Chapter 35: Lutao's Rash Behavior Causes Trouble

  Lü Kun's excitement did not attract the attention of others, everyone was holding their breath and staring at the screen at the Cangtian No. 1, waiting for the Haiyan No. 2 to fire at the Cangtian No. 1. However, as the two fighter jets were about to enter the East China Sea border, one in front of the other, there was no sign of the Haiyan No. 2 firing a single bullet at the Cangtian No. 1.

  Such a dry and seemingly accompanying plot is inevitably making the students in the command room gradually lose their patience waiting for excitement.

  Lü Kun let out a yawn, feeling somewhat drowsy as he leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. But he suddenly jolted awake, hastily raising his hand to slap himself in the face, trying to rouse himself, otherwise he would be caught again and get another scolding.

  Finally, Zhao Hu was also somewhat unbearable with the dull atmosphere, and directly shouted through the communication system to Cangtian No. 1: "Sun Fan, if you continue to fly close to the territorial waters, I will determine that the Cangtian team has failed in this confrontation!"

  Zhao Hu's words made Jiang Yurou tense up again, but she didn't dare say anything and just kept staring blankly at the navigation system parameters.

  Sun Ban heard Zhao Hu's instructions, but smiled and manipulated the fighter plane to leave the territorial waters to the west. He returned to Zhao Hu: "Why are you disrupting my battle plan?"

  Upon hearing Sun Feng's complaint, Zhao Hu also smiled and said: "You call that a tactic?"

  "Why doesn't it count? As long as Seagull 2 doesn't fire at me, I'm winning!"

  "Damn it! If you were being chased by a real enemy plane instead of Haiyan No. 2, flying like this would make you cannon fodder!"

  "So, this is said to be close to actual combat confrontation exercises, but in reality, many factors are restricted."

  "Stop messing with me, quickly withdraw from the territorial sea line and return to the airspace of the territorial sea, continue to confront the exercise!" After that, Zhao Hu cut off communication with Sun Fang, looked up at the big screen.

  Sun Ban looked at Zhao Hu and had already lost his patience, also smiling and saying: "Isn't it just a fight? What's the big deal!" After muttering to himself, Sun Ban also manipulated the Sky Crusher No. 1 to do an inverted 180-degree flip, flying straight towards the Sea Swallow No. 2 in a reversed posture.

  Tan Jun looked at Sun Fan and rushed over again, still without releasing the auxiliary fuel tank, rushing over at three times the speed of sound. He was so scared that he quickly dodged to the right. Commander Xue Shiran in the command room saw Sun Fan coming up with this move again and couldn't help but get angry, saying: "Is Sun Fan crazy? Doesn't he know that if they collide, it will be four lives lost!"

  Listening to Xue Shiran's anger, Zhao Hu smiled and raised his eyes to look at Xue Shiran who was standing with his hands on his hips, and responded: "If not crazy, is it still Sun Wukong?"

  Zhao Hu completely understood Sun Fan and Zhuo Yi, watching as the Cangtian No. 1 brushed past the Haiyan No. 2, immediately adjusting his posture, then rapidly overtaking from the right wing of the Haiyan No. 2, knowing that Sun Fan didn't want the Haiyan No. 2 to get ahead.

  What's more important is that Sun Boran, even when he had multiple chances to lock in an attack, chose not to and instead continued to provoke Haiyan No. 2. The purpose of doing so was undoubtedly to avoid being the one to fire the first shot. In the context of modern economic downturns, frictions born from economics will inevitably escalate to war.

  In a military standoff, whoever fires the first shot will lose support in international public opinion.

  Sun Fan was waiting for the right moment, waiting for Haiyan No. 2 to make the first move. That way, he could counterattack with justification. But Zhao Hu didn't know whether Jiang Yu Rong understood Sun Fan's intentions or not. If she did understand, then it would be worth trusting her with the new flying squadron in the future. If she couldn't understand, then they would have to find someone else.

  No matter how much Sun Fan's purpose was considered, Lu Tao in the cockpit of Haiyan No. 2 looked at Cangtian No. 1's constant provocation but never opened fire, and his heart became more and more excited.

  When the Tiangong-1 came again, Lu Tao finally couldn't bear it anymore. He raised his hand to open the missile launch handle, removed the protection cover, and as soon as the Tiangong-1 was locked on, he immediately pressed the missile launch button.

  "Whoosh!" A YJ-10 anti-ship missile suddenly emerged from the front of the right wing of Haiyan No. 2 and flew rapidly towards the oncoming Cangqiong No. 2.

  On one side was the Tianyun No. 1, which came at three times the speed of sound, and on the other side was the YJ-10 air-to-ship missile, which flew out at three times the speed of sound. The Tianyun No. 1, which was only about five nautical miles away, would have been directly hit by the missile if it had not been careful. At that time, Sun Fan and Jiang Yu would not even have had a chance to jump with parachutes, and the Tianyun No. 1 would have instantly become a fireball, plummeting from an altitude of ten thousand meters towards the ground.

  "Haha, you finally can't hold it in anymore!" Looking at the incoming missile, Sun Feng said to himself calmly, but with a hint of excitement.

  He even asked Jiang Yurou, who was tense and sweating behind him: "Do you know that when the narrow road meets, who is the king?"

  Jiang Yurou swallowed a mouthful of saliva before responding in a trembling voice: "Brave warrior!"

  "Mistaken, bravery without strategy is just a fool's errand!" As soon as he said that, Sun Bao opened the safety lock of the missile launcher and waited for YJ-10 to get closer before pressing the launch button.

