Chapter 34: The Whip of Fire
Scattered raindrops fall from the sky and descend with the wind.
The glass-like droplets fell, were cut into powder beads by the dancing six-bladed blade paddles, and then dragged along the propellers into spring-like rain whirlpools, dragged long behind the engine.
The Y-9ZH command plane piloted by Tang Yujian was like a war elephant with its ears as wings, dragging four rain whirlpools, and soaring into the air under the push of eight rocket boosters. The four pairs of rockets on either side of the fuselage were shaking wildly, spraying high-heat working fluid backwards. This tremendous force made the rear body tremble, almost tearing it apart.
The so-called spectacular scene sometimes comes to an abrupt end after the clouds are shocking. After the Y-9ZH jumped up with the booster and began to regain its normal climbing angle, the eight rocket boosters went out at the same time in an instant, and the screaming sound suddenly turned into a chokehold-like coughing and wheezing, and then there was no sound. All that remained in the sky was the hum of the four turboprop-6D engines on the plane.
At this time, Meng Zheng had already seen the "Castle Maru" air defense ship on the skyline, and of course Tang Yujian knew it. The ship was designed for anti-aircraft operations, and any target in the air looked to it like a fly in front of a flamethrower, and it could be wiped out with the flick of a finger.
Now it's too late to find Jin Jiangji, he still has to suppress his feelings and protect his brother-in-law Tang Yujian to take off safely.
And Tang Yujian is also worthy of being a former wingman who was attacked, and he is very experienced. He did not rush to climb high after taking off, but quickly retracted the landing gear and flaps to accelerate horizontally with all his might, accumulating enough maneuvering energy for a moment of evasive maneuvering.
At this moment, Meng Zheng noticed that the Y-9ZH command plane was too heavy, and that it had a front-line integrated command unit cabin in its belly that contained a large amount of sophisticated equipment, which made it difficult for the direct guide plane to accelerate and its actions were clumsy.
"It's over!" A very bad premonition welled up in his mind.
Before the voice of his heart was gone, he saw a flaming whip thrown out under the cold cloud, and the whip was long for the sky, and the heaven and earth were pulled away by a fire mark. A moment later, the sound of artillery followed in the distance. This sound can be described as very peculiar, different from the sound of large-caliber automatic cannons, it sounds like a chainsaw ratchet wheel of continuous and rapid cutting, the sound is connected into a line, and the sound of the cannon feels like the heart is torn apart by the sound of the cannon.
This heart-rending sound belongs to the "phalanx" turn-tube close-in defense rapid artillery -- a fast-reactive precision fire weapon that can rain 4,500 shells in one minute.
Just like the sound, the bullet traces of the "Phalanx" fast cannon are also different from the bead shape of the fully automatic main gun, but stretch into a long line, like a flaming whip in the air, and all the places it touches will fester.
Meng Zhen saw that this thorn whip fire dragon drew in front of Tang Yujian's plane, and immediately bit off half of the left wing of this Y-9ZH plane.
As Engine 1 flew off with half of the wing, the remaining Engine 2 on the left wing could not compete with the two engines on the right wing, and the plane lost its balance and was pulled to the left by the propeller running at full speed on the right side.
For Tang, this is the worst-case scenario.
However, Tang Yujian is also a soldier who survived the First Sino-Japanese War, and this kind of survivor has two characteristics: the first is of course determined and will never give up, and the second is that his life is hard!
Captain Tang saw that the plane did not disintegrate after being shot, and it was obvious that the "Tenshu Maru" had missed, and there was still a chance! After all, the "phalanx" system is used to bullet and bullet, and the accuracy should be like a steel needle.
At this moment, the unbalanced giant war elephant seemed to be stuck in the swamp of death, almost dragged to its oblique stands. But under Tang Yujian's manipulation, I saw that it closed the right flap and put the left flap to compensate for the destroyed lift balance. At the same time, the No. 4 engine of the right wing is parked and the No. 3 engine is reduced to the minimum thrust; Engine No. 2, the only remaining engine on the left wing, was running at full speed, and the propeller was like a drowning man frantically waving his hands trying to grasp something before it sank.
