Volume 1: Destruction and Rebirth Chapter 66
An hour earlier, Kurt Hill had sat in the back seat of a two-seater attack plane, reconfirming that he and his group of twenty-four warplanes had not been spotted by satellites or destroyers that had just entered the shadow of the planet Novorosson.
The fleet consisted of eight attack aircraft and sixteen escort fighters, and their targets were four coalition motherships over the theater of operations in lower orbits below.
He looked out the window, where he was at the edge of the atmosphere, and through the window he could clearly see the curved horizon of the pale green planet, as well as the black space above the horizon.
This is already the third time that his two squadrons have jumped out of the atmosphere.
So far, the raid has been well planned, and his twenty-four warplanes have been flying in the blind spot of enemy destroyers, more than doubling their range by jumping out and re-entering the atmosphere.
A few minutes later, the swarm swooped into the atmosphere again, and the heads of all the fighters began to radiate bright light.
When the four motherships marked on the map finally turned into four bright stars in the field of vision, Hill finally ended the communication silence: "All the fighters, the target is the four motherships below, the fighters cover the attack planes and prepare to attack, our goal is to shoot down all the enemy's motherships in the atmosphere, even if we use collision, we will sink them!" ”
With that, he turned on the weapon operation safe.
A minute later, the group fired thirty-two high-speed anti-ship missiles at the mothership, which was still not aware of the danger.
Taking advantage of the momentum of the swoop, the missile rushed towards the mothership nearly 200 kilometers away with a thunderous momentum, and the mothership, which had been throwing its alert direction on the battlefield below, discovered the missile attacking from above and hurriedly carried out a trajectory change maneuver.
In the midst of the chaos, the close defense weapons on the mothership began to shoot desperately, but the high-power missiles that were close to saturation attack still broke through the kinetic energy barrier and the close-in fire interception network of the four motherships, and three missiles hit one of the motherships one after another, causing it to deviate from its orbit for a moment.
After the first attack, the group rose again at great speed and completed the formation again more than 200 kilometers away.
The aircraft group is like a group of ancient heavily armored knights, in a low-earth orbit close to five hundred kilometers above the ground, in the form of repeated sprints, charging again and again against the barely defended enemy in the orbit.
In the second attack, the fighters, which could only carry one heavy anti-ship weapon, had nothing to threaten the mothership, and under Hill's orders, they moved forward to the front and flanks of the group, ready to be on the lookout for possible enemy interceptors.
The well-trained coalition air forces really ejected all the fighters that could rise into the air as quickly as possible, and the planes of the two sides immediately began to fight in nearby orbits.
As soon as the two fleets began to fight, Hill knew that he had underestimated the strength of his opponent.
Although the group led by Hill has a greater energy advantage, the number of enemy fighters is several times that of himself, if it were not for the ultra-high speed brought by atmospheric re-entry, his group may not be able to last 20 minutes at all, but from the time the first missile was launched, to the melee near the mothership, a full fifteen minutes have passed, and they have successfully hit two motherships at the cost of nearly half of the loss, but at most five minutes, the enemy's destroyer will circle back from the other side of the planet, and when the time comes, They may only be lambs to the slaughter of the other party.
"All attack aircraft, pull up, let's rush again!"
"Chief Hill, I'm out of missiles." The pilot of one of the attack aircraft said in the channel, "I am ready to directly ram the enemy ship Project 5273." ”
Hill was silent for a while, he still had a missile under his wing, but at least four attack aircraft were already out of ammunition.
"Attack aircraft without ammunition, return immediately!" Eventually, he gave the order in the channel.
"Sir, from the moment we stepped into the cockpit, we had no intention of returning home!" On the attack aircraft, which had no ammunition, said the weapon operator in the back seat.
Hill didn't say much, and said directly in the communication channel: "Aircraft 9, 12, 13, 14, covering the assault of aircraft 7." ”
The attack aircraft, which was already depleted of ammunition, again climbed to the edge of the atmosphere and rushed directly at the Union mothership below at an almost vertical angle.
The four fighters immediately broke away from the entanglement with the coalition fighters, formed an arrow on the course of the attack aircraft, and used their fuselage to block the interceptive fire of the mothership at the attack aircraft.
The No. 7 attack plane, which was diving downward, became faster and faster, almost becoming a sharp sword that stabbed straight downward.
At a distance of 20 km from the Soyuz 5273 mothership, the first escort fighter was destroyed.
At a distance of 10 km from the mothership, the second escort fighter was destroyed.
At a distance of 5 km from the mothership, the third and fourth escort fighters were damaged and had to withdraw from the battle.
But at this time, the speed of the No. 7 attack aircraft has almost reached the limit speed of 7 kilometers per second, and there are no interceptor weapons that can threaten it!
0.5 seconds later, Attack Plane 7 slammed directly above the Soyuz 5273 mothership, blasting the brightest fireball since the start of the raid.
