June 30, 14:30.

Lingshui Airport in Qiong Province.

In the afternoon daylight, six tactical planes were parked on the tarmac next to the runway, lined up.

The surrounding ground crews are skillfully connecting cables and compressed air pipes to the plane from the power cart and air cart parked next to it, and are preparing to complete the preparations before takeoff.

A little further away, four J-8D fighters belonging to the Air Force were carrying out a similar process in the hangar.

Because the Air Force aircraft did not specifically consider the use of salt spray in the paint and surface treatment of some parts, it would be more vulnerable in this kind of seaside airport, so they squeezed the host's four J-8Cs into a temporary parking area.

The two Il-78 large tankers, which also belong to the Air Force, really did not have the facilities to match their physique, so they had to be wrapped in a rain cloth and parked outside.

According to the plan, in order to avoid the coordination problems caused by cross-service command, these air force planes will not directly participate in the combat plan, but will go to a position about 650 kilometers south of Qiongdao to establish a refueling area to meet the naval aviation formation that is running out of fuel during the return process.

At the same time, the flight briefing room, located under the tower at the end of the runway.

Nearly 40 crew members involved in the embankment construction operation have just finished lunch and started pre-flight preparations.

The details of the relevant tasks have long been familiar to everyone in countless training and simulations.

Compared with the earliest plan, the biggest change is that in the past month or so, the 172 factory and the 14 electronic institute have shown amazing efficiency, and the second J-7 that has completed the transformation and testing has been delivered to the troops ahead of schedule, giving the attack formation more flexible operating space.

Thus, a total of 6 aircraft will be split into two parts when approaching the opposing Wave 97 fleet.

Division Commander Tang Yiping will fly the No. 10 plane, leading another No. 11 plane and the newly delivered electronic warfare aircraft with tactical number 21 to maintain the original flight altitude and attract the attention of the enemy fleet.

The other two J-8Cs, plus the original J-7 with tactical number 22, will descend to ultra-low altitude at a distance of 50-60 kilometers from the target, carrying out the most important and risky mission of this mission - flying over the opposing fleet and filming the reaction of the British.

Captain Wang Wei's No. 12 aircraft will carry a photographic reconnaissance pod in the belly of the aircraft to record the entire process.

An hour later, at half past three in the afternoon, the pilots who had finally determined their respective tasks completed their outfit changes and boarded their own landlines.

As a suspect, the Y-8J first started the engine and taxied to the runway.

According to the operational concept, it does not have the ability to defend itself directly into the mission airspace, but hovers around the edge of the combat radius of the Sea Harrier aircraft, attracts the attention of enemy carrier-based aviation, and if necessary, uses the Soshui 2000MS radar imported from the United Kingdom to indicate targets for friendly forces.

Although the 164 Jingjiang and 552 Rongzhou warships, which left the port five days ago, have already approached the mission area, and they will complete the search and tracking of the enemy fleet, and they may not need an already tight aircraft to look for a needle in a haystack, but this Y-8J is actually shouldering a tactical training mission at a higher level.

That is, simulating an AWACS aircraft and commanding six other naval aviation aircraft directly involved in the operation.

Of course, the command is also analog, and the real order will always be issued from the tower of Lingshui Airport.

But for the Huaxia Air Force, which came into contact with the air command post for the first time, this can be regarded as a huge leap.

For this reason, Kang Shijun, deputy chief of staff of the Naval Aviation Department, who had just returned from his serious injuries, specially boarded the plane to sit in the plane.

"Set the call channel to 55.7 MHz."

The headset is heard with an indicator sound from the tower.

"Roger."

Wang Wei in the cockpit of No. 12 spoke calmly, and at the same time adjusted the radio frequency to the position required by the tower.

This is a band commonly used for ionospheric scattering communications.

