stayed far away from the students. He neither smoked the cigarettes given by the students nor gave them cigarettes to smoke. During teaching, Although the chief instructor is strict, he is very patient and ensures that every student understands his explanation.
Even when eating, the chief instructor held a bowl alone and sat silently aside, eating and looking into the distance.
This is completely different from the previous flight instructors. Although the previous flight instructors were strict, they would also chat with the students after training, and sometimes they would smoke and drink together. After all, they were teachers and students.
The young boy named Chen Huaimin was very good at water and could hold his breath for one and a half minutes in the water, which attracted the envy of his companions. Many people competed with him to compete with him. Whoever came up to the surface to breathe first would lose.
So, there was a bet between them, betting on some cigarettes and military pay.
This is a "good" tradition that many soldiers have during wartime. During wartime, gambling can indeed reduce stress.
Just these little soldiers don’t know where to go for the time being. Drinking and smoking are already the limit.
In order to prevent the other party from "cheating", several people competing together buried their mouths and noses in the water, leaving only their eyes exposed.
In order to make each other laugh, several rookies competing at the same time made faces with their eyes, raised their eyebrows, winked, and picked their noses under the water...
Zhou Zhihan finally couldn't help but laugh.
Seeing the chief instructor suddenly laughing, Chen Huaimin almost choked to death on the water.
After finishing their morning meal, Zhou Zhihan watched the young students laughing and playing about the bet they had just made while holding their breath in the water. Zhou Zhihan sat aside and watched quietly, without asking them to continue training.
If they can be happy, let them be happy.
after……
Who knows what will happen next.
At this time, almost all training facilities in Hangzhou Jianqiao Aviation School had been moved.
After the July 7th Incident broke out, the Chinese army entered a state of war preparation, so from mid-July, Hangzhou Jianqiao Central Aviation School began to evacuate and relocate one after another. All the teachers and students of the school moved with the training equipment to Liuzhou Airport in Guangxi and Kunming Airport in Yunnan, and continued to operate at these two airports. A place to train air force pilots.
And these more than a hundred rookies had just been selected from other units to join the Air Force. Before they had time to retreat, they caught up with the 813 and 814 air battles, allowing them to prematurely see victory and defeat, life and death.
Due to the early days of the war, a large number of industries needed to move south and enter the interior to restart production in preparation for the war. Therefore, both railway transportation and air transportation were very tight. In recent days, it was impossible to provide more than 100 rookies with travel to Guangxi and Kunming. of transportation.
Without training equipment, Zhou Zhihan could make these rookies lie down in bed at night and immediately fall into deep sleep like dead dogs.
At 8 o'clock, the autumn sun is still dazzling, the sky is blue in the distance, white clouds like flocks of sheep float by from time to time, and the air is so fresh that you can drink it.
At 8:10, the fighter planes that went to Shanghai to carry out bombing attack missions returned to Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport one after another.
This time, every military aircraft had more or less bullet holes on its fuselage. The wings and fuselage of several bombers were densely covered with bullet holes, and billowing black smoke trailing from the tail could be seen from a distance.
Under the guidance and command of the ground crew, the fighter planes that were almost out of fuel landed first, while the remaining planes that still had fuel circled over the airport on guard.
During the war, who knows whether the Japanese army sent fighter planes to follow them from a distance.
Three rickety bombers, puffing out black smoke, landed first.
All personnel at the airport were present, and Mao Bangchu also rushed over.
The first Heinkel He111 A medium bomber landed. People at the airport could see the pilot's face full of tears, and his two helpless eyes looking at the people on the side of the runway were heartbreaking.
Before the bomber could stop, the ground crew pounced on it.
"Help, help, help..."
The pilot burst into tears and shouted until his throat became hoarse. He pointed at the rear cabin and belly cabin. He desperately tried to open the cabin and get out, but he failed several times due to exhaustion of physical strength.
The ground crew rushed to him, opened the cabin for him, and helped him out.
Several ground staff and medical staff took the gunner covered in blood from the tail gunner's cockpit. One of his arms was broken by an aircraft cannon and fell to the cabin. His leg bones were cut off by shrapnel, leaving half of his body white and white. bones, the cabin was full of plasma, his body was soaked with blood, his face was as pale as gold paper, he was dying, his breath was like a gossamer, and he was still holding the machine gun trigger in his hand.
Two ground crew members took out the belly gunner from the belly of the bomber, but he was already dead.
The bomber continued to land, and the machine gunners suffered heavy casualties. The scene was filled with painful wails and calls for help, and more than a dozen young female medical soldiers cried out.
Each bomber's fuselage was riddled with bullet holes, and the air smelled of blood and ammunition.
In this attack, seven bomber gunners were killed and three were seriously injured. Three Hawker 3s, one Fighter MKI fighter were lost, and another Hawker 1 caught fire on its wing and withdrew from the battlefield. Its whereabouts are unknown. The remaining few Only one Hawker 1 came back, and another Chance Voight O3U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was hit by Japanese artillery fire on the wing and withdrew from the battlefield. Its whereabouts are still unknown. Some people said that they saw this military aircraft being forced by Japanese military aircraft. He can fly to Nanjing, but his jet fuel cannot reach Nanjing.
There was also a Douglas O-2MC reconnaissance light bomber. On the way back, it ran out of fuel and tried to glide back to the airport. However, it was unable to fly high enough and had to make an emergency landing. It crashed in a farmland in Minhang. The fighter was seriously damaged. , the pilot was injured and desperately rescued by the guerrillas.
Now, the ground forces of China and Japan are engaged in a fierce battle for this Douglas O-2MC reconnaissance light bomber fighter.
The Air Force Ministry ordered that if the fighter plane cannot be recaptured, it will be completely destroyed and must not fall into the hands of the Japanese.
Warrant Officer Liu Weiquan of the 9th Air Force Squadron, 26th Squadron, was hit on the wing by Japanese ground anti-aircraft fire. On the way back, he encountered a Japanese Type 96 naval battle. After a hard battle, Still he was shot down and died heroically for his country.
In order to protect the Martin 139WC heavy bomber, Li Chuanmou, a second lieutenant pilot of the 14th Squadron of the Second Battalion of the Air Force, piloted a Hawker 3 to forcefully fly between two Type 95 warships to contain the enemy aircraft and allow other comrades to have time to fly. Came over to protect Martin from heavy bombardment, but he was hit by Japanese ground artillery fire under the siege of two Type 95 naval battleships. The aircraft bomb fired from the Type 95 battleship hit the head and died heroically for the country!
Nie You, a second lieutenant pilot of the 6th Squadron of the 1st Squadron of the 7th Air Force Group, shot down a Japanese Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft and was hit by a Type 96 warship sneak attack from behind. He fell into the Huangpu River. , and never floated up from the water again.
Seeing the Chinese fighter planes and pilots returning from the bloody battle, the rookie pilots who had been so ambitious in the morning were all silent.
