Entering the temperature of the North Reservoir in September, the temperature gradually decreased, and the temperature had dropped to more than ten degrees when the sun was thin, and the Beiku Combat Training Base located at the foot of the North Reservoir Mountain added a bit of chill.

The training enthusiasm of the 101st Brigade is hot, and there is no longer a distinction between day and night. Every year after August Day, the army training will enter the middle of the year, and this year is no exception. The four branches of the Navy, Army, and Air Force have all started their annual live-ammunition and live-fire exercises, with the aim of testing the results of the troops' training in the past year. The quarter, from September to December, was also a period of military news coverage.

"On the 19th, the summer was scorching and foggy. A certain destroyer detachment of the Navy's South China Sea Fleet lined up in the waters of the South China Sea and launched a live-fire confrontation exercise. I saw warships riding the waves and attacking......"

"In late August, a certain airfield of the Air Force of the Southeast Military Region was busy, and the warhawks were ready to go. Boarding, checking, driving...... After a while, the roar resounded through the airport, and several fighter planes took off in echelons and went straight to the designated airspace to carry out the annual live-fire drill......"

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News like this is frequently seen in the newspapers and on television, and behind this is far more enthusiastic and exciting than the scenes presented in the report.

The 101st Brigade, which is stationed in Beiku and guards the western gate of the motherland, is undoubtedly one of the units with the highest training intensity. The impact of Xue Xiangdong's sacrifice was far from abating, and the officers and soldiers, especially the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level, would look up at the sky whenever they remembered the old brigade commander's voice and smile, as if the old brigade commander had been watching everyone from the sky.

Some people thought that Xue Xiangdong's choice was inappropriate and that he should not have passed away by concealing his illness, but he still chose to say goodbye in the form of a combat pilot, which brought a great shock to the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level. There is no ideological education more shocking than this.

This is the best pre-war mobilization.

The officers and men of the 101 Brigade are immersed in hard training in extreme sorrow, and the air and ground crews are holding back their strength to win the first place in the all-air force aviation unit all-factor assessment at the end of the year, so as to comfort the old brigade commander's soul in heaven.

A 20-car oil tanker truck drove into the Beiku combat training base along the special railway, and the officers and men of the ground service methodically poured hundreds of tons of aviation fuel into the underground oil depot, and after a short time, another train drove straight into the ammunition depot in the Beiku mountain range, and the armed police internal security units with loaded guns escorted the ammunition to the base for handover.

For several days, all kinds of logistics materials were replenished and put into storage, so often people were in a boiling mood, and the Beiku combat training base was full of the smell of war.

Li Zhan, who was supposed to train in the sky, got a temporary position, and had to run around in the warrior commuter car driven by Pei Lei.

The air defense base set up a leading group for engineering construction, and Li Zhan concurrently held the temporary post of deputy director of the office. The leader of this leading group for project construction is the head of the military region, Liang Pengfei is the executive deputy head of the group responsible for specific matters, and Fang Chenghe is the director of the office, who is responsible for more specific things.

The sky was a continuous high-intensity training of the troops, and the roar of fighter engines was incessant, and it never stopped from day to night, and even the villagers of Sanlipu Town could hear the sound of fighter planes rumbling overhead at three or four o'clock in the morning.

Li Zhan felt like a cat's claw in his heart, but his repeated requests to lead the team for training were rejected, which made him very depressed. I thought that in the last quarter, I would buy a few more suites and then build a building on the piece that my father bought, but he was assigned such a temporary position that was completely unrelated to his major, how not to be depressed.

Fang Chenghe's explanation is also very well-founded, Li Zhan is the grassroots cadre who understands the requirements of the construction of the station base the most, and it is most appropriate for him to be responsible for the specific implementation.

However, after discussing it privately, everyone thought that this was a disguised and grounded Li Zhan. If you think, it's okay to "shoot down" your own plane, and if your own things are broken, you can make money to buy them, but if you kick the accelerator and scrap the two engines of other people, you almost didn't cause a diplomatic lawsuit, then it won't work. To this day, the Su-27** is still lying in the repair shop. The Chinese side talked a little bit and compensated according to the price with a few dollars in its pocket, but the Russian side did not send a new engine at the agreed time, and it took a few months to put it on hold. Li Zhan couldn't help but think, hey, maybe the price of the two engines can be exchanged for such a plane. But as soon as I saw the broken Su-27**, I couldn't be happy, and the two engines were worth the money.

