The passenger train headed east, crossing the Ob and Yenisei rivers, and Long Yun thought that his journey was still thousands of kilometers away.

However, when the train was approaching the frozen Lake Baikal and Irkutsk, an important city in the Soviet Far East, he and Valentina received a notice from above, informing them that the end of the journey had changed, or that the real destination of the two of them had not been Komsomolsk in the first place.

"Ah, Comrade Lieutenant General! Good afternoon, it's hard to fly all the way, isn't it? ”

The sun was shining, and in the cold north wind, two black Volga cars were speeding on the road with a wide field of vision.

In the back seat of one of the cars, a thicker older man in a black coat took off his glasses and greeted Viktor Rezenov, who was sitting next to him, with a smile on his face, while holding out his chubby hand:

"It's okay, head over to your accommodation for lunch, maybe a little bit of vodka, I bet you'll be in good spirits and full of energy today!" Oh, comrade general, I said the wrong thing again, I can't change the fatigue of the morning journey, the ghost weather in Irkutsk is like this, when it comes to winter, it's like falling into an ice hole; Heck, after all these years, my head is going to rust a little bit......"

"Ahh It's, it's okay,"

His ears were full of men's chatter, Long Yun, who was sitting in the back row, only felt a little hot in the car at this time, he leaned over and shook hands with the orator with a red face, while feeling the sweat in his palms, it seems that this talkative old gentleman himself is quite stuffy:

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Comrade Mikhail Simonov."

- Semyon. Turn down the air conditioner. ”

Seeing the old man and the young man in the back. All nested in the back seat of the Volga sedan, which was originally quite spacious. After shaking hands awkwardly together, the middle-aged woman with smooth blonde hair curled up looked twice in the rearview mirror, beckoned the driver to adjust the temperature, and turned her head and smiled at the guest:

"Comrade General, Mikhail is a man who talks a lot, please bear with me."

"Oh! Vera, I don't usually talk much; It's when you see our number one ace and super combat hero that you scratch your ears and cheeks and want to say something, don't be mistaken. Ha ha! - By the way, our Comrade Rezenov, what would you like to eat at the dinner, and I will ask my wife to prepare it well, choosing one of the recipes that meet the nutritional requirements of the pilots? ”

"Uh, it's alright! Comrade Simonov, anything will do. ”

Simonov's enthusiasm was a little difficult to resist, and Long Yun's mouth in the seat was really a little dry, in fact, he really wanted to drink some water now, but he had to wait until he got to his accommodation.

Irkutsk, an important industrial city on the shore of Lake Baikal. It is the real destination of Long Yun's trip to the Far East.

Recall that only a few days ago, a series of arrangements were received from the KGB. Including a business trip to Komsomolsk in the Far East, which is where KnAAPO is located, Long Yun also had some speculations about this, he felt that as a combatant, it was unlikely that he would be called to guide the work, or visit and investigate, so Bacheng was the same as going to the MiG Design Bureau before, maybe there was something on KnAAPO's side that could help him.

However, just as the KGB side arranged, such a trip plan was actually disguised.

Generally speaking, based on Long Yun's experience, if someone from the National Security Council informed him of his flight, he would most likely stuff himself into a train car; If he had been informed that he was going to Rostov for a meeting, and when he did get out of the car, he would probably have found out that he had actually arrived in Izhevsk - and this time, the answer was actually very easy to guess, it was not false to participate in some activities of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, but the destination was not KnAAPO, but IAPO in Irkutsk.

The subordinate departments of the Sukhoi Aviation Industry Complex, namely KnAAPO and IAPO, also had to pass through the Trans-Siberian Railway, so when the electrified train was heading east and stopping at Lake Baikal, Long Yun, who had hurriedly packed his luggage, got off the train with Valentina, and was escorted by the KGB for a ride, only to meet the personnel who came to greet the IAPO side.

Mikhail Petrovich Simonov, when he first saw this person, Long Yun really didn't recognize this loud and talkative man.

Crossing over from the real world, he also knew that the Sukhoi Design Bureau had a chief designer named Simonov, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this thick old man was more like a business manager, even if he had a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, but shouldn't the chief designer be in the office all day in front of the drawing board, looking indifferent and unsmiling?

