afterglow

Chapter 310 Chapter [-] is superior; don't say what you shouldn't say
Zhao Xuwu did not give up his efforts to return to the country by himself, nor did the dozen or so Russian cavalrymen who were chasing him.

He gave up halfway, his face was dull after returning, and naturally he didn't have the confidence to have a good time.If you continue to search and hunt, even if you still can't find it, the result will be the same as giving up halfway, but you will have to travel for a while.

But... what if you find it?
Second Lieutenant Gavriel was stubborn and vowed to catch the Ming army pilot who slipped under his nose.

His subordinates are familiar with the temperament of this second lieutenant, obedience is paramount, and they can only let him come.

Considering that the stream that the Ming army pilot jumped off flows northwest, in order to return home, he must find a place to go ashore, and then walk south.

So the cavalry search team followed the stream to the northwest for [-] kilometers, then turned around after crossing the stream, and searched towards the south.

Because he overestimated the distance Zhao Xuwu drifted in the stream (he actually only drifted four kilometers), the team led by Second Lieutenant Gavriel followed Zhao Xuwu all the time.

But the speed of the cavalry is still faster than the weak pilot, and as time goes by, the distance between the two sides is getting closer.

About an hour and a half ago, they found a group of burnt bonfire relics and food residues. It could be seen that it was not long ago, so they were sure that it was the Ming army pilot they had been looking for.

After accelerating the pursuit for about nine kilometers, a cavalryman pointed to the sky diagonally ahead and shouted: "Flare?! Sir! Look at that!"

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and several red fireworks could be seen strikingly in the midair in the direction of ten o'clock.

At this moment, the hearts of the Russian cavalrymen suddenly lifted, and the corners of many people's mouths couldn't help but rise.

The game of cat and mouse is finally over!

"Go!" Lieutenant Gavriel shook the reins vigorously.

The feeling of searching and camping in the uninhabited Siberian rough wasteland is really uncomfortable. Most people have been bored in the past two days, but they dare not show it due to the order of the chief.

At this moment, the boredom and irritability were swept away, and everyone cheered while shaking the reins.

"When I go back, I will ask the logistics sergeant for double the wine!"

"Haha, I haven't touched Alina for a long time, this time I'm going to spend the whole night with her."

"You're dreaming! How could she only deal with you?"

In this way, amid the laughter of your words and my words, the Russian cavalry ran towards the direction where the signal flare was raised very easily.

10 minute later.

However, unlike the expected simple capture, when they were about to pass through the woods and approach the wilderness ahead, a Ming army bomber hovering in the sky forced them to stop.

As the Ming army withdrew to the territory, the ground forces of the two sides had turned into a confrontation, but the fighting in the sky continued. The air supremacy lost by the Russian army on the day the conflict broke out has been firmly in the hands of the Ming army until now.

Although several I-15 and I-16 fighter brigades were reinforced later, the Russian army can only control the airspace near the airport and the railway line.

When the I-16 fighter jets fought against the Type 15 fighter jets, it could only be said that it was a [-]-[-] situation, and the backward biplane Yi-[-] was even more helpless. The risk of taking off into the air was no less than jumping on the edge of a cliff.

从冲突爆发迄今，不含首日傍晚被尾随偷袭的损失，俄军都已经被击落了27架伊-15战斗机、12架伊-16战斗机、4架SB-2轰炸机，另有9架不同型号的飞机损伤严重报废。

In contrast, the Ming army lost a total of 26 aircraft, including 3 fighter jets that ran out of fuel and abandoned the aircraft on the way back after the sneak attack that day.

Therefore, the Ming army fleet dared to leave a single bomber here for cover.

Ever since, the team led by Second Lieutenant Gavriel was in a dilemma.

It is still not sure where the Ming army pilot is hiding. If he goes out rashly, he is doomed to no good fruit.

I was happy before, but now in this situation... I am so happy, the Russian cavalry are itching with hatred.

Holding the binoculars, Gavriel tried his best to search for the pilot in the wilderness, hoping that if he found it, he would rush over and capture him, leaving no room for the bombers in the sky to react.

However his attempt failed.

The so-called gaining wisdom through a pitfall was exposed because of his omissions and boldness before. Zhao Xuwu no longer dares to act recklessly.

He hid in the bushes in a depression, motionless, humming a ditty with a toffee in his mouth, and looked up at the southern sky from time to time.

