The huge castle tower airfield has now become a petri dish for madness, and a 1-on-1 duel contract between two men is about to be made, and this place has become a "place of honor" for the two of them.

The dawn is about to dawn in the east, blood stains the horizon red, and there will be a person here who will not be able to see the morning sun the next day. At this moment, the bloodthirsty atmosphere is like the gladiatorial arena before the final competition, and the state is like the end of Pompeii.

The head wolf steered the F-35B fighter to land slowly, and the attitude control vents on both wings were quickly adjusting the aircraft's balanced attitude. As the thrust of the engines gradually decreased, the fuselage slowly descended, and the lift fans and vents gradually blew the dew and wet dust from the ground into the air, mixing with the thin morning mist, and a rainbow was illuminated by a glimmer of dawn.

Immediately after the wheels touched the ground, the 25-ton steel beast squatted down deeply, the landing gear ate up all the buffer stroke, and then flicked the fuselage slightly, and the F-35B landed firmly on the ground.

At this moment, the attacked J-10BM fighter also returned to the runway.

Even though I lost my parachute and the length of the runway was tight, it wasn't a problem for me to get hit. He jerked the lever to increase the angle of attack and used the entire fuselage of the aircraft as a speed brake. At this time, you should be very careful to keep the canard wings as much as possible so as not to stall due to excessive angles of attack, and to press the nose back to the ground after the plane slows down sharply.

Although this landing method has a short gliding distance, it is brutal and rough, and it does a lot of damage to the landing gear. Thanks to the J-10BM of the government army, in order to load the conformal fuel tank and the cocoon-packed bomb bay, the landing gear has been specially strengthened, otherwise it would not have withstood the toss of the attack at all.

The battered fighter slammed into the ground like a giant elephant, shaking the ground into a 1-meter-high layer of dust. He then pulled into the other side of the liaison road and came to the head wolf's F-35B fighter.

At the same time, fuel trucks from the castle tower airport arrived to refuel the bomb.

On the tablet on the lapboard, I saw the newly refreshed "Duel Contract", the challenger is the wolf Bill, and the challenged person is himself. He took off his flying gloves and accepted the challenge by pressing the identification zone with his thumb.

The voice of a wolf came from the communication headset: "Good dog, after playing for so long, the fuel tank is almost at the bottom." I respect you and cheer you on. ”

"Hahahaha!" Meng Bang laughed, and his call was also amplified into the loudspeaker at the castle tower airport, resounding throughout the audience, "I'm in a light oil state now, you don't dare to touch it, or I can solve you in half a minute." But I also respect you and give you the opportunity to play a few more tricks with me. ”

"Well, see you in the sky." The head wolf knew in his heart that Meng had broken his plan. Although his F-35B is a generation ahead of the J-10BM that was attacked, if the opponent is in a state of light fuel and the aircraft is more flexible, it will be really difficult to deal with at that time.

At this time, the other mercenaries also gathered around. Anyway, the taxiways and communication roads in the area were destroyed, and no one could take off, so they simply left their planes and came closer to join in the fun, acting as witnesses.

With both sides ready to refuel, the next step is called "drawing the line". That is, a line is drawn on the runway, and the dueling sides must cross this line before they can take off and attack, ensuring that both sides have a fair acceleration runway.

Bill looked out of the cabin, where the marking work was usually done by his "deputy", who was actually the platoon gunner. Since the head wolf and the platoon cannon survived together and become Mo Wei, no matter who duels them, the other will be their "deputy".

Bill the Head Wolf, before previous duels, always watched Bob draw a line that only he understood, and then looked at each other and smiled. Because they always know how to draw lines for each other to be more advantageous.

But, will Bill still come?

The head wolf searched the crowd around him, hoping to find Bob's familiar fat body. After a while, a figure appeared on the grass next to him, carrying a simple ground marker specially used for marking lines on his shoulder. The head wolf shook his head in disappointment and irritation, the man was a baseball cap henchman.

