Chapter 20 Expired Lands
Meng Struck strode out of the A1 hangar of the head wolf Bill, his throat still blocked uncomfortably, and he didn't get the breath out of his chest. Looking around, the onlookers did not have disappointment and ridicule on their faces. Whether it was the head wolf's subordinates or other idle mercenaries, they were waiting to see a good show, but they didn't expect that Meng Yan didn't even have a fart.
But Meng Zhen knows in his heart what is the most important thing, and the next will be the last task of his mercenary career, and after receiving the bounty, he can return to China smoothly.
Now the head wolf Bill is no longer a brave general on the battlefield, not a defender of the pass, just a rogue who has left the army. It's not worth the gamble yourself.
Of course, Meng Zhu pressed his stomach, and the key reason why he didn't punch him just now was mainly because he was too hungry. Ever since I came to the castle tower, I've been drinking and haven't eaten a serious meal. Now my stomach is burned after being slipped through by wine, and I feel really uncomfortable without food to moisten it.
Angry is angry, and the fists are not clenched. Meng Struck plans to take care of the important task first, and wait for the return trip to see how much money he has left, and it's a big deal to send a duel contract with Bill, a bastard, and let him learn how powerful he is in the air.
Thinking of this, Meng Zheng has returned to his J-10BM fighter. He ducked his head under the right wing, dragged the red steel wheel block in front of the main landing gear, and tossed it aside. The weight of this wheel is very heavy, but it is nothing for a blindfold, even if you are hungry. Then he threw aside the wheel block of the left landing gear. It's too late to complete the whole machine inspection this time.
Meng Bang returned to the nose gear position, crouched down and pulled out the key to unlock it.
Ordinary fighters will not have wheel locks. However, in order to prevent theft, the mercenary fighter can go to the airport and buy a locked "row of teeth". These orange-red nails with four sets of 20 long spines are called "hedgehogs", which are usually attached to the front wheels with locks, and when the aircraft is forcibly started, these teeth will puncture the front wheels and prevent the aircraft from taking off. This rudimentary little device was invented by the Soviet Union after Belenko defected in the MiG-25 in order to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents. Due to its simple structure, this little thing has now become a good helper for mercenaries to lock the plane.
After the aircraft fixture is released, Meng Strike climbs into the cockpit along the orange boarding staircase next to the aircraft, fastens the seat belt in turn and turns on the necessary circuit jump switches. As power switches to on-board power and comes in continuously, the entire plane comes alive again, and the cockpit hums.
The 50-centimeter-wide multi-function touchscreen monitor in front of Meng Strike also lit up, and he made the entire panel display the navigation map screen and prepare to set the navigation points and prepare for the attack.
As the dielectric fiber contacts of the glove's fingertips are moved, the color topographic map on the multifunction display zooms in and shifts to the vicinity of the sea off the coast of the castle tower. During the bake operation, the next reference flight point is also demarcated on the map.
"It's really good, it's basically the maps that were updated this month." Meng Zhu praised. These maps are military topographic maps taken and processed by satellite photographs.
At this moment, as if he had thought of something, his fingers stopped in mid-air.
A thought suddenly appeared in his mind: This is a domestically produced fighter plane, and it is equipped for the use of the government air defense team, and there may be the latest satellite images in China. It would be great if that was the case, Meng Struck had always wanted to see how his hometown was doing. And the old MiG-144 not only has a black and white display, but also a very simple map.
Thinking of this, Meng Meng's hand had already unconsciously pulled the map in the picture. You must know that the number of maps in the country is now strictly kept secret for mercenaries abroad. But this one is a domestic aircraft, and it is equipped by the air defense team. For the air defense team, most of the time is fighting on the mainland, and the navigation number jΓΉ should contain a map of the country.
The more I thought about it, the more anxious I became, because I enlarged the scale of the map just now, and as a result, I moved north along the coastline for a long time and did not find the location of the motherland. In a fit of rage, he simply zoomed out the map again, then locked the center box to his own country, and then zoomed in.
"Ha-" Finding the location of the country of course quickly found the location of the home, Meng Zhu let out a sigh of relief, "It turns out that nothing has changed, it's still the same as before the war." β
Next, Meng buried his head and only had the map on the multifunction display in his eyes. The night was thick all around, but the fluorescence illuminated his face. For the first time in the time he had been a mercenary, he was completely focused on what was in front of him, not distracted from his surroundings.
"That's how it was when I left home, and the way the aviation school looked hasn't changed. Later, ......" Meng Bang looked at the satellite map of his hometown, sighed to himself, and pulled the map in his hand to remember his journey, "I was transferred here, I remember that here I looked forward to fighting every day, and then I transferred to Komsomolsk." I heard from my old comrades-in-arms that the original place was attacked by air raids after I turned away, and the runway and hangar have been completely destroyed......"
At this moment, Meng Zhu was stunned. He had the impression that the airfield, which had been completely destroyed, was still there as intact as it had been before the war.