With such a doubt, outside the gate of a military airport in Irkutsk, getting into a car bound for the IAPO factory, Long Yun and Simonov sat in a car and exchanged pleasantries for a while, even without consciously snooping, Long Yun knew how cheerful and outgoing the designer was. It is not surprising that such an outward-looking technologist designed such an excellent work as the Su-27, but thinking about the development years of the "project T-10", young people with a puzzled face still do not understand, maybe the trajectory of these two worlds is indeed different, and now it is not much more.

After being away from the front line for a long time, and now the flames of war in the Far East are about to ignite, but Viktor Rezenov was arranged by the above, and Long Yun's doubts were answered on the day he arrived in Irkutsk.

In the evening of the same day, I settled down in the guest house owned by IAPO, and then went to Mikhail Simonov's residence for dinner together, chatted with the chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau at the dining table, and by the way, I also met Simonov's wife Vera Simonova.

"Oh, yes! -- There is nothing to keep secret here, but the new model of the 'pennant' and the improved Su-27 and Su-27M of our bureau, the state acceptance and the corresponding test work require the participation of a person like you. Of course, in wartime, it depends on the meaning of the National Defense Committee and the military, and you, as a VVS acceptance attendee, must be very clear about this, haha! ”

"I don't dare to take this seriously, in fact, I just got some materials, and I haven't seen much of it yet."

Long Yun was a little confused at first about Simonov's enthusiasm, he didn't know much about the Soviet military-industrial system, and the situation in the parallel world was not clear; However, in his mind, the test and acceptance of technical equipment must be a systematic project that requires a professional background and a rigorous attitude, and the leading role should be played by engineering and technical personnel, even if a super combat hero like Viktor Rezenov is difficult to play a role in this situation.

Of course, for such an arrangement, Long Yun's emotional intelligence has risen a lot now, and he knows that he doesn't need to ask more, as long as he shows up on the scene when the time comes.

Compared with the work of acceptance tests, Simonov's words also revealed some information, and Long Yun was more interested.

He didn't ask much at the dinner table, he just figured out in his heart that the "pennant" R-77 missile would be sent here to test and accept with the Su-27M, and his old friend Andrei Ushakov did not mention this before, so naturally, this acceptance work focused on fighters, not missiles, and the main consideration was probably the adaptation and compatibility of R-77 missiles and fighter electronic systems?

The Su-27M, as a heavy and improved version of the basic Su-27, has been massively equipped with front-line troops, including the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment where Viktor is located, as a weapon can already meet the needs of actual combat, and now the problem of matching fighters with new missiles may be solved.

In this way, it seems that the R-77 can indeed meet the requirements of practical combat application, even if there is still a little flaw for the time being, it is not difficult to solve it.

With such an idea, in the next day or two, Long Yun was accompanied by Mikhail Simonov and carried out activities within the large-scale Irkutsk Aviation Industry Complex, during which he not only appeared at the project acceptance site and expressed some of his own views, but also made a visit by the way to learn about the development and production of some Su-27M fighters.

Visiting an aviation industry complex, an experience that is still attractive to Longyun from the real world.

As an ordinary citizen in the real world, he has never seen a factory building for fighter jets since he was a child, and now he walks around the huge factory as Lieutenant General Viktor Rezenov, Long Yun really felt an eye-opener, he had visited the MiG design bureau in the parallel world before, but the design bureau is not equal to the production enterprise after all, the MAPO in Moscow is not far away, but he has never had the opportunity to take a look.

Early the next morning, along the factory road where the cold wind was howling, Long Yun and his entourage came to an assembly plant of IAPO to visit the production and assembly workshop of Su-27 fighters and Su-24 fighter-bombers.

Walking through the small door into the tall and spacious aircraft assembly workshop, I saw a huge fighter plane with a smooth and shiny structure that was somewhat incomplete, the body components were painted with light yellow anti-rust paint, and they were surrounded by brackets and various tools and equipment. The sound of metal cutting and riveting reverberated through the factory, and while guiding Viktor into the aisle, Simonov gave a brief account of the state of the IAPO assembly shop, and told Lieutenant General Comrade Sù that because it was a time of war, the entire aviation industry complex had entered a wartime system. (To be continued......)