However, before Salmu could breathe a sigh of relief, not far away, the fire was raging, and in the rapidly expanding fire cloud where the "Thunder Wings" exploded, five Viking fighters were like silver swords that broke through the huge waves, and disappeared in a flash, instantly approaching the satellite group, pouring a full 50 missiles on the stormy KZ-78 from head to tail.

On the large screen in the center, the firelight is like the sea water that spreads across the beach at high tide, quickly connecting into a line. KZ-78's nearly kilometer-long body was plunged into a sea of fire, and the vigorous flames were like rolling waves of fire, spraying large clumps of debris in all directions.

Finally, after a blinding burst of fire, the KZ-78 ushered in its most brilliant moment. The instantaneous thrust generated by the explosion of the Zero's source element core tore the entire satellite apart, and a piece of debris up to 200 meters in length fell towards the ground in Rector at a very fast speed, and another piece of wreckage more than 400 meters overturned to one side and flew outward with a huge angular velocity.

In addition, a large number of metal fragments of various lengths swept through the nearby area of several hundred kilometers, and a large number of missiles and warplanes were hit by the fragments and exploded and caught fire before they could dodge. A Viking fighter was hit by a fragment on the left wing, and its flight was unbalanced, and just as the second debris was about to hit the cockpit, suddenly, a streamer flashed, and the damaged Viking fighter disappeared out of thin air.

"How so?" Salmu clung to the railing in front of him to stabilize his body, and the high-speed debris from the KZ-78 explosion hit the outer armor of the command satellite, and the entire ground trembled.

The aftermath of the KZ-78's explosion lasted approximately 1 minute, and as the vibrations beneath his feet subsided, Salmu hurriedly looked up at the monitor array.

It was pitch black, pitch black, and hundreds of monitors throughout the monitoring module lost all their signals.

"What's going on? What the hell is going on! Salmu's angry roar resounded through the hall.

A female officer in the corner suddenly stood up and said with a changed face: "...... Captain...... Come...... Here it is, the pieces are coming......"

Then. The large screen in the center flashed with light and shadow, and the wreckage of a satellite that occupied most of the picture became larger and larger.

"This ...... It's ......" everyone froze. The center of the outer armor of the wreckage is clearly marked "KZ-56", and at this moment, these five characters are like a sneering face, mocking their incompetence.

Boom! Giggles......

I heard a muffled sound, and a violent shaking came from under my feet. All of them tilted to the side involuntarily. Then, the lights on the ceiling went black, the displays of each instrument were either directly extinguished, or the picture was shaking, and the emergency lights on the wall lit up, reflecting the entire command hall in a blood-red color.

The tremors continued to ferment, and the entire command hall began to tilt sideways, and everyone was unsteady on their feet, holding on to everything that could support their bodies. The woman's screams echoed endlessly with the broken equipment, the poor contact with the circuit, and the "bang" sound. The command hall is a post-apocalyptic sight.

……

I don't know how long it took, but the shaking of the ground finally stopped, the lights on the ceiling finally returned to normal after a few flashes, and most of the instruments in the equipment pool were back in operation.

Salmu grabbed the guardrail and struggled to get up, glanced at the messy pool of equipment below, didn't care to wipe the blood that slipped from his left sideburns, and hurriedly asked pantingly: "Control team, report the situation." ”

There was a sound of a soo from below.

About 10 seconds of effort. A voice with suppressed pain replied, "The armor outside Area A is damaged, and the water circulation equipment is destroyed. The oxygen production equipment malfunctioned slightly, and the No. 1, No. 3, and No. 9 generator sets stopped running, reducing the energy supply by 20%. Fortunately, the emergency procedures have been activated, the safety gate has fallen, and the internal pressure has stabilized. The air-conditioning system is operating normally, and the environment is good in all areas except for the impact point in Area A. ”

"How's the battle going?"

"Contact with KZ-78, KZ-56 was interrupted. Switching external camera probe. ”

As soon as the worker's voice fell, the progress bar on the central screen flashed away, and then a picture appeared in front of everyone.

