A J-11BS has just joined the landing route, and there is a J-11B taking off on the runway, and the two fighters form a flowing "X" shape on the west side opposite the tower.

The intensive training has been going on for several days.

The enthusiasm for summer training in Beiku was hotter than the midday sun, and the officers and men of the 101st Brigade had gone crazy, especially the officers and men of the Eagle Brigade. Xue Xiangdong completely left their work and life, and they suddenly realized how reluctant they were to him.

Everyone thinks that they owe the old brigade commander, and they must train to the death, and turn all their grief into the motivation for combat training, and this unit will be strengthened.

Bao Guanhua pointed to the No. 27 J-11BS that had just landed and introduced Liang Pengfei, who came to inspect, "Li Zhan has just landed. ”

"Fifth day, huh?" Commander Liang said.

"Today is the fifth day." Bao Guanhua's face is very haggard, he seems to have aged a few years in the past month or so, but his spirit is very good.

Liang Pengfei said, "The strings of training should not collapse too tightly, and it is easy to break if it is too much." Liang Pengfei said.

Bao Guanhua said, "The weather is very good, the comrades' enthusiasm for training is very high, and the tasks of the troops are very heavy. ”

Xue Xiangdong left, and the burden was on Bao Guanhua's shoulders. After the main battalion, he never held a military combat post again, and he was already a little unfamiliar with the group training, so he forced his ability out in just over a week.

Liang Pengfei knew very well that it was difficult to calm down the officers and soldiers of the 101st Brigade now, and he sighed in his heart many times, Xue Cannon is Xue Cannon, and it is not worrying if he leaves, he always has to toss you a few times. Now that Liang Pengfei remembered what Xue Xiangdong used to say before, he used to squeeze out every bit of himself, and that feeling was even more profound.

The merits and demerits were left to be commented on by future generations, but Xue Xiangdong's goal had been achieved, and he really did it after death.

"Li Zhan is a paid pilot?" The Air Force colonel, who came with Liang Pengfei, asked.

Bao Guanhua said, "Yes, the old flight training and the new flight training, he rotates continuously." ”

"Lao Bao, meet you, Fang Chenghe, your new partner." Liang Pengfei introduced at this time, "Fang Chenghe, the former political commissar of the Second Division, is now the commander of the 101st Brigade. Old Fang, this is your political commissar Bao Guanhua. ”

Fang Chenghe didn't hesitate at all and immediately saluted, "Political Commissar Bao." ”

Bao Guanhua's qualifications and age are older than him, although he has not served as a full teacher for as long. Bao Guanhua had some surprises about the transfer from Fang Chenghe, the political commissar of the Second Division, to serve as the brigade commander, but that was all. Overall, Fang Chenghe is the most suitable candidate. The focus of the 101 Brigade is the Eagle Falcon Brigade, and the soul of the Eagle Falcon Brigade is Li Zhan. Fang Chenghe should be said to be more familiar with and understand Li Zhan than anyone in the 101st Brigade.

Obviously, this decision made by the higher authorities was carefully considered in this regard.

Ever since he decided to hide the fact that Xue Xiangdong was seriously ill that night, he had given up hope of continuing to be promoted. In the next few days, if the 101st Brigade is well managed and brought up, it will be worthy of Xue Xiangdong's spirit in the sky.

Xue Xiangdong even pointed to Bao Guanhua's nose and said, "You are already outdated, you should tell the old man to return to his hometown, tell the old man to return to his hometown, and give up the position to the younger generation."

After a few simple chats, Fang Chenghe immediately entered the working state. He brought a confidential staff officer over, who was Zhang Wei, who was more capable in the second division, and he was also an old acquaintance of Li Zhan.

From the tower to the tarmac, on the brand-new Bully 4000 car, Zhang Wei whispered to Fang Chenghe to report the situation he had just figured out, and said, "The new pilot led by Li Zhan is called Xue Zhengrong, the son of the old brigade commander Xue Xiangdong, and Political Commissar Bao personally went to the training base last month to ask people to come over. ”

"Hmm." Fang Chenghe nodded slightly

When he arrived at the tarmac, he happened to see Li Zhan on the side of the fighter plane explaining the movements to a young pilot, gesturing with a serious expression and very focused, and the young pilot had a panicked look when he listened carefully.

"J-11B's flight control is very sensitive, you must grasp the size of the action of the lever, just like the landing action just now, your push rod is a little big, and the other is that your hand holding the rod must be steady, you do maneuvering is the fighter doing the action, not you are doing the action in the cockpit, what are you doing with your shoulders dangling to drive a racing car? I have a good understanding of these problems that I have talked about, and I must overcome them if I continue to fly tomorrow. ”

Li Zhan's serious appearance made the officers and soldiers of the maintenance crew feel scared, the captain had never treated anyone so seriously, everything changed after Xue Zhengrong came, and Li Zhan put almost all the pressure on him.

"It's the same when you're a new flyer, don't put too much pressure on young people, and slowly realize that flying once and once you feel that you are progressing." Fang Chenghe said and walked over.

