China first air force hero?

( 19 14— 1937)

Lushan county, Sichuan province. 193 1 year, Le graduated from Huaxi Middle School in Chengdu and was admitted to Qilu College of Arts and Sciences of Jinan University. After the September 18th Incident, Le Qin Yi decided to join the army. 1933, Le Qin Yi was admitted to Jianqiao Central Aviation School. After two years of study, he graduated from China Air Force. 1On August 3, 937, the Japanese attacked Shanghai, and the Battle of Songhu broke out. In the first battle of Le Qin Yi, the Japanese army shot down four enemy planes, which was regarded as one of the "Four donkey kong" of China Air Force. On February 3, 65438+, while defending Nanking, Le Qin Yi's fighter plane was hit, and he died of serious head injuries while parachuting, at the age of 23.

Young and determined.

Le, formerly known as Le, was born in Lushan County, Sichuan Province, 19 14 in June. His father, Le Hezhou, was a martial artist in Qing Dynasty. He was honest, resigned and went home to serve his parents. He has two younger brothers, and the three brothers have never been separated. Three brothers and one * * * have 17 children, including boys 10, and Le Qin Yi ranks sixth among boys. In this big family, the eldest is the master of the country, the second is doing business outside, and the third is in the army. Le Qin Yi's mother is gentle, charitable and has a high literary accomplishment. She is a good family in the neighboring county. When she was young, she studied with boys at home, so she had high knowledge. After she married Le Jia, she not only managed the housework and raised the children, but also took on the responsibility of family education.

When I was a child, Le Qin Yi liked to sit on her mother's lap and listen to her stories. My mother loves to tell the story of Yue Fei, saying that their family is a descendant of Yue Fei. In order to kill the grass, the descendants of the Yue family were searched everywhere. They were forced to change their surnames in order to avoid being hunted to Lushan, Sichuan. Later, Le Qin Yi wrote about it, which he thought was his mother's intentional encouragement.

When Le Qin Yi was in elementary school, he went to his classmate's house to play one day. He saw that the little goldfish and rabbits raised by his classmate's brother were very cute, and there were cockscomb flowers in the yard that he didn't have at home. He told his classmate's mother that he wanted to buy a pair of goldfish to raise at home. Who knows that the next day, my classmate's mother personally brought five pairs of goldfish to Le Qin Yi. Soon, Le Qin Yi brought rabbits and cockscomb flowers home for breeding and cultivation. When he was 9 years old, he and his brothers and neighbors caught more than 500 different kinds of butterflies in the Woods behind his home. From then on, he fell in love with animals and plants and dreamed of becoming a biologist when he grew up.

Abandon the pen and join the army-abandon the pen and join the army

From 65438 to 0929, Le came to Chengdu after graduating from junior high school in his hometown and studied in Huaxi Senior High School. In the West China Association, Le Qin Yi's sports performance is very good. He runs very fast and is a famous track and field athlete in the school. He also represented Sichuan in the National Games. 193 1 year, Le Qin Yi graduated from middle school. He was determined to go to college to study biology, but his father wanted his son to study medicine. Seven or eight of Le Qin Yi's brothers and sisters are medical students. My brother Le Yixun graduated from Shandong cheeloo university Medical College, and my sister Le Yicheng graduated from Huaxi Sheikh University in Chengdu. She is the first female doctor of medicine in Sichuan.

193 1 year, Le Qin Yi was admitted to cheeloo university University of Arts and Sciences to study biology. Shortly after entering school, the "September 18th Incident" broke out. Seeing that innocent compatriots were killed by the Japanese army, Le Qin Yi was very angry, and he longed to join the army to kill the enemy. 1in the winter of 932, this newspaper published the enlightenment of recruiting the second batch of flight students by the Central Aviation School. Le Qin Yi is determined to join the army and apply for aviation school.

1933 In the spring, Le got the re-examination notice from Hangzhou Jianqiao Central Aviation School. Cambridge Central Aviation School is the cradle of modern aviation education in China. Its predecessor was the Aviation Training Team of Nanjing Central Army Military Academy, which was established in 1928. 1930, Chiang Kai-shek decided to choose Hangzhou, where the bridge was built, on the basis of the aviation training team and expand it into the Central Aviation School. 1932, Central Aviation School was formally established in Jianqiao and enrolled students.