In any case, Li Zhan missed the high-intensity training in early September. In his absence, Nie Jianfeng and the others also did a good job, but this was a relief for Li Zhan for no reason. After all, his time to stay in the 101st Brigade is running out, and if he goes downhill because he is gone, his past efforts will be in vain. So he said to others, do you know how I spent more than two years in Beiku—a lot of money for pulling rods?

After a trip to the cargo station to sign and receive all kinds of construction materials and construction machinery that arrived on the same day, and asked the security officer and others to conduct safety checks on these materials, Li Zhan beckoned Pei Lei to drive straight to the mountains in the north.

That's right, in addition to aviation fuel and ammunition, there are also countless construction machinery and materials that have poured into the Beiku combat training base, and more than a dozen large central enterprise buses with more than 200 engineering teams have been stationed in the Beiku combat training base.

The base was expanded, the second runway was repaired, permanent aircraft forts and hangars were built, office buildings and other living buildings were built, and various pipelines and communication lines were laid......

In terms of area, after the completion of all the units, the usable area of the Beiku combat training base will be tripled, and it can accommodate up to 100 fighters for combat training. Judging from the level, the Beiku Air Defense Base is the only comprehensive station at the regular army level in the whole army. From the point of view of use, the Beiku combat training base has been determined to be built into the largest simulated blue army combat training base in the whole army.

Li Zhan did not understand engineering construction, but he knew how to build it to best meet the requirements of the army's combat training. The Beiku base is both an air defense base and a combat training base, and how to build and plan for the expansion is based on the requirements and standards formulated by many departments after repeated discussions in the draft submitted by Li Zhan. He doesn't know how to draw, but he knows how to draw.

Looking at it this way, the specific implementation and supervision of this matter belong to him.

It's just that he is most concerned about tomorrow's live-fire training today, so he doesn't have to run over to see the newly allocated ammunition.

Pei Lei knew what was going on, because the captain was going to participate in live shooting training tomorrow, so he was so excited. If you count it carefully, the captain has been grounded for more than a week, and he has already been on fire. Tomorrow we will go up and we may not know how to shoot the artillery, and everyone is waiting with anticipation for tomorrow's live-fire training of the whole brigade.

The three brigades completed the live firing in one day, and it was another large-scale military operation with guns and guns.

The base has a special earth-gray concrete-reinforced combat road, which leads directly to the ammunition depot located deep in the mountains of the North Reservoir. It is said that those caves existed in the fifties and sixties, and they were originally the place of the Second Artillery Corps, and it is estimated that ballistic missiles are hidden, and there are preset positions outside, which can be pulled out and hit. I don't know when it was withdrawn, and now it is an excellent place to store ammunition.

I came to the foot of the mountain in all directions, and I looked up at the towering peaks like knives, and the surrounding cold coniferous forests were also very dense. From Li Zhan's professional point of view, it is extremely difficult for aerial reconnaissance to find clues here, let alone peek into the mundane ammunition depot in front of him, which looks like a dilapidated factory, and commonly import and export. The railroad line is on the side, and it runs through the tall trees and goes straight into the mountains.

The Beiku Integrated Combat Readiness Warehouse, this is not the place of the 101 Brigade, and it is not even under the jurisdiction of the Beiku Air Defense Base. This is not the Beiku Combat Training Base's own warehouse, and the level of the people is not low, and the deputy division-level units are directly under the General Headquarters, and the military region cannot control them.

The base called in advance and sent the official document, and even so, the captain who received it checked the documents of Li Zhan and Pei Lei in detail and verified them several times before leading them in. After changing cars, the Warrior commuter car was parked outside and was not allowed to enter, and got into the Great Wall pickup truck driven by the captain.

After driving for several minutes before turning into the area where the ammunition was really stored, Li Zhan and Pei Lei were eye-opening.

"Staff Officer Zhang, I'm afraid this is hollowing out the mountains, right?" Li Zhan couldn't help but ask.

Staff Officer Zhang, who was driving, had a dull complexion, and most of the people who rarely saw the day were in this color, similar to the crowd that reversed black and white, and naturally there was no day and night in the cave. The expression is cautious with a bit of woodenness, which is closely related to the work he is engaged in. The days of step-by-step work have passed for a long time, and even the eyes have lost their color.

No wonder when you hear the word "warehouse", most of them have a prefix - distribution.

Not to mention staying in this kind of place for several years, even if you stay in a month, you will go crazy, what is the difference between being locked up and confined. The more he said this, the more Li Zhan admired his comrades-in-arms here.