But it didn't take long for him to be disappointed, because the circling bomber dropped a ball of paper, which meant that it was getting late, the wilderness was dark, and the risk of the service plane landing was too high, so he planned to wait until after dawn Come pick him up again.

Zhao Xuwu was disappointed, but Gavriel and his subordinates were overjoyed.

You were worried that you couldn't find where you were, so you showed up to pick up things by yourself.

Second Lieutenant Gavriel drew out his saber and ordered: "Go to four people, you must be quick."

Following his order, four Russian cavalrymen jumped out, rushed out of the woods, and rushed straight to Zhao Xuwu, who was a thousand meters away.

At the same time, on the Type [-] bomber in the sky...

The machine gunner at the rear self-defense turret just came back from the middle of the fuselage - there was a small electric stove there, and he just went to boil a pot of hot water to make tea.

As a result, as soon as he sat down, he suddenly saw several figures on the ground moving quickly from a distance.

His first reaction was that he was dazzled, but he immediately saw that it was indeed four Russian cavalrymen.

The frightened machine gunner didn't bother to screw the lid on the kettle, and threw it away, and the warm tea splashed all over the floor.

Pull the bolt to load and open the safety!

The gunshot of "da da da" suddenly sounded, and he manipulated the 12.8 mm aviation machine gun to shoot down violently!
Now that the sun was setting and it was getting late, the bright trails of the tracers were like arrows piercing the sky.

Due to the hasty shooting, none of the dozens of bullets hit, but one 12.8×96mm all-metal armored bullet hit a horse.

The large-caliber machine gun bullets with a huge kinetic energy of [-] joules are terrifying. The bullets just shot obliquely from the horse's skull, then penetrated the entire horse's neck from top to bottom, and finally pierced out from under the horse's belly, deeply got into the ground.

This handsome Don horse was no longer handsome in an instant—its head exploded like a watermelon, and it collapsed to death in an instant.

The cavalry on its back fell forward due to inertia and fell off the horse. Amidst the screams, the left arm of this lucky and unlucky guy hit a stone and fractured on the spot.

Although none of the bullets hit directly, the terrifying suppressive power of the large-caliber machine gun is by no means empty words, especially the tracer bullets falling from the sky and piercing the sky are even more deterrent to the enemy.

The Russian cavalry didn't dare to move forward, so they quickly pulled the injured hapless guy onto the horse, and then retreated back into the woods in a panic.

The turret at the rear of the bomber has a limited range of fire. Because of the circle, the machine gunner can't see what's going on on the ground now.

The other crew members were also frightened by the sudden firing, thinking that Russian fighter jets were coming to attack.

"What's going on, what's going on?!" The mechanic walked over quickly.

"Hey, a few Russian cavalry suddenly flew out from the ground, and I shot them back to the woods over there." The machine gunner said, pointing to the distance.

"Aha? In this ghostly place in the wilderness, the Russians actually came to hunt him down? What a hatred and hatred."

"Fortunately, I have quick eyesight and quick hands, otherwise these guys would definitely catch the man below and leave."

Since they were returning from the mission, they hovered here for a while, and the bomber did not have enough fuel left, so they waited here for another half an hour at most.

They sent a cable back to the base explaining the situation.

After discussion and refutation, the result of weighing is that it is not appropriate to wait for a long time, maybe these Russian cavalry captured the pilot below at night.

The base sent two small service planes and a bomber, and at the same time asked the bomber on the scene to continue to cover and leave when there was only enough fuel left for the return flight.

So after a few rounds of swooping back and forth, the bomber, which was running out of fuel, had to turn around and return.

At this time, Gavriel and his subordinates breathed a sigh of relief, went out of the woods again, and began to look for the Ming army pilots.

But this is obviously very difficult. Where is it easy to find a person hiding in the dark?

The Russian cavalry were using flashlights to reveal their positions while making it easy to find.

Half an hour seemed as long as half a day to Zhao Xuwu. Calmness is the basic quality of every qualified pilot, but he has never been so nervous.

Recently, he could even hear the snorting of the war horse.

Finally, a Type [-] bomber that took off from Fuyuanzhou Airport arrived over the area after flying over the Beihai Lake Cherokee Mountains.

These days, there is no such high-precision instrument as the positioning system of later generations. Getting lost is a very common situation, and pilots cannot be expected to accurately arrive at the target sky.

Under the vast night, the stars were shining brightly, but Zhao Xuwu still judged the approximate location of the plane through the sound of the engine, and then saw the black shadow in the sky.

