Chapter 419 Aftermath
He knew that this plane might not be able to come back.

After a long time, he picked up the microphone and weakly spoke to the fighter unit.

"Send the fighter planes back. The plane is already beyond saving. Send a ship to search and rescue. We can do our best and leave the rest to fate."

If the fighter jets go over again, it will be a refueling tactic.

The opponent's tactic of encircling and attacking reinforcements has been used for decades and is very effective. We must not let the fighter jets sent out fall into their pockets and fail, otherwise we will lose all our face.

Although they have the advantage in air-to-air missiles, to be honest, this advantage is almost nothing compared to the opponent who is well prepared.

Judging from the situation on the other side, it is obvious that they are here to take our lives. Maybe they have a lot of backup plans waiting for us.

Forget it. We can’t win, we really can’t win. Even the old man has been driven here. It’s not shameful for us soldiers to lose the fight.

In fact, he was overthinking this. This was a completely unexpected opportunity, and we seized it with our keenness.

But for them, they have been fighting with this side for decades, and the psychological trauma is still very deep. The P-2V has been lost, and it would be even more difficult to explain if a few more Sabres were lost.

On our side, a group of people are celebrating, from the command center, comrades in the air, comrades on the electronic reconnaissance ship, to the crew of the escort boat.

At this moment, the radar station closest to the other side issued an alarm to the command center.

"Four enemy aircraft took off from base XX, heading to XXX."

Comrades at the command center performed map work based on the alarm and discovered that the direction was exactly the electronic reconnaissance ship and the airspace where the air battle was taking place, so they quickly made deployments.

"Laundrymen formation, return immediately! Wuyi formation, do your best to cover the laundrymen as they approach our coast."

The naval and air forces that received the order knew that the enemy's retaliation was about to begin, so they all followed the order. The enemy planes had already exploded in the sky, so there was nothing to salvage.

The fighter jet still has a lot of fuel, and its range with auxiliary fuel tanks is over 1500 kilometers. Even if the auxiliary fuel tanks are dropped before engaging the enemy, the internal fuel range is still around 1000 kilometers.

After the engagement, the process of shooting down the enemy plane was very smooth. There were only two rounds in total, no major maneuvers, and plenty of fuel.

Two against four, no doubt!

At the same time, the command center also mobilized the nearest air patrol force to rush to the rescue. Our pilots are not inferior to the enemy, that's fine, but the command side must be prepared for prevention. Wouldn't it be better to be able to fight four with eight?

Maybe you can even catch some rabbits while mowing the grass, and get a couple of planes at the same time.

The electronic reconnaissance ship turned around and, together with the escort boat team, headed home at a cruising speed of 18 knots to summarize the combat experience.

Just as our naval and air forces were working closely together and acting in an orderly manner, the radar station that issued the alarm reported again.

"All four enemy planes have returned."

The command center laughed. The enemy was still so cowardly that when they saw their plane being shot down, they didn't even bother to pretend and simply stopped their actions, not even daring to take any retaliatory actions.

Despite this, the Wuyi formation in the air still circled and escorted the electronic reconnaissance formation until the last moment before flying away, provided that the fuel supply permitted.

In fact, the speed difference between the two was too great, so the electronic reconnaissance formation was only escorted for less than an hour longer. However, when they saw the Wuyi formation flapping its wings in the air and then whizzing away, the comrades of the electronic reconnaissance formation cheered and waved their hats in the air.

This feeling, peace of mind!
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On the other side, they were dejected after losing a P-2V and held an "emergency joint meeting" to analyze and decide future actions.

The deputy captain of the Black Flying Squirrel Squadron introduced the process of this operation, or the process of being fought, to the participants of the joint meeting.

In fact, there isn’t much to introduce.

Basically, everything went smoothly in the early stage. The P-2V had been in radio silence. When the P-2V suddenly contacted the base, it directly reported that it was being tracked by radar and requested escort. The next time, it was attacked by two fighter jets. It didn't even complete this call. It was gone!

"My dear colleagues, this is the general process."

This introduction left his colleagues extremely confused.

This situation sounds like there is nothing going on. There is no information about the combat process, the enemy's overall troop strength, the enemy's tactics and weapons, and except for the two calls from the P-2V pilot, nothing else is known.

An enemy soldier on the other side of the river couldn't help but grumble: "What kind of a war is this? We don't know anything. You just came to inform us that a plane was shot down, right?"

At that time, they had not escaped to the other side for long, so their speech was not as strange as before, and their accent was very strong, especially in the army.

As for his complaints, it was not the Black Flying Squirrel Squadron's fault. The battle was too far away, and they could not see or hear it clearly. This was not entirely true. They did hear something, and the enemies attending the meeting would hear it soon.

