With the arrival of 10 Su-30MK2s and supporting personnel and equipment, the Musa Naval Training Station and the 167th Independent Flying Group were officially launched.
The head of the China Southern Aviation Command announced the order, including the personnel appointment order.
At this point, the Caotai team has become history, and the four temporary cadres Li Hai, Dang Weimin, Zhao Feiyan, and Zhan Yuntian have all become ordinary pilots.
At the same time, the maintenance staff painted all the fighter planes with the group's emblem - a bald eagle spreading its wings in the South China Sea.
At this point, the 167th Independent Flying Group has its own code name - South China Sea Bald Eagle.
After New Year's Day, the troops launched comprehensive training.
Zhao Feiyan and Zhan Yuntian successfully flew solo. Under Li Hai's careful teaching, it only took half a month to complete the modification of the Su-30MK2 and officially became navy fixed-wing fighter pilots.
In the blink of an eye, the Spring Festival of 2019 came, and the army training tasks were heavy. Lin Li was admitted to a graduate degree. My father led the fleet out to the Atlantic Ocean. The project of my mother's unit was in a critical stage. Li Hai chose to stay on the Forgotten Reef for the New Year and returned home. The quota for visiting relatives at home was given to the Party for the People.
On March 1, 2019, the Nanhai Bald Eagle Brigade received an order from its superiors to organize the transfer of powerful troops to a certain team in Northeast China for training. A certain unit of Beihang University will be transferred to the Musa Naval Training Station for training.
The Haisi Department has issued an order that starting from this year, all field troops will be stationed for training for no less than six months, and cross-station training of combat troops will become the norm. For surface forces, they have to go to sea for at least six months of training a year, and high-sea combat training will be the focus.
Against this background, the PLA Navy has entered into a stage of normalized high-standard combat training, closely following the core of "all for combat effectiveness".
On March 2, Lin Xiaotong and Wei Lan led seven Su-30MK2s to take off, passing through a China Eastern Airlines station, and finally arrived somewhere in the snow-covered Northeast.
On the same day, Li Hai arrived at the Shenhuoyi Factory through the civilian transportation system. He met up with Dang Weimin who had been waiting here in advance after receiving the emergency order to return to the team. He took off in the No. 17 Su-30MK2 that had completed maintenance and arrived somewhere in the Northeast to join the brigade. Convergence.
Danfengchang Station, the Air Force Danfeng Tactical Training Base, is the main base for the Air Force to conduct cold zone combat training.
HNA has no base in the region, so it needs to borrow space from the Air Force for training.
When Li Hai and others arrived, the Air Force's Red Flag Division had already stationed a group of J-10Cs. Each side occupied a place and conducted their own training under the coordination of the base headquarters.
From the unbearable heat of the Forgetting Reef to the severe cold of the Northeast, under the huge temperature difference, Li Hai and his gang fell ill that day. Three pilots, including the captain Lin Xiaotong, gave a severe blow to the frigid climate. Show off your power.
The Hongqi Division pilot who lives in the same building laughed and said, "You're a city boy from Hainan Airlines, your physique can't handle the warmer weather."
Weilan held her breath and summoned the pilots who were in good health for a meeting.
"Improving all-terrain combat capabilities is a requirement of the military commander. I want to ask you, given our current situation, if a war breaks out, are we sure to defeat the enemy?"
Wei Lan's tone was serious and he glanced at everyone, "I expected that it would take a few days for everyone to adapt to the change in the environment, but I didn't expect that the situation would be so bad! Three people fell ill immediately, which is equivalent to losing the combat effectiveness of two fighters. Look again Looking at everyone here, do you think you can perform to the level you should?"
The harsh words made everyone breathe faster.
Zhao Feiyan, who was sitting opposite Li Hai, looked up and twitched the corners of his mouth.
Wei Lan said, "Do you know what the people in the Red Flag Division say about us? They say that those in Hainan Airlines are all young men, talented pilots with no power."
"Everyone, can you listen?"
Everyone is angry.
Weilan said, "I decided to start training directly and show our true abilities to let the Red Flag Division take a look!"
Li Hai frowned slightly and raised his hand.
"Li Hai, tell me." Wei Lan looked at Li Hai.
Li Hai said, "The aircraft needs to be protected from the cold, and the weather has been very bad in recent days. I have read the report from the base meteorological station. There will be continuous heavy snowfall starting tonight, and the base headquarters has issued a signal not to recommend flight training." "
Wei Lan waved his hand, "You don't need to participate. Zhao Feiyan fights for the people. You two crew members don't need to participate. The rest of us have extensive experience in flight training in low weather conditions, so there will be no problem. Nothing else. That's it." deal."