Staff Officer Zhang's tone was colorless, and he said, "The mountain is big, so it won't be hollowed out, and the warehouse is very large." ”

If it weren't for the army warehouse, then the people here would be very happy to see a stranger, at least they would be able to talk to a different person. However, the discipline of the troops is there, what can be said cannot be said, and the secrecy regulations are so detailed that they can be printed in a long article.

Li Zhan didn't say anything more, and a few minutes later he arrived in a huge space, and the scene in front of him made Li Zhan and Pei Lei look stupid.

A large number of warplanes.

J-6, J-7, J-8, roughly estimated that there are hundreds of densely parked like a giant parking lot, and that scene also calmed Li Zhan, a well-informed person.

Staff Officer Zhang said disapprehantly, "It's all some rags, and we should dispose of some of them after a while." ”

"This, this is the legendary combat aircraft?" Li Zhan was stunned and pointed to the huge group of fighters and said.

Not only massive, but also backward.

Staff Officer Zhang smiled and didn't speak, didn't admit or deny it, but pointed to the right, "Your things are over there, please here." ”

People walked over there and looked straight at this huge parking field, a huge space tens of meters high and much larger than a football field, Li Zhan couldn't understand how there was such a ghostly work decades ago. The North Warehouse Combat Readiness Warehouse will definitely not be a special case, and it may be difficult to have an accurate number of great national defense projects created in the environment of "digging deep holes and accumulating grain extensively" in those years.

It took several minutes to enter the storage room where the ammunition belonging to the 101st Brigade was stored.

"That's it, a total of thirty-six, the details are here." Staff Officer Zhang handed over a document and said, "Captain Li, you check it out, if there is no problem, you have to sign it here." ”

That's what Li Zhan came to do.

He checked the list one by one, and checked the manufacturer's nameplate, model, production serial number, identification code, tactical mark, precautions, usage methods, etc. It took almost an hour to do all this work, and Staff Officer Zhang did not show the slightest impatience, but seriously explained what to Li Zhan.

This is a new batch of ammunition, the service number is kept secret.

Pei Lei is in his fifth year this year, but he has never seen such ammunition.

It's a lot like a bomb, but it's very different. The position of the warhead is exquisite, it is the seeker, and with Pei Lei's non-professional eyes, he also feels that the seeker is very different. If you look at the bullet tail, it's an engine vent-like thing, and there are four bullet wings around it. It looks like a new head and tail for an ordinary aerial bomb, but it is not quite like it, because the body of an ordinary aerial bomb is cylindrical, but the missile in front of it is a polygonal cross-section, and there seems to be a telescopic main wing on the missile body.

If he pays attention to military news, he will think of the new type of joint attack munitions outside the defense zone that appeared at the Zhuhai air show last year, but the ones on the air show are nicknamed models, and the 36 new joint attack munitions that appear in front of him at this moment with the name of the model in service with secret names are models for his own use.

Li Zhan is very satisfied with the 250-kilogram warhead, with a maximum range of 200 kilometers and a maximum accuracy of 5 meters, which can carry various warheads to hit a variety of ground, sea and underground targets. When carrying a submunition warhead, this thing is an aerial ammunition dispenser, and the released submunitions can cover an area as large as a 30,000-person gymnasium, and according to the calculation that one fighter carries four, a strike team of four fighters can cover such a large target as the Beiku combat training base.

This is not the LS series of guided missiles, nor does it belong to the category of air-to-surface missiles, the type is somewhere in between, with the large ammunition yield of the former and the accuracy and long range of the latter.

The most critical point is that this ammunition is specially developed for new domestic fighters, and is mainly used as a supporting ammunition for heavy fighters such as J-11 and J-16. The J-10 can be mounted, but the ammunition weighing more than a ton is a bit heavier for a villain with small arms and legs.

The 1,800-kilometer ultra-long-range combat and half-kilogram plus the joint attack ammunition outside the defense zone with a maximum range of 200 kilometers, and the carrier aircraft are also J-11 and J-16 series fighters with excellent air combat performance, which is definitely a great pressure on the strong enemy

In tomorrow's live-fire training, Li Zhan personally led the team to shoot this type of ammunition for the first time, which was the final work of the "228" project.

After confirming that it was correct, Li Zhan signed his name on the handover form, and immediately, Staff Officer Zhang immediately reported and arranged for the transfer after receiving the order.

The countdown to the largest live-fire training of the year has begun.