After China Air Force dispatched planes to bomb Japanese positions and warships, Japanese Deer House Air Force 18 96 bombers also took off, of which 9 flew to Anhui Guangde Airport and 9 to Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport. Each plane carries two 250kg bombs. Originally, the first wave of attacks on China was the Kisarazu Air Force stationed in Omura and the naval air force on three aircraft carriers of Ma 'an Islands off the coast of Shanghai, but they could not take off due to meteorological reasons.
On the afternoon of August 14, the first round of air combat between China and Japan began.
After discovering the Japanese plane, Gao Zhihang, the captain of the Fourth Air Brigade of China Air Force and a young man from Jilin (graduated from French Aviation School, Tonghua, Jilin) immediately led his team to take off to meet the enemy. Over the Jianqiao Bridge in Hangzhou, you came and went, and a few minutes later, a plane dragged a long cigarette butt down.
Not China's!
China shot down a Japanese fighter plane for the first time since Gao Zhihang! In the fierce battle of more than ten minutes, two Japanese planes were shot down. The second Japanese plane was shot down by Liaoning youth Li Guidan (Liaoning Xinmin Jianqiao Aviation School Phase II), and there was no casualty in China!
The Japanese were shocked.
China people are also surprised.
The Chinese and Japanese air forces took over the battle for the first time, and the Japanese army was defeated. Chiang Kai-shek was very excited and asked if the first Japanese plane was shot down by Gao Zhihang.
Gao Zhihang served in the Northeast Air Force in his early years. After the September 18th Incident, he moved to Jianqiao. Due to the non-resistance of the September 18th Incident, the south discriminated against the northeast people at that time, and many students in the aviation school thought Gao was a spy. During that time, Gao Zhihang can be said to have endured humiliation. It was during the period of building the bridge that he worked hard to practice his flying skills, and before the Sino-Japanese War, he had become the best pilot in the Japanese Air Force. On Chiang Kai-shek's 50th birthday, China Air Force gave an entertainment performance, and Gao Zhihang's flying skills made Chiang Kai-shek applaud loudly. Then, he met Gao and awarded him a special plane "skylight".
Before the Battle of Songhu, Gao Zhihang originally led four brigades to Shanxi to support the war in North China, but when he arrived at Zhoujiakou Airport in Henan, he was ordered to return to Jianqiao for standby. Later, many people said that he was eager to kill the enemy and flew back by himself, but it was not accurate. At this time, the 5th Brigade of East China was stationed at Yangzhou Airport, and the 3rd Brigade was stationed at Jurong Airport.
Now the Japanese are fooled at high altitude, and the Japanese whisper: It won't be the Soviets who help the China Air Force, will it? Or an American? They don't believe any of this anyway. The next morning, the 16 bomber, which took off from the aircraft carrier "Kaga" near Ma 'anshan Islands, was escorted by 29 destroyers and attacked Hangzhou again. Gao Zhihang led the team to shoot down three Japanese planes again, 6: 0! Later, the anti-Japanese pursuit plane arrived in Cao 'e River, and two more planes were shot down. Le Qin Yi, a Sichuan youth (born in Lushan, Sichuan, the third phase of Jianqiao Aviation School), became famous in World War I, and flew the Eagle fighter No.2204, setting a record for one person to shoot down five enemy planes in Hangzhou. Le Qin Yi holds the same record, and Liu Cuigang, a young man from Liaoning Province (No.2 branch of Liaoning Changtu Jianqiao Aviation School), who is flying a fighter jet 240 1.
In addition, Mao Yingchu (brother of Mao Bangchu), Wang, Lu, Dong Mingde, Liang Tiancheng (Malaysian Returned Overseas Chinese) and others shot down two enemy planes respectively, with a total of 1 more.
At this time, Shen Zheng, a young man from Hubei who graduated from Tsinghua University (the third phase of Jianqiao Aviation School, a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province), took off from Guangde Airport in Anhui Province with a bomber and ventured into Huangpu River to attack Japanese ships without fighter escort. However, the plane broke down at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the situation was urgent. Shen bypassed Pudong, trying to ask Chen Xichun (a native of Wangcheng, Hunan Province, the fifth phase of Jianqiao Aviation School) on the same plane to parachute into the position of China's army, and flew the plane directly into a Japanese ship, but Chen refused. In this way, Shen and Chen Xichun flew over the Japanese air defense fire net and hit the Japanese ship at once. That's 1937 August 18.
Two days before Shen martyrdom, Liaoning youth (from Beizhen, Liaoning Province, Jianqiao Aviation School Phase 6) was hit on the roof by anti-aircraft guns while bombing the Japanese Marine Corps headquarters. After parachuting, Yan Haiwen fell to the position of Japanese. In particular, the Japanese army wanted to capture a pilot from China and see what these people who had hit their air force hard were like. So as soon as Yan Haiwen landed, the demons surrounded him. Yan Haiwen, with two pistols in his hand, stared at the Japanese from far and near, and even shot three times, and the first two Japanese fell. The Japanese commander intended to take him alive, so the soldiers still didn't shoot him. If you don't call, fine, I will. Yan Haiwen fired two more shots and compensated two Japanese troops.
Yan Haiwen kept the last bullet for himself.
A few days ago, Gao Zhihang was surprised by Chiang Kai-shek as a man of god.
But in fact, there is no god, only the feelings of ordinary China youths who swear to serve their country in heaven. After Shen and Chen Xichun, Liang Hongyun (Shandong Qixia Jianqiao Aviation School Phase III), Ren (Hebei Wen 'an Jianqiao Aviation School Phase VI), Tan Wen (Shandong Haiyang Jianqiao Aviation School Phase III) and (65438+) died for our country.