In the low-altitude orbit that littered the wreckage of the satellites, more than 180 "Thunder Wings" air and space fighters were bombing 12 Viking fighters indiscriminately, gradually dividing and encircling them.

The various types of missiles are like needles piercing through the seams, posing a stern threat to the remaining 12 Viking fighters, forcing them to gradually shrink their battle lines and withdraw from the theater of operations that can endanger orbiting satellites.

What's going on? How did the fighters of the KF-501 and KF-503 all go out? Salmu was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly it was their commander who saw that the satellite was damaged, and launched a full-scale attack in a hurry.

"Alas!" Salmu sighed heavily. Under normal circumstances, as long as the performance of the fighters is not much different, the difference in numbers of 3 to 1 will definitely be a one-sided war, not to mention that there are so many missiles of various types. But the result? In a daze, the opponent broke through the blockade line, rushed into the satellite belt, and destroyed the KZ-78 and KZ-56 reconnaissance satellites.

Although the armor of the reconnaissance satellite is very thin, the combat effectiveness of the ship is negligible, and it belongs to the space-based facility with the lowest defense capability. No matter how you say it, it is nearly a kilometer long, and it was actually blown up by three or five enemy planes with a single missile!

If it's a battleship-level enemy, forget it, but TM is clearly just a few fighters, right at the door of the Lector Navy, and he did 2 reconnaissance satellites under his nose. This slap was called a hard one, and Salmu felt that his cheeks were hot.

"Hit ...... Hit! ”

Just when he was distracted, he suddenly heard an exclamation from below, Salmu looked up, and on the big screen, two laser lightning flashed, directly blowing up an enemy plane, and the other was also damaged, flipped outward, and then disappeared without a trace.

Under the combined attack of more than 180 "Thunder Wings", countless missiles, and 100mm laser cannons, the enemy's remaining 10 planes finally collapsed, flying towards a change, and a meteor fled towards the atmosphere.

182 of them, nearly 8 squadrons of "Thunder Wings" tightly bit 10 Viking fighters, and the projectiles fired from rapid-fire guns were like pouring rain, staggering left and right of Viking fighters.

Salmu felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong. It is true that the "Thunder Wings" are air and space fighters, but in most cases they are carrying out space operations, and it is not impossible to enter the atmosphere. But I'm afraid that the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Thinking of the scene captured by the reconnaissance satellite before, Salmu's face couldn't help but change: "Communicator, notify the commander of the fighter brigade and ask them to withdraw, this is a trap!" ”

"Trap?" The excited staff downstairs had a stunned expression, and the correspondent hurriedly changed the channel. Attempt to contact the KF-501 space station.

After about half a minute, the messenger, who was sweating profusely, turned his head with a cry in his voice: "Colonel, the laser communication device was damaged in the previous impact. As for the radio network, it is still semi-paralyzed due to the impact of the air battle and the explosion of the satellite. ”

Salmu sat back on the sofa when he heard this, "Why is this ......happening?"

For now, he can only pray that the pilots of the "Thunder Wings" can fly in the atmosphere as well as in space. In this way, there may be a chance to win, because the opponent does not have many fighters. The total number of aircraft is less than 50, and with the air power of the ground army, there is still the power of a battle.

A few minutes later, when the electromagnetic storm in Lector's low-altitude orbit subsided and Salmu's command satellite reconnected with other satellites, 182 "Thunder Wings" swooped down like a meteor shower with their long comet tails, venting their debut to the Viking fighter group directly ahead.

How powerful is the 40mm rapid-fire gun, which is powerful enough to pierce through a two-meter-thick homogeneous steel plate. Facing a salvo of 182 "Thunder Wings" lined up in the sky, densely packed like fish eggs. A Viking fighter with only 10 numbers is like an ant in danger under the pouring rain.

