Coordinated drill this day was windy and rainy.

From 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., the rain and rain did not stop. The people in the Beiku area liked to hear it, but the two sides involved in the performance made difficulties. The leader of the foreign affairs department of the headquarters suggested postponing it, but Colonel Lekov, who was led by the Russian side, said that such weather was completely fine, and they had never seen any scenes.

The leader of the foreign affairs department of the headquarters asked Fang Chenghe, who said that we often conduct combat training under low weather conditions to ensure that there is no problem. Foreign affairs leaders have gone to many troops, but they have never seen any unit that can conduct flight training under such weather, let alone coordinated exercises.

He said, "Brigade Commander Fang, this is not a trivial matter, the chief wants you to show your face, you can't show your butt." ”

Bao Guanhua said, "Chief, there is no problem, the brigade commander and I can make a military order." ”

Since Xue Xiangdong's sacrifice, Bao Guanhua's whole person has changed, from being able to speak for three hours at three o'clock to now having a meeting in three sentences to explain things clearly, he sat there with his arms crossed and looked at everyone with a cold expression, as if the political commissar had become an iron-blooded brigade commander overnight.

On the contrary, Fang Chenghe, who was transferred from the post of political commissar of the Second Division and served as the brigade commander, usually has the style of a political work cadre.

The styles of the two officers were reversed.

When Bao Guanhua said this, the foreign affairs leaders were somewhat relieved. Relatively speaking, he still believes in Bao Guanhua's words, after all, Bao Guanhua has worked in the North Reservoir Station for 12 years, from the deputy political commissar of the regiment to the political commissar of the regiment to the political commissar of the brigade, and he knows the situation of this army very well.

"Since the two of you are confident, let's go according to the plan, but we must pay attention to safety, safety first and drill second." The leader of foreign affairs said.

Fang Chenghe said, "The captain who led the team is very experienced. ”

Combat training under low weather conditions was first carried out by the Eagle Falcon Brigade, let alone others if they were inexperienced. Looking back at the nearly two years since Li Zhan was transferred to Beiku, the mention of training must be closely related to such terrifying words as "high intensity", "zero altitude difference", "low meteorological conditions", and "ultra-low altitude". The frequency of these keywords in their training summary reports was the highest, so much so that the air and ground officers and men of the 101st Brigade led by the Eagle Falcon Brigade had a slightly darker complexion than their comrades who were engaged in the same work.

Sunburned.

In the flight briefing room, the pilots on both sides were waiting for orders, they were ready for a long time, and they rushed out as soon as they gave the order.

Li Zhan's side can be said to be elite, Nie Jianfeng, Tang Leilei and Han Hongjun respectively represent the highest level of the three pilots of the Eagle Falcon Brigade, plus Li Zhan, the strike team composed of four J-11B heavy fighters can probably scare many countries in Central Asia.

The strength of the Russian side is also good, except for super old birds such as Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky, the other two pilots are also very experienced fighter pilots in the Russian Air Force.

"Comrade Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky, you should have no problem taking off for combat in the current weather, right?" Li Zhan asked with concern, "I heard that you often conduct combat training in heavy rain and snow. ”

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky said, "Zhan, please call me Vasily, although you no longer speak Russian, it is still obviously a little jerky and difficult to understand when pronouncing my full name." ”

"Okay, Comrade Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky." Li Zhan said, "Okay, Vasily. ”

"Yes, we often conduct combat training in heavy snowy weather, provided of course there is enough aviation fuel, you know that we are in short supply," Vasily said. ”

Mao Zi's front-line officer was more sincere, he pointed to another bearded pilot and said, "Davalev is stationed in Siberia, and he knows the relevant situation better." ”

Li Zhan nodded slightly, "Lieutenant Colonel Davariv." ”

"Yes, Major Li Zhan." Davalev said, "Although the heavy snow looks terrible, you just need to overcome the difficulties of taking off and landing and fly up, and everything will be easy to handle." Today's weather is more complicated, a little more severe than heavy snow. The clouds are thick and the wind is strong. ”

This statement is very objective. There are a lot of rain and snow in the winter in Beiku, which looks more scary, but in fact, many times in the meteorological level, the rain and snow weather is not an objective difficulty that is difficult to overcome. Of course, the kind of weather with goose feathers, heavy snow, sleet and windy winds that people can't stand on their feet is not one of them.

"We are used to bad weather, and you have an advantage in latitude, so if you go according to plan, you should be careful." ”

"Hehe, yes." Li Zhan and his comrades-in-arms around him glanced at each other and laughed.

The drifting heavy rain outside did not weaken in the slightest, but the wind and rainfall tended to increase. When the sound of rain crashing on the ground could be heard in the flight briefing room, Vasily and Davalev and the other Russian pilot had no relaxed expression on their faces. Vasily also stopped laughing and said that the weather was fine.

They don't care about anything, once they have to conduct a drill under meteorological conditions beyond the critical line, they will be criticized if they mess up, not to mention that some of them regard the pilots of the Chinese army as apprentices in their hearts, and if they lose face in front of the apprentices, they will be called faceless.

At five o'clock at 11 o'clock in the afternoon, Pei Lei ran over to find Li Zhan and stood at the door to make a look.

Li Zhan walked out, and Pei Lei said in a low voice, "Captain, the brigade commander asked me to ask you, how sure are you that the weather is going up now?" ”

Li Zhan looked at the sky, which was already a little dark, and could faintly see lightning in the deep clouds. Objectively speaking, the current meteorological conditions have exceeded the boundaries of the low meteorological conditions training conducted by the Falcon Brigade, but they have not exceeded much.

"You tell the brigade commander that I am sure that I will go up safely and come back safely, but the quality of the drill may be discounted, and the specific situation will not be known until I go up." Li Zhan said in a deep voice, "Report to the brigade commander as you say." ”

"Yes!" Pei Lei turned around and ran.

Li Zhan turned around and said to Vasily, "Comrade Vasily, the weather is a little over, do you think you need to postpone the drill by a day?" ”

After a few whispered conversations between Vasily and Davalev, he said, "What is the opinion of the Chinese comrades?" ”

"We don't have big problems and can take off at any time." Li Zhan said with a smile.

Just kidding, how can there be a problem with the current scene?

I'd rather die than admit defeat.

Vasily smiled, "We don't have a problem, fight, let's go out at any time, fighting in the wind and rain is the choice of a real man." ”

"I agree."

The pilots on both sides laughed and slapped their swollen faces back and forth, first of all, the momentum could not be lost.

Half an hour later, the bigwigs of the two sides on the tower finally agreed on their opinions, and the order to start the coordinated exercise reached the flight briefing room, and the pilots of the two sides rushed out with flight helmets and jumped into the commuter car to the semi-open hangar.

(End of chapter)