July 12, 7 p.m. ET.

Ellington Field Military Airport, Houston, Texas.

By the time the sun had set, the lights were all turned on, and the entire airport was lit up as bright as day.

One Allied fighter plane after another is landing, and the pilots, who have been busy all day, are anxious to take a hot shower and drink a cup of tea after returning the eagle. And of course, a hot beef stew with white rice.

The food in the base is pure Han taste, coffee, steak, and the pilots unanimously respond to stomach trouble if they drink too much and eat too much. Or our meat buns and egg drop soup are more satisfying.

It's just that many people don't notice that the longest runway on the far right side of the airfield is vacant, and on the tarmac on one side, a nondescript mixed formation of fighters and bombers is ready.

Colonel Li Fansheng was shaking hands and hugging all the flight crew members of the squadron one by one, "It's an honor to be your commander, I miss the days with you very much, and I'm glad that we can fight side by side!" Take care! ”

A military salute, a hug, for a soldier, is enough!

Li Fansheng is the youngest navigator of the No. 2205 "Raptor" fighter in the entire squadron, and 22-year-old Air Force Lieutenant Yang Xu straightened his collar and patted the little brother's shoulder before walking to the front of the team, "Order!" Start boarding! ”

This qiē was recorded by the video recorder of the military reporter. The moment Colonel Levan gave the order to board the plane was exactly 20:30 sharp.

Subsequently, after the pilot was in the cockpit, the ground technicians cooperated with the pilot to conduct a final comprehensive inspection of the aircraft, including instruments, fuel tanks, take-off and landing wheels, and of course, the more important bomb hanging situation. While the other pilots had to make sure that each missile was actually usable in the fire control system, Levan Sang and two other crew members checked the giant bomb in the weapons bay, and of course the only bomb they had on the mission, the 0004 "Naughty Baby".

The No. 4 "Naughty Baby" was well secured, the gunner on the side wall of the weapon compartment held the "baby" in his arms, and the ignition device was in the hand of another robotic arm, more than two meters away from the "baby". After the "Blue Fen" has taken off safely and flown steadily, the weapon operator will complete the docking of the ignition device with the "baby", and at that point, the "naughty baby" will transform from a cute fat baby into an ironclad demon.

The process of docking the robotic arm to the ignition device takes three minutes. The whole process does not need to have personnel enter the weapon compartment of the "Qiulong" stealth winged bomber, the movement trajectory of the robotic arm has been strictly calculated, and the weapon operator only needs to sit in the operation room and enter the password to complete this crucial step of operation. And then...... It is to wait for the captain to give the order to drop the bomb.

In fact, the implementation plan of the "Sky Thunder" plan was changed to a night raid, and the visual bombing that the 22nd Special Service Squadron had practiced hard at the beginning of its formation became useless.

This incident proves that Zhong Yi's construction is not always practical, and the visual bomb throwing training subject is one of the typical ones. This was a training program for the pilots of the US B-29 before the air raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in order to cope with the changing climatic conditions over the Japanese archipelago, the US military had to prepare a visual bomb in addition to radar aiming. In actual combat, the little boy and the fat man were indeed both visually watched rather than aimed at by radar. When Changqi dropped the "fat man", he encountered some difficulties, but the experienced US bombardier accurately found Changqi in the gap between the two clouds and successfully dropped the bomb.

But how can the radar on the B-29 be comparable to the advanced radar on the H-41B Hymdragon stealth winged bomber? After experiencing the difficulties of ground scanning and the death of the lower viewing angle, the military radar technology of the empire has developed rapidly, and after the liberation of Britain, the airborne radar technology on the Thunderbolt fighter has played a certain role in it. From this point of view, the new generation of radar divisions in South Korea and the United States are of the same origin.

With accurate ground scanning, night vision infrared imaging, and a search range of up to 120 kilometers, the performance of the Blue Mountain-9 airborne radar equipped on the H-41B is almost comparable to the "radar array" on the early warning aircraft.

Excellent radar performance is also the biggest guarantee for the "Sky Thunder" plan to be carried out at night, and the main reason is, of course, time!

Attacking at the moment of the end of the "Day of the Armistice in the Air" not only preserves the credibility of the Empire in the world, but also leaves the Americans with nothing to say! Then the time of action must be around early morning, and at night, it can also make the stealth performance of the Qiulong stealth bomber better played. Although flying at an altitude of 15,000 meters, it is difficult for the human eye to detect the traces of fighter planes even in daytime. Modern air combat, with the advent of medium-range missiles and the development of radar technology, has long entered the era of over-the-horizon.

At 22:47, the "Lanfen" entered the runway and started the plane. Admiral Long Xiaotian, who was in command at the tower, heard Colonel Li Fansheng's voice: "Lan Fen calls the command tower, Lan Fen calls the command tower, the preparations are ready, and the take-off order is requested." ”

There was a brief silence in the communicator, and after two seconds, a loud voice rang out: "Ellington Field Airport Control Tower order, take off east along Runway 1!" I'm Long Xiaotian, good luck to everyone! ”

"Yes, Admiral!" Colonel Lai's answer also raised a pitch, and the co-pilot and navigator next to him and the weapons operator behind him also froze, listening to the captain's meaning, Admiral Long personally commanded the takeoff from the tower.

At 23:12, Li Van Sang turned off the communication channel of the tower and turned to the other two members of the crew to announce: "It's-our-show-time!" ”

This English sentence was specially learned by Colonel Lai after he came to the Ellington Field base with a white man. The goods were in Chinese, and Colonel Li knew nine tricks about English, and the two of them talked to ducks, and after a long time, they finally figured out what he wanted to learn - it was time for us to perform!

After a sentence, Li Fansheng steadied his feelings, quickly pushed all the throttles, and the huge "Lanfen" stealth bomber began to glide along the long runway line, five hundred meters, one thousand meters, one thousand five hundred meters, two thousand two hundred meters, and the co-pilot, who had been staring at the instrument, habitually shouted, "Pull up!" ”

Li Fansheng was not in a hurry, and since the era of the H-5, his total flight time has exceeded tens of thousands of hours. The second-generation Qiulong H-41B is recognized as the most advanced and sophisticated bomber, but in the opinion of Colonel Lai, what is that? No matter how beautiful a woman is, can her body structure be anything special compared to other women? It's nothing more than that some places are more straight, some places are more rounded, and some places are more ......

It wasn't until the runway end sign was clearly visible under the lights that Colonel Li exerted his right hand and pulled up the plane. The blue flames ejected from the winged fighter's unique built-in nozzle left two faint traces on the runway, and the "Blue Fen" had already taken off in the air with a roar, and in the blink of an eye, the news was in the vast night.