"After the parachute jump, there were enemy planes firing at me, and I immediately pulled out my pistol and returned fire. Hua Longyi, a former volunteer pilot, said when recalling his experience in the war. Hua Longyi old man

"After the parachute jump, there were enemy planes firing at me, and I immediately pulled out my pistol and returned fire. Hua Longyi, a former volunteer pilot, said when recalling his experience in the war.

Elder Hua Longyi is the former commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 12th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Volunteer Air Force.

On the afternoon of October 16, 1951, when American bombers and fighter jets attacked, Hua Longyi and his comrades of the 12th Regiment received the battle order and immediately set off.

Due to communication failures, the 12th Regiment was unable to fly according to the predetermined route, but the pilots were eager to participate in the battle and still flew to the battlefield at the fastest speed, resulting in unsuccessful rendezvous with friendly forces and encountering enemy aircraft groups over the Cheongcheon River.

In the face of countless enemy planes connected by black pressure, Hua Longyi was not timid, and decisively ordered: throw away the auxiliary fuel tank and prepare for battle!

At the beginning of the battle, Hua Longyi found that there were two Us F-86 fighters above, besieging a MiG-15 of our army.

He immediately made a decision, pulled up the nose of the plane, and rushed over, while aiming at one of the enemy planes for a burst of shelling, and the enemy plane smoked and planted, and the crisis of our MiG-15 was immediately lifted.

Before Hua Longyi could be happy, he found himself caught in the encirclement of enemy planes, with enemy planes all over the top and bottom.

He was not afraid of danger, knowing that he was weak and weak, and he had to break out of the encirclement of enemy aircraft. So he began to dive and accelerate, "whizzing" out from under the belly of the enemy aircraft group.

When the enemy plane saw this, it immediately scattered, chased him closely behind him, and tried to form a siege against him.

Hua Longyi made an emergency brake, and an enemy plane that was chasing him at high speed flew overhead. Such a great opportunity cannot be wasted. After he took aim, three cannons fired in unison, and the enemy plane exploded in the air.

However, just as he was about to raise the altitude, enemy groups appeared on both sides of the fuselage, a total of 14 aircraft.

Moreover, more enemy planes in the distance were still coming at him.

The situation was very critical, Hua Longyi turned the nose of the machine, ready to break through from the right, unexpectedly, the enemy plane on the right saw him approaching, and suddenly shelled him.

Hua Longyi felt a tremor in the fuselage and knew that the plane had been shot, and his left arm and right leg were also hit by bullets that broke through the skin, and the blood flowed.

In order not to be targeted by the enemy planes, Hua Longyi endured severe pain, laboriously operated the plane, rampaged through the enemy aircraft group, and rolled up and down.

This move of his frightened the surrounding enemy planes into retreating and hiding, but they still did not stop shelling.

At this time, Hua Longyi had been fighting with 14 enemy planes alone for nearly 20 minutes, from 3,000 meters to 10,000 meters, and from 10,000 meters to 1,000 meters.

Although he had been trying his best to maneuver with the enemy plane, unfortunately, the enemy was outnumbered, and when he finished firing the last shell, Hua Longyi found that the tail of the plane had also been broken, and he could destroy the plane at any time.

At this moment, Hua Longyi was still calm, and he clearly knew that his only choice now was to skydive.

At the moment of jumping out of the cabin, blown by the wind, Hua Longyi found that he was covered in sweat. It's so cool to float in the air right now!

However, the enemy did not want to let him go, and 4 enemy planes surrounded him and began to fire at him.

Hua Longyi looked at it, and the stubbornness in his heart came up again. "If you beat me, I'm afraid you won't succeed!" He immediately drew his pistol and returned fire.

Fortunately, his comrades in the high altitude discovered his critical situation, and 8 aircraft rushed to support him, scaring off the enemy aircraft.

Subsequently, Hua Longyi successfully landed on Baiyun Mountain, east of Pyongyang, but because of excessive blood loss, his body was very weak and he could only rest on the stone.

Fortunately, the fierce air battle between the pilots of our army and the enemy aircraft was carried out over the 39th Army of the Volunteer Army, so it was clearly seen by the soldiers of the 39th Army.

They saw someone skydiving and looked for it according to the approximate location. In the end, Hua Longyi was successfully found and sent the dying man to a medical center for emergency treatment.

After rescue, Hua Longyi was out of danger of life, but because his left arm was too badly injured to fly anymore, he was sent back to the motherland.

In November 1951, hua longyi was awarded the special merit by the Sino-DPRK Air Force Joint Command for his outstanding record of shooting down 4 enemy aircraft (2 shot down in this battle, 2 in the previous battle), becoming the first special merit winner in the history of Chinese air combat, and was praised by Chairman Mao as a "lone hero".

Unfortunately, medical conditions at that time were limited, and a piece of shrapnel in Hua Longyi's left arm was not successfully removed and remained in the body, resulting in him no longer being able to fly an airplane to fight since then.

However, even if he was transferred to civil aviation, in the 24 years of his tenure, he also delivered a perfect answer: he organized and commanded hundreds of thousands of flights, and there was no responsibility accident, which was extremely admirable!

Hua Longyi's heart of serving the country with his fists and fists is condensed in his bravery and fearlessness on the battlefield and his conscientious work, which is worthy of people's praise and learning!

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