Chapter Eighty-Four: The Eve of War
At five o'clock in the morning, as the sun slowly peeked out at sea level, dyeing the sea orange in a cone-shaped area ahead, the Yorktown's more than 60 pilots began adaptive flight training.
Adaptive flight training requires pilots to maintain the physical conditioning to be able to fly smoothly before the war. If you don't fly for a long time and suddenly take off urgently, it is very likely that you will experience extreme physical discomfort due to the change in gravitational acceleration you are subjected to, and even faint directly in severe cases.
It's similar to what we often say about maintaining a "feel".
The deck of the Yorktown has been completely repaired by the maintenance crews, who have temporarily held the steel plates in place with welding and rivets, and their work has now begun to repair the damage to the interior of the ship's holds.
It is hard to imagine that the Yorktown, which was almost broken and took at least a few months to adjust, could be repaired in such a short period of time.
"Boys, I'm Jimmy Thatch, the crew leader of the Yorktown, and you can just call me Captain Thatch. Today is the last time to fly with different types of aircraft, so be serious! A man with a big nose yelled from the platform, and all the pilots below began to stand upright.
The so-called coordinated flight is to cooperate with bombers and torpedo planes to escort each other through fighter planes, because bombers and torpedo planes basically need to carry large-yield bombs to kill aircraft carriers, so they have lost the capital of air combat with other fighters. The fighter is specially designed to deal with the existence of air units, and the cooperation between different crews can play the greatest role between aircraft.
In terms of the game's description, bombers and torpedo machines can be considered ADCs (main C), while fighters can be seen as auxiliaries.
"Boys, if you cooperate well now, the chances of surviving from the battlefield will be higher when the time comes, and you will all save your own lives! Don't marry your childhood sweetheart Dani to someone else! Captain Thatch also seemed to make a joke.
Most of the pilots under the "hahaha......" burst into laughter.
Only Levi, a person who couldn't understand rice-style humor, looked embarrassed and yawned because of sleep problems.
"All, take off!" Captain Thatch shouted, and the pilots began to enter their planes.
Levi was reprimanded by the man as he passed by Captain Thatch.
"Lieutenant, cheer me up, don't look like a soft-footed shrimp who just came back from a nightclub!" Captain Thatch yelled, like a stern instructor.
"Understood." Levi didn't get angry, but was a little embarrassed to say that he should have yawned and was seen just now. He borrowed a book on gunpowder last night and read it, plus the hull next door had been clattering, and his spirit was not very good.
"No spirit, louder, inaudible!"
"Understood!!"
"Excellent! Very energetic! Thatch grinned and helped Levi straighten his hat, "Lieutenant, you're good, are you missing a girl?" ”
"Huh?" Levi looked at the big-nosed captain with a bit of a daze.
"Do a good job, survive this battle, and introduce you to a girl." Thatch tapped Levi on the shoulder and motioned for him to get on the plane first.
Levi: "??? ”
Are some people popular as matchmakers now? He had had this feeling of speechlessness many times.
However, this time the mission of "Blue Sea Funeral" is about to end in four days, and it will definitely not be able to live to let the big-nosed chief tell the matchmaker, so he naturally left this sentence behind.
A group of planes took off one by one and began to fly around the Yorktown, which was sailing, basically using 4+2 tactics, that is, 4 bombers (torpedo planes) with 2 fighters.
Coincidentally, the fighters assigned by Levi's squad were none other than Captain Thatch and his lieutenants.
Thousands of meters in the air, Levi also saw the two guys showing off their flying skills, flashing their white teeth at him.
Until the end of the flight, Levi went to dinner with Sam, Ocelot, and Xiaofu, and he gradually adapted to life at sea, mainly because the food here was really good.
Today is eating Texas grilled chicken.
Sam is also in good shape today, returning to his old smiling demeanor, and seems to have temporarily stepped out of the previous haze.
As soon as the four of them sat down to eat, Captain Thatch also came over with a dinner plate, and in front of so many people, he approached Levi and stuffed a black-and-white photo into Levi's hand.
"My daughter, the cheerleader of Zika University, has never talked about a boyfriend, which is very positive." Captain Thatch frowned, then left the table and went to the private room.
Levi: "......"
He still looked at the black-and-white photo curiously, it was indeed a blonde girl, wearing hot pants and tight short sleeves, and her big white legs were dazzling even in the black-and-white photo.
Xiaofu next to him bumped into Levi and said, "Lieutenant, you soaked Captain Thatch's daughter so quickly?" I see what he means, I can't wait for you to stop participating in the decisive battle now, hurry back and get married, and let Captain Thatch hold his grandson. ”
"Eat your sausages." Li Wei directly stuffed the chicken leg of the grilled chicken into Xiaofu's mouth, blocking his mouth that couldn't speak.
Both the ocelot and Sam laughed, and even the ocelot began to brag about his love history, saying that he had charmed the daughter of a councillor.
Laughter was heard throughout the cafeteria.
At this time, a white young man came to the table where Levi was, he was the boy who almost got into a fight with Sam yesterday, and smiled at Sam a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, Second Lieutenant Sam, yesterday was my problem, I'm sorry." My name is Rorschach, the pilot of the second crew of the torpedo plane. ”
"It's okay, my name is Sam, the third crew pilot of the bomber."
The two shook hands, and it was all over.
Levi also looked at the two who shook hands and made peace, smiling, but feeling a thick haze enveloping him.
In the entire battle of AF Island, there were about 180 pilots of the three carrier-based aircraft of Bald Eagle, and 113 people died, almost two-thirds of the battle was damaged. Among them, especially the pilots of the Yorktown, basically only 10% survived. It can be said that it is really a fight to the last moment of life.
Looking at this group of people who were playing and playing and constantly telling rice-style cold jokes, Levi only felt unparalleled depression.
No one talks about superheroes anymore, and it is clear that there will be no such strange guys on this battlefield, and only naval guns and torpedoes are the final answer on this sea.