The deputy captain of the Black Flying Squirrel Squadron said with a little embarrassment: "My dear superiors, we have two recordings of the phone calls here, maybe they can be of some use."

As he spoke, he signaled his men to play the recording of the P-2V pilot's speech.

As soon as the first recording was played, all the enemies present felt a chill. The panic and fear of the P-2V pilot were vividly displayed in the recording.

This couldn't help but make them feel a sense of empathy. As a lone non-combat aircraft, the fear and panic of being targeted by radar could be felt even by those who were not pilots.

The playback of the second recording made some enemies who had never experienced blood and fire even want to cover their ears.

The desperate calls, hysterical emotions, faint explosions, and the sudden end of the call made all the participants basically fall into fear. What would it be like if one day they were the ones to face this blow?
Everyone looked at each other with fear on their faces. It had been more than ten years since they escaped. Especially for some people who had been sitting in the office for a long time and had never faced a battle, the information and emotions conveyed in this recording were inevitably too stimulating.

Some of the high-level enemies had seen the world and quickly got rid of this emotion.

"Major Zhou, judging from the recording, they were attacked by two fighter planes from the opposite side?"

The deputy captain of the Black Flying Squirrel Squadron nodded: "Yes, judging from the recording and background noise, it should have been hit by the fighter's machine gun."

This made the pseudo air force personnel present breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the home was there and the air-to-air missile advantage had not been lost.

"Where were they attacked? Can you tell?"

Major Zhou walked over to the map and pointed at a point on it. "We can infer that based on the time when they initiated the first call and the planned route, it should be at this point that they were continuously tracked and illuminated by the enemy, and then they were attacked about ten minutes later."

A major general of the pseudo air force looked at the map, nodded and pondered: "It seems that they were found on the land protrusion near the south of Songjiang. This explains why they were safe before that."

Another major general nodded in agreement: "Near that area, we lost all the islands on the continental shelf a few years ago. Maybe they deployed radar on an island that is far out."

"Well, General, what you said makes sense. It seems that this is an isolated incident and will not have much impact on our reconnaissance operations. The island cannot be moved."

"That's a very good thing to say! We still have the technical advantage of nighttime low-altitude and electronic jamming. The advantage is mine, the advantage is mine."

The incident happened suddenly, and the P-2V crew, who were panicking and busy escaping, did not send back the key information that they were being continuously illuminated and tracked by warships at sea.

For a moment, all the participants were smiling as if they had won a battle.

It's true, their enthusiasm for celebrating a funeral is really extraordinary.

The entire special joint meeting venue was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while.

Finally, they happily decided that the P-2V's overall route would deviate 200 km to the east to avoid detection by the other island's radar. This was not a big problem considering the P-2V's operating radius of more than 3000 kilometers.

Although it was judged that the group was discovered in the salient in the east of Songjiang, for safety reasons, they even considerately changed the route of the Black Flying Squirrel Squadron as a whole to the east.

Sometimes things are just so magical. Although the arguments and processes were completely twisted and nothing was correct, they got the answer to this question right.

Our electronic reconnaissance ships will not be able to move forward so much in a short period of time as planned, so this new route will most likely avoid the eyes of the electronic reconnaissance ships.
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During the day, the Defense Working Committee received an internal report that an electronic reconnaissance ship modified by the XXX Ship Research Institute under their jurisdiction successfully discovered and tracked an enemy P-2V over the eastern ocean, and successfully guided our fighter jets to shoot down the enemy plane, killing all the enemies on board.

This made the Defense Work Committee both happy and worried.

The good news is that we finally shot down the P-2V.

For this matter, the committee even organized a special technical meeting to fight the P-2V, but the reason for shooting down the enemy plane this time seemed to have little to do with that meeting.

What I am worried about is whether the other party will be scared away and will never dare to come again?
Oh my god, then our Tu-4 was modified in vain?

Well, it is probably the party that always has the upper hand that would have such completely unreasonable worries.

However, what he didn't know was that his worry was unnecessary. For the enemy who had made a serious misjudgment, this accidental incident of being discovered by shore-based radar would not affect their continued work for the Citigroup.

The leader of the Defense Work Committee immediately made a confidential call to the XXX Ship Research Institute and reported the relevant materials about the electronic reconnaissance ship. The committee wanted to understand the situation. He would definitely attend the relevant briefing on this matter and find out the truth first.

The leader thought about it and decided that this was the last piece of important good news in recent days and it had nothing to do with Gao Zhendong.

Huh? Why did I think of this guy for no reason?

(End of this chapter)