"Hello, Comrade Regiment Commander!"

Probably seeing their strict head arrive, the young men around him were quiet for a while; It wasn't until Long Yun shook hands with the head of the regiment that someone began to mention the welcome party:

"Commander, it's past twelve o'clock, are you going to have a welcome meeting, dinner or something?"

"Oh? ――Are you thinking about drinking again? It was also night. The young man who was said by the regiment commander smiled embarrassedly, and Samsonov looked at him, "Viktor, let you laugh: we strictly control drinking here, and these people are already greedy!" But today there is only gin, I wonder what your taste is? ”

Hearing such an interesting conversation, Long Yun was also a little crying and laughing. In fact, except for at parties, he really can't think about drinking.

"Ah, I'm fine, I don't have much to drink."

"Hey, so do we!"

Someone next to him interjected, triggering a burst of good-natured laughter.

"Okay, okay, enough onlookers! Those who are on duty at night are still on duty, and the others-"

At this moment, to everyone's surprise, a sudden battle siren sounded over the airfield. Hearing such a voice, everyone's faces changed, and then everyone hurriedly said goodbye and quickly dispersed, running all the way to their respective posts!

――Why, did you encounter a sortie mission?

Long Yun, who had just come to the base and encountered the situation, heard that the alarm was different from that of the 309 front-line aviation regiment, but he stood a little dazed and watched the people running away.

For a while, in front of the lively hangar gate, only Long Yun, Regiment Commander Samsonov and the adjutant who followed were left; Looking up at the sky to the south, the regiment leader's expression became a little stern, and he stood in place for a while and did not speak again.

In wartime, of course, operational alerts are not as simple as encountering a suspicious target and dispatching one or two warplanes to intercept them.

Just when Long Yun had nothing to do and looked around, the Su-27S, which had been on standby with blue and white gradient camouflage and the nose radome and the top of the tail painted dark green, had already completed the engine start, and the ground crew was busy preparing for the attack, and then came to the top of the runway in turn according to the apparently skillful take-off order, and started an emergency take-off in a group of two.

In the vast empty base, at this time, it was already filled with the roar of fighter engines, as well as the whistling sound of afterburner take-off and high-speed taxiing, and a group of single-seat Su-27S with slender fuselage swept at high speed not far in front of Long Yun and others, and after raising their heads off the ground, they pierced the blue sky, leaving only a long-lasting rumbling sound in their ears.

In just a few minutes, the last group of Su-27S twin planes had already slid off the ground and lifted off, and the vicinity of the spacious airport runway became extremely empty for a while.

Long Yun subconsciously counted the scale of the sortie of four groups of twin planes and a total of eight Su-27S, obviously in the sky far south at this time, it was already urgent, and the comrades-in-arms of the other fighter regiments were probably already in contact with the enemy.

As a second-line combat force deployed in Stavropol and mainly providing long-range jamming and tactical support, the 237th Regiment also attacked at such a fast speed, which left a deep impression on Long Yun. Sure enough, unlike the 309th Regiment deployed near the battle line, this sortie is a large formation of multiple planes rising into the air at one time, and perhaps the air situation in the Caucasus is not the same as the situation of small-scale chaotic battles in Western Europe?

"Let's go, Victor?"

The regiment commander's words brought Long Yun back to reality, and seeing that the figure of the fighter had disappeared into the sky, the three of them slowly left the airport area and came to the regiment headquarters in the fixed building to go through the registration procedures.

In the regimental headquarters of the 237th Regiment, which is located on the basement floor of the building and has a simple layout and a slight sense of shade, Commander Samsonov took this time to briefly introduce the situation in the regiment to Long Yun, as well as the recent battle form.

This kind of introduction is exactly what Long Yun is eager to know.

Having just arrived in this distant and unfamiliar Caucasus, he was not only quite concerned about the situation on the southern front, but also somewhat interested in the number of the 237th Regiment: in the real world, he knew that the 237th Regiment of the Soviet Union was an aviation technology verification regiment stationed in Kubinka, and it seemed that many details of the two worlds were still different.

The 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment is a veteran combat unit established before World War II; Over the decades, although there have been many adjustments, the number has been retained, and the station has been transferred back and forth in the Caucasus for a long time. As the second-line interceptor combat force of the Air Force, the regiment was originally armed with the Su-15TM, a typical interceptor; Later, in 1989, it was replaced with a new Su-27S, which has been used until now.

As a fighter aviation regiment deployed in Stavropol, 400 kilometers from the southern border, the 237th fighter aviation regiment with 26 fighters is mainly responsible for the territorial air defense of the Caucasus, cooperating with the PVO (territorial defense force) troops stationed nearby to intercept any targets invading Soviet territory.

After the outbreak of the war, especially in the last two weeks, because of the increasing air pressure on the front line, their task has become more of an air superiority operation, that is, to cooperate with the fighter regiments stationed on the front line to confront the NATO Air Force head-on, and use the characteristics of the Su-27S with long range and large bomb load to continue to defend against NATO's air offensive.

This kind of high-intensity sustained combat certainly gave great support to the front-line troops; But they themselves suffered considerable losses, and now there are nineteen Su-27S single-seat types left in the regiment in good condition, and two more are under repair.

"Well, so in this way, the NATO offensive in the Caucasus is also fierce?"

"Yes. Especially in the last two weeks, this pressure has been increasing. Although we are on the second line, the security of the base has not yet been threatened," Samsonov whispered to him at the regimental headquarters, "and now the American aircraft carrier has also reached the eastern Mediterranean, which is a new trouble for us." ”

Ah, has the shape of the Caucasus become like this now?

Long Yun nodded to the head of the regiment and took the documents and materials in his hand, but he felt a little drumming in his heart.

Recalling some of the history of the real world, a place like the Caucasus has never had a large-scale, high-intensity war in history; Even in World War II, Hitler's German Eastern Offensive was launched from land, along Ukraine all the way to Stalingrad.

The reason for this is that the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains can be said to be the two natural hazards in the south of the Soviet Union; Moreover, the NATO allies in person, whether they are Turkey or Greece, are all fierce and inward-looking, and their combat effectiveness is scum.

In the decades since the beginning of the Cold War era, although the confrontation in the Caucasus has been tense, there has never been a misfire.

But now, the Americans are going to be aggressive and aggressive here, and what is the purpose of that?

――――Dividing Line――――

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