Finally, a Viking fighter was shot in the tail, ignited a burst of flames, and fell rapidly from a high altitude.

This scene inspired all the pilots of the "Thunder Wings", and it turned out that the opponent was not invincible. As long as there are enough of them and the firepower is strong enough, they can be killed.

"Guys, brace yourself and kill this group of rebels for me. Let those landlubbers on the ground take a good look at the power of our navy. ”

"Hahaha, fire, shoot, poke their ass......"

“yahoo！”

Amid the driver's excited shouts, a Viking fighter plane lost its balance due to the influence of vortex after entering the atmosphere because of the wing cut by satellite debris in a previous space battle, and then was hit by a "Stinger" missile, and the left thruster caught fire and burned, dragging a thick black smoke and falling diagonally downward.

The combined combat effectiveness of these enemy aircraft in the atmosphere is no more than that! The pilots of the "Thunder Wings" are full of self-confidence, and their participation may be able to turn the tide and turn the tide of the precarious Lector battle. The government army turned defeat into victory.

Credits, medals, bonuses, promotions, these seem to be within reach.

Just when the remaining infantry of the 287th Division looked at the overwhelming "Thunder Wings" fighters in the sky with a dull look and cheered, in the command center of the research institute, Tang Fangzheng was looking at the sky outside the window in a daze.

"Wings of Thunder......"

As soon as the words fell, as his gaze turned cold, there were suddenly two more rows on the lawn of the buffer zone on the periphery of the research institute, with a total of 30 Goliath machines.

Clusters of flames were like artillery battles in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, "crackling" flashed non-stop, and the slender body of the "Hellfire" missile, nearly 1 meter long, was like a long sword, piercing the long sky, facing the "Thunder Wings" fighter group pressed down like a black tide in the sky, and shot away at a speed of more than Mach 20.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......

The "Hellfire" missiles shuttled through the air, and the sharp sound almost tore the entire sky apart, and the remaining eight Viking fighters were like fast sails under the rushing waves, breaking through the wind and waves and avoiding the storm.

However, the Thunder Wings were not so lucky, and the experience of the previous Viking fighters was repeated in them, with more than 300 Hellfire missiles sweeping the cloudless blue sky above the research institute.

Despite the fact that the Hellfire is only a small missile, it has a range of 50 miles and a terrifying speed of more than Mach 15 per hour, even in the atmosphere. If you are in space, the "Thunder Wings" can also race with them and play peek-a-boo with them with good maneuverability and cooperation. However, at this moment, under the friction of the atmosphere and the gravity of Lector, they could not exert their peak combat power at all, and could only look at the "Hellfire" cluster like a wave below in surprise and blankness.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The continuous explosion shook the earth, and the fire appeared in the blue sky, looking from the ground, as if the enthusiastic landlord had a grand and grand welcome party for this group of visitors!

The Goliath Goliath's "Hellfire" missile system is capable of locking on to 300 enemies in a second, and with the relay guidance of the eyeworms, the "Thunder Wings" are nothing less than meat on a chopping board.

A continuous stream of flashes illuminated the faces of everyone on the ground. Splashes of fireball are more dazzling than holiday fireworks. In just a dozen seconds, 144 "Thunder Wings" were torn apart by the "Hellfire" and turned into rolling fireballs, spinning and burning, drawing smoke tracks in the sky. Then plunged headlong into Mother Earth's arms.

The fire rain is colorful and the fireworks are gorgeous.

Such a scene is so magnificent and beautiful.

On the main streets of Wendenbat, the panicked citizens stared blankly at the wreckage of the fighter plane that was painted in the sky with raging fire and meteorites "whooshing, whooshing".

As early as the artillery of the siege tanks resounded through the world, the first . When the warplanes of the Metropolitan Military Region whizzed by, they realized something. War is coming! Someone threw a fist at the high-flying government.

