There are blank clouds on the South China Sea, and under the clear blue sky is a turquoise sea frontier, and when you look down, you can see a lot of small white spots in a piece of turquoise, which is the white spray rolled up by the waves hitting the islands and reefs, like a warm white scarf for the territory since ancient times.

Li Zhan counted the amount of oil, and Tang Leilei dropped some heights. In this way, they were able to see some of the situation on the surface of the sea. Routine patrols are designed to do just that—to deal with emergencies and to ensure that there are no unidentified aerial vehicles and unidentified ships within the airspace and territorial waters.

Normally, such tasks are often encountered, and Li Zhan and Tang Leilei had previously studied the situation of long-term routine patrols in the past year.

In the past, limited by the performance of equipment, it was difficult for our army to maintain a military presence in this sea frontier, and it could only carry out extremely limited troop stationing on islands and reefs. One island and one reef, one class or even a few people, a few years at a time, from the first generation of stilt houses to the third generation of island barracks that are now speeding up construction. And the aviation units simply did not have the means to reach this airspace for a long time.

With the commissioning of all kinds of new fighters, the aviation units no longer have to worry about the flight range, and our fighters can appear on time above the heads of the officers and men stationed on the islands and reefs and the vast number of Chinese fishermen and fishing boats, bringing them an extremely crucial sense of security and also severely deterring some young people who are snooping around.

Li Zhan and Tang Leilei are doing this at this time, so they must go down to the height, not only to be able to see the white track drawn by the ship, but also to let the people on the ship see the sound of fighter planes and rumbling aero engines overhead.

"Outside the cave, it's not quite right down there, look at those ships." Tang Leilei said on the radio, turned his head to look over, and pointed down to Li Zhan, who was flying in a flat column.

Li Zhan stretched out his head to look down, and could vaguely see several traces of ships mixed together, he reported to Nanzhi while sideways the height under the fuselage, "Nanzhi, I report that there are some situations on the sea, I will go down to the height now to observe, over." ”

"Whoa, what, find out the report, it's over."

"Clarification report, done."

Wireless communication here needs to pass through repeaters on the reef, so the signal is not stable. It is difficult to hear instructions clearly without a good hearing, which also requires both sides of the conversation to speak Mandarin absolutely standardly, and to pronounce words clearly.

Tang Leilei was covering in the sky, and Li Zhan went directly down to a low altitude of 500 meters, flew over the side of the ship, and made observations in the form of visual observation, and at the same time he did not forget to turn on the wireless reconnaissance system.

A chaotic wireless conversation poured in, and Li Zhan could see clearly that the two fishing boats flying the five-star red flag were surrounded by several unidentified boats of smaller tonnage without obvious markings, and the two sides were arguing.

Li Zhan immediately reported the situation, and then asked for instructions, "The request of the cave is to fly from a low altitude at the scene, and it is over." ”

"Don't act rashly, wait for instructions, over." Nan Zhi did not agree.

Li Zhan found that those unknown ships were in the mood to ram my fishing boat, and asked again, "I ask for a sweep, let me fly a few laps, just fly a few times, and do nothing!" As long as they see the military insignia of the fighter! Just let them see the August 1st military emblem on the fighter plane! ”

Nan Zhi was silent for a long time, and in the sound of electromagnetic interference, he changed his voice, "Agreed, pay attention to safety, over." ”

"Yes, thank you!"

Li Zhan immediately turned the nose of the plane and continued to descend to an altitude of about 100 meters, he slowed down the airspeed as much as possible and flew over the fishing boat.

He was pretty sure that the insignia painted under the wings would be very conspicuous to the people on the ship.

That's enough.

"Dong Sangui, you continue to fly according to the patrol route, and I will wait for you at the seventh rendezvous." Li Zhan gave instructions to Tang Leilei.

Considering the range of the J-7E, Li Zhan, who was not sure when he would be able to get out of the situation, could only let Tang Leilei continue to fly along the patrol route.

"Dong San Gui understands." Tang Leilei did not feel lost, the two-plane formation pays attention to cooperative operations, and there are masters and secondaries, so that they can defeat the opponent.

Li Zhan turned left and circled, so that he could turn his head to observe the situation on the sea surface.

He wasted no time and made a second low-altitude flyby, this time at an altitude of only 80 meters. Each time it flew lower and lower, the shock of the fighter roaring past was able to achieve the purpose of warning unknown ships.

During the second circle, Li Zhan saw several people standing on the decks of the two Chinese fishing boats, waving the five-star red flag in their hands, and was very emotional.

A sense of pride arose, and Li Zhan deeply felt the meaning of their existence for the first time.

The Chinese on the radio is louder and more confident.

Li Zhan cracked his mouth and laughed, and flew for the third time. This time the altitude was lower, and he took the J-8FR, an aircraft that focuses on high-altitude and high-speed performance, as a flying leopard, and even roared over the fishing boat at an infinitely close to the minimum speed at an altitude of only 50 meters from the sea surface!

After flying, Li Zhan pushed the throttle push rod to the end, turned on the afterburner, and the two WP-13B jet engines made a huge roar to push the fighter forward, and Li Zhan pulled the rod to spiral up, presenting in front of him a manic fighter ready to shoot missiles at any time.

In order to form the most powerful deterrent, after Li Zhan reached the altitude, he began to dive and accelerate, causing the fighter to soar past the speed of sound, and the rumble of supersonic flight echoed in the air. However, considering the fuel problem, he did not fly for long for supersonic speed.

When he was circling at low altitude again, he found that the unknown boats besieging our fishing boat were leaving, and the people on the deck of our fishing boat were wildly waving the five-star red flag and waving wildly, so excited that they couldn't help themselves.

Li Zhan raised his right hand, wearing white labor protection gloves, and saluted them, although it was unlikely that they could see Li Zhan's movements in the cockpit of the fighter plane hundreds of meters away.

With just a few simple flight maneuvers, we can rescue our fishing boat from danger. But is it simple? It is by no means simple in this sea area, which is thousands of kilometers away from the mainland of the motherland. If you don't have enough military strength to maintain your presence, you won't be able to arrive "by chance" when my fishermen are in danger. You can't fly this far without better planes, and you can't arrange routine patrol flights over such long distances without more planes.

If the pilots of our air force are not able to patrol this area, then I am afraid that the two fishing boats of our country will be in trouble. And to prevent such a thing from being discovered, it is only necessary to keep our fighter planes flying in the sky all the time. Even if it costs millions of dollars in jet fuel.

For ordinary people, with the August 1st military flag by their side, they are safe.