Flying smoothly with its back to the sun, the Bulgaria Airlines Tu-204 made its way north, dragging a shallow white trail through the clear skies of Eastern Europe.

After taking off, he was sleepy, and Long Yun quickly fell into a deep sleep, unconsciously ending this long crossing.

Although his consciousness has returned to reality, he is still asleep in the cold tent in the base of Fort Scharqat, and in the real world of Iraq, it is still the second half of the night, and the extremely sleepy pilot will not wake up lightly; The Middle East is still full of war, but in most parts of the world, quiet and peaceful life continues, and competitive activities related to war and weapons continue as usual.

The first rays of sunlight in the early morning have already projected onto the open runway of the aviation training base in the southern suburbs of Beijing, illuminating the hangar of the "Chenlong" squadron with the door open, and the two silver-gray J-10A "Raptor" fighters dragged out of the warehouse one after the other are shining with a shallow golden brilliance all around under the reflection of the rising sun.

Today is the first day of the semi-finals of the IFT China North China Regional Qualifiers.

After a delay of more than 10 days due to an "aircraft safety inspection", today, the rematch of the IFT qualifiers has finally resumed, and it has become the first match day of the "Chenlong" team in the knockout round.

In the group stage of the IFT qualifiers more than a month ago, "Chenlong" achieved three wins and one loss, ranked first in the group, and advanced to the semi-finals of the North China Regional Qualifiers; It can be said that it is not easy to achieve such good results in the group stage, especially against a brand new team that is fledgling and is still using the old "Seven Masters" to compete on the battlefield at the beginning. It can be said that it is a miracle to create zào.

But that's all in the past. The rematch below. The team's journey to the skies has just begun.

In the next qualifier semi-final process, unlike the group stage divided into eight groups A~H to play the round-robin round-robin, the sixteen teams participating in the semi-final will be divided into two groups I and II according to the group stage ranking for a single-elimination battle, and the final winner of each group will participate in the national selection tournament at the beginning of next year as the selection team of the North China Division. This means that the "Chenlong", who were ranked in Group I according to their records, do not need to face the strong team "Tianwei" that made them taste defeat for the first time, but have to play a knockout match with the remaining seven teams that also belong to Group I. After three rounds of competition, it is possible to finally enter the national selection competition.

After getting the matchup group table in the semi-final stage, Long Yun had studied the shape of the game with Liu Wei and others before going to the Middle East.

First of all, let's take a look at the situation of Group II, although "Chenlong" was not divided into this group, but when I saw the names of the eight teams, I thought that this group was really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - "Tianwei", the dark horse of this qualifier with big ups and downs; "Wangjing", a traditional strong team that has had one contact with Long Yun; There is also the "Starlight" that leased them the J-7II fighter before, and its strength is naturally quite good.

The competition of these eight strong teams. But I don't know who will kill the deer?

However, no matter who wins, it has nothing to do with the recent stage of the "Chenlong" competition. Thinking of this, several people breathed a sigh of relief, not that they were afraid of any of the teams here, but if they were also divided into Group II to play against "Starlight", it would be a bit difficult - they all said that the game was for victory, but when the "Chenlong" was first established, they reached out and provided a fighter for the game, and this kind of great help will certainly not forget it; If you meet the "Starlight" soldiers on the field so soon, the impact will not be enough, but I am afraid the mood will not be much better.

Specific to the arrangement of Group I, Wang Weiguotong guò "organized" some secret coordination, naturally not enough for outsiders, Long Yun did not reveal a star to Liu Wei, he just encouraged the young vice captain to go all out to play every next game.

Now, Long Yun has gone to the Middle East and temporarily left the "Chenlong" team, and the newly joined Bian Chao is a logical long-term opportunity, and Liu Wei is in the team to prepare for the first battle of today's rematch.

Speaking of Bian Chaoqi, Liu Wei had met him once in the group stage before, and he felt that this young man was not only skilled, but also very competitive in the game, even if he had been flying Su-27SK and contacted J-10A for a few days, he was more suitable for a long time than him, the titular vice captain: after all, he has been in the circle for two or three years, but he is just a novice who has just entered the industry for a few months.

So after some discussion, Liu Wei seriously proposed "Your skills are better than mine, or you will be the long-term machine", and Bian Chao, as a latecomer, took on the main responsibility of "Chenlong" and buried himself in preparing for the next game.

