Chapter 999 Steel Is Our Footprint

early july.

A military base in the Eastern Theater Command.

Military vehicles passed through the camp, preparing for the upcoming exercise.

At this moment, a silver-white plane with a strange shape was parked in the open space in the center of the camp.

The two short and two long wing designs, as well as the cylindrical engine with astonishing volume and proportions, don't look like they can fly, but the zero failure rate that has been maintained so far is enough to dispel everyone's concerns about it. All concerns about whether this guy can do it.

Xiaguang number.

This is its model, and it is also named uniformly after leaving the factory.

After it was delivered to the eastern theater, the air and space forces affiliated to the theater gave it a more domineering name and wrote it on the fuselage with special paint.

Namely, Thunderbird.

It can soar to the top of the sky, and it can send thunder thousands of miles away.

Just like the name of this aerospace plane, it can be used as a transport vehicle to and from low-earth orbit, and it can also be used as a carrier for ballistic missiles in outer space to attack air and ground.

Li Gaoliang, who jumped off the military jeep, was wearing a special combat uniform and had a special paratrooper rifle hanging on his chest, glanced at the silver aerospace plane in the center of the camp, and couldn't help but smashed his tongue with a shocked expression.

He didn't know whether it was because he had been in the hospital for too long, or the speed of technological progress had exceeded his imagination. He didn't know when the army would use such awesome things.

It has been a month since he was discharged from the hospital and was incorporated into the Aerospace Forces.

For him, the past month has been more fulfilling than the past two years.

Equipment he had never seen before, tactics he had never heard of, and even the combat mode was the first he had heard of.

According to the instructors who trained them, they are now arguably the most technologically advanced and advanced force in the world, if not one of them.

As an airborne marine force that relies entirely on air and space vehicles, they are many times higher than the traditional marine corps and traditional army paratroopers in terms of deployment range and deployment speed.

In terms of tactics, they are required to be able to use their advanced equipment to exert their combat effectiveness and survivability against ten.

In terms of strategic positioning, their responsibilities are to quickly cross the front line in times of war, carry out surgical strikes on important targets behind the enemy, and in times of peace, cross the borders of other countries to support overseas important personnel and important strategic facilities.

It is said that the tactics they learned during training were all researched by several major-general-level professors from the National Defense University. once.

While Li Gaoliang was silently reciting the exercise outline in his heart, an officer wearing army green camouflage came up to them all.

"stand at attention!"

"Relax!"

Seeing the soldiers moving in unison, the officer nodded and continued in a loud and serious voice.

"The exercise will begin in ten minutes."

"The things you should know, before coming here, I believe you have reviewed them countless times, so I won't talk nonsense anymore."

"Here, I just want to say a few words. Be fast, time is life! Be ruthless, and fight every exercise as a war!"

"Now, tell me aloud, what is the code name of the operation!"

Standing in the queue, Li Gaoliang yelled back with almost all his strength.

"mission!"

As if responding to their momentum.

The officer standing at the front of the queue roared with an undefeated momentum.

"Set off!"

Following the sound of departure, the soldiers in the camp moved.

A total of 20 people, divided into five groups, boarded the Thunderbird aerospace plane in an orderly manner in units of four. The shiny armament exuded a chilling atmosphere, and it seemed to complement the "Thunderbird" with a full sense of science fiction.

Sitting on the fixed seat in the cabin, Li Gaoliang connected the cabin life support system to the combat uniform, and then quietly counted down in his heart, waiting for that moment to come.

Soon, a slight tremor came from the soles of his feet, crawled all over his body along the titanium alloy bones.

The vehicles near the aerospace plane have been evacuated, and under the guidance of the ground command center, the Thunderbird slowly drove onto the takeoff runway, and turned on the engine spraying the plasma plume.

The light blue arc flickered faintly, and as the hot plasma was ejected from the engine, the plane gradually left the ground as if being pulled forward by something, raised the nose, and flew towards the boundless deep space .

Looking sideways at the receding clouds outside the window and the gradually deepening darkness, Li Gaoliang, who was sitting on the fixed seat in the cabin, took a deep breath.

In half an hour, they will reach low Earth orbit.

And there, complete the highest skydive in human history...if their equipment can be called a parachute.

At this time, in the communication channel, there was a small exchange of voices from the team members.

"Mom, it's the first time I've flown so high."

