There is a factual basis for saying that the army is bitter and dirty, and the air force pilots can still squint and sleep when they come back after flying a few laps and throwing dozens of tons of ammunition, but the ground combat units will not be able to do so.

The armored corps is okay, the car is driving and the artillery is fighting, at least you don't have to run on two legs. The infantry big brothers are miserable, how to coordinate with the infantry and the infantry with the tank armored vehicle, you not only have to run but also pay attention to the surroundings and not let the enemy's individual anti-tank weapons hit your own iron lumps.

You still have to carry dozens of pounds of real weight, it's really miserable.

At dawn, the ground combat phase began, and in the darkness the armored columns advanced in depth, and the main forces formed by the mixed infantry tanks pushed flat behind. Some people say that Lao Lu's theory of large-depth campaign assault operations is outdated, and some people say that a front-line flat push with no technical content at all is a live target.

In fact, a tactic that works well is a good tactic, not a matter of how fancy the tactic is.

In this vast desert basin, there is nothing more effective than two armoured columns pincer attacking the main force to follow up and push flat. The premise is that the air supremacy on the battlefield is in possession of the air force, and the air force must ensure that the enemy's fighters cannot drop bombs on the heads of the ground troops.

The theory of air-ground cooperative operations grasps a lot of things, and three-dimensional operations seem to be too tall and fashionable to be good; to put it bluntly, fighting back and forth is the same set, and everything changes will not deviate from its origin, and it can be summed up in four words: continuity and speed.

All combat units must act in strict accordance with the time nodes to ensure the continuity of the attack; the second is speed, and only speed is the truth, as long as the speed is fast enough, there will be no enemy who cannot be defeated.

The Air Force is undoubtedly the best practitioner of blitzkrieg operations, but the mistakes pointed out by Ukraine are precisely because the speed cannot keep up, which has dragged down the entire combat operation. This has aroused great concern among the heads of the training headquarters, and they will have a huge question: Will the air force be able to win future wars?

This is a very damning question.

In a large-scale exercise, more than a dozen arms of the three services participated, and the contrast was clearly visible.

At dawn, Li Zhan, who had already slept and woken up to study the combat plan with a staff officer in the combat conference room, was called away by Pei Lei.

"Captain, the regimental commander asks you to come to his office, there is an emergency." Pei Lei suppressed the voice report, and drove Li Zhanfeng to the infield office building.

What kind of emergency will there be at this time?

Xue Xiangdong summoned him in the infield office building, and I am afraid that Li Zhan's expectations are coming true.

Sure enough, during the implementation stage of the exercise, Xue Xiangdong actually had the leisure to smoke and drink tea in the office. It stands to reason that during the implementation phase of the exercise, the regimental commander will be stationed in the field and will never leave his command post at all times. Now Xue Xiangdong is waiting for Li Zhan with a smile in the infield office, what else can he do besides good news.

"Xiao Li, here, sit down." Xue Xiangdong beckoned Li Zhan to sit down, poured him a cup of tea casually, and said, "The tea sent by Comrade Wanjun to the team last time was evaluated well by Political Commissar Bao, and I opened it and drank it today, and I originally wanted to keep it for the New Year." ”

Li Zhan said with a smile, "Green tea should be drunk with new tea, drink it while it is fresh, and it will not taste good for the New Year." ”

After taking a sip of tea, Li Zhan said, "Regiment Leader, you are eating tight in front and in the rear." ”

"What words!" Xue Xiangdong glared angrily, "Isn't this the front of me, a veritable line." Besides, what's wrong with taking a sip of tea. I'm telling you, your chance has come. The head of the training headquarters was going to come to the North Reservoir Station to inspect the exercise, and he came by helicopter from the Army Aviation Force, and arrived in two hours. ”

Li Zhan suddenly cheered up, "Great, I've worked so hard to prepare so much and finally waited for the audience." Regiment commander, the police patrol flight must maintain the density. During the chief's time, be sure to keep a few minutes up and down. ”

"You follow the plan, it's up to you." Xue Xiangdong said.

"I'm going to fly, the tower commander suggests that Deputy Commander Yang be responsible." Li Zhan said.

Xue Xiangdong said, "I am personally responsible. ”

Li Zhan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is in command of the exercise?" ”

"It's me, too." Xue Xiangdong said, "So the leaders of the regiment have to go to the front line, and the tower commands me and Political Commissar Bao to be responsible." ”

When Li Zhan was thoughtful, Xue Xiangdong said in a deep voice, "The chief may have to take a plane for an aerial inspection, and the specific model has not yet been decided, but the transport pilot's Yun-8 is already on the way, and two of them will land on the field fifteen minutes earlier than the helicopter that the chief is riding." ”

"The chief wants to inspect from the air!" Li Zhan was taken aback, and he understood why Xue Xiangdong made such a command adjustment, obviously focusing on the command of the tower, mainly flight control, but put the matter of the exercise in a secondary position.

This is a normal thing, and the safety of the great head of the heaven and earth is the greatest.