"Damn, he's got a!" The head wolf sighed, turned his head to look at the J-10BM that was hit, "It's okay!" No matter how I draw the line, I can win this grandson. ”

As expected, the baseball cap didn't know how to draw the "getting up line" at all. All he knew was that Bill the Wolf, the head wolf, was flying a VTOL fighter, so of course it would be best to draw the "pick-up line" under his feet. In this way, the wolf can rise vertically directly at the beginning of the duel and kill the Meng Strike who is still sliding on the runway.

"Stupid thing." The head wolf saw the baseball cap come to his fuselage, "It seems that only Bob understands me." ”

The head wolf does not intend to take off vertically at the beginning of the duel, so that it will be unfavorable to him whether he wins or loses. First of all, the F-35B can take off and land vertically, but it is not used to hover and fight like a helicopter, and it is not easy to shoot effectively after vertical takeoff. Even if the vertical take-off destroys the Meng Attack that is gliding, if it is not a force, it violates the mercenary creed, and his reputation will be completely stinky.

If Bob had rowed, he would have rowed himself at 100 meters based on today's take-off weight, which is the best short take-off distance; It is impossible to take off and accelerate from this distance. But now it's the baseball cap that comes to scratch, and the head wolf heart says, "This guy is going to disgrace me." paddled at the bottom of my feet, if I don't take off vertically like this, I'm afraid I will be laughed at by the people below; But if it hangs up, it is even more inhuman. ”

At this time, the baseball cap attendant had already walked to the side of the plane, took out a wired intercom and plugged it into the external power panel of the F-35B, and said: "Boss, I was going to draw for you, but the platoon said I didn't understand, so he went to the front to mark the line for you." ”

"What did you say!" The head wolf was startled and grinned.

"Huh? I just said that the platoon artillery ......"

"Alright, alright, you can leave quickly."

Bill saw a marked car ahead of him that had driven onto the runway, and the driver was none other than Bob. As the car slows down, a clear and beautiful white marking line begins to slowly draw onto the runway. The line was not far from the head wolf's plane, a full 100 meters, as he wished.

"Then, Chief," said the baseball cap, "we'll wait for your triumphant return." With that, he unplugged the cable from the panel and returned to the crowd of mercenaries to wave hands and cheer for Bill.

The wolf looked back into the cockpit and took his breath. Bill had seen Meng's flying skills, and it was clear that he couldn't be sloppy in dealing with him. Although he flew a vertical take-off and landing fighter, he had just shown how to make a conventional fighter take off upright.

In a decisive battle, will he still fight with himself for a short take-off like this?

"Definitely not!" The head wolf muttered to himself. The take-off method of Meng's attack was completely performative, and the whole fuselage stood upright and slowly rose into the air, which was an excellent target for the head wolf.

Looking to the right, Meng Zheng has finished refueling, and other ground maintenance vehicles are leaving. Now only the fighters of the two of them are parked side by side on the runway. The Y-9ZH command plane piloted by Tang Yujian stopped diagonally at the front end of the liaison road.

Immediately afterward, Tatai Awang's voice came over the radio: "Challenger Wolf Bill, Challenger Fang, please be ready to attack." ”

As soon as the words fell, the two steel featherless beasts on the runway let out a wild roar at the same time, majestic and majestic. After a few seconds, the engine speed of the two began to stabilize.

There was a muffled sound on the distant control tower, and a white and green signal flare rose in response, dragging the white smoke into the air, slowly climbing to the highest point and then descending. The flare used as a departure signal was very slow, and the onlookers raised their hearts to their throats. And the fighters on the runway couldn't hold it back, roaring and screaming.

As soon as this signal flare landed, it was too late and that it was too fast, and the two fighters flashed and flashed, and in the blink of an eye, they had already rushed out, and they didn't have time to react at all, only to feel two thunderbolts flying flat on the ground.