"No, it's been fixed? But I remember that this airport was abandoned when I heard it. Meng Hit said to himself, continuing to zoom in on the map, "Oops! Evil Door! The main runway should have been extended, and it should be used as a supply base for heavy transport aircraft in wartime. Why is the runway retracted now? β
He kept pulling at the map on the screen, and then suddenly remembered that his hometown had also been hit by air raids: "No, no, it's all old maps." The southeast city of my house has been hit by cruise missiles, and the square and gymnasium have been renovated to accommodate citizens, how can it be the same as before the war, phew! Meng Bao sighed, "What a disappointment!" How to put old pre-war satellite images into the system. β
"Or didn't it refresh?" He pressed the screen's "Refresh Get Map" several times with his dielectric glove, and still pressed it several times. Meng was worried that the dielectric part of the glove was broken, so he changed his fingers and hands one after another, and then took off his gloves to refresh them on the screen, but it was still the old map before the war.
"What the hell! Frustrated! What the old maps! "Meng Zhu was very disappointed, and he wanted to see what his hometown was like now. But he couldn't help it without a new map, so he moved back to recheck the navigation point again. That's when he noticed that each map had an update date, and he moved back to see when the old maps were taken.
"Ha, it's so evil!" Meng sighed, and something stranger happened. It's an old map on the screen, but the update time is actually last month. There was also no problem with the system, and it was determined that these were newly acquired information.
"What the hell is this, I have to ask Lao Tang." Meng Zheng said, raising his head and adjusting his helmet to contact Tang Yujian. But just as he looked up, Meng Zhu noticed that the crowd around him was commotion in the night, and they were all looking in the direction of his left and back.
Meng Zhu also turned his head to look: "Heh! It's on fire again. Looks like no one is lucky tonight. β
The light of the fire in the distance was not large, but it was enough to illuminate a thick black column of smoke slowly rolling upwards. However, the place where the fire started was at the corner of a low hill, and there were two forest belts in between, so he didn't know where the fire was, so he continued to adjust the channel switch and adjust the radio.
"311 Call Genius, Channel 7, can I receive it?" The code name used by Meng Strike is the fuselage number of this government fighter and the channel frequency that Tang Yujian delivered to himself just now, "This is 311, call genius." β
There was only a "hiss--his-squeeh" noise in the headset, and there was no response to several consecutive calls. Meng Yan began to feel a little uneasy, and he looked up again at the location of the fire, because there were too many obstacles to tell where the fire was, and his vision was not clear at night. Meng Zhu only hopes that his brother Tang Yujian will not have any accidents.
At that moment, the announcement at the castle tower airport rang out: "Now broadcast a message, 'The rabbit said to Big Panya that he was going to get prickly heat.'" 'Repeat,' said the rabbit to Big Panya, about to get prickly heat. 'Repeat ......'"
No one took this sentence seriously, and the announcements were like noise that drowned out the noise of the night at the castle tower's airport. The dispatcher of the tower, Ngawang put down the microphone, and he was in a good mood. This kind of broadcast can be submitted on a public platform or SMS application, play a piece for 10 dollars, read it three times, and all the money will go into his pocket.
In the entire airport, only Meng Zhen's heart tightened when he heard this broadcast, and it was none other than his close friend Tang Yujian who sent this message. Because his call sign during the war was "poisonous fang", Tang Yujian's nickname for himself became "Big Fang"; And in order to take revenge on Tang Yujian, he usually called him "rabbit" on the ground according to his call sign of "genius rabbit".
As for the word "prickly heat", it was an emergency code word that he and Tang Yujian discussed with each other when they first met in the army, which means "emergency take-off". It's just that during the war, it was an emergency take-off almost every day, and how could I have time to take care of the little code that each other agreed with each other when they were young.
I really didn't expect that today I actually received the code word "prickly heat" for the first time, and Meng Zhen's heart immediately became nervous, and he was very worried about Tang Yujian's safety. If the situation is normal, they should communicate via the on-board radio as agreed; At least they have mobile phones for each other, why use code words? Why do you want to use a public broadcasting platform? Something must have happened to him!
Meng Shu got up from the cockpit, grabbed the front windshield bulkhead with both hands and stood up and looked around, but he didn't see Tang Yujian, this is probably not a joke made by the elder brother and himself. There was nothing but a fire in the distance.
After the end of the war, the whole world was thrown into chaos, and small situations such as fires were everywhere, and there were several cases a day in the castle tower alone. Although Meng Zhen did not know Tang Yujian's location at this time, he certainly did not know the location of the temporary headquarters with the Y-9ZH command aircraft "tent" as the core. But he can confirm that Tang Yujian's abnormal information must be related to this fire.
Meng Struck sat back in the cockpit, ready to take off immediately. The porcupine brothers know each other that they can best help each other if they listen to each other and promise each other in an emergency.
He glanced at the dashboard for a final check and selected the engine auto-start mode, as auto-start is much faster than manual start. I didn't have time to think about it, so I quickly stretched out my left hand and pressed the starter to let the engine start directly and automatically.
Smack, smack. Nothing happened.
At this time, a fine bead of sweat appeared on the forehead of the attack: the engine could not start?
Meng Zhu double-checked the plane's voltage reading, and it was completely at full capacity, and there were no other problems. He pressed the starter again, still nothing happened. The only thing in the helmet was the dry crackling of buttons, and the engine didn't move.
At this moment, Meng Bang's back was wet. He leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and had only one thought in his mind: "Never give up!" β
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