In the distance, Chinese fighters serving as escorts were fighting Japanese planes in mid-air. From a height of several thousand meters to a low altitude of several hundred meters, in the sky next door to this desert, there are constantly strange cries of various fighters and sudden sounds of machine guns, and radio communication is constantly intertwined with the fierce situation of the battle that the pilots constantly report.

Liu Yun pulled down the joystick and was ready for the impact. The crew members also returned to their seats and fastened their seat belts. The security officer broke out in a cold sweat in his palms, and kept glancing at the supreme commander sitting at the back of the cockpit.

Huang Ke's attention was all focused on the front of the cockpit at this time, watching the plane slowly descend at an extremely fast speed, and his heart was also in his throat.

The wings of the bombed aircraft continued to make a rustling sound, and the Japanese planes behind kept following, and their cannons kept hitting the big man, and the crackling sound kept coming.

"Ready to land! Get ready for the impact! Liu Yun shouted loudly through the wireless intercom while manipulating. Everyone held their breath.

The huge Y-3 transport plane slammed into the ground at an angle, and the tires that were the first to touch the ground made a squeaky sound, and the cabin shook violently, and everyone was thrown forward by inertia.

Immediately afterwards, all the tires began to contact the ground, and the huge inertia of the plane still made the big guy weighing several tons impact forward for a distance of dozens of meters before slowly stopping, and the sand raised by the nose covered the sky and the sun, and the black pressure was like a tornado.

In the few minutes it took to land, everyone felt as if they had spent a century. This worrying moment finally disappeared the moment the plane came to a standstill.

After the plane came to a steady stop, everyone recovered. Huang Ke took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed it to Liu Yun and Gao Xiangying in the cockpit, he smiled and said, "Wait a while to get off the plane and smoke it." ”

With that, Huang Ke walked directly to the cabin at the back. Seeing that everyone was sitting in their seats a little nervously, he clapped his hands and asked, "No one is hurt, right?" ”

Seeing that Huang Ke had already come, Fourteen Tsai, Chen Liewen and others immediately loosened their safety and took them over. After all, their mission is to protect Huang Ke's safety, and it is Huang Ke's turn to ask them in modern times?

Huang Ke didn't seem to care about this, after he looked at everyone and saw that there was nothing going on, he waved his hand and said: "Open the hatch, now the plane will still become the target of the enemy aircraft, we have to move immediately." ”

He didn't say anything more, and the crowd began to get busy. The air battle in the sky was still going on, and as Huang Ke said, there were really Japanese planes still trying to shoot at the special plane on the ground. The sound of Tatata's cannons continued, and large-caliber bullets splashed a series of sand mist in the sand on the ground.

"Quick, all hide." After Huang Ke jumped off the plane, he began to look for a hidden place, but this place was bare, and it was really difficult to find any shelter.

Bang! The Japanese army threw a bomb near them, and the shrapnel from the explosion hit him with a snap, Huang Ke only felt a sharp pain in his chest, he reached out to touch it, and the khaki hunting suit on his body had been burned by the scorching shrapnel, but fortunately a kerosene lighter he carried inside blocked the shrapnel, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable.

At this time, Fourteen Tsai, Chen Liewen and others stretched out a piece of earthy yellow canvas on the plane. The earthy yellow canvas was almost the same as the color of the ground, making it difficult to distinguish from the sky, and the Japanese planes that were looking for targets became blind.

At this time, the escort fighters were fighting with them in the air, and after a while, a Japanese fighter plane was shot down, and the plane may have been hit by the engine.

After a period of fighting, reinforcements from the Chinese Air Force arrived, and the Japanese planes finally fled and flew in the southeast direction.

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This air distress incident was satisfactorily resolved, and it was only with the superb piloting skills and desperate escort of escort Wang Xingwen and others, as well as the rapid action of the Lanzhou Air Force, that Huang Ke and the crew members were spared.

After expelling the Japanese plane, in order to avoid the exposure of the 918 project, Huang Ke canceled the original inspection plan and went back to Lanzhou directly.

At the headquarters of the Northwest Theater of Operations in Lanzhou, an urgent special meeting is being held. Cui Wu, commander of the Northwest Theater Command, also came by plane from Xi'an, and a full of military and political dignitaries gathered together.

Huang Ke, who was sitting in the chairman's seat, played with the lighter in his hand, and glanced at the generals present from time to time. When he jumped down just now, a shrapnel flew over, and if it weren't for the lighter in his arms, it is estimated that he would not have died.