Bill's F-35B, the head wolf, has opened the cover of the lift engine, and is now gulping down the air, lifting the plane with all his might; Its F135 engine is tilted down to the optimal short take-off angle to jack up the fuselage. Although this caused a sudden increase in drag, and the force used for acceleration was much weaker when the thrust was distributed to the vertical lift, it was seen that it was falling behind on the runway.

However, the head wolf was not in a hurry, he already felt the fuselage slowly float up, and the plane was gaining the power of air and engine and was about to take off; As the force of the landing gear decreases, the cushion hydraulic column is slowly sticking out.

"Don't look at you ahead, whoever leaves the ground first wins!" The head wolf gritted his teeth and said, at this moment he was already in the state of cannon fire aiming.

In front of him, the battered J-10BM fighter resistance trotted ahead. However, its 117SFN engine is an emergency product produced in wartime, and its thrust is fundamentally incomparable with that of the head wolf, so the speed of the aircraft cannot be added, and it can never pull the distance. If you can't add up your speed, you will be a live target for the wolf in 2 seconds.

Bill's heart was beating wildly, and he had won!

I saw that on his helmet sight, the shooting aiming computer locked the plane that had been hit. After 1 second, you are completely off the ground, and victory is in sight.

At this moment, the head wolf saw the J-10BM fighter that had been hit and sank downward.

It didn't matter if the fuselage sank, it startled the head wolf. Originally, he thought that Meng Zheng was about to take off with the front wheels, but instead of rising, he sank.

"Did he dig a ditch?"

Looking closely, the head wolf understood that Meng Strike had put away the landing gear of the plane when the speed was not enough.

When the plane has not yet taken off, the landing gear is the only thing that supports the aircraft. And take-off requires speed, if the speed is not enough, it cannot take off, at this time to retract the landing gear, the plane will undoubtedly fall into the mud.

However, today's castle tower mercenary pilots have seen a long time. I saw that the J-10BM piloted by Meng Zheng just sank down and immediately bounced back into the air, just like a magnet being repelled by the same sex, or there was an invisible air cushion on the ground supporting Meng Zheng.

At this moment, Bill was stunned. Indeed, this is an invisible air cushion, known as the ground effect. That is, when the wing is very close to the ground, the lift increases sharply under the interaction between the airflow near the ground and the pressure on the wing surface.

This is an ordinary natural effect phenomenon, anyone can use it, but who dares to use it! If you don't use it well, the plane will be sturdy and fall on your stomach, and your body will be broken by the twisted metal.

The trust between Meng Struck and the fighter was so great that the man's combined flying horse was lifted up by the magical power of the ground effect with a flick in the air.

The J-10BM, with the landing gear retracted, is in a "clean" fuselage state, and nothing exposed will be able to stop his acceleration. Immediately, the dragon-named iron beast roared and turned into a ground-to-ground rocket, and in an instant, the F-35B piloted by the head wolf was thrown away without a trace.

At this time, the head wolf's fighter not only did not retract the landing gear, but the lift fan used for short-distance take-off was even more wide-open, and the flaperon also had to go all out to complete the fountain effect -- that is, the gas fountain formed by repeatedly using the lift airflow, and it was basically impossible to accelerate in this state, let alone chase the attack.

Everyone at the scene was deeply shocked, and it was really an eye-opener today!

However, the mood of the head wolf is different, he has seen this way of taking off.

In his memory, in the first year of the First Sino-Japanese War, there was a person who flew the J-10 and took off in this way, rushed into the big melee over Sakhalin Island, and stabbed and destroyed their early warning plane with a single horse. At that time, the squadron where the head wolf belonged was in a big mess after losing the AWACS aircraft, and then one by one, they were destroyed by long-range air-to-air missiles flying from nowhere.

That was the second Sakhalin air battle that no one wanted to commemorate.

Now, new hatred and old hatred are pouring into my heart, and the head wolf hates to bite the steel teeth. He put away all kinds of cover auxiliaries of the whole machine, pushed the afterburner violently, and chased straight after Meng.

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