In 1938
On an ordinary May day, a few stars in the sky had risen in the night of The Valley.
Wang Lulu had been sitting by the river for an afternoon, dressed in a graceful cheongsam, sitting quietly on a stone bench, not arrogant or impatient, and the years were quiet.
When Wang Lulu stood up violently, she also saw a few broken stars rising in the sky, and she remembered the roar of the plane in her ears, and the girl's expression dimmed, and a teardrop slid down her face and dripped onto the cheongsam.
Wang Lulu paced to the edge of the river, looked at the rolling river and thought about it, and whispered in his mouth, "Brother Tianmin, wait for me..." And then jumped into the waves.
The churning water of the river drowned the girl, and her life was like a flower, fleeting.
Rolling Yangtze River
The last Tianmin brother the girl was called Chen Huaimin, also known as Tianmin, who was Wang Lulu's lover, and 22-year-old Chen Huaimin was a pilot who had made outstanding contributions to China's anti-Japanese cause.
What is the emotional entanglement between Chen Huaimin and Wang Lulu? Why did Wang Lulu choose to end her young life? What outstanding contributions has Chen Huaimin made to China's anti-Japanese cause? Everything must start with Chen Huaimin becoming a pilot.
Since we want to talk about Chen Huaimin, we have to start with Chen Huaimin's life.
The "young eagle" broke the shell
In 1916
In Zhenjiang Bailian Lane, Wei Jingcheng's production days are also in these days, and Chen Zixiang pays special attention to his wife these days.
December 25
With a baby crying, Wei Jingcheng's year's hard work was not in vain, and he gave birth to a big fat boy for Chen Zixiang, and Chen Zixiang's second son was born, named Tianmin.
The Chen family is a large family, and when it comes to the history of the Chen family's fortune, it is the owner of the family, Chen Zixiang
In 1922
He bought more than 100 old houses, subleased or sold them after repairing, and became a figure with a head and a face in Zhenjiang with the rapid prosperity of the housing business.
Large households
Before Chen Huaimin was born, there were already two sisters and an older brother, the eldest sister Chen Zhiyi was born to Chen Zixiang's first wife, the remaining brother Chen Tianhe and sister Chen Tianle were the children of Chen Zixiang's second wife, and Chen Huaimin was the first child of his father's third wife, Wei Jingcheng.
Chen Zixiang learned martial arts at an early age, was strong and strong, once participated in the Xinhai Revolution, his ideological progress was not feudal, and the good family environment and family atmosphere provided favorable conditions for Chen Huaimin's jiankang growth.
His father worked as a physical education teacher in a middle school in Zhenjiang, so he attached great importance to the child's physique, and when Chen Huaimin was very young, his father would tell him to get up and run, and when he was a little older, he began to ask him to learn martial arts with his sister Chen Tianle. Learning early and practicing late, Chen Huaimin basically practiced very solidly since he was a child, and it was not a problem to turn backwards and fight at all.
Xi Wu is to exercise, Chen Huaimin's studies are not wasted, the middle school is in Yangzhou Middle School, and then he went to Wuxi to study high school, and then he was admitted to Changzhou Industrial College.
Swim inside the Yangtze River
In 1931
Chen Huaimin, who returned from the summer vacation of the university, sat idly in the courtyard and listened to his father tell a story to his sister, telling the story of two Qing soldiers who were urgently needed to return to the city after receiving important letters, walked to the river and were stopped, and then swam across the river. Chen Huaimin was deeply infected by this story, and the loyalty and fearlessness of the Qing soldiers moved Chen Huaimin. Chen Huaimin was ready to exercise his water nature that summer, so he proposed to his father that he would also cross the Yangtze River. After his father's permission, he went to the Yangtze River every day to practice, and after a month or two, Chen Huaimin could already travel to and from the Yangtze River effortlessly.
Homeland hatred
After the "9/18" incident
The Japanese invaders set their sights on Shanghai. There was no suitable reason to launch an attack, so Tanaka Takayoshi and a female spy, Yoshiko Kawashima, began to secretly plan and deliberately make some movement in the Shanghai territory.
January 18, 1932,
The two instigated two Japanese monks to go to a factory to provoke, after many times of stone throwing, the intolerable volunteer army shot back, and then the two sides had a fierce physical conflict, the Japanese monks were defeated by the volunteer army, beaten and fled, on the way to escape, they were seriously injured by the Chinese traitors arranged by Kawashima Yoshiko and sent to the hospital. Subsequently, the Japanese side threw all the responsibility for this serious injury to the volunteers, announcing that there was another monk who was sent to the hospital and died after being treated ineffectively, disguised himself as a victim.
