Chapter 257: Rushing Rain Star Nine
At this point in time when the situation between the 5th Division and the 1st Line Operations seemed to be about to form a balance of power, the 1st Operations Department immediately launched the most fierce final encirclement and annihilation battle against the 5th Division in the encirclement. After encountering a powerful attack by the starship cluster of the First Operation Division, the last 40 percent of the remaining starships of the enemy's 5th Division in the encirclement of the starship cluster of the First Operation Department fought hard to block left and right under the attack of the starship cluster of the First Operation Division, but it still could not change the fact that starships in the starship cluster continued to sink in the starship cluster.
At this time, the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier also released a full 800 fighters to participate in the encirclement and annihilation battle, leaving only 200 fighters around for vigilance, and the reason why the Lucky Cat only has 1,000 fighters available is entirely because it first lost 60 fighters when fighting with the 51st Brigade in the rain star sky, and then added to the fierce battle and now lost 240 fighters, so that the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier has lost a total of 300 fighters since participating in the rain star battle, but this kind of battle damage has already made the captain Feng Qi, the first mate Wang Kang, and the aviation captain He Suji very satisfied, because no one expected that the comprehensive combat power of the army of the Barlow Empire's Senrui Security Group was really similar to that of the Killer Whale Empire's Iron Claw Security Group.
Although many people have seen the real combat level of the Barlow Empire's army in the previous battle between the Orca Empire's Iron Claw Security Group and the Barlow Empire's Senrui Security Group, the Sixth Task Force where the Lucky Cat is located has not fought with the action force of the Senrui Security Group after all, so all the officers and men of the Lucky Cat have been facing the current battle with a cautious attitude, and when the soldiers of the First Operations Department personally experienced the combat effectiveness of the 5th Division of the Barlow Empire's Senrui Security Group, I had to admit that what I had seen before was true, and at the same time, I began to feel at ease to give full play to my own combat effectiveness.
At this time, the Lucky Cat fighter cluster is like a large group of golden eagles, quickly and flexibly soaring through the middle of their own starship cluster, when approaching the front line of the enemy and us, the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighter cluster withstood the dense bullet rain from the enemy's first-line destroyer group, and quickly swept past the defense line maintained by the enemy 5th Division's destroyer cluster in the front, and without any suspense, it encountered a small number of fighter groups sent by the enemy aircraft carrier to intercept them. In the face of this interception move made by the enemy aircraft carrier, the fighter group of the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier immediately took advantage of the strength advantage of its own fighter group to surround the enemy aircraft carrier's fighter group on three sides, and the fighter groups of both sides began to continuously destroy each other's living forces.
In this kind of large-scale fighter engagement, fighters and starships also pay great attention to the coordination of battle formations, because in the ever-changing tactical environment, it has become the top priority to be able to gather and disperse a large number of troops and form a local superior force in a short period of time to eliminate the opponent's living forces, and this tactical mode also happens to be one of the best combat methods of the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighter group, on the other hand, the enemy 5th Division aircraft carrier fighter group is a little far from the Lucky Cat fighter group in this regard, Because the enemy's aircraft carrier pilots often do not have too many well-gifted fighter pilots due to various identity and status reasons, and even if some fighter pilots have good talent, they cannot effectively stimulate their potential in the military system of the Barlow Empire, which leads to the fact that the fighter pilots of the 5th Division of the Senrui Security Group have a far understanding of the tactical model from the fighter pilots of the 1st Operations Department.
Because of these tactical disadvantages accumulated in peacetime, the fighter cluster of this part of the 5th Division was directly destroyed in a short period of time when facing the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighter cluster, and in addition, the fighter group of the 5th Division was originally only 500 fighters, which was still a lot less than the 800 fighters of the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier, and it was even more inferior in terms of tactical initiative. In the end, the enemy fighter group that came to block the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighter group lasted only twenty minutes before being completely defeated.
The enemy fighters on the periphery of the engagement line hurriedly fled to their own aircraft carrier after their own fighters were destroyed in large numbers, and finally the fleet of fighters of the Lucky Cat lost another fifty fighters in this encounter, while the enemy lost four hundred and twenty fighters out of five hundred fighters, and the remaining eighty fighters fled back to their carriers. After clearing the obstacle of the enemy fighter group, the next thing the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighter group has to face is only the enemy's cruiser cluster, as long as it rushes through the interception of the enemy cruiser group, then the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighter group can face the last battleships and aircraft carriers of the enemy 5th Division located in the core of the inner circle of the enemy starship cluster. At this time, after the 12 battleships, 12 battlecruisers and 12 aircraft carriers originally owned by the 5th Division were annihilated in the first wave of the 51st Division, the starship clusters of the other five brigades and the starship clusters of the 1st Operations Department were now only five battleships, five battlecruisers and four aircraft carriers, and at the same time, the destroyer clusters of the 5th Division had also suffered heavy losses, leaving less than 30% of the troops. Therefore, the destroyer cluster of the 5th Division is now very powerless in the face of the attack of the destroyer cluster in the starship cluster of the First Operation Department.
Due to the situation, the 5th Division could only let the cruiser group, which was originally located behind the destroyer group, withstand the fire from the various attack groups of the 1st Operations Department. At this time, the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighter group, which had already faced the enemy's 5th Division cruiser cluster defense line, did not feel any pressure at this time, because when it broke through the destroyer group that posed the greatest threat to the fighters, because of the lack of enemy destroyer troops, the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier's fighter group had no loss, and later, after quickly defeating the fighter group sent by the enemy aircraft carrier, the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier's fighter group only needed to pass through the fire blockade line of the enemy cruiser group.
And it is not difficult for the fighter group of the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier to do this, because for the fighters, it is difficult for the naval guns equipped on the cruiser to effectively threaten the fighters, so the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier fighters maintain a wandering battle formation route and quickly pass through the enemy's cruiser group when facing the enemy cruiser group, and at this time, the main and auxiliary guns on the enemy cruiser are firing at the destroyer group and the cruiser cluster of the First Operation Department with all their might, There is no need to take care of these many fighter groups of the First Operations Department that have infiltrated them, and even if they are intercepted with all their might, in the face of small targets such as fighters, the fire strike effect on the cruiser is far less than that of the destroyer group and the fighter group.
After successfully passing through the defense line of the enemy cruiser group, the fighter group of the Lucky Cat aircraft carrier and the fighter group of other friendly aircraft carriers fought together with the last wave of enemy aircraft carrier fighter groups that came to intercept them, at this time, the hulls of the twelve aircraft carriers owned by the First Operations Department were only slightly damaged in the previous battle, and the fighter group only lost about 20 percent, because each aircraft carrier had to leave a part of the fighters around to be on guard, So at this time, all the aircraft carrier clusters of the First Operations Department sent about 8,000 fighters.
The number of fighters of the only four remaining aircraft carrier groups of the 5th Division on the opposite side has lost nearly eighty percent in the previous engagement, and at the moment when the fighter group of the First Action Department is swarming, the only four aircraft carriers of the 5th Division have to send all the remaining fighters out to intercept them, and the number of fighters they can fight at present is only 2,000, and the comprehensive combat strength of the fighter group of the 5th Division cannot catch up with the fighter group of the First Action Department, and now with this huge gap in strength, As a direct result, the two fighter groups were separated after fifteen minutes of firefighting.