Chapter 527: Escort
On December 18, 15th year of Zhongxing, at half past seven in the morning, the Royal Black Hawk Air Force Base in the suburbs west of Hanjing City, the capital of China.
The rising morning sun shines through the dark clouds and envelops the streets and alleys of Hanjing. The blizzard, which has been in a row for more than ten days, finally came to an end today. Warm sunshine, a rare shroud in the winter landscape.
The delta wing, the full-motion flat tail, double vertical tail, twin engines, two huge belly air intakes, and the layout of the wing-body fusion, parked on the runway, is the most advanced Black Hawk fighter in China, and the most advanced fighter in the world, there is no one.
The light of the morning sun drove away the dark night of the air base, making the outline of these blue sky prouds clearer and clearer. The golden afterglow sprayed the earth and dotted it with gold. Whether it is the Black Hawk on the runway preparing to take off, or the Black Hawk still resting in the hangar, at this moment, they are all bathed in the morning sun dew.
The endless hangars are all single-machine hangars, and in each hangar, there is only one Black Hawk fighter parked. This extremely large air base has 500 hangars. However, there are more than 10,000 ground crews serving these fighters. They are the ground maintenance and inspection personnel who ensure that these fighters can be in the sky at all times, and every successful take-off of the Black Hawk is the result of their busy day and night.
To the east of the Black Hawk Air Base, that is, on the other side of Hanjing, at the junction with Tianjin, there is also an air base, which also belongs to the Royal Air Force, but with a different name, and this air base is stationed in an air force division-level combat unit called the Air Cavalry Division. It is also part of the Royal Air Force and is under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defence. Fighter inside. All are intruder twin-engine, two-seat supersonic fighters, also known as fighter-bombers.
However, this time there was nothing to do with the Air Cavalry Division.
On the runway of the Air Force Base of the Black Hawk Division, two mighty Black Hawk fighters are preparing for takeoff. The staff on the ground at the airport are doing their final job of clearing the runway.
In the wide bubble cockpit of the Black Hawk fighter, Yu Zhicong sat half-reclining on the flight seat and carefully checked all the instruments.
Yu Zhicong is the commander of the Falcon Squadron under the Black Hawk Division, codenamed Hayabusa. After graduating with honors at the Air Force Academy, he was accepted as one of the first Black Hawk pilots. The moment he saw the Black Hawk, he immediately fell in love with it, compared to the improved trainer aircraft that he had flown in the academy before. One is a Mercedes-Benz Chinese sports car on the highway. One is a walk-behind tractor on a country road.
Unlike all Chinese fighters. The Black Hawk was the first to adopt a sidebar layout, with the steering bar not between the legs, but on the right side, plus a seat that leans back thirty degrees. It is enough to ensure that the aircraft can also be more easily maneuvered in the event of a large overload. Static unstable design and four-degree redundant fly-by-wire control system. This makes this fighter very agile and has excellent combat ability at the range. The main thing is that this is also a heavy airborne fighter. can have such an effect, even Chen Shao himself doesn't understand, because this is a weapon produced by the Red Police Base.
After the inspection, Yu Zhicong released the brake, gently pushed the accelerator with his left hand, and slid towards the runway.
After aligning the runway, Yu Zhicong checked all the instruments again and waited for the instructions from the tower.
"Pap, papa, pap," three red flares, emitting beautiful light in the sky.
"Falcon 1, Hayabusa 2, can take off."
The powerful turbofan engine spewed out lilac flames, the afterburner was already open, and the powerful thrust of nearly two hundred thousand N allowed the Black Hawk to begin to accelerate on the runway.
Yu Zhicong likes this feeling, he feels a strong thrust on his back, the runway around him is getting faster and faster, and on the head-up display, the speed has reached more than 300 kilometers per hour. With his right hand, he pulled the steering stick back, and suddenly, all the scenery left his sight, and the fighter plane rose from the ground and pierced the sky.
Under the belly and wings, three large auxiliary fuel tanks were hung, and under the two wings, four medium-range air-to-air combat missiles.
Immediately behind Yu Zhicong, the Falcon Eagle No. 2 also climbed smoothly. The two planes completed their formation over the airfield and flew in a southwesterly direction.
As a student soldier, an Air Force flight cadet who had just graduated from the academy, it was not easy for him to be able to directly join the ranks of Black Hawk fighter pilots. Although the main reason for this is that he has such an opportunity due to his excellent performance in the academy.
But in the first two years of training, he was also under a lot of pressure. Except for a few who were included in the Black Hawk pilot training queue due to his excellent results, but in the face of other pilots, each of them has rich experience in fighter piloting, and eighty percent of the pilots have participated in actual combat in the air many times.
