Why retreat?

There is no need to lead the enemy deeper, just rush over and fight directly, isn't it just a pirate, there is no need to play those complicated tactics.

Besides, the command post is very clear about its current situation, and withdrawing is tantamount to giving up its back, and besides, it can't withdraw if you want to.

But why did the command post give such an order - to ask him to retreat fifty kilometers, and the first reinforcements would arrive in the war zone in twenty minutes!

Li Zhan's head turned several thoughts in an instant, although there were countless questions, but he did not ask questions to the command post, nor did he resist the order, but saw the opportunity to decisively press the pole and dive away from the battle group at a large angle.

Of course, the command post knew that it was quite a dangerous move to let Li Zhan retreat at this time, but for the smooth progress of the follow-up plan, Li Zhan had to retreat fifty kilometers and pull the pirate's F-15J to that sea area!

The navy, which rarely has the task of striking at actual combat, treats the temporary decision to strike at the West Pacific pirates as a good opponent, and is determined to temper the unit's emergency combat capability. Since it is a war, it is impossible to have no casualties, as the commander-in-chief, Wang Jiaqi knows this very well, even if he sacrifices Li Zhan, he will not hesitate to do so!

However, everyone is very confident in Li Zhan, after all, the first shot has not been fired yet, with Li Zhan's strong combat effectiveness, it is not surprising that he can't beat the F-15J, but it is not very difficult to get out.

It's just that the exercise headquarters, which has been transformed into a front-line command center, didn't know the situation at that time, the two F-15Js were already determined to shoot down Li Zhan, and the pilots hired by the two pirates were just unable to adapt to Li Zhan's cunning tactical maneuvers for a while, and they had not yet formed a favorable attack posture.

At this time, Li Zhan's sudden acceleration and large-angle dive surprised the two F-15Js - how did that person know that there was a fleet underneath?

Li Zhan didn't know that his airborne radar had no way to search the sea in the state of a dogfight, and it was originally an old radar with limited combat performance. Li Zhan did this just to get rid of their entanglement as soon as possible, so as to achieve the goal of retreating fifty kilometers.

He knows too well the performance of the F-15 series of fighters, fighting them at high altitude is looking for death, only by pulling the battlefield to a low altitude or even ultra-low altitude, and limiting the scope to a space as small as possible, can he use his piloting skills far stronger than the other party to scare the other party or even kill the other party.

To break away is to die, and there has to be some struggle.

Niu Jun still insisted on taking pictures in various violent maneuvers, which in her opinion would be extremely rare first-hand aerial combat video materials. By the time it was time to dive, she couldn't tell the difference between the sky and the sea, and she was already confused, but she still insisted on working.

The old flying leopard easily exceeded the speed of sound in the process of diving down at a large angle afterburner, and because it was carrying a supersonic auxiliary fuel tank, it did not have a lot of impact on the supersonic flight of the fighter.

However, Li Zhan has decided to throw away the two auxiliary fuel tanks that still have some fuel, and he must be more agile in order to fight the more agile F-15J fighters.

At a height of 3,000 meters above the sea, he dropped two auxiliary fuel tanks, and the fighter still maintained a high-angle dive, but he began to slow down, allowing the fighter to slowly respond at the fastest speed. He did not dare to pull up the fighter at supersonic speed, and the attack aircraft of the old flying leopard, dressed in the skin of a fighter-bomber, could never be compared with the air superiority fighter.

As a result, Li Zhan suddenly saw a large number of flashing navigation lights on the sea, which were warning lights on the ship's mast, which were so conspicuous in the cloudless low altitude and in the dark sea.

"it!" Li Zhan was sure at the first time that it was not a merchant ship, but an armed fleet of Western Pacific pirates! It's a standard battle formation!

Almost at the same time, the radar siren beeped.

It wasn't the F-15J who was in hot pursuit, it was the fire control radar on the pirate armed ship on the sea that locked on him!

Li Zhan's disposition was very decisive, he turned on the radio jamming function of the integrated tactical pod. He did not have great hopes for the radio jamming capabilities of the integrated tactical pod, and relied more on his evasive maneuvers.

However, in the case of pursuers, the evasive maneuvers that can be taken are very limited.

Almost for a second, Li Zhan chose to continue to accelerate and dive instead of doing other evasive maneuvers. Only by speeding up to a low altitude and entering the blind spot of anti-aircraft missiles of the pirate armed fleet can you get a glimmer of life!

He could only hope that the old flying leopard would be able to obey his manipulation and smooth the leveling when he was close to the surface of the sea.

