"The take-off inspection procedure has been carried out, and the swift has requested to take off."

"Understood, Swift, you can take off at any time."

"Swift understands." After Xia Yu answered, he pushed the throttle valve forward to full, opened the afterburner chamber for afterburner, and the two WS13D engines began to roar fiercely, and the huge tail flame sprayed directly on the deflector, and the harsh noise sounded on the flight deck, and the power of the engine began to grow rapidly, and soon met the requirements for takeoff.

In the take-off posture of the deck take-off commander, the catapult operator pressed the ejection button on the control platform, and the black-and-gray painted eagle suddenly rushed forward, increasing the speed to 270 kilometers in just over 100 meters, and then rushed directly out of the deck, and began to climb up under the control of Xia Yu, and at the same time as Xia Yu, there was another J-31 and two J-15.

"The Swifts have lifted off and are in formation in the air." The personal code name that has not been used for a long time has given Xia Yu a sense of freshness, today's flight is not a daily patrol mission, but will be to rendezvous with the carrier-based aircraft squadron of the Guangdong ship 700 kilometers away, and then carry out a joint escort mission. Because Xia Yu had the highest military rank in this mission, he was appointed as an air commander, responsible for flight command in the air.

Recently, I don't know what happened, but not only did the activities of the Japanese reconnaissance planes suddenly increase, but even the US reconnaissance planes uncharacteristically began to fly in the air 24 hours a day. Although the air combat incident that occurred not long ago was not too aggressive, the sudden increase in reconnaissance time made people very concerned, for the sake of safety, so Xia Yu arranged a four-plane radar with a relatively large search range to follow up the formation, and the J-31 with stealth efficiency flew in front, if something really happened, it could get more reaction time.

The four planes quickly assembled in the air and then followed the navigation to the intended target. The air flight formation arranged by Xia Yu was still a radar follow-up formation, and the four planes were far apart from each other.

"Maintain radio silence until you get to the next waypoint." After the air formation was arranged, Xia Yu decided to directly radio silence to the target area.

"Turtledove received."

"Poison bee received."

"Haiyan received."

As the voices of all the pilots fell, the four planes began to fly according to the scheduled flight plan, and at the same time, the four J-15s on the Guangdong ship had also taken off and were flying towards the rendezvous point.

In addition to an escort mission, this flight also has the significance of using force to reconnoiter the surrounding situation, because after the completion of this mission, the Jiangsu warship will return to the East China Sea, and the Guangdong warship will conduct patrol training in the East China Sea area and conduct confrontation activities with the Japanese side.

The air confrontation between Chinese and Japanese fighters some time ago was a real air battle, and because it had already caused actual losses, whether it was the carrier-based aircraft pilots on the Jiangsu ship or the pilots of the Naha base in Japan, the two sides had already formed a certain state of adaptability psychologically, and in this case, once another conflict occurred, it was very likely that the pilots on both sides would no longer restrain themselves as before, causing new combat incidents.

Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary combat incidents, and also to allow the pilots to completely calm down and adjust their psychological state, the Japanese side transferred the pilots who participated in the actual air battle that day to their original posts, or temporarily canceled the flight mission, and carried out psychological intervention and treatment.

On the Chinese side, while carrying out psychological intervention, the Jiangsu ship was transferred back to the port for repairs, and the Guangdong ship was carried out patrol training tasks at sea. Fortunately, China now has three aircraft carrier battle groups, which can be rotated according to the basic supporting contents of one aircraft carrier on duty, one aircraft carrier maintenance, and one aircraft carrier training as originally planned, which is one of the reasons why the command level above can easily command the aircraft carrier formation to be mobilized.

"Didi." A prompt sounded in the cockpit, Xia Yu looked down, and four flying targets were displayed at 130 kilometers in the direction of one o'clock ahead, and IFF immediately identified friend and foe and judged that it was a friendly aircraft, Xia Yu estimated that this should be the Guangdong carrier-based aircraft that was about to meet with himself and others, and immediately sent an encrypted number chain message requesting a link to the aircraft of the Guangdong ship.

The J-15 air formation commander of the Guangdong ship suddenly heard a prompt tone in the cockpit, looked down and saw that it was a chain of information, and after clicking to confirm, two targets suddenly appeared 90 kilometers and 110 kilometers ahead of the radar, startling him. He didn't find anything on his radar just now, but he didn't expect to click on the chain link, and two targets ran out at once.

"This is the gray-backed gull squadron of the Guangdong ship, and I am the long-plane red-headed gull."

"Greetings, Grayback Gull Squadron." Xia Yu immediately replied: "I am the Falcon Squadron of the Jiangsu Ship, the long plane Swift, we will carry out the flight mission as originally planned, please be ready." ”

"Greyback Gull understands."

After the call, the eight planes of the two sides began to converge in the predetermined airspace, and the red-headed gull now knows why it was not discovered until the other party entered 90 kilometers into itself, which turned out to be a J-31 stealth fighter.

If it weren't for the other party's main request for a combat number chain connection, and then the IFF automatically marked the location information of both sides, I am afraid that it will be at a visual distance for the radar to find the other party, and the red-headed gull sweated a little.

What the red-headed gull was thinking, Xia Yu couldn't care, after the eight planes converged, a huge air flight formation was formed, for the sake of safety, Xia Yu decided to use the radar to follow the formation to escort. Considering that the recent reconnaissance activities of American aircraft are more frequent, which may have an impact on the escort target, Xia Yu felt that it was necessary to use the stealth performance of the J-31 to rush forward to escort the escort, so he let the six J-15s form an escort flight attitude of three each on the left and right of the escort target, and then he and Haiyan flew the J-31 50 kilometers in front of the escort target.

Xia Yu didn't know who the target of his escort was, anyway, as long as he did his mission well, so after talking to the escort target, he carried out his flight mission as planned.

However, the information from the early warning plane indicated that there was an unidentified plane operating 400 kilometers in front of the left, and that must be the US reconnaissance plane being active, but because in the area of the high seas, even if he knew that they were engaged in reconnaissance, he could not drive them away or warn them in any form, Xia Yu was actually very unhappy in his heart.

However, it has nothing to do with his current mission, Xia Yu can only choose to ignore it, and this is also the last flight of the Jiangsu ship before returning home, and it can return after flying to the open sea, and the task is equivalent to being completed, Xia Yu has no intention of taking the initiative to cause trouble.

However, what Xia Yu did not expect was that just as they were about to complete their mission and send the escort target over the high seas, the US reconnaissance plane suddenly changed course and approached its own course.

In this case, there is no need to think too much, Xia Yutong guò radioed his wingman, and then the two J-31s increased the output power of the engines at the same time and flew towards the plane.