Hovering around the mining area for a while, Long Yun immediately saw the general situation of this area.

As far as the eye can see, what appears in the field of vision is a huge mining operation face excavated vertically and horizontally, in the shape of a basin, and a wide zigzag lane is faintly visible at the edge of the excavated working face; Long Yun roughly estimated that the excavation depth of the working face was about tens of meters, and then there was a huge pit bottom that was quite flat and almost circular.

What kind of mine is this?

Long Yun was a complete amateur in mining, and he couldn't tell if it was an open-pit metal mine or something else.

But mining or something was thrown aside first, and now Long Yun couldn't manage so much: places with traces of artificial activity were always a little more reliable than the natural environment, and he slightly pushed the rod into a small angle of diving, flew a little lower, and circled slowly along the mining area.

At this time, on the ground near the end of the evening and the mine, the workers scattered around seemed to have also discovered Long Yun's red No. 17 landline.

Looking down from the cockpit, Long Yun could vaguely see a small blurry black shadow moving regularly on the ground; Not only that, in the process of circling through the mining area, in addition to discovering the buildings, roads, large machinery and mine dump trucks for mining and beneficiation around the mining area, he also found several inconspicuous construction positions and faint figures of people moving on the positions in the barren grassland at the edge of the mining area.

With his superior eyesight and a little military common sense, Long Yun could see for a moment that those were not ground artillery positions, but should be open anti-aircraft fire positions; On the positions of suspected artillery emplacements, it is clear that several medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns are also equipped.

- No, it's even this thing!

Long Yun was a little surprised to think that the Soviet Union's combat readiness level was really not covered, and even the industrial mining areas had preset anti-aircraft artillery positions and deployed such guys!

Although as far as his observation goes, these anti-aircraft guns without artillery sighting radar and fire command posts do not have much combat capability, but the power of the artillery will not be discounted, and he is secretly worried that he must not be treated as an enemy plane by the militia on the ground, and he will be beaten for no reason!

Fortunately, after circling in the mining area, Long Yun did not receive any attacks, it seems that the garrison militia here still has some military literacy, and it is estimated that he recognized the fighter model from the elegant and long appearance of the Red Seventeen he piloted.

However, although there was no risk of accidental attack, Long Yun's worry did not subside: after turning around and surveying the terrain just now, he knew that it was not easy to make a forced landing here. Compared to the surrounding rugged mountains, the terrain in this area is relatively flat, but no place can spread more than 500 meters in length; The main road that runs through the mining area has only two lanes, which is obviously too narrow for the Su-27 with a wingspan of 14.7 meters. Except for that huge deposit......

――Is that a place okay?

At this time, just above the deposit, Long Yun used visual inspection to roughly estimate the circular structure that looked quite huge: compared to the large bulldozers and engineering dump trucks parked at the edge of the deposit, it was roughly estimated that the diameter of this pit was more than 600 meters, which was the largest piece of fairly flat ground that could be found nearby.

But the tragedy is that the whole flat ground is deeply recessed below the ground level, which is equivalent to nothing.

With a drop of at least 30 meters at the edge of the deposit, even if Long Yun did his best to lower the landing speed to about 230 kilometers per hour, the approach angle - that is, the angle between the landing trajectory of the aircraft and the horizontal ground - was raised to the limit of three to four degrees, and it would take an additional hundreds of meters to fall before the wheels could reach the ground at the bottom of the pit. Not to mention that such a landing force will definitely break the landing gear of the fighter, and then it will roll around on the ground, and even if the forced landing is successful, the landline will turn the landline into a pile of scrap metal - oh no, it is a pile of scrap aluminum.

I finally found a piece of flat land, but can't I still use it?

Just when the ignited hope was about to be dashed, Long Yun's bold consciousness diverged, but it made him think of a way to land.

Although he thought about it and thought it was a bit unreliable, in the absence of a better choice, he decided to give it a try! Thinking of this, Long Yun immediately turned the side pole pressure slope, drove the red seventeen to draw a semicircular track in the air, adjusted the course and altitude, and took a deep breath to prepare for a forced landing.

- He wanted to land the plane in circles to the bottom of the pit like a bird landed!

Piloting the fighter plane to fly lower and lower, aiming at the lowest point at the edge of the ore deposit, seeing the huge ore deposit that was constantly enlarging in front of him approaching rapidly, Long Yun suddenly felt that he and the Su-27S under his control had become so small, like a fly circling along the edge of a mosquito coil; Holding the joystick with both hands, maintaining the posture of the fighter plane with almost no power, trying to stick to the edge of the pothole, avoiding the spiral auxiliary path and other scattered obstacles, Long Yun's nervous hands seemed to be trembling slightly.

