The tangled thoughts, after the plane took off, were naturally deliberately thrown aside by Long Yun.

Even if the pilot is powerful, it is very dangerous to have distractions in the fierce battle, but while controlling the J-10E to lead the wingman westward to meet the enemy, seeing more and more target prompts on the radar display, the "villain" airborne radar naturally does not have this ability, and the general face-to-face air situation has been obtained through the guò number jù chain, Long Yun naturally realized that the Su-27SKM can scan the approaching YF-23 "ghost", so it probably means one thing, The FSA fighters in the western sky were already within fifty kilometers of them, and most likely had launched over-the-horizon missiles.

Having said that, if you look at the chaotic prompts on the display screen, and then compare it with the boundaries of the airspace of engagement demarcated by the navigation system, such a narrow piece of sky is actually stuffed with "ghosts" by the Liberals - what the hell is this, holding so many fighters and releasing them in a dense formation at once?

After a period of air battles, the number of FSA fighters encountered by Long Yun's twin planes was indeed quite a lot, but just after the Battle of Aleppo, the black "ghosts" in the cold sky began to suffer heavy blows from the multinational forces or the UNSA, and they have almost disappeared in the last two or three days.

But now, let alone a quarter, the number of targets scanned by the ZHUK-27 radar on the "kvass" plane alone is at least twenty or thirty, which is obviously beyond the processing capacity of the Su-27SKM's fire control system, and it is only the "myopia" result of the detection of stealth fighters by third-generation aircraft. Then you can imagine it. How many opportunities are there for the Liberals in the skies over Deir ez-Zor.

In the face of so many enemy aircraft. Even if it was just the FSA, whose combat strength was worrying, Long Yun couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat.

Today's launch sortie, the preparation process is almost the same as usual, piloting a J-10E "villain" with no over-the-horizon capability, six combat missiles under the wings, plus a double-barreled 23mm cannon, this is all the weapons Long Yun has at hand.

Such a payload configuration, if it is used to perform a small-scale short encounter, has the cooperation of "kvass". Probably can still fight well, but now, in the face of so many Liberal "ghost" fighters, although the landlines of 3rd_IHFS comrades-in-arms such as "Mensa" and "Socrates" are not far away, a simple calculation can also be known, even if two missiles are used against one enemy plane, now a few NATA fighters near Terresuval can only destroy a total of about twenty "ghosts", and then they can only turn around and run away!

"The X-shape divides the combat airspace, and each side takes care of a piece", I don't know who came up with the idea. Long Yun had a different opinion on this, but it didn't help the current battle situation at all.

Campaignal, and even strategic, military deployments. Sometimes, in the eyes of front-line combatants, it is nonsense, which is a common thing in war, and Long Yun, who is crawling in the smoke of war in both worlds, will naturally not blindly complain, and he also knows very well that the decision-makers of the Mosul regime are not stupid, and in the current situation, even if the offensive of the new party forces is temporarily frustrated, it is just to give the hard bone of Deir ez-Zor to Damascus to gnaw.

If you can't win a battle in the city, the new party may not be able to hang up on the face, but it can also avoid a vicious siege battle with huge losses, and the pros and cons of the gains and losses are actually quite difficult to measure.

For the war-torn liberated areas of Iraq, is it a battle with huge losses, or is some diplomatic face more important?

People with different positions will definitely have different opinions on this issue, but Long Yun has no time to think about it now.

"'Red Dragon', 'Red Dragon', there are targets approaching in azimuth 10 and 40, RWR numbers have been confirmed, the number of targets intercepted by the radar exceeds the upper limit, - what do we do now?"

"How, what to do?

'Kvass', first try a round of over-the-horizon attacks, and then we will engage the enemy with two planes, and we will fight if we can, and then find a way if we can't. ”

Hearing the call on the radio, it turned into a complete vernacular, probably not expecting to encounter so many enemy planes before setting off, and the experienced "Kvas" directly asked the long plane, which made Long Yun cry and laugh.

Seriously, he doesn't have much to say about this last battle with more symbolic meaning than actual effect, although his Red Zero 3 J-10E and wingman's Su-27SKM have been upgraded to several chains and can receive air information sent by NATA ground guidance stations, but now there are so many FSA fighters in the sky, and it is impossible for operators with limited capabilities to quickly identify the movements of all "ghost" fighters. And there is no engagement guidance, which is naturally very detrimental to the pilot's operation.