It is impossible for the Huaxia Navy to deploy a data link system within a month, so it is still impossible to communicate directly between the destroyer fleet and the air force, but thanks to a communication relay airship that has been lowered into the air in the name of "meteorological research", the tower can act as a medium of communication between the two.

After finishing the task at hand, he looked up again and watched as the Y-8J left the runway and disappeared into the distant sky.

That's exactly the direction of due east.

Wang Wei knew that just 700 kilometers away, a ceremony that all the Chinese people had been waiting for for nearly a century was in full swing, and all the efforts they had made in the previous month and in the next few hours were ultimately aimed at protecting it.

At all costs.

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"Yuejiang, received a message from the forward fleet that they made contact with an RN warship at 9 degrees 08 minutes north latitude and 112 degrees 12 minutes east longitude, and it was judged to be a Type 22 frigate, and the radar captured the target signal of 4 fixed-wing aircraft climbing after takeoff."

"Yuejiang received."

Tang Yiping's voice was already difficult to maintain calm.

Although it did not directly capture the opponent's main fleet, since even the low-altitude search radar on the 051D could see the Sea Harrier that had just taken off, it means that the aircraft carrier was not far away.

It's time to take off.

Six long-prepared aircraft started their engines almost simultaneously.

The lines attached to the airframe were then rapidly withdrawn.

"Yuejiang, please take off."

"Permission to take off, and I wish you a triumphant victory."

Twelve engines roared at the same time, and one after the other took to the taxiway.

The three planes led by Tang Yiping took off first, and then it was the turn of the other three led by Wang Wei.

When he finally got into the take-off position, he took a deep breath and put on his oxygen mask.

Due to his excellent level of training in Qingtang Province, he was eventually selected as the candidate for the photo mission with the reconnaissance pod hung.

This is something that Wang Wei has dreamed of since joining the Embankment Operation Task Force.

As a pilot, his level of education is higher than that of the big soldiers on warships or tanks, so he knows that there is a great relationship between the Chinese Navy and the Royal Navy.

Although it's not a good karma.

And not just that time in 1840.

And in 1953, the newly born People's Navy used a gunboat converted from a transport ship to drive out RN ships that tried to stir up trouble outside the mouth of the Yue River.

It was the first foreign war after the establishment of the Navy.

Now, more than forty years later, he is more than willing to teach the Englishman who does not have a long memory a lesson.

Wang Wei slowly pushed the throttle valve to the end with his left hand, and then released the brake.

With a slight shock to the airframe, the fighter began to accelerate rapidly.

Just a few hundred meters later, he felt a strong tendency of the plane to look up, so he pulled the plane up.

The captain glanced back and made sure that the wingman Zhao Yi had also taken off with him.

Only the No. 22 J-7 is still taxiing on the runway.

But it was also part of their training.

Three aircraft of both models share a runway.

Although it has been about four months since the new plane was refitted, Wang Wei still feels a sense of unreality every time he takes off.

The performance improvement is too noticeable.

In the previous confrontation training, in the face of the combination of the Blue Army's J-7E and J-8D, one against two can not fall behind.

Although the appearance is not much different from the J-8B he drove in the past, as a pilot, he can feel that these are two completely different models inside.

The new J-8C is completely devoid of the clumsiness that an interceptor should show at low altitudes and during take-off and landing.

Even now, with two fuel tanks, a photo-reconnaissance pod, and nearly four air-to-air missiles, it can still take off and take off on a short runway.

Engines with more thrust certainly played a role.

But it is said that much of this is due to the slit on the leading edge of the wing.

"If that's the case, then the designer is a genius who solved the biggest headache on the old model in such a simple way."

Wang Wei put his attention back to the front and thought as he retracted the landing gear.

Deputy Chief of Staff Kang Shijun was injured in an accident during a flight training flight in August 1996 and while parachuting.

This name may not be familiar to book friends, but there was also a young pilot student in the back seat of the Jianjiao 6 he was piloting at the time, you must have heard of it, called Dai Mingmeng.

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