Yoshiko Kawashima
In this way, the Japanese in Shanghai were organized by the head to find the volunteers, and the two sides clashed again, this time organized and purposeful, directly injuring three police officers.
If you want to add to your sins, there is no excuse for it. Subsequently, the Japanese army in China was mobilized to parade the streets and put pressure on the Shanghai government to apologize and compensate for the dissolution of the fortifications and many other unreasonable demands. Subsequently, on the grounds that the compatriots in China could not ensure their personal safety in Chinese territory, they made a large-scale deployment of troops around Shanghai, and everyone knew what they were doing and thinking.
January 28 of the same year
Japan continued to coerce the Shanghai government to reply to its own conditions as soon as possible, and finally attacked Zhabei at night before the Shanghai government could respond.
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128 Songhu War of Resistance
The reason for the occurrence.
In the early morning of January 29
The military telegraph of the Nineteenth Army of the Kuomintang informed the whole country that the smoke of war in Shanghai had risen, and the exchange of fire with the Japanese army had begun in Shanghai, defending the family and the country, and never retreating.
Chen Huaimin, who was studying at the school at the time, saw the news in the newspaper and was greatly shocked to see the pictures of the Japanese invasion in the newspaper. Sitting in the classroom, from the bottom of the father to tell himself some patriotic stories of loyalty and righteousness, seeing the suffering of the country, it is really difficult to study with peace of mind.
Chen Huaimin was not the only one who had this idea, Chen Huaimin found several like-minded classmates and rushed to Shanghai together, and on the way, he also met his brother Chen Tianhe. The group joined the University Student Volunteer Army organized by the Nineteenth Army at that time to fight against the enemy in the Wusong area of Shanghai.
Japanese air raids
The roar of the planes above caught Chen Huaimin's attention, and the Japanese invading fighter planes flew straight over Chen Huaimin's head, and Chen Huaimin watched as the buildings and factories in Shanghai were destroyed by bombs dropped by enemy fighters. But he had no choice, Chen Huaimin found that the guns on land could not effectively block the local air force at all, and Chen Huaimin was determined to become an excellent air force at that time.
In 1932,
Chen Huaimin went to Hangzhou to apply for the Air Force Officer School, and all the subjects in front of him were qualified, only the physical examination link, in a project of "on the eyes", was brushed off. "Right eye" is actually the folk commonly known as "cockfighting eye", the finger is placed about a foot away from the eye, and then both eyes stare at the finger at the same time, the right eye looks to the left, and the left eye looks to the right.
However, Chen Huaimin did not meet the physical examination standards at that time, but Chen Huaimin was not discouraged, but after returning home, the "crazy devil" practice "to the eyes" frightened his sister Chen Jing.
Two months later, Chen Huaimin's "right eye" has been very skilled. Chen Huaimin let his sister practice with him when he had nothing to do, and as soon as Chen Jing's fingers were placed in front of Chen Huaimin, Chen Huaimin's eyes could immediately be aligned, and then he shook his head left and right and his eyes could still remain motionless.
Air Force cadets
In 1933
Chen Huaimin came to the air force military academy in Hangzhou again, and after re-enrolling, he finally passed the examination and became a cadet inside.
Chen Huaimin, who was miserable in Shanghai, could always think of the hatred of his home and country when he closed his eyes, that Chen Huaimin was inspired to work harder and harder than others when he was in military school. Not only is his studies at the top of his list, but his major is also very solid.
At that time, Chen Huaimin's long eyebrows were clear-eyed, his face was awe-inspiring, and he could also pull a good erhu, which was a proper "male god" level figure in everyone's eyes.
Chen Huaimin usually likes to play basketball with his classmates when he is fine, but he did not expect that this hobby could meet the love of his life.
Chen Huaimin
Zhejiang University in
In 1935
A basketball game was held, and Chen Huaimin came to participate in the game with the basketball team of the military academy. At that time, Wang Lulu was studying at Zhejiang University, and the lively and lovely Wang Lulu liked to watch the school's classmates sweating on the basketball court in her spare time, and she felt that only on the court could she feel the breath of youth.
When Wang Lulu heard that a group of military school students would come to play a friendly game this time, she dragged her good sisters to the basketball court, and unexpectedly, she fell in love with Chen Huaimin, who came to participate in the game.
Wang Lulu's sisters saw Wang Lulu's thoughts and asked her to take the initiative to say hello. Wang Lulu's father is a bank executive, and her family is superior, which has created her sunny and cheerful personality, and she does not have the feudal stubbornness of those little girls.
