Chapter 197: Secret Liftoff
A black Volga sedan slowly moves forward in the morning traffic in Moscow.
Early in the morning, after making phone calls and sending medals, I drove to Moscow's Domodedovo Airport at about 10 o'clock in the morning.
In the huge airport waiting hall, Long Yun, dressed in ordinary clothes, and the accompanying detectives mixed in the flow of people coming and going, and walked towards the boarding entrance in the distance; As with the arrangements made when they came, the agents also told Long Yun that they planned to take a civilian flight to Krasnodar in the Caucasus, and then transfer to a car to reach the station of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment.
On the way to the airport before, Long Yun had already communicated with the agents around him, and knew that the Caucasus region was quite tense now, and the Americans had set up heavy troops in Turkey and Iran; Although there has not yet been large-scale ground contact between the two sides, there is already a lot of fun in the sky.
Long Yun didn't know much about the Caucasus, and this land, which was thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, seemed to be more distant than the actual distance in his mind.
However, as an important barrier in the south of the Soviet Union, he was able to understand the impact and critical course of the Caucasus on the entire war situation.
In the two world wars decades ago, the Caucasus did not break out in large-scale fighting, but in such a war between East and West that affected the entire northern hemisphere, it has become one of the focal points of the confrontation between the two camps.
The reason why this is so probably has something to do with the complete encirclement hypothesis of the Americans; After settling the communist problems in Greece and Turkey, NATO simply included these two countries in the collective defense circle of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In fact, the Americans are quite aware of what kind of goods Turkey is, which has experienced decay and bourgeois revolution, and the reason why they are drawn into the gang is, of course, to encircle the Soviet Union from the south and choke the only outlet to the Black Sea.
Now, when the war really broke out, it finally became a battleground for soldiers; And what Long Yun is about to go to serve is the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment, which was stationed in the suburbs of Stavropol shortly before the start of the war.
Of course, for this team with a glorious history, Long Yun still lacks a considerable understanding of it; But now his mind is not on this, but imagining the Su-27S fighter plane to which he is about to be assigned. This beautiful and elegant heavy fighter is also the top of Soviet military aviation technology in the real world, and now he is of course curious, and he is quite looking forward to flying this kind of aircraft in the skies over the battlefield in the Caucasus one day sooner.
Just thought and walked like this, and when Long Yun came back to his senses a little, he found that they had inadvertently left the noisy flow of people and walked into the narrow aisle next to them.
ββWhere is this going?
Long Yun's first thought was whether there would be a problem with this agent; But the snooping technique immediately reassured him, knowing that this was the KGB's predetermined arrangement.
Perhaps sensing Long Yun's doubts, the agent approached him at this time and whispered, "Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, for the sake of secrecy, we only tell you now, we don't plan to let you continue to take the passenger plane; - Please come with me. β
"Okay."
For such an elusive and irregular arrangement of the KGB, Long Yun felt that there was no need for it; But considering that they didn't know his superpowers and were able to recognize the ill-intentioned people around them at once, it was completely understandable that such strict security measures should be taken.
Soon, following the agent through the empty building corridor and downstairs to leave the huge terminal building, Long Yun and the two sat in another Lada business vehicle with dark windows in the parking lot not far away.
Under the protection of two KGB agents, Long Yun left the Domodedovo airfield he had just arrived, and drove for half an hour on a tortuous route before arriving at a military airfield on the outskirts of Moscow, where he made some preparations before the flight.
After receiving his flight suit and equipment in the pilot's preparation room, Long Yun was obviously a little puzzled: This is obviously the preparation work that only pilots need, could it be that he wanted to give him a fighter plane and let him fly to the Caucasus by himself?
Even if it's an ace, it won't be like this, right?
In this way, he kept wondering, until he approached the airport apron, and saw the plane he was really going to take this time: a large fighter with a free and easy appearance and a bulging nose, which was the Su-27UB that he was quite familiar with.
"Hello, Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!"
Beside the massive plane, he was greeted by a medium-sized, sturdy pilot; With a loud voice, he had already put on his flight suit, his hand on the boarding ladder, and beckoned Long Yun to go up and sit down first.
Okay, this is the plane and pilot sent by the 237th regiment to pick up itself?
While thinking like this, Long Yun shook hands with the pilot in front of him, and only then did he know that this was not the case.
The KGB, which likes to detour and set off smoke screens, is a trainer-type Su-27 specially transferred from the aviation regiment stationed in the suburbs of Moscow, and then specially arranged KGB personnel will fly him to the front line, and by the way, this ace pilot can also be familiar with the Su-27 pilot as soon as possible, so as to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
At the same time, after snooping on his consciousness, Long Yun also knew that at this time, there were already people who looked like him, using the identity of Viktor Rezenov to perform a farce at the airport that missed boarding and was angry; Since he "didn't board" the flight to Krasnodar, his whereabouts should be a secret at this time.
Time was limited, and without further communication, Long Yun said goodbye to the KGB personnel who accompanied him, and jumped into the back seat of the cockpit of the Su-27UB, which was quite spacious; He didn't have time to take care of the large pile of instruments in front of him, he immediately remembered that the back row should be the coach's seat, and then he climbed out and sat in the front row a little embarrassed.
For the Su-27 in front of him, his identity is that of a novice, and it is more reliable that he should be in the seat of the cadet.
"Hehe, comrade lieutenant colonel, in fact, it doesn't matter, the Su-27 flies about the same as the MiG, I think you will soon be able to fully familiarize yourself with the operation."
Hearing the pilot's kind encouragement, Long Yun was a little embarrassed, and he waved goodbye to the KGB agents who were standing in the distance.
After settling into Longyun's seat, the pilot sat in the cockpit, closed the hatch, completed the routine take-off check, and started the two engines, and the wide Su-27UB gradually began to glide, lightly lifted into the air, and left the military airfield outside Moscow.
In this way, Long Yun began his trip to the Caucasus by taking a two-seater trainer fighter.