On April 21, 808 Ephemeris, about two years after Risen joined the Galactic Empire, he finally set foot on the famous battlefield of the meat grinder filled with fire and blood for the first time as the advance fleet of the 11th Fleet passed through the JP2 space jump point in the Haynison system.

The Heinison System is a typical star system consisting of six planets, including the fifth planet, Henison. It is said that the reason why this medium star about the size of the Sun was given the name Henison at that time was entirely due to the fact that the captain of the expedition ship that discovered this star system was a loyal reader of an interstellar science fiction war novel on Earth in the twentieth century AD before the ephemeris, and the capital of one of the forces in the book, the Free Planet Alliance, was called Henison, so our captain was bored with good things, and simply called this star that emitted a soft yellow glow Henison. The only pale green planet that could be inhabited by humans was given the same name, and eventually the system was naturally called the Hennison System. A few years later, the captain talked about it in a television interview, and the people who knew the whole story of the system naming management committee were dumbfounded, but by this time the wood was already in the boat, and the name of Henison had appeared frequently in various documents, materials, and databases, and could no longer be changed.

Speaking from the heart, in addition to this somewhat embarrassing historical origin, Heinison itself is also a very beautiful planet, from space, it is like a beautiful Peicui gem inlaid in space, this planet does not have as wide oceans and lakes as the earth, most of the area is land, but because there has been no human exploitation and logging for a long time, so except for a small yellow desert in some areas in the center of the continent, other areas are covered by lush forests, the climate is suitable, and the precipitation is abundant, It's a great place to recuperate and spend a vacation, but of course, that's before the war.

And now, since the beginning of the Great War, on this beautiful planet that originally belonged to the Earth Federation, most of the millions of immigrants from a dozen or so new colonial cities have withdrawn to the rear with transport ships, and after the Empire has captured this planet, it is surprising to find that there are only a dozen shell cities left, and many residents who are nostalgic for their homeland and stay behind have either fled into the forests, mountains and played guerrilla warfare with the Empire, or stared at these outsiders with a hostile and vigilant face.

After the defeat at the Battle of the Great Horn 7 Star Field in 806, the Empire fully contracted its front, and many newly occupied planets were voluntarily abandoned, and the Heinison system was no exception, but the Imperial Royal Fleet unexpectedly thwarted the Federation fleet that was already at the end of the crossbow in a skirmish in Henison, stabilizing the situation, which greatly boosted the morale of the Imperial Army, and Henison was therefore boasted as a symbol and an example, and Rear Admiral Callaghan, who commanded the retreating campaign, was awarded the title of Hero of the Empire, At the same time, the status of the Henison galaxy has risen to a height that it should not have.

Of course, the Federation is not reconciled to this, after all, Henison is the planet of the Federation. After the necessary recuperation, the goal of the Federation's first combat operation was directed directly at Henison, and liberating it from Imperial occupation became one of the Federation's highest priorities; On the Empire's side, if the much-hyped "Symbol of the Empire" falls into the hands of the Federation in less than a few days, the Empire's face will not be able to be put on hold anyway, and at first the Empire still only intends to resist for a while, and after the face is over, it will abandon the galaxy and withdraw to the original Imperial Border System, which originally had a strong defense system.

However, the development of events soon exceeded people's estimates, the battle became bigger and bigger, the more fierce the fighting, the warships, fighters and personnel invested repeatedly increased, the cruelty of which has greatly exceeded the bottom line of the hearts of both sides, both sides are unstoppable, but the Heinison galaxy itself is no longer important, the previously formulated strategy and tactics are also forgotten, what works is the determination and face of both sides, the loss of such a large number of troops without any gain, and even ended in defeat, This is absolutely unacceptable to either party. For the Empire, Hennison became the first domino in a series of defenses for the Empire, and it could not be allowed to fall until the Empire had regrouped and turned to the offensive again; For the Federation, Henison symbolizes the first step of the Federation's continuous offensive and the first touchstone of the Federation's determination to liberate all of its territory, the two sides have raised the status of this ordinary galaxy to an unprecedented height, almost leaving themselves with no way back, both sides are like red-eyed gamblers, constantly putting a large number of personnel, troops and ships into this originally lonely and nameless galaxy, in the star field near the planet Henison is full of destroyed starfighters and warships, and this area of the star field is vividly called " Space Graveyard", and the brutal, bloody, and costly Battle of Henison is also famous all over the world as the "Henison Meat Grinder".

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"Thunderbird 11, first launch channel. Thunderbird 12, second launch channel, departure. ”

"Understood, Columbus."

Risson's Banshee fighter jet suddenly ejected from the cruiser Columbus, and his wingman Schneier departed from the second launch channel, and the two Banshee fighters quickly formed a standard two-plane formation in space and accelerated towards the airspace above the left of the advance fleet.