Wang Lulu sorted out her braids and clothes under the influence of her sisters, and when she saw Chen Huaimin resting, she walked towards him....
When the two people first met, they began to get along as friends, and gradually, Chen Huaimin liked this girl who smiled like a silver bell, and the enthusiasm and sunshine made Chen Huaimin's eyes inseparable from Wang Lulu's body. If Wang Lulu was attracted to Chen Huaimin because of his skin bag, then he fell in love with him because of his conversation, ambition and care for himself. In this way, two people who are happy with each other walk together.
Lovers farewell
After the two people were together, they did not have a lot of time to get along, mainly because of the special mechanism of Chen Huaimin's school, which led to Chen Huaimin's inability to enter and exit at will, and Wang Lulu had no way to see him, and the girl's heart could only be expressed through letters. As soon as Chen Huaimin could come out, they all went to find her for the first time, and they missed each other even more during this time when they didn't see each other.
The smoke of war has made it impossible for this pair of lovers to live a small life of secretly missing in such a stable way. Chen Huaimin is about to face the graduation season, or because of the special mechanism of the school, Chen Huaimin will go to the army to serve after graduation.
January 1936
Chen Huaimin said goodbye to his beloved girlfriend, left Hangzhou City, and took a train to Nanchang alone
After arriving in Nanchang, Chen Huaimin was organized into the twenty-third team of the four brigades and served as the main engine driver.
In 1937
The Japanese finally pressed impatiently, in
The Lugou Bridge launched a war
The all-round anti-Japanese struggle was officially launched.
The Chinese battlefield needed the support of the Air Force, and the four brigades were ordered to go to support the battlefield.
"Chen Huaimin, someone is looking for you." When Chen Huaimin was packing his equipment, his comrades-in-arms came over and patted him on the shoulder and told him.
student
Chen Huaimin walked toward the door of the troops, until the beautiful figure who was thinking about the twilight appeared in front of him.
"Lulu, how did you get here?" Chen Huaimin looked shocked, distressed and happy, and hugged his girlfriend who came to see him.
A girl came to Nanchang from Zhejiang to see herself by train, the road was bumpy, and more importantly, she was afraid of any danger on the road.
Wang Lulu thought so much, the July 7 Incident was known to the whole country, the War of Resistance Against Japan had begun, Wang Lulu knew that her lover was definitely going to the battlefield, she was worried, she also wanted to miss him, as long as she saw him, it would be good.
"It's good to see one side" Wang Lulu cheered herself up like this when she got on the train, "It's good to have one side" Wang Lulu comforted herself when she arrived in Nanchang. When did the "little princess", who was regarded as a pearl in the palm of her hand by her family, go out on her own? This time, it was for love.
Wang Lulu looked at her boyfriend's face at this moment and hugged him, she had not smelled her boyfriend's body for a long time, and the smell of her boyfriend's body always reassured her.
Chen Huaimin hugged his girlfriend, his voice lowered and said, "Lu Lu, I am going to the front line, you know, going to the battlefield, it is inevitable that there will be blood and sacrifice, I..." Chen Huaimin did not finish speaking, paused to see his girlfriend's reaction.
Lovers hug
Wang Lulu didn't speak, just hugged herself more tightly.
"If I sacrifice, you alone must take good care of yourself, and if I can come back safely, when the war is over, will you marry me?" Chen Huaimin continued.
The girlfriend in her arms did not speak, but only muttered, "You must return safely," followed by sobs.
When Wang Lulu and Chen Huaimin were together at the beginning, they knew that one day, what she loved was that Chen Huaimin dared to love and hate, and liked his chivalrous courage. After Wang Lulu separated from Chen Huaimin, he returned to Hangzhou to continue his studies, while Chen Huaimin embarked on the road of anti-Japanese resistance and went with the Fourth Army to Zhoujiakou, Henan.
The "Chicks" take off
August 13, 1937
The "August 14" air battle broke out, which was Chen Huaimin's first high-altitude combat.
After the Outbreak of the Shanghai War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japan, with its well-trained air force, began to bomb our air bases in many provinces with the aim of destroying our army's air force.
At that time, Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou also naturally became a target for the Japanese army.
August 11
The enemy's reconnaissance planes surveyed the situation near the Jianqiao airport in Hangzhou and were discovered by a Chinese gunboat of our army, and then the Kuomintang demanded that the aircraft at the Jianqiao airport urgently evacuate backwards.
