"Our situation is dire at the moment!"

A few weeks later, in the multi-functional conference room of the General Staff Headquarters in Beijing, which was completed in Beijing, the heavy curtains completely covered the light outside the room, leaving only the slide player in the center, glowing with bright light, and the leaders and senior generals of the military ~~~ committee sitting on both sides all held their breath and stared at the flickering south ~~Sea map, and Xu Yuanchao, who had just been transferred from the Naval Aviation to the Navy Command as a staff officer of the Operations Department, frowned even more, and drew a rough circle with a guide stick in the position of Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, and continued:

"Here, Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, the transit and supply base of the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy, but just over a month ago, the Soviet Union began to strengthen the deployment of troops at the base, and dispatched a large number of construction machinery, intending to make this natural harbor a real naval base of the Soviet Navy.

In order to cooperate with the expansion of the Soviet Union, although they did not dare to provoke us on the land border, they relied on the powerful combat power of the Soviet Navy to invade and occupy our Nansha Islands, intending to build a maritime defense line for the Soviet Cam Ranh Bay base while expanding the sovereignty of territorial waters, so as to completely control the South ~~ Sea!"

"Encroaching on our islands and reefs, doesn't the navy have countermeasures?"

As soon as Xu Yuanchao's voice fell, Tan Bin, the chief of the general staff sitting at the front, asked with a solemn face, but Xu Yuanchao just shook his head embarrassedly and helplessly, and immediately used the guide stick to make a false scratch between Nansha and Chinese mainland, and said with a solemn expression:

"The Navy is ready for everything, and for this reason the Navy Command will send several new frigates and destroyers that have just been built to the South China Sea Fleet, but modern naval warfare has had an ironclad law since World War II, that is, if you want to gain sea supremacy, you must first obtain air supremacy;

However, the Nansha Islands are more than 1,000 kilometers away from the mainland, and among the planes equipped by the naval aviation, except for the H-6, which can barely reach it, the remaining Jian-6 and Jian-7 cannot even fly over Nansha because the combat radius is too short, while Vietnam is only a few hundred kilometers away from Nansha!

It is completely within the combat radius of their combat aircraft, not to mention that the Soviet Union also deployed two regiments of MiG-29 fighters and one regiment of MiG-25 interceptors at the Cam Ranh Bay base, the purpose of which is already self-evident, that is, to support and cheer up Vietnam's invasion and occupation!"

"MiG-29, MiG-25"

Tan Bin muttered and repeated the two Soviet aircraft models in Xu Yuanchao's words just now, for Tan Bin, who once served as the Minister of Equipment and was appointed to become the commander of the S Army and face the threat from the north, he knows very well what these two models mean, not to mention the MiG-25, a high-altitude high-speed interceptor that has broken many world records, with a maximum speed of more than 2.5 times the speed of sound, which can leave all the fighters in active service in China far behind;

As for the MiG-29, which was put into service at the end of the 70s, it is a typical third-generation fighter in the world today, with excellent air mobility capabilities and flexible fighting skills, and even the United States, which has always been the strongest in the Air Force, will retreat when facing the approach of the MiG-29, and try not to fight with it if it can, which shows how powerful the MiG-29's combat effectiveness is!

But strong is not an excuse to retreat, a strong enemy is not a footnote to choose compromise, from the day the people ~~people ~~ army was established, he faced all the enemies that were so strong that they could not be added, but along the way, people ~~people ~~Now, the enemy is wreaking havoc on China's inherent territory, and the chamber of the invader's gun is even more at the doorstep, as the current leader of this army, Tan Bin has long been clear about his mission, so he looked at Luan Zhen, chief of staff of the Air Force, diagonally opposite:

"Is there a good way for the Air Force? At least it can cooperate with the Navy's operations!"

"This"

Looking at Tan Bin's solemn and focused expression, Luan Zhen hesitated slightly, but after a while, he still said 1510:

"Commander-in-chief, you should also know that our air force is slightly better than the brother units of the navy, but it is only slightly better, but it is also beyond the reach of Nansha!"

"Why is it beyond the reach of the whip?" Hearing Luan Zhen's words, Tan Bin's heavy eyebrows immediately glared, and under the photocopy of the slide projector light, it seemed to be covered with a layer of frost:

"Didn't the design index of the J-8II, which has just been tested for flight testing, indicate that it has a cruising radius of more than 1,000 kilometers?"