  One PL-12 air-to-air missile was launched from the right front wing of the Jian-8, locking onto the incoming YJ-10. Then, without waiting for the aircraft to stabilize its posture, in the blink of an eye when the radar locked onto the Haiyan No. 2, Sun Feng again launched a PL-12 from the left wing towards the Haiyan No. 2.

  The moment two missiles collided and exploded, Sun Fan immediately pulled the throttle hard, raised the nose of the plane, and accelerated into the air.

  "Three... Two..."

  Jiang Yurou didn't know what Sun Fan was muttering to himself, she just kept staring quietly at the instrument panel in front of her, recording all the data she saw.

  One!

  Without hesitation, Sun Boran pushed the control stick to the left and adjusted the tail wing, causing the Cangqiong No. 1 to enter a spiral dive.

  However, this time the body rotation speed was much faster than usual when entering a spiral flight attitude. Apparently, the Xiangyun No. 1 was affected by the shockwave of two missile explosions, and under the action of the shockwave, the spiral amplitude increased.

  But Jiang Yurou, apart from feeling a bit dizzy and uncomfortable under such rapid rotation, did not have the slightest tension in her mind. Her heart finally understood why Sun Fan had counted down three times earlier, and she admired Sun Fan's control of the fighter jet even more, almost entering a state of unity between man and machine.

  On the side of Haiyan No. 2, Lu Tao looked at the explosion in front of him and his mind suddenly went blank.

  He couldn't help but ask himself: "Why didn't I hide? Jiang Yurou...Jiang Yurou!"

  Listening to Lu Tao's loss of words, Tan Jun's face was heavy. He knew that Sun Fan, the slippery head, would not be hit so easily, and there must be some follow-up moves waiting for them.

  As expected, the locked-on warning tone didn't sound until almost three seconds after the explosion. In those three seconds, the PL-12 air-to-air missile had already flown over 1,000 meters at four times the speed of sound. Originally, they were only about five nautical miles apart, and Haiyan No. 2 had also flown forward for nearly five seconds at one time the speed of sound, so now the PL-10 was less than two kilometers away from Haiyan No. 2.

  "Damn it!" With PL10 already in sight, Tan Jun's heart was shocked and he quickly manipulated the Sea Swallow II to turn around and take off, while discarding the auxiliary fuel tank to increase speed and escape.

  The warning distance is really too close, and the speed of PL10 is even faster than that of Hei Ying's extreme speed. Even if Tan Jun was an experienced pilot who had almost reached the state of man-machine integration with Hai Yan No. 2, he could hardly hold on.

  In the command room, Zhao Hu looked at PL10 and immediately stood up to give orders: "Vessel 157, launch S300 missiles immediately to intercept the PL10 missile behind Haiyan No. 2!"

  "Hit by 157 shells!"

  Han Jie's words had just fallen when all the new flying boats heard the sound of a missile blasting off from outside the command room.

  Thirty seconds later, on the screen in between, an S300 missile hit a PL10 missile. Zhao Hu looked at the missile being intercepted smoothly and sighed, saying through collective communication: "The General Command Headquarters instructed that Haiyan No. 2 was shot down, and two pilots on board sacrificed for the country!"

  Lu Tao never expected the final result to be like this, and when he heard it, he was stunned in the cockpit of Haiyan No. 2, his eyes fixed on the height that kept decreasing on the navigation system.

  Until the Sea Swallow II landed smoothly on the deck of the Liaoning, until the Sea Swallow II was sent into garage 16 through the elevator, until the maintenance team put down the ladder, until the canopy slowly opened, Lu Tao's mind remained a complete blank. He had never thought that he would be the first person to be eliminated in the confrontation.

  Tan Jun stood up and saw Lu Tao sitting in his seat with a dull expression, and couldn't help but sigh.

  He had originally wanted to tell Lu Tao all about how they failed, but now that he saw Lu Tao's distracted state, he couldn't help but worry about him instead.

  "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and go down, my partner is going for a massage, don't delay!"

  Listening to Tan Jun's shout, Lu Tao finally came back to his senses, simply responded with an "oh", and then got up from the suspended ladder to the ground of the hangar.

  After handing over to the team leader, Tan Jun quickly rushed to the command room with Lu Tao. As soon as they entered the command room, Lu Tao chose a position in the back and sat down, not wanting to be laughed at by other students. But Tan Jun seemed to be fine, walking directly to Xu Gu's side, even when Xu Gu teased him, he just smiled.

  Zhao Hu did not turn his head to look at Tan Jun, since it was a confrontation, there must be wins and losses, no need to dwell on the outcome. Now, his attention is fully focused on Haiyan No. 1 and Cangwu No. 2, which are still in the shovel.

  Zhuo Yi and Sun Fan are two completely different types of people, which can be seen from their attacking styles.

  Cangqiong II will unhesitatingly choose to attack as long as it has bitten down on Haiyan I. Even if they are both aware that once the bullets hit, lives may be lost, Zhuo Yi's fierce attacks have never stopped.

  Hao Fei, of course, wasn't going to take it lying down either. He didn't want to be chased and beaten by his own apprentice. With moves like the Inverted Flight and the Glasses Snake, he successfully dodged Tianjun No. 2's attacks while also turning the tables, forcing Tianjun No. 2 to retreat for a while.

  Such a struggle, although neither of them has gained the upper hand, but in the end there will be an outcome.

  Zhao Hu quickly shifted his attention to the ammunition parameters on the top left of the large screen, discovering that both sides' remaining ammunition were almost depleted.

  So whoever can extricate himself from the simple wrestling first will win in this struggle.

  Commander Zhao Hu immediately issued a new directive to the control room of the Cangyun No. 1: "Notification from the command center, the Cangyun No. 1 has an oil leak, return to the scene for repairs immediately."