The sudden order from the base’s Chicken Nest caused Lin Mo’s heart to skip a beat. The term ‘special order’ was both familiar and unfamiliar. While training and studying on the base, he had been told that the base would occasionally receive secret flight missions once or twice a year. Moreover, they were almost all highly classified combat missions. Lin Mo did not expect that he would suddenly receive this special order, feeling that he was not experienced enough to shoulder the responsibility of such missions.
However, the duty of soldiers was to obey orders. No matter what kind of orders they were, soldiers only needed to execute them. It made no difference whether it was the other world’s Sland Empire or this world’s China.
“Copy! Executing immediately!” Lin Mo gestured to the cockpit of the nearby number 9 aircraft. Bro, leaving first!
In the number 9 Chengdu J-10 cockpit, Chen Haiqing seemed to have received the notice from the tower that Lin Mo had another mission. He turned his head and gave Lin Mo a thumbs up, and the meaning was very clear: Good luck!
Lin Mo pulled the control stick to the left, opened the air brake, and quickly reduced the engine power. The J-10 left the two-plane formation, as though the oncoming wind blew it backward, and pulled an arc to move to the left and rear, flying in another direction.
What the hell. Highway landing and take-off! Confidentiality is so high! Lin Mo mumbled in his heart. This secret mission was definitely not going to be some sightseeing one, and he had no right to refuse. After training for so long, it was the moment of truth. It was now time for Lin Mo to show his skill.
“Temporary verification code: K85AW5!” Lin Mo adjusted the radio settings and verified connectivity. This temporary channel, as well as encryption code and time verification code, was a triple-layer precaution. It was impossible to crack unless the entire encryption and decryption system equipment was stolen.
Zizi. Noise buzzed a few times, and the communication light changed from red to green, completing the communication link.
“Mobile Soldier Station calling Gold Coin!” From Lin Mo’s headset came a man’s hoarse voice with the obvious sound of the wind blowing nearby.
“Gold Coin copy!” Lin Mo’s response was succinct.
“Coordinates XX degrees east longitude, XX degrees north latitude. A ten-kilometer section of the G315 highway will be temporarily cleared in both directions for thirty minutes. Traffic is expected to resume after forty-five minutes.” The man’s hoarse voice sounded like he was reading. ” A two-hundred-round ammunition chain, two sets of rocket nests, and two LT-2 laser-guided bombs, but there are no full-time loading personnel. I will arrange for someone to assist Second Lieutenant Lin with the loading.”
There isn’t even a specially assigned loader. Lin Mo’s mouth twitched. Maybe they’re just express deliverers. Just deliver, collect the signature, and not bother about anything else. These are rockets and missiles. What are they going to do with so much firepower? It’s enough to raze a small village to the ground.
According to the satellite positioning, the Chengdu J-10 flew above the highway that extended through a desert. Unlike highways in densely populated coastal areas, where there was constant traffic even late at night, the G315 highway from Xining to Kashgar was very easy to isolate. Not a single car was seen driving past for a long time, and eight police cars with roadblocks simply blocked the ten-kilometer section of the highway.
A roar came from the sky. Lin Mo’s J-10 arrived as planned. The selected section was indeed suitable for aircraft take-off and landing. It had four lanes in both directions and was straight for ten kilometers, which were the specifications for take-off and landing runways that were usually built to combat readiness requirements. Besides jet fighters, even large passenger planes could take off and land.
Unlike regular airport runways that had light strips for take-offs and landings, there was not even a single streetlight on the highway. But on the roadside, people were waving signal lights to Lin Mo, who was descending to an altitude of two thousand meters. Maybe someone was holding a flashlight to shine on the road, and there was a light spot every bit of distance, barely illuminating the road.
It was indeed difficult. The only thing that he could rely on was the reflective paint on the road. He turned on the lights under the landing gear. Lin Mo’s eyes widened as he activated the light mirror spell several times but failed. In this world lacking magic elements, it was too difficult to gather light-attribute energy in the middle of the night.
