Two Banshee starfighters swept past the bridge of the cruiser Columbus, joining the large formation of other Banshee fighters in front of them, and near this formation of twelve fighters from the Thunderbird Squadron, countless starfighters were taking off from their respective motherships, and they would eventually form a huge attack aircraft group of four hundred and twenty fighters of various types. This attack cluster is composed of 120 Banshee starfighters, 256 Gladiator interstellar attack aircraft, as well as six keyhole Space Warning and Command and Control (AWACS), twelve Guardian electronic jammers, and a number of other auxiliary aircraft, ships, etc., and this is only the first attack wave. Risen looked at the sensor screen, the vicinity was densely packed with blue dots representing friendly combat units, the first time to participate in such a large-scale simulated attack exercise, he felt both excited, and at the same time deeply felt the insignificance of individual strength, no matter how strong the individual strength is, no matter how high the ability, what is it in the face of this overwhelming force? War is a contest of national strength, not a knightly fight between heroes, and there is no fairness, heads-up here. He looked at the seemingly innumerable fleet of machines around him, and couldn't help but feel a sense of awe, who else could stand in the way of such a huge and destructive force?

There is no doubt that there must be, and there is a force that can stop this force that is even more powerful than this force. What is an attack group of more than 400 fighters? Even with the addition of more than 400 fighters in the second attack wave, the 11th Fleet only has about 900 fighters, and in the sore spot of the empire, in the Battle of the Big Horn 7 Star Field, the four fleets of the empire participated in the war had a total of nearly 5,000 fighters of various types, and lost about 4,000 planes, with a loss rate of more than 70 percent. Risen now can't imagine what the scale of 4,000 warplanes is, and who can defeat it, the general of the Federation, Hamilton, who is sacred?

It's been almost three months since Risen that unexpected encounter, and the Columbus arrived at the scene less than fifteen minutes after the Federation's rescue plane left, because the Federation destroyer was found, and he didn't know if there were any Federation troops on the side of the jump point, so the old captain did not rush through the space jump point to enter the Federation side to find out, but chose to stay and wait for reinforcements, and the Imperial technicians immediately began to get busy. Later, Risen learned that the captain did this to save the lives of the entire ship's crew, through the analysis of the cause of the crash of the federal destroyer and the analysis of the new space jump point, the technicians unexpectedly found that this new space jump point is not stable, a fighter or shuttle equipped with a space jump engine may be able to pass, but the destroyer and above ships of the size are unable to pass, if you force through, the huge space distortion force will even tear the ship apart, and the probability of survival is extremely low, It's a miracle that the Federation destroyer that passed through the space jump point just had its engine failed and lost control, and if it was replaced by a ship the size of the Columbus, it was estimated that it would not be spared. Risen suddenly realized, no wonder the Federation did not directly send another ship over to carry out the rescue mission and pick up people at one time, but to use the form of rescue aircraft to rescue people in multiple batches.

Today, the Empire has installed surveillance equipment and automatic turrets near the new space hop named JP7, as well as an emergency force on standby to reinforce any incursion from the Federation. As for the jump point, the empire only knows that it is New Guangzhou, a rear galaxy of the Federation, but now New Guangzhou should also be regarded as a border galaxy. It was not without attempts to send troops to reconnoitre, but after several unmanned autonomous reconnaissance aircraft equipped with space jump engines were gone, the Empire gave up.

And with the passage of time, Risen has almost forgotten the girl who has a relationship with him, named Fei Lun, although he was deeply impressed at the time, and even fascinated by it, but the past is over, she is the enemy, the possibility of meeting again may not be said to be no, but I am afraid that the possibility of accidentally failing to hit a star in the space jump is even slimmer, he sometimes even thinks that the purple bracelet that has been worn on his wrist is originally his own, thanks to Schnell, This friend often makes fun of him, is it an engagement token given to him by a lady? Why don't a big man wear a girl's bracelet? It can't be a problem with gender orientation.

Only at this time will Ruisen remember that this bracelet originally belonged to a girl named Yao Feilun, everyone? With her demeanor and temperament, it may indeed be, but the engagement token can't be said, strictly speaking, it's just the trophy he snatched, anyway, this bracelet is now his, and he really likes it.

The engagement token is really good. If there's any girl I like in the future, I'll give her this one of my favorite bracelets, and Resson couldn't help but feel a little hot on his face when he thought about it, he felt that he was really thick-skinned enough.

"Wow, that's spectacular. Risson, look around, so many warplanes. Schneier's emotion interrupted Resson's thoughts.

"yes, it's the first time I've seen it, it's incredible." Risen looked at Schneier's landline behind his Banshee-style fighter and nodded in agreement. Since the successful completion of that mission, Schneier, a foreign cargo temporarily transferred to the Columbus, has truly become a member of the Thunderbirds squadron of the cruiser Columbus, and has become Risson's wingman. After a few months of rest, the 11th Fleet has also replenished a considerable number of ships, personnel, and fighters, and they have conducted various training exercises all day and night, and now they have reached the final stage of joint training, and the time for them to go to the battlefield is getting closer and closer.

Sure enough, he is a rookie, even if the technology is really good, he still seriously lacks experience and experience, and he rarely sees big scenes. Captain Clark was glad that he had finally found a reason to be superior to Risen and Schneier, and he comfortably enjoyed the feeling of looking down from above, because he knew that this enjoyment would not be too long, and he could still tell them about his previous combat experience and experience, and the scene was bluffing, but as the 11th Fleet was about to return to the battlefield, this time was getting shorter and shorter. These two newcomers, the progress is too fast, when the single machine fight, no one in the Thunderbird squadron is even that Rayson's opponent, including himself, which makes him a little unable to raise his head, for a while he thought that his own technology has regressed too much, but when the Thunderbird squadron taught the new and old pilots of other squadrons a hard lesson in the simulated air combat training, he found that it was not that he was incompetent, but that there was a monster that evolved too fast, which simply broke Darwin's theory of evolution, even he and the other members of the squadron, In the process of fighting monsters, the skill of piloting fighters has also been improved considerably.

If these two rookies can survive the brutal battles in the future, they will also become old birds like him, even better than him, and they will also have their own squadrons, their own rookie pilots, the captain sighed, but I don't know if he will have a chance to see that day coming.

"Enemy fighters were found to be deployed in the 1-8-3 area, and the 1st and 2nd attack groups, advanced, intercepted the enemy's fighters, opening the way for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th attack groups to enter the attack position." Rissen's headset heard the command of the early warning and command and control plane.

"Thunderbird squadron, follow me, keep in formation, go on." Captain Clark shouted.

"Understood, Captain."

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In April, the order to participate in the war finally came down: the Eleventh Fleet ended its rest and joined the operation against the Earth Federation, taking over from the Seventh Fleet, which was operating on the periphery of the fifth planet of the Henison system.

Risen had heard of the Henison Meat Grinder since he was at the Lodesian Barracks, and now it was his turn to taste for himself what hell the Henison Meat Grinder was.