Early in the morning, when I came to the Beijing suburb aviation training center, the players and ground pilots of the participating teams were already busy in the tall and spacious hangar.

At the same time, in a high-end villa area in the Third Ring Road in downtown Beijing, there were also two young people busy dressing up and hats, packing up and preparing to leave at home; Driving out of the main entrance of the community with a wide silver Yanhuang 635, and went straight to the Beijing Aviation Training Center dozens of kilometers away, Su Xue, who was in charge of driving, was very relaxed, she just turned on the automatic driving system, and then held the steering wheel with both hands just in case:

"Ling, today isn't a day off, so it's okay to skip class?"

"Of course, it's still early before the final exam anyway," unlike the little girl who was concentrating on driving, the eldest lady in the passenger seat was leaning on the backrest, holding a breakfast in her hand, obviously because she was too lazy to sleep, and she didn't even bother to eat breakfast at home, "And I basically know some of the courses this semester, and there are no heavyweight 'famous catches', which are quite easy to deal with." ”

"Oh? Hee-hee, don't take it lightly. ”

Mixed in the rolling traffic of the morning rush hour in the capital, moving little by little with the pace of the car in front, Su Xue glanced at the time display projected on the windshield in front of her, and felt that it was still a little late to go out today. Thinking of a hurried call with my lover last night, before I had time to talk to Long Yun about the rematch of "Chenlong", the fire alarm sounded on the phone, although it was a false alarm, but I don't know what the situation is on the Hyderabad side?

Knowing that her lover has superpowers, she can not only glimpse any danger, but also control the thinking of others, the little girl who has been separated for almost ten days still has a little anxious lips slightly pursed, of course she doesn't want Long Yun to run so far all at once, but she can't think of a reason to stick to him.

After thinking about it for a while, seeing that the car had already driven out of the densely trafficked city center, she talked about it with the eldest lady beside her, but it caused Shangguan Lingjiao to smile and wave her hand:

"Sister, don't worry about him! This person, I think he knows everything, and he can deal with small things in general, so don't worry. ”

"Oh, yes......,"

Hearing the eldest lady's unintentional praise, thinking about it for a while, it seemed that this was indeed the case, Su Xue was relieved, and turned to talk about today's "Chenlong" competition, "Then, it's a pity that I didn't talk about the game on the phone last night, didn't he say before that there is a way to participate in the competition remotely in Pakistan?" But now, he doesn't even know when the game will be, so it's completely impossible to talk about it. ”

"Ah, it's true!"

took out the phone as she spoke, Shangguan Ling had never thought of this before, after all, her main business was still professional learning and taking care of the company, and the team had always been handed over to Long Yun and them to take full responsibility; Now that she suddenly thought of this, she immediately called the team, and talked with the deputy captain Liu Wei in a brisk tone for a while, as if she had received some promise, hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief:

"Fortunately, although there is no hope of 'remote participation' for the time being, Liu Wei said that today's opponent is not strong, and they are confident that they can win this one. But then again, sister, you and I don't know anything about this field, and I'm really a little worried about 'Chenlong', can they really win? ”

"Well...... I think it's fine. ”

"Yes, why?"

Thinking that the little girl next to her had done her own research or secretly enriched her mind into an observer of aviation competition, Shangguan Ling sat up straight and asked curiously.

"That's what I think," Su Xue turned her head to Shangguan Ling and smiled slightly, "I heard Long Yun say it before, they already knew the grouping shape of the semi-final, that is, they knew who the opponents were; Then, since this man went to Pakistan with confidence and boldness, and found an opponent he had met before to replace him, then I think he must have full confidence in today's first fight, isn't it? ”

"It seems so. - Yes! Then we'll see for today. ”

has absolute confidence in this guy, the two girls have already decided the result of the game when they speak, if Long Yun, who is thousands of miles away, knows this, he will probably sneeze wildly in his sleep.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, when I walked into the No. 3 viewing hall of the Beijing Suburban Aviation Training Center, I saw that the huge building was already crowded, and the staff of the competition organization and various media were also running back and forth; After all, the winner of the knockout round will represent the North China region to play the national selection tournament, and fans in the Beijing area want to see the strongest teams in the region go all the way to the national competition.

Of course, when it comes to which team is the "strongest in the region", the supporters of different teams have their own opinions, and no one can convince anyone; There are a lot of "Chenlong" fans who came to the scene today, and everyone is naturally full of expectations, whether they are strong or not, they will see on the field. (To be continued......)