After the second interview, Le Qin Yi was admitted to the aviation school. When he entered the school, the captain was Shi Bangpan, known as the "one-armed flying general". General Shi shot down the Japanese "13" carrier-based fighter 1 fighter in the Battle of Songhu on June 28th, 932, and was injured by the Japanese plane and lost an arm. He was the first China pilot to shoot down a Japanese plane in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. After six months of training and study for recruits, Le Qin Yi successfully passed the exam. In September, 1933, 1 was incorporated into the second phase of Jianqiao Air Force and entered the aviation school to study flight technology.

The study of aircraft driving in Jianqiao Aviation School is divided into three levels: elementary, intermediate and advanced, and each level lasts for four months. Junior and intermediate students learn basic flight, while advanced students specialize in expulsion, attack, reconnaissance and bombing flight. At the end of each level of flight training, an evaluation should be made. Only those who pass the exam can enter the next level of training, and those who fail will be eliminated.

At Jianqiao Aviation School Airport, Le was assigned to the tenth group, and his instructor was Gao Zhihang. Gao instructor studied legal aviation, entered the first phase of aviation school after returning to China, and served as a flight instructor after graduation. Life in an aviation school is different from that in an ordinary university. In Le Qin Yi, they have no free time from morning till night. They fly in the morning, have classes in the afternoon and study by themselves at night. Flight training is also very strict, and mistakes will be punished. Le Qin Yi was punished twice, once in intermediate flight training, and Le Qin Yi was punished for standing at attention for 5 minutes because he took off carelessly; On another occasion, in advanced flight training, Le Qin Yi flew out of the range specified by the instructor and was sent to the detention room for one day.

Le graduated from Cambridge Central Aviation School.

Win the first battle

1936, Le Qin Yi was incorporated into the 22nd Squadron of the 4th Brigade, with the instructor Gao Zhihang as the captain and Le Qinyi as the vice captain, flying the American Eagle-Falcon two-wing single-seat fighter. His landline number is 2204.

From1July 7th, 937, "Lugouqiao Incident", the people of China entered a period of all-round anti-Japanese war. /kloc-in August of 0/3, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai, and the Battle of Songhu broke out. /kloc-On the afternoon of 0/4, the 4th Brigade, which had been lurking at Zhoujiakou Airport in Henan Province, was ordered to fly to Jianqiao Airport in Hangzhou and Guangde Airport in Anhui Province to participate in the Shanghai Defence War. At this time, in order to destroy the China Air Force, the Japanese sent two teams of *** 18 bombers to attack Jianqiao Airport and Guangde Airport respectively. 2 1 Squadron, led by Captain Gao Zhihang, took the lead in launching air strikes against the Japanese Air Force. In the air battle of more than ten minutes, three Japanese planes were shot down, and two of them were shot down by Gao Zhihang. When the 22nd and 23rd squadrons of Le Qin Yi arrived at Guangde Airport, the airport had been bombed by enemy planes. On August 14th, the 4th Brigade of air combat hit the Japanese hard, and a more severe air combat was waiting for the China Air Force.

The next day, the Japanese naval air force sent 34 planes straight to Jianqiao Airport, and the 4th Brigade took off to meet them. Le Qin Yi's first engagement with the Japanese Air Force showed his outstanding skills. He drove the fighter plane as calmly, tactfully and nimbly as a dragon, pulled the trigger at the right time, and a string of bullets fired at the enemy plane. The enemy plane crashed in the smoke, and Le Qin Yi successfully shot down a Japanese plane. Captain Gao Zhihang and Team 23 Liang Tiancheng also shot down enemy planes 1 frame respectively. Le Qin Yi, who became more and more brave in the Vietnam War, seized the opportunity to fire at the Japanese plane again and saw the enemy plane he hit explode into pieces in the air and fall down with his own eyes. The Japanese Air Force was beaten around by the 4th Brigade of China Air Force. Le Qin Yi chased the fleeing enemy plane from Jianqiao in Hangzhou to Caoejiang in Shaoxing. Le Qin Yi fired all the last bullets at enemy planes and shot down two Japanese planes, one planted in Cao 'e River and the other in the foothills. After the air battle, Le Qin Yi said to his comrade-in-arms Wang Chen, "Damn it, my anger has never stopped since I shot down a Japanese plane. I feel my head is still there, and I'm not bleeding. Anyway, I was broke, so I chased the second and third Japanese planes, aimed and fired. By the time the fourth plane fell, the bullets in the two machine guns had been finished and the gasoline was used up, so I had to.