Asphalt roads were really not a good choice for aircraft take-offs and landings. The asphalt base layer had a certain degree of elasticity. If the particles were too large, it would cause shaking, and the aircraft would bounce easily when landing. The J-10 had an emergency brake parachute, which could guarantee landing within one hundred meters, but Lin Mo was not willing to use it.
Bang! The J-10 rushed from the air to the northern runway of the G315 highway with a deafening roar and violent airflow. The strong airflow caused those illuminating the road to turn around. There was a cloud of smoke and dust. The light spots on the road became messy as they shined everywhere and even into Lin Mo’s cockpit. Fortunately, Lin Mo was already aiming at the landing spot. He pulled the control stick and opened the air brake to the maximum. After roaring for over three hundred meters, the J-10 slowly stopped in the middle of the road. It was another perfect landing.
A truck drove up from the road behind the J-10 and stopped on the hard shoulder when it was five to six meters away. Eight soldiers carried the standard ammunition of the J-10. Lin Mo stopped the plane, pushed open the canopy, and began to direct the attaching of the ammunition.
The dual-barrel 23-mm caliber cannon below the J-10’s air intake had an effective range of one thousand meters. The dogfighting performance was average, but if it was applied to the ground, the power was not to be underestimated. The two sets of six-eye rocket nests were filled with orange rockets and also two LT-2 laser-guided bombs.
Lin Mo led a dozen people. With many people was great strength, and the loading finished in less than twenty minutes, which was more than ten minutes earlier than planned.
There was even simple fuel delivery equipment on the truck, and it filled the fuel tank of the J-10 again.
Lin Mo officially received the combat order. Under the LED flashlight lighting, he clearly saw his mission—raiding the camp of a suspected terrorist organization on the border between China and Kazakhstan. China had sent a special force to attack. To ensure the completion of the extermination mission, it had also applied for a fighter jet from the Air Force, and the aerial fire support mission fell to the base codenamed Chicken Nest. By coincidence, Lin Mo and Chen Haiqing were the closest. There was a high level of confidentiality to avoid triggering an international incident. The military was very cautious about this matter and selected Lin Mo at the last minute to make a sudden detour to consume the opponent’s strength.
“This is the China-Kazakhstan border!” Lin Mo was holding an A3-sized color satellite photo, which made the terrorist organization’s camp very clear. Both the quality and clarity were extremely high, and there were also colored pen marks on the picture, with estimates of the number of people, weapons, and equipment.
It was said that in the decades after World War II, China was in the process of peaceful development. But who could have imagined that there were still so many hidden wars behind this peace? Many people did not know that there were still scenes of hails of bullets and battles in their country.
“There’s also the Strela-2M portable air defense missile system. What is their origin? They even have these things. There are also mortars. Are you sure that they’re not an army? They should send an attack plane to do this job!” Lin Mo was confused for a while. Jet fighters specialized in air combat occasionally came to fight small bandits. But to deal with a nearly 200-person, fully-equipped ground armed forces, they would probably have to rely on a professional support team for ground firepower. The Nanchang Q-5, based on the modified design of the Shenyang J-6, had been out for decades and had not been replaced. From another angle, it showed that the Chinese Army was the world’s best and did not even rely on aerial fire support.
“Mission objective is secret. You will know after a while. You only need to be responsible for harassment and fire suppression. The ground forces are responsible for the final battle. The other party has no decent anti-aircraft defense except for Strela-2Ms. Be careful, and you’ll be fine.” The person conveying the information to Lin Mo was the one who talked to him on the secret channel. Until now, Lin Mo had not seen what he looked like, and his head was hidden in the darkness behind the flashlights.
After the loading of the live ammunition and refueling finished, Lin Mo aligned the time with that hoarse-voiced man and boarded the aircraft. The Chengdu J-10 glided for four hundred meters and charged up into the night sky while roaring. At the same time, the G315 highway, which the highway policed blocked, resumed traffic. The trucks loaded with soldiers and ammunition were no different from ordinary civilian trucks, and they left from a stop on the highway, as though nothing had happened. The drivers driving on the G315 highway did not even notice that there had been a jet fighter landing and taking off on this highway.
Attack Time: 3 a.m!
Attack Coordinates: XX degrees east longitude, XX degrees north latitude!
Combat Method: Strong firepower attack!