August 13
After the enemy provoked a war in Shanghai, the four brigades of the Air Force received orders at Zhoujiakou to defend the Jianqiao airfield and take control of it
14th
Arrived at Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport in the afternoon.
Meet the enemy
As soon as the Fourth Brigade arrived, the air raid siren sounded. Japanese fighters then appeared over the airfield.
Gao Zhihang, the captain of the fourth team, ordered the whole army to meet the battle!
Chen Huaimin's first high-altitude work, after quickly flying up the clouds, saw the comrades-in-arms around him dispersed in an orderly manner, Chen Huaimin's heart was nervous and excited.
Chen Huaimin saw that the enemy plane that was closely chasing was shot down by his comrades-in-arms, and the two people cheered like children in the intercom.
With resentment towards the Japanese army, the air force of the fourth team cooperated closely to successfully repel the enemy army, and Chen Huaimin's first battle ended with three to zero, and the fourth team did not suffer any casualties.
In the same year
August
Chen Huaimin followed the troops back to Beijing and Shanghai to participate in the defense of Beijing and Shanghai. At that time, the war was raging, Chen Huaimin wrote more than a dozen letters to Wang Lulu to report peace and express his longing for his feelings, but Wang Lulu did not receive a single one, Wang Lulu also wrote a lot of "Wish Jun'an" letters, Chen Huaimin also did not receive, Wang Lulu every day when she thought about Chen Huaimin, she looked up at the sky, because she knew that Chen Huaimin and her were fighting for the cause they loved under the same blue sky.
Soaring "Eagle"
Early October
Chen Huaimin returned to his hometown of Zhenjiang once during his recuperation. Watching his parents be healthy and his younger siblings thrive, Chen Huaimin felt that all his efforts on the battlefield were worth it.
The mother saw that her son had come back and hung up the color on his body, and she hugged Chen Huaimin in pain, and kept saying in her mouth, "Thin, thin, my son is thin." ”
Chen Huaimin's military uniform photo
Or a month before going home, that is
September
When Chen Huaimin was ordered to reconnoiter over Pukou, he happened to encounter four Japanese fighter planes, and as soon as the enemy air force saw that there was only one person on our side, it flew straight toward Chen Huaimin. Chen Huaimin's own fighter plane was circling the enemy in the air, but the enemy bit too tightly, Chen Huaimin saw the opportunity, ready to land to the place, when it was almost to the ground, gliding for a while and crashing straight into a big tree, and then Chen Huaimin was thrown out by the huge inertia, directly unconscious in the woods, fortunately saved by passers-by. When I was sent to Wuhu to recuperate, I took this opportunity to go home and see.
Sister Chen Jing has been the best with her brother since she was a child, because Chen Jing is Chen Huaimin's sister, and the two of them have fought since they were young, and when they meet, they are strangled away and want to talk about the two of them.
Chen Huaimin and his sister
Chen Jing knew that his brother was an air force, so he wanted a photo of his brother's military uniform, Chen Huaimin glanced at Chen Jing and said: "The Japanese army is crazy to invade and occupy Our territory, Zhenjiang will certainly not be able to keep it, and if the photo is discovered by the Japanese Kou, the family will suffer with it, can your little brain grow up a little?" Chen Huaimin nodded his sister's head after he finished speaking. But I still pulled out a photo of myself wearing a suit from the bag I carried, signed it and wrote my wishes to my sister.
After the city of Nanjing was occupied by the Japanese army, Chen Huaimin and the fourth brigade moved to Wuhan, just as Chen Huaimin expected, Zhenjiang had no way to live anymore, and Chen Huaimin's family also moved to Wuhan at that time, although in one place, they still did not meet many times.
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218 Wuhan Air Battle
"When the japanese launched, 29 destroyers and 12 bombers were dispatched at a time, and the air defense sirens echoed in the streets.
At the beginning of the battle, Chen Huaimin saw two enemy planes chasing after one of our fighters, Chen Huaimin did not hesitate to fly over them, and immediately found the opportunity to shoot down one of them steadily and fiercely.
In this air battle, the Fourth Group achieved the brilliant result of shooting down 12 enemy aircraft, and it took only twelve minutes to end the battle.
Chen Huaimin never dreamed that he could still hold Wang Lulu's hand, and the two of them strolled through the streets of Wuhan like this, sweet and warm.
Wang Lulu heard that Chen Huaimin tossed and turned to wuhan, after getting the exact news, Wang Lulu took a leave of absence to come to Wuhan, she has not seen Chen Huaimin for a long time, her heart is really missed, when she saw the news of the victory of the fourth brigade from the newspaper, she was really nervous and scared, and then took the car to Chen Huaimin's side overnight.
