Chapter 411: Siege (Part 5)

"Not Frenzy's people..."

The moment Chen Zhongyuan heard this reply, he felt that not only he, but everyone in the entire command center breathed a sigh of relief.

"As long as it's not them, as long as it's not them!"

He could even hear one of his staff officers nearby breathing heavily and incessantly.

He was clear on why this was.

The PLA does not shy away from battle, but in recent years, with the increasingly high military and political literacy of the officers, these soldiers on the front lines of contact with extraterrestrial life all knew how much benefit maintaining a cooperative relationship with Frenzy could bring to their country.

"Since they are not Lord Frenzy's people, then it is easy to handle..." Chen Zhongyuan hurriedly ordered his men to report this news to Beidu quickly, while simultaneously issuing a decisive order, "Notify the front line to take all necessary means; do not let those two Decepticons continue to penetrate further!"

"Yes!"

The squadron of J-11 fighter jets performing escort and surveillance tasks in the air on the front line soon received the order and reacted rapidly.

The J-11 is a single-seat, twin-engine heavy fighter with superior performance; it is a fighter jet that China assembled and produced domestically after purchasing the production license for the Su-27SK from Russia, using some Russian-made parts.

Because of numerous historical legacy issues, since the founding of the new China, it has basically had territorial and maritime disputes with all its neighboring countries.

Coupled with the fact that after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States gradually changed its policy toward China from the 1970s and 80s—the Galaxy Incident, the Yellow Sea Standoff, the Taiwan Strait Crisis—with the United States pressing step by step, China's demand for third-generation heavy fighter jets has been increasing day by day while it independently develops domestic third-generation fighters and upgrades the large number of second-generation aircraft in service.

It was under this poor international environment that the Su-27 was introduced from Russia, which had just become independent from the Soviet Union at the time.

Although from political, economic, and military perspectives, the introduction of the Su-27 can be said to be the most worthwhile purchase in China's modern military procurement.

But the introduction of the Su-27 back then could not be called perfect; the fact that foreign-purchased military aircraft are "castrated" is a convention, so that aside, the foundation of the Su-27 was there after all, and no matter how it was castrated, it was still a heavy air-superiority fighter with superior performance.

However, when Russia introduced this fighter to China, there was a rigid requirement: strictly forbidding the PLA from deploying this type of fighter in the northern regions near the Sino-Russian border.

Although from the Russian perspective this was a reasonable requirement, one must know that since the establishment of the PLA Air Force, more than 60 percent of its deployments have been to defend against strategic bombers from the north.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the Su-27 could not meet the PLA's needs, which led to the subsequent appearance of the J-11.

Initially, in order to obtain the production license from the Russians, the Chinese side ordered quite a few J-11 parts, so the first few batches of fighters could not be called domestic at all; they could only be considered assembled aircraft.

However, the Russians clearly underestimated China's military industry, which had developed rapidly by integrating into the world trade system; from the beginning of obtaining the production license, Shenyang Aircraft Corporation organized a large number of military industry personnel to map the Su-27 in its entirety, and combined with the PLA's years of experience using the Su-27, they began to modify it with bold strokes.

From something as small as a screw to something as large as the airframe material and electronic equipment, except for the core provided by the Russians—the engine—which China could not upgrade for the time being due to a serious weakness in aero-engines, everything else underwent domestic processing, and at the same time, its performance was further enhanced.

The J-11B was the first batch of performance-enhanced models after domestic modification; except for the power and fire-control radar, which still had a slight gap compared to Russian equipment, it had caught up to or even slightly surpassed the original version equipped by the Russian Army in other aspects.

"... XXX received, executing the final round of repeated warnings!"

The military aircraft arriving from the Xinjiang Military Region and higher-level military regions had increased from the initial one flight group of twelve fighters to a full aviation regiment of forty fighters.

This was also a matter of no choice; although the Lop Nur side made the most correct tactical arrangements, urgently drawing ground rapid maneuver forces from Qinghu Province and Xinjiang to rush to the front line, and even preparing to quickly send an airborne unit to the front line, they still underestimated the mobility of the Decepticons.

On the boundless, soft sea of sand, the two Decepticon vehicles had been moving rapidly at a speed of over two hundred kilometers per hour.

At this speed, except for the armed helicopters urgently drawn by the Army Aviation and the Air Force being able to keep up with the speed of these two Decepticons, the PLA, and indeed all main battle tanks on Earth, could only stare helplessly.

They could only wait in battle array on the march route of the two Decepticons first, and wait for the Air Force and the incoming Army Aviation armed helicopters to be able to drive these two invading Decepticons into the designated area.

The J-11B was no longer just an air-superiority fighter; after Shenyang Aircraft Corporation's modification, this fighter, upgraded and modified based on the Su-27, possessed considerable ground-bombing capabilities while retaining its air-to-air dogfighting ability.

"Warning, unidentified intruder, you have illegally intruded into Chinese territory without permission. You are limited to identifying yourselves within thirty seconds and turning back along your original route to leave Chinese territory. Otherwise, we will have to take countermeasures!"

"Final warning, unidentified intruder, you have illegally intruded into Chinese territory. You are limited to identifying yourselves within thirty seconds and turning back along your original route to leave Chinese territory. Otherwise, we will begin to take countermeasures!"

From above the sky, the stern warning sounds from the PLA Air Force pilots rang out time and time again; however, the Decepticons moving in the sea of sand below not only had no intention of turning back along the original route, but their speed actually increased by a few notches.

Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to a densely populated county town within Xinjiang, the pilots who had already received permission to fire were strictly following the relevant regulations; before the warning time ended, their palms were only tightly gripped on the control sticks, without pressing the missile launch buttons.

However, as the thirty-second time limit arrived, the voice of the pilot, suppressing his anger, immediately rang out from the J-11B fighter that had been acting as the lead aircraft, "Attention all units, prepare to forcibly expel the targets!"

"XX received, all preparations complete!"

"Fire!"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

Accompanied by the ear-piercing roar left behind when the missiles were fired and broke through the air at the speed of sound, streaks of fire drew long, white arcs in the sky, shooting toward the two vehicles moving in the sea of sand below.

"Boom!"

The fired missiles whistled and impacted into the sea of sand; despite being equipped with advanced guidance systems, they were still narrowly dodged by the two rapidly moving Decepticons.

The explosion kicked up wave after wave of sand in the sea of sand; the enormous kinetic energy caused hundreds of kilograms of sand to be blown everywhere, quickly obscuring the view from above.

"... Report the situation..."

"XX confirmed no hit..."

"Target missed..."

"... The targets are too agile, we need to limit their speed..."

"Understood, the Army Aviation's armed helicopters are about to arrive; I have notified the Air Force to have the Q-5s sortie, you pay attention to leading the targets into the designated area..."

"Yes, guarantee completion of the Task!"