Chapter 41: Long Yun's First Battle

Back at the Western restaurant, Long Yun was still reminiscing about the encounter just now, and the meal behind him was also a little absent-minded.

Because of this thought, after returning to his lodgings at night, he took a shower and went to sleep, completely unthinking that he would have the dream crossing again.

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All the military units of the Warsaw Pact bloc, which had adopted a defensive posture, received the news of NATO's all-out offensive early this morning, and at the same time received a general attack order from the Supreme Command.

At the forefront of the East-West confrontation, the elite shock forces of the Warsaw Pact, which are intensively preparing for war, are always preparing to storm the Federal Republic of Germany with a torrent of steel, sweeping through Western Europe to the English Channel. Although, with the current strength of the Soviet Union, it can be said that it is quite difficult to implement this strategic plan, which was drawn up decades ago; The strategic assessment given by the General Staff is not optimistic, and the Red Empire, which has slipped from its peak in the eighties, is now not fully sure that it will be able to defeat a full-scale threat from the West. However, in the face of NATO's preemptive precedent, the defenders of the Soviets had no choice but to live up to the credo of "offense is the best defense" with iron and blood. Only in this way will it be possible to gain as much strategic depth as possible before the arrival of a steady stream of US support and effectively prevent any large-scale counteroffensive landing attempt by NATO.

The first round of the contest between East and West was conducted by tactical ballistic missiles.

The first batch of missiles to attack the important nodes of the Warsaw Pact was carried out by NATO's mobile "Pershing" missile launch units deployed on the vast plains of Central Europe. These tactical missiles, which pierced the night sky with bright flames and slammed directly into a predetermined area hundreds of kilometers away, played the role of striking at important targets such as command centers at all levels, assembly areas of mobile troops, and large air defense early warning radars, in the hope of making a gap in the tight Warsaw Pact air defense network. Of course, in the face of the Warsaw Pact's powerful tactical missile interception system, it is difficult to say how effective such a surprise attack will be, so the Americans simultaneously dispatched stealth bombers that they are proud of, striving to occupy the initiative on the battlefield in the first round.

After discovering the incoming missile target, the huge Warsaw Pact fighter plane immediately became operational; The General Command immediately returned fire according to the predetermined plan, a large number of tactical missile units deployed in Eastern Europe, immediately mobile evacuation equipped with nuclear warheads, and the rest were launched on the spot to carry out the first wave of surprise attacks on the predetermined key targets in Western Europe.

Since NATO has not launched any long-range missiles, the General Command, while making preparations for a nuclear war, has judged that this is a prelude to a large-scale conventional war, which has met the realistic conditions for conducting strategic assault operations. At the same time as ordering the front-line troops to prepare for the enemy, the elite assault groups immediately began to cross the West German border line and make rapid assaults towards Central Europe. Front-line aviation, on the other hand, immediately entered combat mode, and a large number of fighters took to the skies to intercept the massive air attack that NATO would inevitably launch.

And now, in an air base in southeastern Poland, Long Yun is about to usher in his first aerial operation.

Real combat in the air.

Sirens sounded in the night sky, and pilots rushed to the hangar in the airbase where the lights were on. There, the weapons management had already made the necessary tests for the fighters, and the safety devices of the missiles were removed; As the pilot entered the cockpit, the fighters' engines started one after another, taxiing into the runway in turn.

Since secretly entering the first-level alert state, Long Yun's 309th regiment has begun to prepare for battle, the missiles are all hung under the fighter wings in advance, and the fuel has already been added to nearly full value, ready to take to the air for combat at any time. As a second-line aviation regiment, although they will not face the huge pressure of enemy aircraft at the first time, they must also do their best to support the fighter aircraft units deployed in East Germany, which is at the forefront of the confrontation between the east and the west.

In the cockpit of the MiG-29, Long Yun checked all the instruments, and the state of the fighter was normal.

Having just entered the world, he stood in the hallway for a few seconds before realizing what was going on. In the dark night, on the runway, which was dimly lit due to air defense control, the fighters in front of them were taking off one after another. Since it had been judged that it was the outbreak of a large-scale war, the regiment had ordered the use of the typical plan of large-scale attack, and the planes would immediately attack according to the ground guidance information after takeoff, instead of air grouping to save time.

At this time, the night sky is still pitch black; But a large number of warplanes have already shuttled through it, and the skies of Europe are about to become full of fire and blood.

Relying on the carrier aircraft's radar to maintain the search, Long Yun maintained contact with his own long plane through the ground navigation command after liftoff. In such a dark night, all he could see with the naked eye was the faintly flickering navigation lights above and below.

All around, there is a dark night sky with no fingers visible; The sporadic lights on the ground are also almost invisible due to the height; Long Yun suddenly felt a trace of coldness and loneliness. Until then, he had been treating his experience as a game, but when he really had to face the war, even if he wasn't sure whether it was real or not, he felt a little nervous and inexplicably excited.

However, an idea popped into his head.

If this is not a dream, if this is a real war, then ...... What if I get hit?

Will you die?

This thought made Long Yun break out in a cold sweat all of a sudden.

Is this really a dream? I have long suspected it. But if it's not a dream...... What will happen to you if you die here? Long Yun suddenly remembered a movie in which people who were lost in their dreams would become vegetative people in the real world, and their thoughts would close themselves in their minds and never wake up again. Will your current situation be ......

It's not a good thing to think about death before going to war.

Long Yun calmed himself down. For some reason, he suddenly felt so confident that he could survive the fierce battle that was about to break out. Even if the situation is bad, he can handle it. Maybe he is confident in the fighter he pilots, although he doesn't know the reason yet, but he is already familiar with the MiG-29; Perhaps, Long Yun also has absolute confidence in his combat skills.

Although he has never really experienced air combat before - then, this is the best stage for himself.

After about twenty minutes of flight, navigation information indicated that they had penetrated deep into East German airspace. Always paying attention to the information provided by GCI, Long Yun and they knew that right in front of them, the East German fighter force had started a large-scale melee with the invading NATO fighter planes.

Although the fighting is still taking place on the western borders of East Germany, the skies over Europe are quite narrow for high-speed fighters. They were then instructed to go to the southwestern border of East Germany in order to block a possible invasion breach by enemy aircraft, because by this time the surface-to-air missile forces in that area had been largely wiped out and could be said to be in an undefended state.

Despite this, no valuable radar echo information has been found on the radars of Long Yun and Changji so far.

In the vast sky, a fighter plane is not much different from a small raft drifting in the depths of the ocean; Relying on its own fire control radar, it can only see a small area on the vast battlefield like a leopard in a tube. Compared with Western fighters with more complete radar and electronic equipment, the MiG aircraft is more dependent on the entire combat platform.

Regardless, they eventually spotted an enemy aircraft flying in the distance: in the chaotic radar signal, the MiG's N019 radar discerned several points of light that were rapidly approaching.

After confirming that it was an enemy target, Long Yun adjusted the radar combat mode, followed the long plane to turn on the afterburner, and pounced on the target.