Xue Zhengrong immediately stood up and saluted, and the officers and soldiers of the maintenance team also stopped in their hands and saluted, and the leader of the maintenance team wanted to gather the team to report, Fang Chenghe waved his hand and signaled everyone to continue working.

Li Zhan saluted Fang Chenghe, "Political Commissar Fang, you came over to be the brigade commander?" ”

He saw Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei saluted him, and he replied with a crisp and neat military salute and nodded slightly.

"Well-informed." Fang Chenghe pointed to the lawn behind the tarmac and said, "I have something to tell you, hand over the work." ”

Li Zhan said to Xue Zhengrong, "You go to the instructor and ask him to take you to study the flying ginseng data, and solve the few questions I asked tomorrow." ”

It still gives a lot of pressure, but also hope.

Clamping the flight helmet under his ribs, Li Zhan took off his white labor protection gloves while walking with Fang Chenghe to the lawn.

"Two things."

There is no need to be polite between them, Fang Chenghe said directly, "First, the military region has made a decision on how you will deal with you, and I will write a review and submit it to the brigade party committee." ”

"Huh?" Li Zhan frowned.

What kind of processing decision is this, raised high and gently put down? Li Zhan is actually mentally prepared to be punished for a major offense, as Senior Sister Zhu Qingying said, the lightest is a major offense. The most unacceptable thing for him is the grounding, so he is most worried about not letting him fly, not about giving other serious punishments.

But if you are asked to write a review, is this considered a punishment?

Fang Chenghe said, "Director Lin said in the report that he didn't pay attention to his head, and there was no personal conflict between him and you, but he had a different view on things, so he had some heated discussions." The military region will give you the punishment according to Director Lin's report. ”

"Director Lin?" Li Zhan was even more surprised.

He should have wanted to shoot me, how could he speak for me?

The investigation of the investigation team went smoothly but also very difficult, and no matter who was asked, the answer was to take responsibility. Director Lin inquired with an injury, but if he asked deeply, he couldn't ask anything. It took a week to check back and forth before returning.

Li Zhan thought that it would be a result that was difficult for him to accept, but it turned out that Xue Xiangdong was successfully rated as a martyr, and no one was held responsible.

Fang Chenghe sneered and said, "You always think that you are noble in the whole world." Director Lin is about the same age as your father, no matter what you do, you can't do anything to him, you can't change your stinky temper and you will have something to do sooner or later! ”

"I'm still young." Li Zhan said.

Fang Chenghe looked at Li Zhan unexpectedly, nodded slightly, and said, "It seems that it has fully recovered, and the aviation medical room is still relatively objective." ”

If he does not recover, the aviation medical office will not issue a release certificate to Li Zhan.

Li Zhan smiled and said, "It's good to come over." Now that I think about it, there is actually nothing, sooner or later there is a day, sooner or later. If I had a choice, I would have chosen to die in battle rather than in a hospital bed. ”

"Stop." Fang Chenghe raised his hand and said, "I want you to live well now and get the Eagle Falcon Brigade for me." I have already made a military order to the military region to build the 101st Brigade into the hardest blue army unit in the whole army within two years. Unable to do this, I applied for a job change to vacate the position for someone who could afford it. ”

Fang Chenghe took over the post of commander of the 101st Brigade this time, which can be said to be an order in danger. The department is at the beginning of the stage of rapid development, and the sudden death of Xue Xiangdong, who is most familiar with the situation, is a very big blow to the department, and if it is not handled well, this army is likely to fall silent again.

The purpose of the military region to ask Fang Chenghe from another military region at this time is self-evident, so Fang Chenghe is under great pressure, and objectively speaking, his pressure is the greatest. It is appropriate to do a good job, because with the foundation laid by Xue Xiangdong, if you don't do a good job, you will be a sinner, and if you don't do it, you will become "the commander of the 101st Brigade who delayed the revival of its past glory during the critical period".

Fang Chenghe said, "Of course, I didn't come here empty-handed. The three J-10A were a gift from the Second Division, and Commander Qi Hong was very interesting. ”

"The second division changed clothes again?" Li Zhan was surprised.

Nodding, Fang Chenghe said, "Six of the first batch of equipped J-10A models have been handed over, and the establishment has been freed up to equip the J-10S combat training aircraft." The development of the army is very fast, and the construction of the pilot team is somewhat unable to keep up. ”

Li Zhan said, "That is also the great love of the higher-level leading organs for our brigade, and what does it have to do with the military commander of the Second Division." ”

"Heh, the stinky boy is quite small-minded."

Fang Chenghe said, "The second thing. On the 15th, we starved to death, and a military exchange group came over, and three fighters would come to communicate with us and conduct a simple coordinated combat exercise. The superiors handed over this task to our brigade, and I will leave it to you, do it well. ”

"What warplane?" Li Zhan asked.

Li Zhan's focus is very different.

Even if the scale of this kind of foreign military exchange activity is very small, it is of great significance, and being able to participate in such activities has more advantages than others in terms of personal qualifications and receiving awards for meritorious service. When receiving this task, who doesn't say that they will first ask about the size of the specification, and who will pay attention to what kind of aircraft the other party is flying?

He only has fighter planes in his eyes.