The pilots of the two F-15Js in pursuit made a fatal mistake, they chased very closely, because they were afraid that the air-to-air missiles launched would accidentally damage their own fleet, so they planned to use aerial guns to deal with their opponents. It is important to know that infrared-guided air-to-air missiles will not distinguish which infrared sources are friend or foe, and they dare not guarantee that their airborne radar will always be able to lock on to the target and continue to provide indicator data to the missile.

Two Sea Sparrow short-range anti-aircraft missiles were launched, heading straight for Li Zhan, and then two more. The distance between each other is just over three kilometers, which is the range of the sea sparrow's highest hit rate. It's just that the armed Corsairs that launched these Sea Sparrow short-range anti-aircraft missiles did not expect that the target would dive all the time, and the altitude would be lower and lower, and the missile would have to maneuver with a very large overload to hit the target in the predetermined hit.

As a result, the first two Hiram disintegrated under a huge overload, and the warhead blew itself up.

And the second batch of two Sea Sparrow missiles did not have time to lock on to the target at all, because the integrated tactical pod carried out radio interference, and the ship's fire control radar temporarily lost its effect, and then it was these two Sea Sparrow missiles that discovered two more obvious infrared signal sources - the two F-15J fighters that were biting Li Zhan tightly.

At this time, there was some accident - an armed pirate ship suddenly exploded on the sea, and the second explosion was very violent, and the fire lit up half of the sea and sky!

Li Zhan was stunned suddenly, where did the angel sister come from to make this breath for him?

It's an auxiliary tank!

The two auxiliary fuel tanks actually hit an armed pirate ship of more than 4,000 tons at a vertical angle, and the kinetic energy of the auxiliary fuel tanks thrown away in the supersonic state is huge, plus the residual fuel inside, isn't it an unpowered aerial bomb!

The first auxiliary fuel tank hit Jianqiao, and under the huge impact, two compartments of Jianqiao were pierced, and the fuel inside quickly burned. The second auxiliary fuel tank directly killed the armed pirate ship of more than 4,000 tons - it actually pierced the foredeck and hit the ammunition compartment under the main gun in the bow!

The ammunition compartment where hundreds of 76 mm shells were stored exploded, and a huge explosion opened the foredeck, and the Otto Melera 76 mm gun was thrown high and smashed into the water. The huge shock wave even tore through the hull on both sides, and the sea water poured in fiercely, announcing the death sentence of this "First Snow" class universal pirate ship.

Li Zhan didn't have time to think about it, at this time he used all the means of deceleration, staring at the airspeed and altimeter, shouting in his heart to slow down and slow down, only when the airspeed is reduced to the ideal value can he pull the rod and resume level flight, otherwise the old flying leopard is very likely to disintegrate!

The number on the altimeter fell rapidly, and Li Zhanfei quickly mentally calculated, and after confirming that it was too late, he decisively pulled the rod and pedaled the rudder for level flight maneuvering.

"Fight!"

Li Zhan shouted, and suddenly heard two huge explosions behind him, and saw in the rearview mirror that two fires suddenly exploded in the rear, what the hell is this, why did the two F-15J fighters explode in the back! In fact, the pilots of the two F-15Js were full of question marks when they saw their own missiles coming towards them. As a result, they were blown up before they could have the next thought.

Which angel sister is this breath for Li Zhan?

The two unexpected changes occurred in just a few seconds, but Li Zhan's crisis was not touched. He got out of the attack in an extremely dangerous way, but he was not out of the danger yet.

No. 81198 J-7 made a tooth-sour sound in his maneuvering, the fuselage structure was groaning, and there was a visible air flow at the position of the flaps, which suddenly increased the air resistance and combat maneuver to fight each other, and the fuselage structure screamed in pain in such a tragic environment!

The height continued to drop, a hundred meters, fifty meters, thirty meters, and it was about to crash on the surface of the sea.

Li Zhan yelled: "Fat leopard, get up for Lao Tzu!" ”

He resolutely shot forward with the cannon, hoping that the backward force generated when the cannon was fired could help the fighter reduce its speed and provide some upward force, even if it was extremely weak!

Once again, the coincidence happened.

In front of him was a "Murayu"-class general-purpose corsair, which had previously taken off the "Sea Hawk" carrier-based helicopter for an anti-submarine search, and after sounding the alarm, the "Sea Hawk" carrier-based helicopter was ordered to return home, and was on the landing route at this time.

The 23-millimeter cannon shell fired by Li Zhan hit the "Sea Hawk" carrier-based helicopter that was already slowly landing over the aft flight deck......

The "Sea Hawk" carrier-based helicopter quickly lost control after being hit, and then rushed to the hangar at an angle, and the high-speed rotating rotors cut off the Sea Sparrow short-range air defense missile system and irradiation radar above the hangar, and a large crater was directly knocked out of the fuselage loading hangar, and more than a dozen ground crew members waiting for support inside were instantly killed and wounded.