The 4th Brigade shot down six Japanese planes in the August 15th air battle, and only Le Qin Yi laid down four. China's air force won its first battle, which shocked the whole world for a while. The world's major newspapers and news agencies reported the war situation. American newspapers said that "Gao Zhihang has made outstanding achievements", and the Soviet news agency reported that "Le Qin Yi shot down four enemy planes in one breath".

It was a miracle in the aviation history of China during the Anti-Japanese War that one plane shot down four enemy planes in the air battle. It was really the ambition of the Japanese, which made them down a peg or two. People call Gao Zhihang, Le, Liang Tian the "Four donkey kong" of China Air Force.

Unluckily die

According to international practice, pilots who shoot down more than five enemy planes in air combat are called "ace pilots". In the air battle on August 15, Le Qin Yi shot down four enemy planes. On August 2 1, Le Qin Yi was ordered to intercept Japanese planes in the western suburbs of Shanghai and shoot down two enemy planes. From August 15 to August12, Le Qin Yi shot down six Japanese planes in just seven days, so Le Qin Yi was the first ace pilot in the history of China Air Force.

During the Battle of Songhu, Le was ordered to fly to Pudong to fight against Japanese planes over the artillery positions in Zhang Fakui. Unfortunately, his fighter plane was hit and lost control. Le Qin Yi parachuted from an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, but the Japanese army ignored international conventions and shot at Le Qin Yi, making it lose its combat effectiveness. Fortunately, it was not hit by the Japanese, and Le Qin Yi was sent back to the base by the local people after landing. Subsequently, Le Qin Yi moved to Nanjing.

However, the cruel reality is that China's industry was backward at that time, and it was simply unable to build its own plane. Fighters bought from abroad can't keep up with the consumption on the battlefield, but the Japanese army can produce their own planes and supply them to the front line continuously. Therefore, China Air Force fighters are playing less and less in Vietnam. By the time 1937 12 1 defended Nanking, China Air Force had fewer than 20 fighters flying into the sky. On February 3rd, 65438, only Le and Dong Mingde of China Air Force took off to deal with dozens of Japanese planes. In the face of many enemy planes, Le Qin Yi is fearless. He shuttled among them with superb flying skills. He collided with two Japanese planes that tried to attack him from left to right, and the Japanese planes exploded in the air and died. In the fierce battle, Le Qin Yi's fighter plane was hit, and the plane fell down in the thick smoke, so he was forced to abandon the plane and skydive. With the last experience of parachuting and being shot by the Japanese in the air, Le Qin Yi decided to risk delaying the opening of the parachute to shorten the time of landing in the air and reduce the chance of being shot by the Japanese. It's a pity that the umbrella was opened a little late. He died of a serious head injury when landing at the age of 23.

In order to show the heroic China Air Force's spirit of loyalty to the country and death, 1939, the Central Film Studio filmed the film "Wan Li in Heaven" according to the deeds of three air force martyrs, Le, Shen Chonghai. The cast is strong, including famous actors Bai Yang,,, Wang, etc. 194 1 released in Chongqing in February.

After a lapse of 36 years, Taiwan Province Central Film Industry Co., Ltd. once again filmed the film "The Charge of the Light Cavalry" with the air combat stories of Gao Zhihang, Le, Shen Chonghai, etc. in the Songhu Campaign on August 14 and August 15, which was released on 1977. The film won the Best Drama Award, Best Screenplay Award, Best Director Award, Best Color Cinematography Award, Best Editing Award and Best Recording Award in the 14th Golden Horse Awards.

20 1 1 year, Huayi Tianyi Film and Television Co., Ltd. filmed 30 episodes of the TV series "Flying Eagle" based on the stories of Gao Zhihang, Le, Liu Cuigang, Shen Chonghai and other air force heroes during the Anti-Japanese War, which were broadcast on TV stations all over the country.