In just 30 minutes, the sound of artillery from the north of Wendenbat has not stopped, although the distance is too far beyond the range of human sight, and there is a police cordon on the edge of the city, making it difficult to get close to the front line to observe. But judging from the violent earthquakes again and again, as well as the laser pillars shot from the sky, and the swarms of fighters passing by in the sky. There is no doubt that this is not a petty fight at all. It's a real war.

Now, this scene in the sky confirmed their suspicions.

The invincible imperial navy, the long sword hanging over the heads of the people, and the great wall of thousands of miles that the nobles and lords are proud of......

At this moment, they are burning, exploding. Falling from the sky like a dumpling.

That's the "Wings of Thunder", with a unit price of 20 million MYd. In just a few breaths, more than 100 air and space fighters were destroyed like this?

"3 billion, that's 3 billion, it's all gone in the blink of an eye!" A middle-aged man who is engaged in finance said tremblingly.

"Wow. What a splendid fireworks. "This is a seven or eight-year-old girl.

"Who the hell is it? Actually in charge. The government army was forced to this point. On the roof of a 100-meter-tall building in the Roland district, an old man in his 70s muttered to himself.

“……”

The Roland district was in turmoil, the Wood district was in turmoil, and the whole of Wendenbart was like a pot of water close to boiling, and the citizens panicked and rushed out of the city.

As for the officials who are pampered all day long, they are rarely diligent. They rode through all sorts of means of transportation, shuttling through the squares and radio stations of Ventembart, putting on a self-righteous and amiable expression, telling the people not to panic, not to be afraid, that it was the government's maneuver, Lord Lancelot's large-scale military training. There is no need to worry, there is no need to flee, the exercises will soon be over.

To be a good politician, acting is one of the compulsory courses. The higher the official position, the better the acting skills. If you want to be a good politician, you must at least learn to be happy and angry. Well, there is also a honey-bellied sword, and a knife is hidden in a smile. Of course, a hypocritical face is a must.

Just like now, when the mayor of the district and the officials of the city hall are calling on the citizens not to panic, not to be afraid, and not to spread rumors, they have already sent their wives, children, and close relatives out of Wendenbart.

The battle in the sky continues, with 8 Viking fighters killing back their guns and MT50 Lanzel Mines launching a second wave of attacks after the Hellfire missiles.

The remaining 38 "Thunder Wings" pilots were all stupid. In just a few breaths, the loss of 182 "Thunder Wings" amounted to 80%, which was simply a disaster, a catastrophe.

I thought that the rebels' anti-aircraft forces only had these fighters, but who would have thought that they still had such terrifying anti-aircraft firepower, those two-legged fighters, they ...... They're simply flying machine killers!

Fear spreads in their hearts, there is no communication, there is no hesitation, all drivers have only one reaction, run! Escape back into space, escape back to the space station. This is not helpful for the navy...... Let the Army fight these damn enemies to the death.

The flames ejected from the thrusters left an arc in the air, and 38 "Thunder Wings" began their escape journey.

troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere...... The fighters climbed higher and higher.

Boom, boom......

There was an occasional explosion behind him, and it was some backward "Thunder Wings" that were caught up by Viking fighters, and exploded into a tumbling stream of fire under the strafing fire of a 40mm Gatling gun.

From hunter to prey, the transition is so fast that it is suspicious of a dream.

When the "Thunder Wings" at the front broke through the atmosphere of Rector, the pilot finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the dark void in the distance. came back, and finally escaped from Ascension and saved his life.

He glanced back at the back, and it was empty, except for the wisps of gunsmoke that had not yet dissipated.

Of the 148 "Thunder Wings" and 148 pilots, he was the only one who returned alive......

For the rest of his life, he had no joy or rejoicing, only sorrow and disgust with war.

The driver let go of the lever, removed a hapless bear chain hanging from the top of the front window, and held it tightly with both hands in front of his face, and he cried like that, and uncontrollable tears burst out of his eyes.

The KF-501 space station's piloting lights flickered in the distance, but the fighter plane drifted farther and farther away in the vast void.

……………… (To be continued......)

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