Risen and Schneier are two of the alert planes on duty in the advance fleet, they have just jumped into the Henison system for less than half an hour, and a keyhole AWACS aircraft in front of the fleet responsible for early warning has found the traces of federal fighters from a distance, the number is not very many, only a few, AWACS aircraft quickly identified these reconnaissance planes modified with Hellcats, the kittens are free from the outer edge of the search range of the keyhole AWACS sensor, and do not dare to get too close, It's just a remote sensing pod attached to the fighter plane to monitor from afar. However, the controller of the keyhole machine decided to send the Banshee fighter on duty to drive them away, after all, it is still very annoying to have the kittens watching their fleet's every move all the time.

There are three kittens, each located in different directions, so the advance fleet took off a total of six Banshee fighters on duty and alert, two in a group, going in three directions to drive away the kittens who were circling there, and the formation formed by Ruison and Schneier was responsible for the Hellcat in the upper left of the fleet.

Generally speaking, once these reconnaissance kittens find out that the fleet has sent a warning plane to expel them, they quickly turn around and flee, and it is useless to chase them, because the kittens are equipped with remote sensors and can spot the banshee fighters from a distance, and they will slip away without a trace before the fighters can get close enough distance, and the kittens are also very good at hide and seek, they often hide in the shadows of nearby destroyed wreckage or meteorites, turn off their engines, and drift with the wreckage, The sensors on the Banshee would not be able to detect their location at all.

However, there seems to be something wrong with today's Hellcat, either its remote sensor is malfunctioning, or the pilot is absent-minded and misses the two Banshee fighters that flew in, and it was not until the two Banshee fighters approached the kitten that the pilot of the kitten turned the nose of the plane as if from a dream and fled towards the deep space covered with wreckage. However, it was too late, the two Banshee fighters had already approached close enough, and the Recon Kitten was definitely slower than the Banshee due to the heavy remote sensor pod it carried, and if nothing else, the Banshees would be able to bring this kitten into range in a few moments.

"Hey, man, you've already shot down two enemy planes, and I've only shot down one, so this one should be mine." Schneier looked at the kitten that was getting closer and closer in front of him, and he was itching to discuss it with Ressen.

"Whatever you want, I'll give you this chance, you attack, I'll cover, but you remember to owe me once."

"It's easy, just buy you a few more wines, I'm used to it anyway." The friend replied nonchalantly.

"You're really shameless enough, look at it, this is a reconnaissance plane, if you can't beat the kitten in five minutes, then I'll join in unceremoniously, and whoever can shoot it down at that time depends on their own ability."

"Don't worry, five minutes? The battle will be over in two minutes, so you should stay and enjoy the heroics of my shooting down of the enemy plane. Haha..."The friend laughed smugly.

Risen was speechless......

Time passed second by second, the two Banshee Starfighters were getting closer and closer to the Hellcat, Risen and Schneier had turned on the weapon control switch of the Banshee fighter, and a small dim box was marked on the Hellcat fighter, which indicated that the air-to-air missile had found the target, just wait for the small box to become highlighted, and the missile locked onto the target and entered the range, they could start to attack, and the missile launched at such a distance was of course very likely to be avoided by the enemy aircraft, But they didn't expect to shoot down the Hellcat with a single missile, they expected the Hellcat to dodge the missile and allow them to catch up and launch a series of deadly follow-up attacks.

Strange, Risen looked closely at the hellcat that was about to become the ghost of their men, and he felt that something was wrong, although the enemy plane was fleeing, it was not panicking, and it was still leading the flight in front of them in an orderly manner, didn't the pilot know that he was about to be overtaken by them? Didn't he know that they were about to open fire? If he knew, how could he still be so calm and composed? Does he have anything to rely on? Or was he doing it on purpose? Deliberately lure them into chasing him?

Rise's heart tightened suddenly, if this is the case, then the two of them will be in danger today......

On the keyhole early warning aircraft, the controller had already discovered that something was wrong, the two banshee fighters were too far away, and they were about to exceed the control range of the remote sensor of the keyhole early warning aircraft, and he immediately called the officer on duty.

"Sir, you see, this is the Thunderbird 11 and the Thunderbird 12, are they chasing the enemy's reconnaissance aircraft too far? It's all out of sight of the keyhole, do you want to call them back? ”

The officer on duty was immediately shocked when he saw the two Banshee fighters that were getting farther and farther away, and the expression on his face changed, and he remembered the report sent by the higher authorities recently: Some friendly planes that pursued and shot down a single enemy plane often disappeared inexplicably. Obviously, they must have been ambushed by enemy planes, and the Hellcat reconnaissance plane was the bait.

"These two inexperienced rookies immediately called them back and notified the other vigilant planes on duty who were still on standby to take off immediately and go to pick up these two daredevils."

"Yes, sir."

The officer on duty sighed slightly, it will take at least 10 minutes for the alert plane on duty to take off to rush to the rescue for such a long way, which is enough to complete two or three successful air ambushes, and the two daredevils will ask for more blessings, hoping that they can get through it.

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