Li Zhan didn't bother to pay attention to these at all!

He found that the old flying leopard was resolutely descending, and the height had dropped to thirty meters, and the depression angle was hovering below zero. Life and death are on the line, Li Zhan gritted his teeth and decisively retracted all the throttle, the fighter suddenly frustrated, Li Zhan pulled the lever back, and saw that the elevation angle finally returned to the positive number, he was so excited that he almost jumped out of the cockpit, and quickly opened the full throttle!

The old flying leopard's fuselage made a louder tooth-souring sound, and finally raised its head, and the powerful wake that suddenly erupted crashed into the sea and stirred up a large cloud of mist!

The engine vent is just one meter from sea level!

Li Zhan and Niu Jun escaped death, and the old flying leopard did not disappoint them at the last moment, and stopped falling one second before hitting the sea surface, and resumed the climb rate!

Because it was too close to the "Village Rain"-class general corsair in front, although Li Zhan had already struggled to pull the rod and push the rudder, the distance was too close, and when the old flying leopard slid sideways at a large angle, the belly of the aircraft rubbed against the highest antenna on the mast, and the fighter shook a little.

Li Zhan did not dare to climb, but after fully controlling the fighter, he once again quickly descended in altitude, relying on his strong ultra-low-altitude flight ability, flying at high speed at a sea-skimming altitude of five meters, only this altitude can ensure safety, even if it is a close defense artillery, it is very difficult to intercept him.

You must know that Li Zhan broke into the armed fleet of pirates at this time!

He then quickly checked the various systems of the fighter and found that everything was normal, but he clearly felt that the fuselage structure was a little loose. Taking a deep breath, Li Zhan asked Niu Jun, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's okay! I took pictures of them all! Super blockbuster! ”

"Eldest sister, we are almost glorious, you still have the heart to take pictures."

"My job is to shoot! Yes, senior brother, you knocked out two enemy planes, sank a pirate ship, and damaged one, how did you do it, and you didn't bring any other ammunition? Niu Jun was puzzled and asked.

Li Zhan smiled bitterly and said, "If I say it's all a coincidence, do you believe it?" ”

"If you don't believe it, how can there be so many coincidences, let's talk about it quickly." Niu Jun's question is strong, she is the clearest bystander, except for those who don't know what weapon Li Zhan used to do this, she sees everything else.

How could there be such a coincidence?

Li Zhan sighed and said, "It was the same when I participated in the drill in the Mediterranean Sea at that time, it was really an unintentional move, I can only say, how to say it, it was they who were unlucky......

After speaking, he shook his head helplessly, and quickly called the command post, "Command post!" Found an armed fleet of pirates, more than a dozen, and four pirate ships of 7,000 tons, right in my seas! ”

"Angry old leopard, are you still alive? How are you doing? The command post, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly became active, and when Li Zhan dived at a large angle, they thought that Li Zhan had been shot down, and Li Zhan had no time to contact the command post at that time!

Li Zhan reported, "I am in their fleet, flying at a height of five meters at sea and flying at high speed to the west, and I am done!" ”

"Five-meter sea-skimming height...... You think you're an anti-ship missile! The commander was terrified and admired, and he immediately said, "The angry old leopard will return immediately, and the support detachment will meet you in ten minutes!" ”

Li Zhan raised a different opinion, "Do you carry anti-ship missiles, I suggest that you strike at the pirate armed fleet immediately!" ”

"The detachment that received you didn't have time to replenish ammunition, and they were responsible for entanglement the other two enemy planes to pick you up!" According to the command, the J-8D that was sent over was an emergency takeoff, and it was rushing here at supersonic speed to meet Li Zhan.

Li Zhan was the clearest about the situation on the battlefield, he quickly thought about it for a while and made a suggestion, "Command post, I am sure to get out of the threat of the pirate fleet, I can let the receiving detachment go to block the other two enemy planes, I will retreat fifty kilometers and stand by to provide target relay guidance for the follow-up attack detachment!" ”

He confirmed that the fighter plane was fine, the integrated tactical pod was fine, the fuel was sufficient, and he still had the strength to fight. At this time, our fleet was still more than 300 kilometers away, and at this distance, the surface detachment was not able to hit the pirate fleet with any anti-ship weapons.

It can only be carried out by air detachments carrying air-to-ship missiles.

The air detachment launched the YJ-83 air-launched anti-ship missile at high altitude to achieve a maximum range of more than 250 kilometers, but the hit rate at this range was very low, because the airborne radar of the carrier aircraft could not provide target designation.

You can only rely on relay guidance.