This is too difficult for those "child soldiers" who have just graduated from the academy to forge ahead. Although the phenomenon of exclusion in the Chinese military camp is rare under the tough military discipline, the strong competitiveness is incomparably heavy.
Compared to the competitiveness that exists in other arms, if you want to fly the most advanced fighter in the Empire, its competitiveness is very different from that of many troops.
As a flight cadet, Yu Zhicong has a short time to fly fighter planes, so the pressure is even greater. However, he is not a person who will give in under pressure, he learns later than others every day, and he does it eight hundred times when others have to do a tactical move five hundred times. It was precisely because of his spirit of not being afraid of hardship that he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel and the rank of squadron leader when the Black Hawk Division was officially formed.
This is an extremely rare honor for a student soldier who graduated from the academy. Because of his squadron leader, the gold content is no worse than that of the captain of an ordinary air force.
The most important thing is that he flies the Black Hawk fighter plane every day and flies through the skies of the Empire.
As early as last night, he received an escort order from the Ministry of National Defense, and the order named Yu Zhicong to personally set off to protect an important person to return to Beijing.
It was a routine escort mission, as the target of the escort was over the hinterland of the empire. Yu Zhicong didn't know who he was going to escort. But he did not dare to be careless about the hits directly issued from the Ministry of Defense.
Moreover, this time it was also a long-distance flight, and after connecting with the target in the air, it would be covered to return to Beijing.
At an altitude of 6,000, Mach 0.8, and a subsonic cruising speed of 1,000 kilometers per hour, the two Black Hawk fighters staggered half of the fuselage, one in front of the other, and quickly skimmed through the sky.
A full hour later, two Black Hawks were already over Sichuan. At this time. Black Hawk's on-board search radar above. Swept to three targets.
"Confirmation of the angle and orientation is exactly the goal of the escort." The data from the radar was transmitted to the base of the Black Hawk Division via spy satellites, and it was quickly replied to.
After the target was confirmed, Yu Zhicong said. Fly towards three targets a hundred kilometers away. And gradually reduce the speed.
At a distance of only ten kilometers from the target. Yu Zhicong sent an identification signal to the three fighters in front of him, saving him from waiting to be treated as a target and being attacked needlessly.
Soon, the other party confirmed the identification signal: "This is Air Force One." Please indicate your number and mission. ”
Hearing the sound from the other party's wireless channel, Yu Zhicong was stunned for a moment. Air Force One, the Emperor's car. That's not right! Isn't Emperor Zhongxing in confinement?
Although there were doubts, Yu Zhicong also quickly came back to his senses: "We are the Falcon Eagle Squadron of the Black Hawk Division of the Royal Chinese Air Force, I am the squadron leader Yu Zhicong, and the Air Force code name is Falcon Eagle." The mission is to escort you back to Beijing smoothly. ”
"The information is confirmed, and the escort is allowed."
After a routine mission was confirmed, the two Warhawk-3s that had previously escorted Air Force One turned around and left. And when they left, Yu Zhicong's Black Hawk fighter plane happened to be next to Air Force One, and made a U-turn in a large arc, and the two Black Hawks guarded Air Force One in the middle, one left and one right.
At this moment, Yu Zhicong was very curious, what was the identity of the person inside, and which one of the royal family was several. However, in Yu Zhicong's heart, in addition to respecting the people here, there is also an indescribable sense of restraint. Although it is not clear who is inside, one thing can be confirmed, it is definitely a member of the Chinese royal family.
And he has an inexplicable restraint in his heart about the Chinese royal family, although he has not had close contact, as long as he thinks of getting close to them, he will feel very unnatural.
He definitely wouldn't have felt this way if it hadn't happened the last time he accompanied Globemaster to bomb New Delhi. But when he learned that Chen Yun, who had always been close to him, was the eldest princess of the empire. For the Chinese royal family, especially for Chen Shao, while respecting and loyal, he also has a feeling of seeing the future of Mount Tai.
He had been told more than once that Chen Shao already knew the relationship between him and Chen Yun. Although he had never heard of Chen Shao's opposition to this, he himself did not think that he would rise to prominence because of this.
If it is really because of Chen Yun's relationship that he has privileges in the army, then Yu Zhicong will not only not be happy, but will be very unhappy. Because he was inspired to create his own sky with his own hands, when he knew Chen Yun's identity. Although her status is unattainable for him. But he never thought of giving up, and vowed that he must work hard and use his military exploits to marry Chen Yun.
At the same time, it was only then that he understood why the Ministry of Defense asked him by name to escort him. Obviously, this is a high-level of the Ministry of National Defense giving him a chance to get close to someone close to Chen Yun. (To be continued......)
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