Seeing that there were enemies everywhere ahead, and that flying over-the-horizon missiles might be on the way, Long Yun could only let the "kvass" try to lock on to a few targets with the greatest threat and launch a few R-77Ms to try to intercept them, but there was a rare idea in his heart, he was considering whether to leave the war directly.

In the face of the FSA fighters swarming or flying like headless flies, almost at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and driving the "villains" into the dive, ready to evade the missiles, "disengagement" seems to be a very normal idea.

After countless battles in the long air, I have long had a very reliable intuition about the advantages and disadvantages of any combat situation, but in fact, I don't even need intuition now, and there are so many "ghosts" that just a few NATA fighters can deal with, which has nothing to do with the skill level of the pilot; Not only that, but if we consider it from another angle, as a volunteer pilot, performing tasks in the 3rd Independent Squadron, especially an active offensive sortie, do he, "Kvass" and others have the right to withdraw from the battle without authorization?

Yes, Long Yun remembered it immediately.

Although he came to Iraq on a secret mission, he did remember that the letter he signed when he joined NATA stipulated the principle of volunteer pilots' combat, and the requirements for offensive operations were not as strict as those of the real air force, that is, for the completion of combat operations against offensive targets, when the form was completely unfavorable, no pilots who independently decided to leave the battlefield would be held responsible.

Of course, there are many explanations for the so-called "completely disadvantaged", but the 3rd_IHFS, which is well known to everyone as a "volunteer" and the presence of many pilots, is naturally much more relaxed than that of other NATA squadrons, and in the past, there were very few cases in which pilots had the ability to engage in combat but voluntarily left the battle.

But now, just looking at the enemy planes in the sky on the display screen, encountering an enemy of this scale, is it possible to withdraw directly from the battle even if the conditions of "shape shì are not favorable"?

I don't know why, this question, when the plane approached the enemy head-on and the RWR sound became more and more urgent, it made Long Yun think about it for a while; Even if it was only a few seconds in the sky, when he really thought about the problem and realized that the New Party forces on the ground were advancing westward, braving the rain of rebel bullets, although he immediately decided to continue fighting, he soon realized that this was purely superfluous.

Yes, in the face of the "ghost" of radar stealth, the engagement distance is naturally greatly shortened, and now there is no time to think about what to get out of the war or not, the young people have found a smear point in the blue sky with the naked eye, the missiles of the Liberal Party are approaching, and now there is only one heart to move forward and fight to the death with the FSA!

At the moment of the fierce battle, he hesitated for a moment in an extremely rare moment, vaguely aware that his thinking today was a little abnormal, but Long Yun didn't have time to think about it carefully.

Facing the missiles flying in the sky, two NATA fighters, one light and one heavy, quickly entered a large-angle dive, with jamming chaff shook over several AIM-120B dive attacks, the radar siren continued to sound, a glance at the band and signal mode prompt, for the time being, there was no "Slammer" with the self-homing head turned on, but the slender black giant birds in the sky were already faintly visible, once the Liberal fighter entered visual contact, Long Yun planned to put aside a distracting thought, concentrate on the enemy, However, at this time, he encountered two kinds of interference at the same time, which made the next battle completely different.

Maintaining a relatively tight track spacing and diving all the way, just when Long Yun pulled the lever to let the landline resume flying and distinguish the air situation with superpowers, a call from the ground guidance station came from the headset, and the operator relayed an order from the command headquarters in a slightly hurried tone, instructing all NATA fighters in the air to withdraw from the battle immediately.

"Withdraw from the fight? But ......"

Just when the FSA fighters, who were bent on fighting the enemy, prepared and highly superior, entered the circling fight, hearing such a "timely" order, Long Yun naturally felt very strange at this time.

Although he received the order, he was now caught in a visual air battle and could not get out, and the skilled young man did not delay the wounded maneuver in the slightest, and he and his wingman "Kvass" cooperated with each other and quickly took up a favorable position, while also hearing a brief explanation from the operator.

After the launch of the general attack, due to the sudden change in the battle situation in the sky, the forces of all parties besieging Deir ez-Zor quickly made some adjustments, and the operational airspace originally allocated to NATA was temporarily taken over by UNSA, and now a wave of J-20 "Weilong" fighters are on the way, and the 3rd_IHFS over Tresuval, as well as the 10th_ITFS in the nearby airspace, can directly withdraw from the battle, leaving the task of defending air supremacy to UNSA. (To be continued......)