Now, neither the fuel nor the altitude allow him to fly back into the air again, but what will be the direction of the air flow in the terrain conditions such as the pit?

It was too late, it was too fast, as the fighter plane continued to approach the ground, swept over the edge of the ore deposit and flew into the sky and continued to reduce its altitude, seeing the craggy pit wall flying by around him, Long Yun felt that his heart was a little unbearable.

Whether it will succeed or not, only God knows!

While controlling the huge body of the Su-27S to fall smoothly, Long Yun raised the speed brake on the back of the plane in advance, and he felt that the speed of the fighter plane had dropped very quickly, and the fighter plane that was barely maintaining lift had reached the verge of stalling!

In this way, he took a completely risky gamble, and just when Long Yun felt that the plane was about to fall like a discus and hit the ground directly, the bottom of the mineral deposit in his sight was already quite close, and he knew that the bottom of the pit was about to make contact with the wheels; Seeing that the ground at the bottom of the sandy deposit was almost debris and not very flat, Long Yun prayed that he would not burst a tire, and then felt the vibration of the main landing gear touching the ground.

Once the wheels hit the ground, the standard landing process is to brake and release the parachute; But now Long Yun doesn't dare to brake, the ground conditions are so bad, if the brakes cause tire pressure fluctuations to easily burst, then his end will be no different from those who drag race and hit the wall and die without a body.

Feeling the damping rebound of the main landing gear, Long Yun tried his best to use the pneumatic control surface, which was already not very useful due to the reduced speed, and tried his best to control the nose pointing of the fighter like a racing driver, and his mood was extremely nervous!

It wasn't until the estimated speed of the fighter was already below 140 kilometers per hour that he released the parachute and began to use the brakes to reduce the speed of the fighter as smoothly as possible. Along the edge of the huge deposit, the Red Seventeen went around in circles like an incoming clipper, turning almost a full week, and the outer edge of the wing narrowly brushed the side wall of the deposit several times before finally showing signs of a slow stop.

When the fighter finally stopped slowly at the edge of the huge deposit, Long Yun, who felt that the fighter was no longer moving, sat in the cabin with a little loss of strength, and it took a long time to recover his strength.

Fortunately, at this time, the Su-27S fighter has no fuel and ammunition, and there is no danger of explosion, otherwise he would still be very risky in this way.

Feeling that his whole body was covered in cold sweat, Long Yun took a few deep breaths, took off his helmet a little dazedly, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat that flowed into his eyes; Looking around at the huge deposit structure from the cockpit, he finally determined that he had made a successful forced landing, and had not made the mistake of losing his landline last time.

At this time, Long Yun didn't know that his thrilling forced landing just now not only tossed himself lightly, but also made all the witnesses in the mining area break out in a cold sweat.

Just now, Igor Antonov, the director of the mechanic department who was busy at the mechanical maintenance point in the mining area, raised his eyes after hearing the workers' greetings and saw a lone fighter plane flying very low in the sky, this rare sight made him feel very strange; Seeing the plane hovering in the sky, he didn't know what the plane was going to do, and he looked up at the sky in confusion.

"Hey, Igor, what is that guy doing? Do you want to do a scout? ”

"I don't know, you see he's going around the mine. ――Is there a radio connection you can talk to? ”

While a few people were watching and chatting, surprised by the sight of a low-flying fighter, Antonov, the head of the mechanical department, felt that something was not quite right; Having served in the reserve before, he looked at the almost disappearing tail spout flames and the rather low flight altitude of the hovering large fighter, and suddenly thought of something.

"I said, the plane can't be out of fuel and want to make a forced landing, right?"

One sentence woke everyone up, and everyone looked up and felt a bit similar; At this time, Antonov was the first to break free from his confusion and immediately took action, beckoning everyone to clear the widest main road in the mining area.

"Ivan! - Mihai! Hurry up and haul away the rubbish on the side of the road, and the crane! ”

Knowing that the forced landing of fighters was a race against time, Director Antonov hurriedly called everyone here to hurry up and clear the road, but he was also skeptical, although there were no buildings on both sides of the main road, the width of the roadbed was only about ten meters, could such a narrow road drop a plane?

However, before they could make a move, Antonov, who was running, heard someone shouting:

"Look! The plane fell! - He fell towards the deposit! ”

Suddenly startled in his heart, he turned his head and looked back like the workers around him, and Antonov happened to see the scene of the Su-27S piloted by Long Yun landing into the deposit; Seeing the blue and white figure of the fighter disappearing from sight, he only felt his heart sink.

Did that fighter run out of fuel and crash into the deposit?!