With this series of adjustments, the tilt rate of the Y-9ZH gradually slowed down.
However, the attack is not optimistic. The plane weighed 60 tons, and if it was out of balance, it could not be saved by these small adjustments. He is now quickly comparing plans in his mind, and now his brother is on the line of life and death, as long as he can save Tang Yujian's life, it doesn't matter if he exchanges his own life.
But even if it's a change of life, who can you ask for it? Where to change? Slogans alone will not work. Meng Zhu gritted his teeth at this time: "This is the only way!" He remembered that there were still three shells in his cannon, which were originally intended to be reserved for the most critical decisive battle, but now only these shells could save Tang Yujian.
Meng hit the pressure rod and followed sideways, pressing the calculation point of the cannon shell on Tang Yujian's plane. At this time, he is not allowed to hesitate and slowly take off, and now it is all up to his feelings.
With the eyes of the blindfold and the slight pressure on his fingers, the 23-3 double-barreled machine on the belly of the J-10BM fighter under his crotch spewed out a ball of flames, and the three shells were immediately discharged and stabbed straight towards the front of the right wing of Tang Yujian's Y-9ZH command plane. In an instant, only a crisp sound was heard, and the three bombs pierced the skin of the right wing, blowing off the main beam of the wing at that position. Immediately afterwards, the wing was torn apart from the outside of Engine 3, and the outer wing section flew off along with Engine 4.
Seeing this, everyone at the airport in the castle tower town was stunned, no one expected that Meng Yan would shoot at Tang Yujian, the righteous brother of Jinshi who he had always protected.
However, Tang Yujian, who was manipulating Yun-9zh, was very indifferent, he just knew that his eldest brother would definitely be attacked! This is the only way to save him.
At this time, although the Y-9ZH aircraft lost two engines and the outer wing, the "Tenshu Maru" swept away the left flank and left engine, and the attack shot the right flank and right flank perfectly and symmetrically. Although the plane had half the power, it instantly regained its balance and avoided a runaway crash.
However, the trouble is not over.
Originally, this Y-9ZH was too bulky because of the command cabin contained in the belly, but now there are only two engines left, and the wings are halved.
"Throw out the command module!" Meng Zheng couldn't help it and shouted. He may have hoped that the communication that had been cut off at the moment might have been restored.
Meng Zhen was very anxious in his heart, he couldn't understand what was going on with the former wingman and the righteous brother with a different surname! Meng Zheng is confident that he knows Tang Yujian well, just like Tang Yujian can know his thoughts without guessing, the so-called "long wingman, brother with different surname". If it was normal times, Tang Yujian would have thrown away the command cabin a long time ago to reduce weight, so why can't he understand simple things! So why not do the important operation! What went wrong, if you don't throw away the heavy command module unit, you can only watch the Y-9ZH plane crash into the sea.
If the Dense Array system of the "Castle Keimu" just now actually missed to the left, this lucky probability is one in a hundred; Coupled with the superimposed attack, it actually captured another one percent of the possibility, and it only took three bullets to accurately shoot out the right flank. Now that Tang Yujian is alive, this luck can be said to be one in a million.
For this hard-won opportunity, how can Meng Strike not be in a hurry: "Throw it quickly!" Exercise! ”
In fact, who knows that Tang Yujian is no longer the loyal wingman pilot during the war. Now, Nanyang has become a new stage for Tang Yujian. In the in-flight command cabin of his Y-9ZH sat the key that could change his fate in the future, that is, Commander Lei, who Tang Yujian desperately rescued.
Who would refuse the favor of the goddess of fate? Who would give up on their future?
Tang Yujian is not a vegetarian either, he gritted his teeth and pushed the control plate forward fiercely, using the strength of his whole body. At this time, the Y-9ZH slowly lowered the nose of the plane and began to dive, and the wings cut through the air and whined, just like a giant elephant jumping into a mountain stream and rushing straight down.
The altitude of the plane is getting lower and lower, and there is already a splash on the propellers.
At this moment, a miracle reappeared. The Y-9ZH, which had lost its outer wings on both sides, stopped falling when it brushed the sea, and steadily rode the waves at high speed, and this huge force drew a cone-shaped white wave on the sea surface, rapidly expanding beyond the two wings.
