0276 Tiger General

The next day, Wang Liang and Sun Weimin were going back to the capital.

Originally, Wang Liang's plan was to go around Tibet Province and Xinjiang Province, and take a look at the soldiers of the grassroots troops over there, after all, many outposts have not been around for some years.

But there was a sudden news from the capital, and Wang Liang had to leave to return immediately.

Zhou Tian drove the car, Sun Weimin was in the co-pilot, and Wang Liang sat in the back seat.

The atmosphere in the car was a little heavy, and Sun Weimin and Zhou Tian knew that Wang Liang was in a bad mood, so they didn't speak.

There are some things that always need to be faced......

On the highway, Zhou Tian raised the speed of the car to one hundred and two, and galloped all the way in the direction of Chuncheng Airport.

"For the people." Wang Liang, who had been silent for a long time outside the window, finally spoke.

"What's wrong, grandpa?" Sun Weimin hurriedly turned around, he had been worried about what would happen to his grandfather's body.

Because since he got the bad news last night, Wang Liang has not fallen asleep, smoked cigarettes one after another, and went out in the morning without even eating a few bites.

"For the people, you say, if a comrade-in-arms in the circle of friends dies, will you delete him?" Wang Liang asked.

"I ......"

Hearing his grandfather's question, Sun Weimin couldn't say a word for a long time, and he didn't know how to answer.

For Sun Weimin, who ran five and fought in the Vietnam War, there are really enough things to see in life and death.

Not to mention the sacrifice on the battlefield of self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, with the passage of time, there was no thought left back then, and in retrospect, although the mood was heavy, it was not so sad that it was to death.

But now is different from the past, the means of communication are so developed, even if people are thousands of miles apart, they can be connected through a mobile phone, and they are more close.

Over the years, Sun Weimin has also bid farewell to many former comrades-in-arms, some of whom are from his father's generation, and there are not a few of his brothers.

It is all the root of the disease left on the battlefield back then, and the torture of a stubborn disease.

Sun Weimin found that the further he went, the more his heart hurt, and it hurt his heart.

Because when you open your phone, activate the button and WeChat, or click on the contact, you can always see their name and profile picture.

Many times, you can't help but click on his space or circle of friends to see the imprint they have left behind.

Although some of his comrades-in-arms have been gone for nearly ten years, sometimes Sun Weimin can't help but call the phone number under that name, but the voice on the other side is no longer the voice he is familiar with.

The number was cancelled and then registered by another user.

Sun Weimin remembers that he dialed the phone and chatted with the new cardholder for a long time, sharing the story of himself and the old owner of the card number.

Later, the comrades-in-arms became friends with the new cardholder, and they would always call him at the party.

After a long time, Sun Weimin said an answer: "Grandpa, it is easy to delete the comrades-in-arms who have been deleted forever, although the comrades-in-arms are gone, they will always live in my heart." ”

"Yes, live in our hearts, live in our hearts." Wang Liang was stunned, and suddenly became like a child.

Love, that kind of love can only be experienced by soldiers.

"He will always live in my heart." Wang Liang muttered to himself.

I received the news last night that General Tiger had died.

Wang Liang still remembers the founding ceremony in 1949, when General Hu flew a P-51 fighter over Tiananmen Square.

Wang Liang still remembers that on the Korean battlefield that year, General Hu, then deputy commander of the Air Force, shot down and damaged an advanced F-86 "Sabre" fighter of the US military.

In the 50s and 60s of the last century, General Hu fought in Guangshi, eastern Guangdong, southern Jiangxi, western Guangdong, and southern Guangxi, and participated in organizing and commanding more than 100 battles day and night.

In 1985, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the Air Force and in 1988 he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General.

"At that time, our air force was weak, and we were still piloting those backward and outdated J-6 fighters with frequent failures, and the United States and the Soviet Union were at least one generation ahead of us! It was a period of all-round development of the Chinese Air Force, what is all-round development? Expansion, school construction, textbook compilation, infrastructure construction! ”

Wang Liang said, and Zhou Tian and Sun Weimin listened quietly there.

In those days, they were still children playing with mud.

"At that time, how much we hoped that we could also have advanced fighters, but I really couldn't build them, so I could only buy them, and Lao Lin took on the burden of purchasing them." Wang Liang said.

Early nineties.

China's purchase of Su-27 fighter jets from the Soviet Union, the former big brother was not friendly, not so much to make things difficult, but to bully it sounds more appropriate.

General Tiger is the person in charge of the Chinese military's purchase of aircraft.

The Soviets have a habit of pouring high wine at banquets, defeating the opponent at the wine table first, killing the opponent's sharpness, and waiting for the negotiation table, the initiative will be greater.

Just when the Soviets were going to use this set of tactics against us, they were wrong, really wrong, because they were met by General Tiger.

General Tiger was sixty-three years old that year.

At the wine table, swords and swords were staggered, and in the end, seventeen very drunk Soviet negotiators all went out sideways.

It was precisely because General Tiger sacrificed his life to drink that at the negotiating table, the Chinese military gained the upper hand and bought the long-awaited Su-27 fighter at a price within the budget.

"Just for one fighter, the sixty-year-old general and his subordinates drank seventeen Soviet negotiators, one fighter, one fighter! Die! Wang Liang emphasized repeatedly, feeling very uncomfortable.

There is a first time, and there is a second time.

With the success of the first purchase, the second purchase was carried out in full swing.

At another negotiating meeting, the Soviets deliberately raised prices under the pretext of reopening factories.

Faced with the Soviets' price of sitting on the ground, General Tiger was furious, pointed to the other party's nose and said: "Look at my eyes!" We are all pilots, how can you blackmail your comrades like a profiteer? Who said yesterday that friendship lasts forever? Who was there yesterday asking us to hold the Americans? What a shame, what a shame! ”

The tall Soviets were dumbfounded by questioning.

General Tiger joined the army as early as 1938, and after the baptism of war and gunsmoke, the murderous aura that erupted from his body when he was angry was terrifying.

In the end, under the mediation of General Tiger, we did not suffer a loss in that arms purchase.

Wang Liang still remembers that in August 1997, at the invitation of the Organizing Committee of the Third Moscow Air Show, Zhuhai City organized a delegation to Russia to visit the exhibition and carry out the recruitment work of the second Zhuhai Air Show.