Cheongsam woman
That is, on that day, Wang Lulu put on the cheongsam for Chen Huaimin, and after Wang Lulu put on the cheongsam, she was gentle and atmospheric, although she still had the childishness of the students on her body, but added a little more charm.
This is Chen Huaimin's gift to his girlfriend, and it is the only one. After just four days together, they were about to part ways, Chen Huaimin looked at the distant car, put his hand on his chest, and said "love you" love words.
The "eagle" fell into the sky
April 1938
As soon as the Battle of Taierzhuang ended, the sirens of the air raids sounded, and Chen Huaimin immediately entered the state of battle.
Seeing that the fuel gauge had reached the bottom, Chen Huaimin roared angrily and shot down an enemy plane, and then slid down, and the enemy saw that the plane piloted by Chen Huaimin had already had problems, so it shot wildly at Chen Huaimin's plane.
April 29, 1938
Smoke was everywhere, making the blue sky gray. At nine o'clock in the morning, the air raid siren stimulated the nerves of the people of Wuhan, and all the people ran to the place where they could take refuge.
In the afternoon, the Japanese army began an air attack, and the Chinese immediately responded to the battle and opened a defensive posture.
Chen Huaimin flew above the clouds in a fighter plane, saw the great rivers and mountains of the motherland and the scattered fleeing people, and the sense of mission of fighting for the country was born spontaneously.
The air fighters were circling around fighting, the wing of one plane was injured, and thick black smoke was rising from the left side of the plane, and the fleeing people below could see clearly.
After a while, the wings changed from smoke to flames, and the fighters at this moment were still chasing a Japanese Type 96 fighter.
Chen Huaimin saw that his fighter plane had no way to continue fighting, and saw that the enemy's military plane was no longer going to continue to flee, but turned the nose of the plane to prepare for the final blow to himself.
Chen Huaimin understood that if he did not shoot it down, the bullets on the plane would hit his comrades-in-arms, and even the crowd below. Chen Huaimin gritted his teeth and saw that the enemy plane had just turned around, did not slow down, and just crashed into it straight and straight...
Sacrifice your life for the country
The next day's newspaper published a report about the air battle, detailing this time."
Four twenty-nine glorious
", there is also a plate below, on which it is written"
Chen Huaimin, a fighter of the Fourth Air Force, did not return to the air battle
" message.
The mother saw the newspaper holding her daughter in pain, the father stood at the door in a daze, and also went to the place where Chen Huaimin crashed, taking advantage of a flat leaf boat and calling out his son's name.
The younger sister thought that she would never see the brother who fought with her hippie smiley face again, and cried with her mother for several days, and then she resolutely changed her name and called Chen Nan to remember her brother.
The saddest thing must be Chen Huaimin's lover Wang Lulu, who does not believe in the sacrifice of her boyfriend, because Chen Huaimin promised herself that she would come back to marry herself after the victory of the War of Resistance. In the days when the body was not found, all the information about Chen Huaimin was considered to be a rumor and a fake. But the sky did not fulfill his wishes, just like this obsessive waiting, Chen Huaimin is alive and does not see people dead and corpses, one day, two days... A month passed, and there was still no news of Chen Huaimin, Wang Lulu was disheartened, wearing the turquoise cheongsam, and jumped into the rolling Yangtze River.
Chen Huaimin and Wang Lulu
"Chen Huaiming" Road
Chen Huaimin's body was finally found near Qingshan, and after being discovered, he was buried in Qingshan and then moved to Mao dao Quan Cemetery.
June 5
Chen Huaimin was posthumously awarded the rank of lieutenant in the Air Force, and was only 22 years old when he died. As soon as the incident was published in the newspaper, it ignited the patriotic feelings of the soldiers and people in the land of China and their deep respect for the heroes, and inspired the determination of the anti-Japanese fighters to struggle and the enemy to the end.
Chen Huaimin Road
In order to commemorate Chen Huaimin, who sacrificed heroically for the War of Resistance, people changed a road in Hankou to "Shangxiao Road" to "Chen Huaimin Road" to commemorate this tragic and heroic past.
On the current "Chen Huaimin Road", the prosperous scene is the best praise for the heroes, and we will never forget the countless national heroes like Chen Huaimin who sacrificed their lives for the country, and it is their blood that can make the five-star red flag fly under the blue sky and make our great motherland more prosperous and strong!