"Now the altitude has reached 20KM... We have broken through the highest upper limit of general aircraft."

"I have parachuted so many times, but this is the first time I have flown to such a high place."

"You said what if the umbrella can't be opened?"

"To shut up!"

For the vast majority of people sitting in the cabin, it is their first time to fly such a high altitude, and it is impossible to say that they are not nervous at all.

Therefore, Li Gaoliang did not stop his team members from whispering

In many cases, chatting is also a way to release stress. Although he prefers to adjust himself when he closes his eyes and rests his mind, this method is not suitable for everyone.

Looking away from the window, Li Gaoliang closed his eyes.

In order to keep himself in the best state for a while, he planned to close his eyes and rest for a while.

But at this moment, one of the members of his team spoke to him.

"Captain, do we have a space station in the sky?"

Li Gaoliang thought about this question for a while.

Although before the exercise, the chief told them that they needed to transfer to an "airplane" in the sky to complete the parachute drill there, but they did not tell them where to transfer.

As for the Moon Palace, it is now an international scientific research institution dominated by Huaguo, and it is obviously inappropriate to use it for military purposes.

As for the rest...

Li Gaoliang's heart moved slightly, and the answer seemed to be ready.

"No space station."

"But, we have Magpie Bridge."

...

Li Gaoliang didn't expect that he just guessed casually, and he was really guessed right by himself.

Sitting on the Thunderbird and looking out, I saw the pitch-black spacecraft that was close at hand, like a canoe with sharp edges and corners, floating in this endless cold night.

Because of the distorted sense of distance in space, Li Gaoliang did not really get a glimpse of the true face of the Magpie Bridge that he could only see on TV and the Internet until the two spacecraft moved close enough.

Of course, what is floating in front of him at this moment is quite different from the magpie bridge that travels back and forth between the earth and the moon all day long.

Just like the Thunderbird they were on, the so-called "Magpie Bridge" only refers to its model.

And now, its name is "The Great Wall".

As the first and so far the only aircraft carrier-type ship of the Chinese Aerospace Forces, it sails in outer space. The meaning of this Great Wall, just like its name, is to defend the highest frontier of China.

Normally, the Great Wall is usually on standby outside the synchronous orbit, and only four people are stationed on duty in shifts. And when necessary, it can serve as the air headquarters of the aerospace force at any time, or even a sky fortress, suppressing all flying units above low orbit.

After five minutes of orbit switching, the two spacecraft, which were almost side by side, finally completed the final docking.

He breathed a sigh of relief, but Li Gaoliang did not relax in the slightest.

Until now, all the exercise subjects belonged to the spacecraft pilots in the Aerospace Forces, as well as the ground command center.

And from the moment the spacecraft is docked, the training subjects belonging to these marines have just begun!

The life support system was unlocked, and as the lock buckle on the combat uniform was opened, Li Gaoliang quickly greeted his team, quickly passed the connecting port of the spacecraft in the order of team numbers, and arrived in the belly compartment of the Great Wall.

In the belly compartment, there are five jet-black prism-shaped airborne pods, the bottom of which is connected to the deck, and a series of rails with a "concave" shape in section.

As they had been contacted countless times during the training, everyone boarded the airborne cabin as quickly as possible, and checked the weapons and ammunition on their bodies for the last time.

Trying to control his breathing, although he was a little nervous, Li Gaoliang completed all the operations as calmly as possible and closed the door of the airborne cabin.

Almost at the same time he closed the hatch, the commander's voice came from the communication channel.

"The Great Wall is entering orbit!"

"The orbit parameters have been corrected, the current altitude is 117.4KM, and it will reach the best throwing area in 2 minutes!"

Feeling the traction from his back, Li Gaoliang's breath gradually became short of breath.

Although he couldn't see the situation outside the cabin, he could feel that he was already standing at the cabin door of the Great Wall, and even half of his foot had stepped out of the edge of the highest frontier.

This is an altitude of one hundred kilometers above the ground.

There is no howling wind here.

Not even air.

But the invisible coldness can be clearly felt without looking at it.

"The airborne area has been locked, remember your mission, and your mission!"

"Steel is our footprint!"

"Good luck, soldiers!"

"The cabin is separated!"

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(Thanks to the leader of the book friends "Shenchao_Thoughts" and "Braised Eggs" for the reward~~~~~~~~~~~)