“…… Looking at it from another angle, if you hadn't left the Second Division at that time, there would be no 101st Brigade now, no Eagle Falcon Brigade, and no even the Beiku Combat Training Base. Li Zhan, Seong lost his horse and knew the blessings and misfortunes. Actually, you are not really entangled in this matter, I don't know you yet, you just attach too much importance to affection, Chen Fei is your first instructor, and it can be said that he is the guide of your combat flight career, so you are so entangled. Actually, you don't realize a problem. ”

Nie Jianfeng reasoned with the facts, and there was no empty talk, which made Li Zhan feel a little better.

After a pause, Nie Jianfeng said, "You didn't figure out your own situation. Do you know your weight in the air force and your position in the Air Force? You are the originator of a variety of combat tactics, what is Chen Fei, it's just a senior pilot of the Second Division who can't stay and goes to HNA, are you guilty of being entangled like this because of his affairs? ”

As soon as he said this, Li Zhan was stunned at first, and then suddenly became enlightened, it seems that he is a little second, but is my status really so awesome? He didn't know it.

After a while, Li Zhan said, "But that kid is now a lieutenant colonel and deputy regiment, and I'm still a junior major." ”

Nie Jianfeng said, "No, he has just been promoted to the main regiment, the lieutenant colonel regiment, but he has no specific position for the time being, and I heard that something happened not long after entering the Flying Shark carrier-based fighter group." ”

"It's a regiment......" Li Zhan felt even more upset, thinking of his stack of first-class merit certificates and the specific person in charge of the two army-level projects, and until now he is still a small major and a small battalion, so it is strange if he is not lost.

To a certain extent, military ranks and ranks represent the honor of soldiers, and it is an unbreakable truth that the capable and the mediocre stop. But this truth seems to be invalid when applied to Li Zhan.

Don't talk about him, Nie Jianfeng is also lost. I think that he and Chen Fei were both squadron leaders back then, and they were promoted in the same batch of troops, but now Chen Fei is one step ahead.

"The air division must have arrangements for you, you don't know yet, don't talk about our brigade now, even if it is an air defense base and the air force of the military region, it has no right to adjust. So when it comes to fighting, you have to have confidence in yourself. Nie Jianfeng said with relief.

This made Li Zhan wonder, no matter what, there would be no situation where the air division would directly interfere in the personnel arrangements at the grassroots level. The power of the air division is not as great as imagined, but the position is a little awkward. The head of the air force of the military region is also the deputy of the military region, and he is of a higher rank than many of the heads of the air department, so it is embarrassing. There is no problem with the management of business guidance and combat training, but when it comes to personnel transfers, it is really difficult for the headquarters to support the air division alone.

Therefore, not to mention Li Zhan's seven first-class merits, he is seventy first-class merits, and his personnel establishment arrangements cannot reach the air division, but they are not as high as when he served in the special aviation unit before. There are strict rules and regulations for organization and personnel, and the first level of management is clearly distinguished, and it is not something that you can meddle in casually if you have a high level.

But this impossible situation just appeared, Li Zhan was puzzled, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, why did you go to the air division?" ”

Air control is not necessarily a good thing.

Nie Jianfeng said, "I don't know much about this, if you ask the brigade commander, he must know." ”

After thinking about it, Li Zhan waved his hand and said, "Forget it, to be honest, I really ...... these Don't really care. That is, I always feel a little embarrassed, a crew is flying, he is my rear cabin, and the knot in my heart is going to be a big problem if it is not solved. ”

"This is a test of your handling ability, you are still afraid of this, the first captain of your dignified falcon brigade. Okay, it's not a big deal, let me tell you, the J-16 must come back after the test flight, and it must not be quietly touched. Nie Jianfeng said.

Li Zhan said, "No, okay, let's do this first." ”

"Oh yes, there's one more thing." Nie Jianfeng remembered something, "Niu Jun has returned to the general assembly organ, and he left yesterday." ”

"Oh, got it." Li Zhan said, "Oh yes, do you take a holiday during the Spring Festival? ”

"Where can you go, the bunch of training tasks you left behind will be completed before March, and I won't have time to sleep, let alone vacation, don't you know better than me?" Nie Jianfeng said.

Li Zhan frowned, "Lao Nie, you haven't taken a vacation for three years, how is your family, I think you should apply for a vacation and go back for the New Year, the training task will be handed over to other people's organizations, and the brothers can do a good job." You don't have to be staring. ”

Seeing that the Spring Festival is coming, who doesn't want to go home for the New Year?

Nie Jianfeng sighed and said, "Let's talk about it next year, the army has been more critical in the past two years, you have left a good deck of cards, if I don't play well, I won't have the face to see people." Gotta do that, I'm about to fly. ”

After hanging up the phone, Li Zhan sighed for a long time, the profession of an air force pilot looks glamorous, and only he knows how sad he actually is, not only his family is sad. A person who is married to an Air Force pilot is the same as not having a husband, and a son who is an Air Force pilot is the same as his son who is dead.

Shaking his head and throwing away these meaningless distractions, Li Zhan said in his heart: Do it, it's not easy.