He ended the meeting neatly.
Li Hai sat there in a daze.
Other crew pilots passed by and gently patted Li Hai on the shoulder to express comfort.
Li Hai and his two crews were left in the conference room.
It took Zhao Feiyan a long time to say, "What's going on here? You just rejected us right away? You don't have to be so anxious if you want to save face, right?"
"Flying under low weather conditions... I don't understand why he thought Lao Li was inexperienced." Dang Weimin said with a wry smile and shook his head.
Zhan Yuntian said bluntly, "There is nothing we can do with such a deputy captain."
"I think too highly of myself that I can't listen to different opinions." Zhao Feiyan was also helpless.
As early as the previous two months, everyone had already seen that Wei Lan was capable, but also very arbitrary. And everyone found that when dealing with Li Hai, Wei Lan always made some targeted actions intentionally or unintentionally, which showed that this person was not open-minded enough.
Zhao Feiyan said, "I'm confused, why would Brigade Lin let him do what he did?"
"Weilan is China Southern Airlines' focus on training cadres." Party for the People put it clearly.
"Then we can't do it like this." Zhao Feiyan looked helplessly and looked at Li Hai, who was silent, "Master, what should we do?"
Li Hai stood up and said, "Go to the weather station."
A group of four people came to the weather observatory.
The base meteorological observatory is not the small unit on the Forgotten Reef, but a serious battalion-level unit. It is the backbone of the air force's meteorological forecasting station in the Northeast region.
After years of construction, the entire military has established a unified weather forecasting system, mainly based on the Air Force. After all, as long as the space above the surface of the earth and within the atmosphere is under the control of the Air Force.
The National Weather Forecasting System is one-way connected to the Air Force Weather Forecasting System. That is to say, the troops can obtain all data from the National Weather Forecasting System at any time, but local authorities cannot obtain data from the troops unless the troops actively report it.
According to wartime regulations, in the event of war, the military meteorological system will fully take over the local meteorological department, which is an absolute one-to-one, level-to-level acceptance.
The oversized display screen on the wall displays real-time satellite cloud images. The cold air clouds moving south from Eastern Siberia have covered the entire Far East, and its front has entered our country.
Li Hai came to read the latest analysis report carefully, and his mood became more and more depressed.
"Heavy snowfall is expected at 23:00, and the whole process will probably last until 7:00 the next day. The ground team will be very busy." The weatherman said with a smile.
The snowfall is expected to reach 20 centimeters, which is a great challenge for the ground team responsible for maintaining the runway.
"It's impossible to fly in this weather. The wind and visibility are both problems." Zhao Feiyan said, shaking her head.
He and Zhan Yuntian had seen too much bad weather when they flew ship-based helicopters before, and they knew very well what kind of weather would cause what kind of problems.
Li Hai said, "I'm going to talk to Wei Lan."
"Look for Lin Da." Dang Weimin said.
Li Hai shook his head, "Lin Dabao has a high fever, so let's not trouble him. You go back first and seize the time to study the topography and landforms, especially the air conditions in the direction of the Sea of Japan."
The group of people broke up, and Li Hai went straight to Wei Lan's room and saw him lying on his desk studying navigation charts.
"Report!" Li Hai stood at attention and saluted.
Wei Lan straightened up and returned the gift.
This man is handsome and handsome, with a well-proportioned figure and a heroic look between his eyebrows. He fits all the images of a hero in the minds of girls today.
On the other hand, Li Hai was lucky that his parents did not turn him into a crooked child.
Li Hai's mother is a great beauty, but his father Li Zewen is a bit miserable. Obviously, Li Hai's appearance follows his father's.
"Li Hai, you don't need to beg me. I know that your ability is definitely fine, but the Party for the People is not. A crew cannot just look at a person's ability, so you don't want to participate in tomorrow's flight training." Azure said.
Li Hai walked in and said, "Vice Captain Wei, this is not why I came to you."
"What's that?" Wei Lan frowned.
Li Hai handed over the copied meteorological analysis report and said, "I went to the meteorological station and this is the latest analysis report. Tomorrow's weather has exceeded the standards for flying in low meteorological conditions. I think the training should be postponed."
Wei Lan frowned and read the analysis report, then threw it aside and said, "The snowfall stopped in the morning, which is nothing more than a visibility problem. As for the wind, you are also a Hainan Airlines pilot, and you know very well that the wind conditions we encounter when flying at sea are more complicated. .”