"The transport pilots in Shaanxi took off two hours ago, and they received orders earlier." Xue Xiangdong said with a smile, "So you have to know that such an opportunity is very rare." The transport pilots more than 2,000 kilometers away are so active, we have the advantage of the right time, place and people, and we must show our faces fiercely in front of the chief. ”

Li Zhan said solemnly, "It seems that we are going to do our best to make every effort in the direction of the international airport, and compress the interval between each take-off and landing to less than three minutes, preferably no more than two minutes, so as to vividly and vividly reflect our regiment's ability to continuously make sorties and fights." ”

"The main thing is safety, I'm thinking about safety, flight safety is the first thing, don't show your face and show your butt when you don't show your face. Another is the flight safety of the Chief landline, which is the focus of all work. Xue Xiangdong said solemnly.

Li Zhan said confidently, "We have many high-intensity flight training experiences, and we also conducted a five-day ultra-high-intensity flight training, with an average flight time of 7.5 hours a day. The troops have been trained out, and there are no problems. ”

Taking a sip of tea, Li Zhan said, "Moreover, we can not arrange too many tactical flights, as long as we can ensure that the chief can see our continuous sortie capability." ”

"You mean to make a lap around the station and land, adjust the taxiway and then take off and circle like that?" Xue Xiangdong leaned forward and asked in a low voice.

Li Zhan grinned and said, "Regiment Commander, it's okay to make appropriate changes, after all, this is related to whether the chief can pay attention to us and give us a new plane with a stroke of the pen." ”

"I thought you kid didn't want to be careful." Xue Xiangdong said with a smile.

Li Zhan said, "Commander, I'm not so pedantic in your eyes, am I?" ”

"By what you mean, in short, it's about ensuring the frequency of take-offs and landings, how long do you think it should last?" Xue Xiangdong asked.

Li Zhan said, "It's 0 o'clock in the morning. From the time of the chief to the time it reaches 0:00 in the morning, this period of time maintains this intensity. ”

"It's been too long." Xue shook his head to the east.

The Chief is expected to arrive at 9 a.m. sharp, with a full fifteen hours in between midnight. According to the calculation of one take-off and landing in three minutes, there are about 300 take-offs and landings to fly, that is, more than 300 sorties. It means that all the fighters of the 101st Regiment have to fly at least five takeoffs and landings on average, which is a scary concept.

There are only five or six hundred inbound and outbound flights a day at the international airport!

And this is only theoretical data, and it is likely to be more practical in practice. The more frequent the take-off and landing, the greater the probability of problems, how to ensure flight safety? A fighter jet is not a passenger plane. From the conceptual design stage, airliners put flight safety first, all the way through to the end, and for military aircraft, combat performance comes first.

To fly two or three take-off and landing planes, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive overhaul of the fighters, which is a daily rule. If it's wartime, these can be simplified, even to the point where you're dumbfounded. For example, if a certain fighter has some problems but will not have a great impact on combat performance, then it is not said, take off and go to war. It's the same as sticking to the fight with an old man.

Xue Xiangdong's worries are reasonable, the original intention is to show his face, if there is some dangerous accident and his butt is exposed, the original meaning of planning will be lost.

But Li Zhan insisted on doing so, he said, "Regiment commander, just by defeating the second division in the early stage is still not able to attract the attention of the superior chief, the second division has many reasons to explain, such as not adapting to such a confrontation method, such as being unfamiliar with the region when you first arrive, and so on, although these reasons are untenable from the perspective of actual combat, but after all, it is not actual combat, and the superior leader will more or less agree." ”

"That's true, besides, the second division is the pride of the sky, and there are people above them!" Xue Xiangdong sighed deeply.

It's already obvious that their western tattered king is racking his brains to put on a good show for the chief to win love, like a concubine who has not been favored for a long time, changing tricks to make soup and trying to serve it to the emperor in the hope of getting a reward, that's how you can get a white eye, what about the second teacher, what do you want.

Li Zhan said, "Therefore, this play must either not be acted, but if it is to be acted, it will be acted to the extreme." There is no flight regiment in the world whose flight training intensity can match ours, but the chief cannot see it. Today, we want to let the chief see our efforts, and let the chief realize that a flying group can burst out such an output through the ultimate display! ”

After taking another sip of tea to moisten his throat, Li Zhan said, "Our tower control, flight command, and aircraft maintenance support have all been well trained, and I believe that we will not drop the chain." As for the danger in the air, regimental commander, this is really not something that people can control. Maybe when the weather changes drastically, or there is a strong crosswind, there will be a mechanical failure, not to mention a mechanical failure, and no matter how good the maintenance is, it is impossible to guarantee that there will be no mechanical failure. ”

In the final analysis, it is still the same sentence: you can't lower your standards because you are worried about safety issues. What Li Zhan had to do was not an extreme test of the troops' dispatch. In the event of a war in the future, are these worries still worried, even if there is only one engine, it will take off to kill the enemy!

Xue Xiangdong nodded solemnly, "You plan to command in the air?" ”

"Yes, I have to command in the air. Or take our previous method, take off and land to the tower, and fly in the air with me as the main tower to assist. Li Zhan said.

This is also the command and combat training mode developed by Li Zhan after he arrived at the 101st Regiment, which is more efficient and effective than the previous ground command, but the requirements for air commanders are very high. Since you have to pay attention to the specific situation of the troops when flying the plane, so far only Li Zhan has such an ability. Others commanded three or four planes at most, but Li Zhan was a man who drove the J-6 and commanded eighteen J-7s to conduct air combat training at the same time.

"Then it's decided, you hurry up and make a plan."