He was killed in a collision with a Japanese fighter plane, his mother was blinded by crying, and his fiancée jumped into the river to be martyred

In the summer of 1938, a well-dressed, beautiful-looking young woman stood on the edge of the Yangtze River flowing through Wuhan and looked at the wide river with a sluggish look.

Suddenly, the woman seemed to be possessed by a demon, and she cried and laughed wildly at the river, and such a crazy behavior made people who saw it from a distance panic, but just when everyone did not know why the woman was like this, the woman suddenly returned to normal.

She gently stroked her hair with her hand and said softly, "Huaimin, don't go too fast, I'll come right away!" "The woman said that she jumped and jumped down the rolling Yangtze River...

People in the distance saw this scene and wanted to rescue her, but the woman had long been swept away by the torrent, and her life was even more fierce. The young woman who jumped into the river and committed suicide was Wang Lulu, the fiancée of Chen Huaimin, who she called Chen Huaimin, a pilot of the 21st Squadron of the 4th Air Brigade of the Kuomintang Air Force, who had died in a battle with an invading Japanese aircraft on April 29, 1938, at the age of 22. And his fiancée came here for martyrdom.

Aspire to be a pilot

Chen Huaimin, born in 1916, a native of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, has been learning martial arts with his father since childhood, and has also won many awards for martial arts. In addition, Chen Huaimin is also particularly serious about reading. At first, Chen Huaimin's name was Chen Tianmin, but the reason why he changed his name later was because it was shortly after he grew up.

Chen Huaimin with his fighter

In 1932, after the 1.28 Incident, the Japanese wanted to use this to intimidate the Nationalist government and make the Nationalist government submit to occupy China without bloodshed.

However, Chiang Kai-shek responded with the situation of moving the capital to Luoyang and decided to fight the Japanese army to the end. Although Chen Huaimin was only 16 years old at this time, as a young man who had received progressive ideological education, he was also very concerned about current politics, and as early as the 918 Incident, he and his classmates rushed to Nanjing and threw themselves into the movement of "sending Chiang Kai-shek to the north" of the vast number of students to ask for orders.

1932 128 Incident

When he learned that Shanghai had begun to fight with the Japanese and the Kou, he rushed to Shanghai to support the resistance with the enthusiasm of a teenager. After arriving in Shanghai, he happened to meet Commander Cai Tingkai, who was inspecting the Wusongkou position at that time, and he immediately went forward to ask Cai Tingkai about him.

Why can we only see Japanese planes coming and going freely in the skies of China, and why does our country not develop its own air force?

If our country had an air force, Chen Huaimin said he would be the first to sign up. Of course, the Kuomintang was uncomfortable seeing Japanese planes going in and out of our country's head.

So in the autumn of 1932, the Central Aviation School was officially established and began to recruit air force flight cadets, Chen Huaimin heard about it and immediately went to register, and then changed his name to "Chen Huaimin", the meaning is very obvious.

After a short period of training and study, Chen Huaimin successfully graduated from the Central Aviation School in 1933. Then began his great journey of conquering the sky and expelling the invading enemies in my sky.

Central Aviation School

Temper yourself by the fire of war

After the "July 7" incident, the all-people War of Resistance was launched, and Chen Huaimin at this time was transferred to Zhoujiakou, Henan Province, along with the 4th Brigade of the Kuomintang Air Force to participate in the defense of North China. This was also the first time that Chen Huaimin flew an airplane into the air to fight against the Japanese and the Japanese.

After that, Chen Huaimin was transferred to Hangzhou, and flew an aircraft over Hangzhou to fight against the Japanese planes, and the Japanese army was also very surprised by the sudden appearance of Chinese military aircraft. Originally, they thought that China's insignificant air force did not dare to compete with them, but now they suddenly fought with them, and it was difficult to resist for a while.

Soon, several Japanese aircraft were shot down by our air force, and as the ground front moved, in February 1938, Chen Huaimin's unit was ordered to go to Wuhan to participate in the operation.

Just when Chen Huaimin and others arrived in Wuhan, Japanese aircraft immediately attacked, and this time the Japanese army dispatched a total of 12 bombers to carry out bombing missions, and also arranged 26 fighters to serve as vigilance missions.

Although the enemy's fighter team was huge, Chen Huaimin's team was not afraid, and immediately organized 10 fighters to take off to meet the Japanese army, and the Japanese army was shot down 12 aircraft in this battle. Chen Huaimin also relied on the baptism and experience of war, and soon threw away the student hat of the aviation cadet and became a fighter pilot with excellent results.

Japanese warplanes

Later, in the Battle of Taierzhuang, Chen Huaimin risked being shot down by Japanese artillery and resolutely carried out the task of bombing the Japanese army with aircraft, and he flew more than 5 sorties before and after.

In an air battle, Chen Huaimin was bitten to death by a number of Japanese fighters, and even surrounded by multiple enemy planes, seeing that there was no room to drill, at this time Chen Huaimin decided to die with the Japanese, he saw an enemy plane and quickly rushed up, but the enemy plane crashed because of the bomb, he escaped this danger.

Sacrifice yourself to hit the enemy plane

Every time Chen Huaimin went on a mission, he fought with the belief that there was no return, so he would leave a diary for his family before each flight. On April 23, 1938, he wrote in his diary: "I am not sure which day my plane will be shot down by the Japanese, if I really suffer this misfortune, you don't have to feel sorry for me, because then I will die as well!" ”

However, the day after writing the diary, this unfortunate prophecy was really verified. In this battle, although Chen Huaimin and his comrades fought bravely to kill the enemy, they were still outnumbered in the end, and Chen Huaimin's fighters were surrounded by as many as five aircraft in the course of the fierce battle, and the planes were quickly hit by the enemy.

Seeing that he was injured and his car was damaged, Chen Huaimin, who was only 22 years old at the time, actually gave up the opportunity to skydive to survive, but instead turned his fighter into the last bullet to rush to the Japanese fighter who was fighting with him, and finally the two planes collided and exploded in the air, and Chen Huaimin's blood splashed in the sky...

Fighter formations

During the explosion, Chen Huaimin was ejected from the cockpit by a huge explosion and fell into the bottom of the river, and finally after more than a month of joint search and rescue by the military and the people, Chen Huaimin's body was recovered.

Chen Huaimin's mother was blinded by crying because she could not stand this sudden news, Chen Huaimin's sister changed her name to Chen Nan to commemorate her brother, and Chen Huaimin's fiancée Wang Lulu was also overly sad, and finally chose to wear the cheongsam sent by Chen Huaimin to jump into the river to be martyred...