Li Hai said, "It's different. We are new here and don't understand the meteorological characteristics and topography here. It is easy to cause problems if we start flight training hastily. Moreover, this is also a big challenge for aircraft maintenance."
He noticed that the route marked on the navigation chart was heading northwest, and frowned, "You want to go into the mountains for training?"
"That's right." Wei Lan said, "We have never been exposed to combat training in mountainous areas, which is a shortcoming. Our superiors asked us to go to the cold area of Northeast China for training, not only to hone our combat capabilities in cold climates, but also to become familiar with our combat capabilities in frigid mountainous areas. "
"I think it's been rushed," Lehi said.
Wei Lan looked at Li Hai and said with a smile, "Li Hai, you have experienced several bad weather, successfully landed in a Category 10 typhoon environment, and defeated the third simulated blue army and the simulated blue army several times at a disadvantage. . It’s not like your character to think forward and backward.”
"That's because of good luck." Li Hai said, "The fundamental reason why I object to starting training tomorrow is that our people are not ready yet."
Wei Lan narrowed her eyes and said, "Li Hai, you are no longer the deputy captain. You don't have to worry about these things that you shouldn't worry about."
Li Hai was speechless.
He knew that Wei Lan couldn't listen anymore, so he sighed inwardly, raised his hands in salute and left.
Li Hai was very worried that Wei Lan's arrogance would bring serious losses to the army. It is precisely because he has experienced extremely severe weather that he has a better understanding of the power of severe weather.
The situation in the snowy Northeastern region is completely different from that in the tropical South China Sea. Just an icing problem is enough to make many pilots change their minds.
When things have reached this point, Li Hai can only hope that his superiors will reject Wei Lan's flight training plan.
They are naval aviation units, and the base headquarters is only responsible for coordination and has no command authority. Weilan made a plan that day and reported it to the Military Training Department of the Marine Corps. To Li Hai's surprise, the Military Training Department of the Marine Corps approved the plan, but required that the scale be reduced to two fighters and that it could only fly one sortie.
The Weilan crew and the Yu Yang crew of the No. 1 Squadron performed this flight training mission.
At 23:30 that night, heavy snow suddenly came, and the ground that had begun to show some other colors was quickly covered with white snow.
Li Hai couldn't sleep, so he walked to the balcony wearing a military coat and looked downstairs where the street lights could reach. There was very heavy snowfall.
Dang Weimin woke up after a good sleep, and vaguely saw Li Hai standing on the balcony, thinking about the navy's future development plan. He rubbed his face, held a thermos cup, and walked out wearing a coat.
"Are you still awake?" Dang Weimin opened the thermos cup and took a sip.
He is no longer the deputy captain, so he no longer has the privilege of living in a separate dormitory. The two brothers live together again.
Li Hai said, "I can't sleep. Look at the snow. Tomorrow's flight will be quite choking."
"Weilan insists on having his own way, and there's nothing you can do about it. Besides, Haisi has approved his plan, which shows that the superiors are confident." Dang Weimin said.
Li Hai said, "Are you really stupid or are you pretending to be stupid? If Haisi keeps a close eye on the situation of each unit, there is no need to do anything else. Haisi must not understand the weather conditions here."
Dang Weimin was stunned, "That's true, there are so many troops. But it's useless for you to worry now, it's a done deal."
Li Hai sighed and said, "It is not easy for the 167th Independent Flying Group to be in today's situation. If there is an accident, they will be completely blind this year."
"Yes, if you make a mistake at the beginning of the year, you will work in vain for a year, and if you make a mistake at the end of the year, you will work in vain." The party lamented for the people.
The Party for the People understands that although Li Hai is only on a temporary basis, Li Hai has put a lot of effort into the 167th Independent Flying Group. People still need to return to reality and seek truth from facts. Now it seems that Weilan is not only radical, but also too idealistic.
On the other hand, Li Hai was more worried that something would happen to people.
To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter if the plane breaks down or crashes, but if the person is gone, it is a big deal.
However, as the party for the people said, the matter has been decided and there is no way to stop it.
Li Hai looked up at the dark night sky and sighed in the cold wind, "I hope the weather will improve tomorrow..."
"I'm fed up with it." Dang Weimin shook his head, "The Red Flag Division has stopped training, and there will be no training scheduled for the next three days."
Li Hai said, "Because of this, Wei Lan insisted on flying."
"Seriously, I need to give Hongqi Division some color. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Weilan is just too impatient." Dang Weimin said.
Their training period was three months, and they got to know each other day and night, giving them plenty of opportunities to learn from each other.