Fang Chenghe said, "It has not been determined yet, and it will definitely not be MiG." There may be some prototypes coming over and showing us a pitch. ”

"Su Sanwu." Li Zhan immediately thought of this very well-blown fighter.

There were rumors when he was still in the second division, and now it seems that negotiations between the two sides are already underway. Starving to death, at this time, it is necessary to make full use of all available opportunities to show the SU-35 fighter, which must be to facilitate this deal as soon as possible.

I really can't eat enough to die of hunger.

"It's just possible." Fang Chenghe said, "In the past few days, you first put aside the work of Xinxun and hand it over to others, and hand it over to Nie Jianfeng." You pick a few people to prepare for the drill subjects, and you have to take out the housekeeping skills. ”

Li Zhan asked, "Can I shoot the Jian-7?" ”

Fang Chenghe asked strangely, "Why do you want to open Jianqi?" ”

"I don't want to put too much pressure on them." Li Zhan said.

Fang Chenghe couldn't cry or laugh, "Forget it, let's get together and just put pressure on others." No matter how bad the ancestors of the family are to starve to death, they are also very rich, and there is no problem with the inheritance for more than ten or twenty years. ”

"Prepare two or three subjects, and live firing may be arranged at that time," he said. There are still five days to go, you come up with a live-fire training plan, and we will do a training session first, so as not to be in a hurry. ”

"Yes." Li Zhan said.

Fang Chenghe asked, "Three J-10A planes are incorporated into your brigade, how do you plan to use them?" ”

Li Zhan's liking for the J-10 is something that all the officers and soldiers of the unit he has served in know about it, and even the officers and soldiers of the Red Eagle Division know it, and he really likes it to the core. It's a pity that I haven't been able to communicate well because of fate, so something unpleasant happened when we met for the first time.

"It's not very useful." Who knew that Li Zhan shook his head in disappointment, "We also lack two-seater aircraft, and there is also a problem that the construction of the pilot team cannot keep up." In the second half of the year, I engaged in non-stop training for people, and the personnel were very tired. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "If it's a two-seater, I'd like to conduct in-flight refueling training." Brigadier Commander, can you please change to a two-seater? ”

Li Zhan has always wanted to engage in air refueling training, but unfortunately the fighters in his hands have only four J-8FRs with air refueling capabilities, and there is no way to teach because they are single-seaters. He can only take this matter to heart. In order for the 101st Brigade to become a unit with all-weather and all-airspace combat capabilities, it must have air refueling capabilities.

"Impossible." Fang Chenghe said, "The second division is to change the two-seater before handing over part of the A-type, and it is impossible to give you the two-seater." ”

Li Zhan said, "Then let's be incorporated into a tactical reconnaissance brigade and use it as an electronic warfare plane." ”

"There is such a shortage of fighters and you still need to change to electronic warfare aircraft?" Fang Chenghe couldn't keep up with Li Zhan's train of thought.

In accordance with the principle of giving priority to the key points and then assisting them, the use of fighter planes should first ensure air supremacy, that is, territorial air defense. Electronic warfare aircraft belong to the auxiliary category of aircraft, and their development will be considered only when there is a surplus.

Why use the J-8F as a platform for tactical reconnaissance aircraft?

Is it because of its superior high-altitude and high-speed performance? Obviously not, both the J-11 and J-10 series are stronger than it, and the J-8 is just better in acceleration and higher in ceiling. But the J-8 platform is cheap, you have a J-10 on top of a few J-8s, and it is undoubtedly a "waste" to use the precious J-10 or J-11 to change a tactical reconnaissance aircraft to a third-generation fighter when there is a large gap.

Therefore, there is the emergence of new models of the old platform.

Li Zhan said, "Brigade commander, the 101st Brigade will take the road of mixed organization in the future, and electronic support fighters must be available. In one, if the J-10 does not hang the auxiliary fuel tank, there is no way to follow the J-11 throughout the battle, and the auxiliary fuel tank is hung and seriously restricts the air combat performance. It is the best arrangement at present for these fighters to try to engage in electronic warfare while taking into account a certain amount of ground strike. ”

Fang Chenghe nodded slightly and said, "The 101st Brigade is in front, and the Second Division is not enough in this regard, and its thinking is not open enough and its actions are not bold enough. At the end of the year, the whole army should consider inviting the Second Division to visit and exchange views in the general assessment of the aviation units of the whole army. ”

"The 228 project has been concluded and summarized this year, and the higher authorities have asked for a training class, and the brothers of the second division can come here to study." Li Zhan said.

"That's a great thing." Fang Chenghe said, "I have just arrived and I have not grasped many situations, so I will have a meeting in a few days to discuss and study." ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at the No. 27 J-11BS fighter and asked, "Xue Xiangdong died on this plane?" ”

"Yes."

Fang Chenghe said, "Let's change it, and the problem of Xue Zhengrong can be solved by replacing it." ”

Li Zhan was thoughtful.

In August 2011, after the 84th Army Day, the 101st Aviation Brigade of the Air Force welcomed its second military commander, Chenghe Air Force Colonel, announcing the end of the artillery era and the beginning of a new era.