Meng Zheng piloted the J-10BM to fly on it, watched Tang Yujian's plane recover its horizontal attitude, and suddenly laughed "hahaha", this is Meng's trick -- the ground effect increases -- as long as the aircraft is close to the ground, the airflow on the wing surface will interfere with each other and superimpose with the ground troposphere, causing a sharp increase in lift.
Now, this trick has made Tang Yujian learn. His plane was lifted by the ground effect, and the heavy fuselage was supported by half the wing area. The movement of this Y-9ZH can no longer be called an airplane, and this kind of ground-effect aircraft must be called a "wing boat".
At this moment, the gloomy cloud base was once again lit up by flames, and another whip of fire was drawn, and the "Tenshu Maru" was still firing.
However, this round of firing not only did not correct the deviation just now, but instead impartially and accurately brushed the broken left flank of Tang Yujian, flew away, and stirred up longitudinal waves on the distant sea.
Meng Zhu looked back at the direction of the fire whip, the leopard's eyes cracked, and the steel teeth crushed: "Today seems to be the time for the final break!" Before the words fell, the dragon-named iron beast under his crotch roared, and then turned sideways and rushed straight towards the "Tenshu Maru" air defense ship in the distance.
Seeing this, it was Tang Yujian's turn to be shocked.
During the First Sino-Japanese War, Meng's attack was able to severely damage the predecessor of Tianshou "King Kong" because it was mixed with the saturated attack bomb group of Hainan Airlines; Now riding alone, isn't he afraid?
In fact, I am not afraid of being attacked, but I can't die in battle, and if I am afraid, I won't come.
Now it should be said that Meng Zhen has a bottom in his heart, and he has thought clearly: with the "Tenshu Maru" as the coordinate origin, the bow of the ship's rapid array was lost at the first launch, and the right side flew off the left wing of Tang Yujian's plane coming from the opposite direction; Now it is still on the right, and there is no fuselage of the Yun-9ZH that is scanned. As a matter of fact, if Meng Zhan had known that Lee Min-jun's KF-15SE "Silent Eagle" was also damaged on the left side, he would have deduced it long ago -- the fire control system of the "Tenshu Maru" was faulty and could not work properly, and the firing shot was biased to the right.
However, no matter how far to the right, it is no problem to cut off one side of the wing.
As he thought of this, a new flaming whip was already whipped towards the blindfold. At this moment, the J-10BM, which rushed towards the "Tenshu Maru" at high speed, has been rejudged as the highest threat target.
Meng is not afraid of death, but he is not looking for death, he has been prepared. Just as he was diving, the Blindfold opened the bomb bay of the stealth cocoon on the left flank. This type of bomb bay is designed to reduce the radar reflection signature of the external object - by suspending ammunition or other equipment inside it, closing the hatch cover, the stealth performance increases; However, once the bomb bay is opened, the bomb is covered with a shell, and the cavity structure in the bomb compartment is added, and the radar signature will increase dramatically.
That's what you bet on! He only opened the left cabin but not the right cabin, and the center of the radar signal of the whole plane immediately moved to the left. In the distance, the fire whip struck, and in the blink of an eye, it was drawn close, and between the lightning and flint, I saw that the fire whip passed away from the left wing tip of the iron beast under the crotch, and it was wrong.
"You're done! Bastard! Excited as he roared, he opened the projectile selection and landing point calculation panels. Although the conformal bomb bay cannot be thrown, because once it is disengaged, it may jump up and hit the fuselage. But the bolt was completely loose, and the bomb bay was used to paste the fast cannon all over the face.
If you don't call the enemy dead today, you will die!
Seeing this fire whip waving, but the whip couldn't hurt the slightest. The "Castle Shou Maru" was also a little out of proportion, turning the rudder and turning its main guns to prepare for simultaneous firing.
But at this line between life and death, a signal broke in, which was very unexpected.
Swept away, he recognized the signal. Suddenly, countless memories swirled through my mind like a flipped film film. This sudden signal made him cold from head to toe at the moment.
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