He slowly raised the flare gun, and then looked at several flashlight spots in the distance.

This is undoubtedly a bet that the crew members of the bomber saw the signal flare and that their reaction speed was faster than that of the pursuers.

Make it or break it!Mr. Sheng, I will marry you this time when I go back!
After recalling the appearance of his fiancée, he pulled the trigger.

"Boom—whoosh—"

The eye-catching flare flew into the night sky, and the red flame was particularly conspicuous in the night.

The sound from behind made the Russian cavalry turn back together, and then they saw the fire signal in midair.

"Damn it! Fuck it! He's there!!!" Second Lieutenant Gavriel yelled out of composure. For the first time, he was irritated by his opponent's stubbornness and cunning.

Eleven horsemen began to rein in their horses, and then rushed there quickly.

300 meters, 250 meters, 200 meters, 150 meters...

Suddenly, the sky brightened in an instant, as if it had come to daylight all of a sudden.

From dark to bright in an instant, human eyes couldn't adapt, and the horses were also stimulated. The cavalrymen covered their eyes while pulling the reins.

The bomber dropped massive aviation flares, obscuring everything on the ground.

The flares fired by mortars are already bright enough to illuminate an area with a radius of nearly one kilometer as if it were daytime. However, this kind of aviation flares is larger and has a luminous intensity of more than 100 million candela. The effect can be imagined.

Afterwards, the Russian cavalry were stopped by intensive machine gun fire. Even though they were extremely annoyed, they could only retreat into the woods in a hurry.

Another quarter of an hour later, two small service planes arrived late.

With the help of flares dropped by the bombers, one of the small planes managed to barely land after three attempts.

Excited, Zhao Xuwu ran over quickly, and didn't care if he fell, just like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Bang! Bang!"

The angry Russian cavalry shot at the small plane in the woods, and the bullets roared past.

"Is it safe? Close the door, let's go!"

"Wait a minute!"

Under the suspicious eyes of the pilot, Zhao Xuwu took out the exquisite Browning M7906 pocket pistol, threw it out together with the tattered parachute, and then closed the door.

The service plane painted in grass green bumped and accelerated slowly. After sliding for more than 50 meters, it gradually left the ground and finally jumped up.

Looking out through the round window, to be honest, after the big stone in Zhao Xuwu's heart fell to the ground, he felt a subtle feeling-these pursuers really persevered, admiration, but unfortunately our skills are better.

At this time, the pilot turned his head and smiled and said, "Mr. Zhao, you don't know yet, do you? You are famous now. You have been published in the newspapers, you are a great hero!"

"what?"

"I didn't fool you, really!"

Zhao Xuwu, who felt a little inexplicable, was full of confusion, and longing was born in his heart.

Anyway, finally back home!
To the homeland, let's go!
The next day, the capital Ying Tianfu.

The sky is gloomy and rainy in autumn, in the east of Zhaoren Hall in the Forbidden City.

"...That's roughly the case, just follow the decision of the cabinet. For the time being, let's not consider the official's clear attitude, let's talk in private first."

"Yes."

Zhu Lingjing, with a half-smile, glanced at Zhou Changfeng, and then "warned": "The reason for letting you go is because you happen to be an old acquaintance with someone in the embassy, ​​and your identity is just right. They must think that you are closer to them. I will definitely try my best to make a routine, don’t say what shouldn’t be said, otherwise I will never forgive you lightly.”

Cough!

Zhou Changfeng coughed dryly twice, and said seriously: "The subject is naturally measured, and the national interest comes first."

Later, he saw that there were more white-glazed porcelain jars filled with tea leaves on the imperial case than before, so he asked curiously, "Your Majesty, what kind of tea is this?"

"Oolong tea from Fujian." Zhu Lingjing said lightly, then waved her hand lightly, "Take it, this tea doesn't suit me (taste)."

Ah!It's just tea, and she doesn't like it for such a small pot.

Why is this woman so stingy now?He was very generous when he was wooing himself back in the past.

Just like that, Zhou Changfeng came home with the white-glazed porcelain pot, and put it on the table in the main room.

While he was changing his shoes, Xia Xiaoshi who was beside him opened the porcelain pot, took out some tea leaves and smelled them, and asked in wonder, "Sir, why did you buy such expensive tea leaves? Didn't you say that good tea is bad tea?" Do they all taste the same?"

(End of this chapter)