The problem lies in the fact that the birdcage ground-to-air missile unit has made a choice for the "Wuyi Mountain" -- two other J-10B fighters pounced on it, and four fighters took off from the northern region to reinforce it, forming an encirclement network for the "Wuyi Mountain" from north to south.

So Li Zhan had only one choice: to fly into the typhoon circle.

It is simply impossible for him to bypass the typhoon circle, which is more than 500 kilometers in diameter, unless the fault of the tail rudder is eliminated.

His method was relatively simple and crude - by raising the airspeed of the fighter plane, the wind and frictional heat generated by the rudder to resolve the icing of the tail rudder. The premise is that the tail rudder is stuck because of icing, which is basically certain. The temperature on the periphery of the typhoon circle changes very greatly, and the flight altitude of the J-16 changes very quickly, and suddenly the altitude of more than 10 degrees below zero and the sea-skimming altitude of more than 20 degrees, and the change speed of the fighter's position, flight speed and other parameters exceeds the change speed of natural phenomena, and there is a chance that the phenomenon of condensation will be formed.

Li Zhan flew at an altitude of 8,000 meters and accelerated at full throttle under afterburner, but he decided to reduce his speed before reaching supersonic speed, because supersonic flight was very likely to make things worse for a fighter with a faulty tail rudder. In order to be able to circumvent the typhoon circle, he had to solve the problem of the tail rudder and also ensure that the whole process was carefully handled and left room for care.

The 1616 J-16 soared wildly, pulling out a very strange track in the night sky. This is confusing Guo Tai, no one will twist left and right to take the serpentine course, it looks a bit like a provocative action - like a mischievous child who suddenly slaps you and then runs and twists his ass while running.

"Too much deception!" Guo Tai was furious, and that breath against his throat was as uncomfortable as a fish bone.

The ground-to-air missile combat unit was already beyond its reach, but Guo Tai believed that if the "Wuyi Mountain" was allowed to go back like this, the face of the birdcage ground-to-air missile unit would be lost in the future, so he once again stubbornly asked the air force to provide support, and then urgently dispatched two groups of four fighters to chase and kill the "Wuyi Mountain."

Therefore, they completely blocked several other directions of "Wuyi Mountain", forcing them to fly to the southeast, to fly to the typhoon circle, or to turn around and come back to fight again. It is basically difficult for Li Zhan to retreat under the encirclement and suppression of six J-11 fighters, even if the fighters are not malfunctioning, it is difficult to do so.

Li Zhan knows very well what the J-16 is best at, and it is very unwise to use his own shortcomings to fight with the opponent's strengths. The most important thing is that the current result has been unexpectedly good, and if you don't run at this time, you will wait for when, and your brain will be pumped before you turn back to give others the opportunity to call back.

The fighter plane soon approached the speed of sound, and Li Zhan found that the fuselage was shaking very much, and he could even hear the tooth-sore "crunch" sound. He was secretly startled in his heart, and hurriedly closed the throttle to slow down, and the shaking amplitude of the fighter plane slowly decreased. He noticed that the tail rudder still had no response.

"The tail rudder is not responding, there must be a mechanical failure, and the plane is shaking very much when it is close to the speed of sound." Li Zhan hurriedly called Fu Zhi, "Fu Zhi, please suspend the confrontation, I am going to return directly, the situation of the plane is not very optimistic, over." ”

Fu Zhi immediately approved, "Wuyi Mountain, please return directly, all the alternate landing fields are ready, over." ”

"There shouldn't be any need for alternate landing, I can fly back to Zhongnan Station." Li Zhan quickly glanced at the data on the dashboard, the other systems were normal, this was good news, he said, "Fu Zhi, let the flight unit of the bird cage get out of the airspace, I may fly erratically, over." ”

Fu Zhi said, "I'll let them escort you, over." ”

Li Zhan was stunned for a moment, and smiled hehehe, and Chen Fei couldn't help laughing out loud. I am afraid that even if Fu Zhi does not give the order, those fighters supporting the bird-catching cage ground-to-air missile unit will "escort" the "Wuyi Mountain" and will regard it as carrying out the "expulsion" mission in order to save face.

Guo Tai received a new order at the same time, and immediately slammed his fist on the table in anger, gritting his teeth and saying, "Knocking out our two fighters in case of mechanical failure?" Who's blinded? I think they did it on purpose! ”

"Maybe they're really having a mechanical breakdown, they're flying on a weird trajectory, you see, there's a lot of extra action. The crew of the Experimental No. 6 is very experienced, and the pilot of the front cabin is the famous western warrior Li Zhan, who will not do fearless energy-consuming maneuvers. The chief of staff analyzed it very calmly.

Guo Tai was stunned for a moment and asked, "Li Zhan?" Was it Li Zhan, who defeated the 2nd Division and the 300th Division in a row? The captain of the Eagle Brigade, isn't he in Beiku? ”

"The latest news, he is in charge of the actual combat test flight of the J-16, and our opponent tonight is him." The chief of staff said with a smile, "He has a louder nickname in the coastal generation, and the mad dog of the South China Sea is him." ”

Guo Tai was shocked, "He is the mad dog of the South China Sea?" Isn't that the pilot of the 2nd Division? ”

There are always multiple versions of the rumors, and the troops who do not have access to the official report can only experience the legend of the little prince through hearsay.