The transformation of the Zhongnan station was very fast, in just three days, the runway wheel stopper was installed, a squadron of J-10A was stationed, plus the 007 J-10S, and the Zhongnan station had five permanent fighters.

The so-called wheel stopper is a lifting barricade installed on the runway to block the tires of the landing gear of the aircraft, and its function is to increase the braking force of the aircraft, so that the fighter can get more engine thrust before taking off and running, and shorten the take-off distance by this method. Combined with the sliding runway, the take-off distance of the fighter can be greatly shortened, generally speaking, the fighter only needs to glide for about 100 meters to get off the ground in the semi-fuel state.

The Second Division undoubtedly wanted to make the Zhongnan Field Station partially capable of training carrier-based fighter pilots through such a transformation.

These are not Li Zhan's jobs, he has changed from a temporary instructor to the leader of the first crew of the Air Division's actual combat test flight team, responsible for the actual combat test flight of the No. 1616 J-16 fighter-bomber, and at the same time, it has also been integrated into the acceptance test flight. After careful consideration, the air force decided to speed up the pace of installing the J-16 fighter-bomber, and the demand for this aircraft is even more urgent for Hainan Airlines.

However, judging from the Air Force's leading acceptance and test flight work, although the development of the HNA is rapid and vigorous, its status is still inferior to that of the Air Force. Everyone knows that the J-16 is of the greatest significance to HNA.

Yi Xiaoyi and two equally young mechanics formed the manufacturer's technical team and the Niu Yaoyang maintenance team sent by the 101st Brigade arrived at Zhongnanchang Station in advance. These are all acquaintances, Niu Yaoyang's maintenance team is a soldier led by Li Zhan, and in order to strengthen the strength of Niu Yaoyang's maintenance team, the 101st Brigade removed Major Miao Yu, the mechanic who had been supporting Li Zhan for the longest time, and strengthened it to Niu Yaoyang's maintenance team, and suddenly Li Zhan regained his long-lost sense of work.

The manufacturer's technical group is responsible for technical support, Niu Yaoyang's maintenance team is the first to modify the J-16 support work of the maintenance team is very familiar with this fighter, Li Zhan has an absolutely reliable ground support group, which is a prerequisite for the smooth flight test flight.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Fei drove the No. 1616 J-16 fighter-bomber alone to the Zhongnan Station, and that night's Chinese New Year's Eve conference dinner, the canteen inside the station was changed into a banquet scene, full of a large round table dishes, boxes of beer were stacked against the wall, except for the personnel on duty, the rest were all dressed in spring and autumn clothes, Tang Guozheng was carrying a bottle of wine and toasting table by table, happily pulling a few leaders and a few recruits to blow the bottle competition, easily won the victory, and the sound almost lifted the roof.

Tang Guozheng touched his bald head and laughed, sat firmly on Mount Tai after a lap, accepted the collective toast of each company, did not blow cup to bottle, and finally stood up suddenly, stood up on the chair with one foot on the dining table, held a wine bottle in his hand, and waved the conductor to sing.

"Forward, forward, forward!"

"Forward, forward, forward! Our team to the sun! ”

It was a Chinese New Year's Eve feast for a group of comrades from all over the world who were far away from their parents back home.

Alcohol is banned twice a year, once on Chinese New Year's Eve and once on Army Day; even the Southeast Military Region, which has the strictest prohibition on alcohol, will not restrict officers and men from drinking alcohol on these two major festivals. Of course, the premise is that drinking alcohol must be done in an organized manner, and drinking without permission is still subject to disciplinary action.

Li Zhan sat at a table with his old friends, old comrades-in-arms, and old subordinates.

Chen Fei drank so much that he had changed so much that Li Zhan couldn't even remember what kind of person he was. The comer did not refuse to pick up the cup and do it, he used to be a talker, but now he drank more and talked less, and he was polite to everyone, even to the youngest corporal in the maintenance team, and there was no regimental pilot at all.

Li Zhan also drank a lot, purely out of pleasure. I thought that I was going to say goodbye to Beiku completely, but I didn't expect that when I arrived in the central and southern mountains, the local troops still took care of their emotions and sent their old subordinates to participate in the test flight, although it was not a big deal, but it showed that the 101 Brigade really did his job with his heart, and he didn't care about it because he left Beiku.

Miao Yu, who hadn't been home for two years, suddenly sang: "To tell you something, I'm homesick too!" ”

Everyone couldn't stop singing: "The old mother at home is full of gray hair. ”

"Since you are here to be a soldier, you know that you have a great responsibility! You don't carry a gun, I don't carry a gun, whoever protects our mother will defend her! ”

Niu Yaoyang, who hadn't been home for four years, cried and sang heartbreakingly, "Say something from your heart!" Who the doesn't want home! I'm homesick too! I miss my mom too! I miss her too! ”

All of them cried, and a group of cattle in the eyes of their superiors and tough guys in the eyes of the common people cried like children, many of them were still mothers' children. With the strength of wine, these tough guys who never know what tears are cry wolf howl, let the homesickness buried deep in the bottom of their hearts be vented fiercely, and tomorrow will be an unsmiling animal and the protector of the people!

Li Zhan felt very uncomfortable, got up and left the dining hall.