"That is the theoretical ideal value, in the real combat, the amount of fuel, the amount of bomb load, and the height of the flight, all affect the combat radius of the combat aircraft, as Xiao Xu said, the Soviet Union will inevitably use radar to cover Nansha, when the fighter is approaching, it will not be able to use the most labor-saving high-altitude intervention, can only be in the case of bomb-loading, in order to avoid the enemy's radar irradiation, it is necessary to break through from a low altitude, so that the J-8II just tested is at best only 800 kilometers of combat radius, even if it is risky to enter from a high altitude, the reserved air time is only a short two or three minutes, not to mention”

Luan Zhen has always been known for his courage and daring, especially in the face of military confrontation that emphasizes practical results, he is not ambiguous at all, even in the face of the chief of general staff with a gloomy face, Luan Zhen is still the same as always, unchanged:

"What's more, we still have a lot of deficiencies in navigation, communications, and long-distance raids, except for a few top pilots who can complete it, the vast majority of pilots are not able to perform such difficult tasks, at least, before the latest third-generation fighters form combat effectiveness, the Air Force does not have this ability!"

The phrase "the air force does not yet possess this capability!" is very harsh and worrying, but it is also very helpless, but it is an indisputable fact; the army's equipment has made great progress in recent years, but in terms of aviation, the Chinese army is still stuck at the level of more than 10 years ago, whether it is weaponry, personnel structure, logistical support, or training level.

Not to mention that compared with superpowers such as the United States and the Soviet Union, it is incomparable with the surrounding Japan and South Korea, and even there is a considerable gap with Vietnam, which has border disputes.

No matter how powerful the army artillery fire is, no matter how hard the iron armor of the tank is, it will not be able to cross the barrier of more than 1,000 kilometers, and only a strong aviation force can make the fastest response at the first time, and then give the enemy the most fierce counterattack

"Lao Jiang, do you have any other way there!"

Tan Bin did not blame the outspoken Luan Zhen, because he knew that Luan Zhen was not shirking, but describing the real situation realistically, the Air Force is not the Army after all, and there is a big difference in the way of combat.

Then the Air Force is a long fist, fighting exactly the enemy's hidden rear, with sufficient value and strategic significance of the weakness, so once the Air Force strikes is a thunderous blow, a decisive victory, the Israeli Air Force rushed to Iraq's nuclear ~~ facilities "Operation Babylon", and the battle of the Bekaa Valley against Syria, are classic examples of the victory of the Air Force.

However, once the arms of the air force are not long enough and their fists are not hard enough, even if their hearts are higher than the sky, they can only face reality in the end and sigh that their lives are thinner than paper; Tan Bin, as chief of the general staff, naturally knows the problems he is facing, but he is not reconciled; Is it true that the vast sea frontier is a precious national territory? Is it the duty to defend the land on the mainland?

So he turned his attention to Jiang Huichuan, the commander of the navy, who had never spoken since the meeting, because he knew that the more this old fellow who was about the same age as himself in the army, the more he did not speak, the more he was planning unexpected strategies; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it was called a ghost idea, and during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Jiang Huichuan, who had now become a senior leader of the army, should also come up with a strategy that looked at the overall situation.

"You shouldn't be the only one over there that Xiao Xu said, let's say it, let everyone listen, you can't just watch the islands and reefs being occupied, and be silent!"

"I'm not silent, I'm thinking about something someone said two months ago!"

Jiang Huichuan finally broke the silence, and then silently picked up a cigarette, lit it with a lighter, under the effect of the smoke, the pair of tightrope-like eyebrows wrinkled even tighter, and seemed to be still immersed in someone's words, which made everyone present very curious, how could Jiang Huichuan, as the most important naval commander of the General Staff in the South China Sea, actually wander and think about other people's words during the meeting, could it be that person had a premonition that something was going on in the South China Sea two months ago? Or did what he said have an effect on the resolution of the current situation?

Under suspicion, almost everyone's eyes in the audience focused on Jiang Huichuan's body, making the position he was sitting in instantly brighter than a slide player, and Tan Bin, the chief of the general staff sitting opposite, was also curious, thinking of what kind of words could make Jiang Huichuan, an old Jianghu, think like this, couldn't help but smile slightly, and asked playfully:

"What?"

"The affairs of the South China Sea must not be left to future generations!"

As soon as these words came out, the room was full of shock, almost all the senior generals in the field, only felt that their hearts were heavy, as if there was a big stone pressing heavily on the beating heart, that was a kind of responsibility, but also a kind of decision, Tan Bin nodded heavily after pondering for a long time, immediately raised his eyes, and asked again very solemnly:

"Who said that?"

"Wanshan Factory, Lu Jiadong!" (To be continued.) )