"It's Li Zhan, who originally served in the Second Division, but later heard that he was punished on suspicion of buying and selling marriages, and he was also transferred to Beiku. Unexpectedly, this person was achieved, and the Eagle Falcon Brigade brought out was about to become a roadblock in the construction of the combat training of the Air Force Aviation Unit. Said the chief of staff.

Guo Tai did not know much about these things, and the ground-to-air missile units and the aviation units rarely communicated in peacetime, and in the absence of a unified command mechanism, although they both belonged to the air force department, they had the feeling of two balanced lines, and this was also the main reason why it was not easy to organize an air-ground confrontation.

"How can it be a roadblock?" Guo Tai asked.

The chief of staff said: "At present, there is a consensus in the aviation units, and whoever can pass the level of the Eagle Falcon Brigade shows that his combat training and construction work has reached excellent standards." The Falcon Brigade is a scale. ”

"It's so important." Guo Tai gasped slightly, and his anger disappeared a lot, "So it's not a shame for us to lose." ”

The chief of staff hesitated for a while before he said, "A whole regiment of ground-to-air missiles and four groups of eight fighters could not stop the attack of one fighter plane, and the center of the war situation was hit once, and two fighters were judged to be shot down, which is actually quite embarrassing." ”

……

Guo Tai could only breathe and said, "Let the air detachment ask if they really encountered a mechanical failure, and if so, escort them for a while." It's all your own people, you can't just ignore anything in order to win, and it's not easy to treat you when you meet in the future. ”

"Yes!" The chief of staff secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly conveyed the order to the air detachment. He was really afraid that Guo Tai would let the air detachment continue to cause problems for "Wuyi Mountain" in a fit of anger, and it would be difficult for anyone to make some accidents.

Soon, Li Zhan, who turned around and returned home, received a call from the commander of the J-10 fighter formation of the Mirage-2000 fighter, the leader of the Black Bat Squadron, and when the other party learned that the tail rudder of the "Wuyishan" was out of order and that it was out of order before shooting down the two J-10A simulating F-16A/B Brock 20 fighters, he blurted out: "Wuyishan, don't be kidding, your tail rudder is out of order, can you still shoot down two Brock 20?" Rest assured, we have received an order to escort you, and the confrontation drill is over. ”

The Black Bat Squadron Leader thought Li Zhan was teasing them.

Li Zhan said helplessly, "Black bat, haven't you noticed that I've been flying in a serpentine shape, I can only maintain a straight flight by adjusting the thrust of two thrusts now, and I can only roughly stabilize the direction of flight." I'm telling you, don't get too close, I can't tell you when I'm going to do an emergency steering maneuver. ”

The Black Bat Squadron Leader took a closer look at the radar data and found that this was indeed the case.

Li Zhan said again, "Black bat, turn off your fire control, it's very noisy!" ”

"Oh, okay." The leader of the Black Bat squadron turned off the fire control of the airborne radar and canceled the lock on the "Wuyi Mountain".

Good [pencil] locked it once, and the pilots of the Black Bat squadron felt a little better.

After flying southwest for more than ten minutes, the Black Bat Squadron called Li Zhan, "Wuyi Mountain, we are going back." Ahead of you is the direction in which the typhoon is moving, and there is a strong hedge current. ”

"Understood, thank you!" Li Zhan said with a smile.

The typhoon moved northwestwards at a speed of 35 kilometers per hour, and its path coincided with the route of Li Zhan's return. The intersection point of the airspace is where the cold southerly air and the tropical ocean monsoon meet, and the violent hedging can make the airflow in that area extremely unstable.

But Li Zhan hasn't seen any scenes.

Even Chen Fei was very confident, he was convinced of Li Zhan's ability to deal with these bad situations, and the expert in handling dangerous situations was not in vain.

However, Chen Fei found that the airspeed of the fighter plane was falling, and it was falling very slowly, and it was difficult to feel it if he didn't look at the airspeed counter, after all, it was pitch black and there was no starlight above his head.

"Lao Li, the speed of the plane is dropping." Chen Fei said, "Implement the powertrain checklist. ”

Li Zhan said, "The left engine is losing thrust, and I have to reduce the power of the right engine." ”

The thrust of the left engine must be greater than that of the right engine, so as to compensate for the torque of the tail rudder to the left, and the right engine must be reduced accordingly when the thrust of the left engine is reduced, otherwise the aircraft will always turn to the left. As a result, the overall thrust was reduced, and the airspeed of the fighters was slowly adjusted to 480 kilometers per hour.

What's worse is that Li Zhan found that the left hair continued to lose its speed, albeit slowly. He had to constantly reduce the speed of the right engine to ensure that the fighter flew straight.

As a result, the airspeed of the fighters continued to decrease.

Chen Fei quickly completed the inspection according to the checklist, and said in surprise, "It should be that there is a problem with the fuel supply line, and the amount of fuel injected into the left engine is decreasing." ”

Li Zhan quickly glanced at the fuel gauge, and the remaining aviation fuel was completely enough to fly to the Zhongnan Station more than 800 kilometers away, and it would definitely not be a matter of fuel quantity. His first thought was that there was a problem with the pressure pumping into the engine's combustion chamber. However, the amount of fuel injected is slowly decreasing linearly, and the thrust of the left engine is also decreasing linearly, indicating that the situation is not very urgent.

But!

What is most needed now is speed.

When Li Zhan recalculated the time to reach the intersection point, he found that the fighter plane was just hitting the cloud wall area of the typhoon!