He looked at the deformed lighter, and he had an indescribable feeling in his heart. What are these Japanese people here for? Why would they go deep into the hinterland to carry out such a military operation? What is their ultimate goal? Why is it flying from the northwest? If it was just reconnaissance, then why was the formation a team of more than a dozen fighters?

Everything is unknown, but everything feels unfathomable like a huge whirlpool.

The remaining senior generals on both sides of the seats were talking to each other, some were self-examining, some were lashing out, and some were analyzing the possible impact of the Japanese army's move...... The administrative and military governors of the Northwest Theater of Operations were foaming at the mouth, turning the conference room into a vegetable market.

"Alright, let's be quiet." Huang Ke snapped the lighter in his hand shut, and after all eyes were fixed on him, he asked Cui Wu with a serious expression, "Did those Japanese planes shoot down?" ”

Cui Wu nodded, pointed to the air force generals wearing light blue air force uniforms one by one next to him, and motioned for him to stand up and report.

The air force general stood up and said: "Report to the chairman, we have coordinated with the air forces in the Central Plains and other places, and have shot down all these planes near Xi'an, and now the ground forces are searching for Japanese pilots. ”

Huang Ke nodded and motioned for him to sit down, "What about the intelligence department?" Do you know what the intentions of this group of Japanese people are? ”

"Chairman of the report, we can guarantee that the Japanese side is definitely not here for you personally." Deng Kehua, director of military intelligence in the Northwest Theater, stood up and said: "Before you arrived, even our intelligence department didn't know your specific itinerary, and from the analysis of various signs of the Japanese plane, it is very likely that they ran into it by mistake. ”

As soon as Deng Kehua's words came out, some people who followed Huang Ke, such as Chen Liewen and Fourteen Tsai, frowned, what he meant by this was that the leak could only be leaked from Huang Ke's personal staff, and only dozens of people knew Huang Ke's whereabouts.

"We're already conducting an internal review, and if it leaks out of us, we'll definitely find out." Fourteen boys interjected rather rudely.

Huang Ke looked at Deng Kehua with a cold face, "Then who can tell me why these Japanese planes came all the way to the northwest?" Is it here to shop? The Air Force and intelligence were to hand over a full report to me before I left. In addition, the person in charge of the Northwest Air Defense and Intelligence against Japan during the investigation period has been temporarily suspended, and will he be reinstated depending on the specific circumstances of the investigation? ”

"Yes, Commander, I still have to review it for you." Cui Wu stood up and half-bowed.

"Don't go into the details of the review, I'll wait to see the report of the investigation conclusions." After speaking, Huang Ke stood up and walked straight out.

The order of the supreme commander has been issued, and the investigation of the incident by the Northwest Theater and the Air Force, intelligence and other departments has begun to turn.

In any case, it must have been a serious dereliction of duty for these more than 10 Japanese planes to wander around in the rear of the Northwest University as if they were strolling in a back garden without anyone noticing them. Therefore, Huang Ke showed no mercy in his attitude towards handling this matter, and he was dismissed if he should be dismissed, and he was investigated when he should be investigated.

After finishing the meeting in the Northwest Theater, Huang Ke returned to his apartment to rest. He needs someone to think about the events of the past few days, like a detective, to find the inevitable connection from the clues of clues.

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a gentle knock on the door, and after he casually said "Please come in", Fourteen pushed the door and stood straight in front of Huang Ke.

"Oh, fourteen, what's the matter?" Huang Ke asked as he flipped through the newspaper.

"Commander, I have come to review with you, my work ...... today," Fourteen burst into tears.

Huang Ke interrupted him before he could finish speaking, "Okay, I see." You don't have to review it with me, you're not wrong in this matter, okay, go back and rest. ”

"Yes......" Fourteen stopped talking, but his footsteps did not move.

"Anything else? Don't hide it, say it as you have. Huang Ke put down the newspaper in his hand.

After hearing this, Fourteen Tsai simply said: "Commander, in fact, before the plane took off, we received a call request from the reserve cadres, but because of the urgency of the time, I was personally negligent. Now that I think about it, could this call request have something to do with today's emergency? ”

Huang Ke's face became solemn after hearing this, it seems that this is not such a simple accident, it is very likely that it was intentional for himself. He knew that Fourteen Tsai would not deceive himself, but if it was really a taboo situation, why didn't Yang Yibing personally hang up the urgent phone call to report?

"Take over the reserve cadres and ask where Yang Yibing is now?" Huang Ke said firmly. When he stood up, he felt like there were countless pairs of eyes around him.