Only the last one remains!
Hill's own attack aircraft turned again, and the nose fire control radar locked firmly onto the other mothership.
According to calculations, the enemy's destroyer by this time should have bypassed the planet and appeared behind itself.
But neither the radar nor the naked eye did not detect any trace of the destroyer.
No matter! Now there is only one attack aircraft by his side and the last mothership of the enemy.
Having gained enough speed in the same way as a dive, he pressed the launch button.
However, when he pulled up the plane, the other attack plane, after firing 10,000 missiles, did not pull up directly, but hit the enemy mothership vertically, just like the No. 7 plane.
The plane was not as lucky as the No. 7 plane, and when it was still more than 20 kilometers away from the enemy ship, it was hit by a plasma bomb and exploded directly into a silent fireball in orbit.
However, two missiles successfully hit the mothership one after another, smashing the mothership, which was busy changing orbits, out of orbit.
In order to provide rapid support on the ground battlefield, the Alliance motherships have entered the lowest orbit that can enter, and under the fierce attack of the aircraft group led by Hill, although they will not be directly damaged, the four motherships have finally deviated from the extreme orbit and began to slowly and irretrievably fall into the atmosphere.
These four motherships eventually turned into four meteors seen by Mavis, Plandu, and almost all the people in the eastern hemisphere of Sillasson.
Hill piloted the attack plane to hover over orbit for a moment, and after this half-hour battle, they were already in a position that had circled the small half of the planet, and although they suffered heavy losses, they finally achieved their set goal.
It's just that the time is more than ten minutes longer than I expected.
If the dozen or so destroyers had appeared ten minutes earlier, as he had expected, he would have been completely wiped out by this time, and the enemy would have at least two motherships with full combat effectiveness.
"Ciel, please answer when you receive it." Mr. Grant's calm voice came over the communicator.
"I am." He let out a long sigh of relief, "Sir, the enemy motherships have all been sunk, and your fleet is ready to be dispatched." ”
"Okay, Ciel, there's one more good news for you: first, our fleet is back! Just as you are fighting the mothership, they suddenly appear in the Western Hemisphere and have a big fight with the enemy's destroyers, and now, the enemy has withdrawn from low-earth orbit and the fleet is confronting it near the satellite base. ”
"That's really good!" Hill pulled a sweat-stained cigarette from his flight suit pocket and tossed it to the pilot in the front seat, then pulled out another and put it in his mouth.
Victory seems to be within reach.
At the same time, the city of Tiangang.
Preston's mobile armor leaped to its feet, and with the assistance of auxiliary gliders, flew over a distance of five kilometers and the dense streets of the Silla pine people, landing directly on the street outside the old governor's palace.
At this time, there was only a courtyard door between him and Mavis on the balcony.
Zhao Xiaonan stopped in front of Mayvis.
"See you again, Lieutenant Colonel." Mayvis gently pushed Zhao Xiaonan away, smiling and saying to the white mobile armor that could almost be eye level with her.
"That's right, Miss Shelton." Preston's synthesizer replied, "I really don't want to be on this occasion." ”
"You should have received the message," said Mavis, "that your four motherships have been destroyed, that you have lost air supremacy, and that all your landing forces will eventually be lambs to be slaughtered." ”
"That's right," Preston's white armor nodded humanely, looking like he had come back to life, "but the battle here isn't over yet, as long as I take you or kill you outright, strategically speaking, we'll still win." ”
Mayvis smiled and shook her head, bringing herself closer to the railing of the Governor's Palace terrace: "You are wrong, Lieutenant Colonel, killing me now can only make everyone in Silla Song feel the same hatred, and they will know that their executive has always stood on his own ground in this war, and has not retreated a single step." ”
"Maybe you're right," Pranston said, "but just as you were making your televised speech, I received the latest order - give up the capture, and shoot you!" ”
As soon as his words fell, Zhao Xiaonan suddenly said that it was not good, and reached out to grab Mei Weisi, but no matter how fast she was, she couldn't be faster than the bullet of the 8.6mm rifled gun!
The rifle gun on the shoulder of the white armor suddenly began to rotate, and at this moment, in the eyes of Mei Weisi and Zhao Xiaonan, time seemed to slow down suddenly, and they could even clearly see the bullets dragging the tail light from the high-speed rotating chambers, but they had no chance to dodge at all.
The bullets poured out of the chamber, but they didn't tear the two adorable girls in front of them into a pile of shredded flesh as Preston had imagined.
Because all the bullets hit a black mobile armor that fell from the sky, and crossed the heavy arms in front of the head.
The gunfire stopped, and the black armor lowered its smoking arms.
"Looks like I'm not too late to return!" Although the black armor is also an electronic synthesized sound, the lazy and scoundrel tone in it is something that the two girls can't forget no matter what.