XXVII. Interception

However, Risen was just stunned, and then focused his attention back on the battle, now is not the time to reminisce, although his chest is filled with an urge to look forward to seeing those familiar faces, but he also knows that to meet will have to wait until after this battle, after smashing the attack of the Federation, and whether the Independence can survive the end of the battle depends on their efforts, it depends on whether they can stop those dreadnought attack aircraft, Keyhole 3's order is at all costs, It can be seen how dangerous the situation of the Independence is, and if one or two more quantum torpedoes are hit, the space carrier may become a pile of scrap metal in space, and his friends who stayed on the Independence, God knows how many people will be able to successfully escape?

In any case, it is also necessary to stop those dreadnought attack aircraft, judging from the situation revealed by Keyhole 3, the Independence is not to say that it is a quantum torpedo at this time, I am afraid that the laser cannons, ion cannons and mass acceleration guns equipped with dreadnought attack aircraft can also pose a great threat to it. Ressen's hand clenched lightly on his right hand holding the joystick, even if he couldn't finally stop the attack planes from firing torpedoes, at least he had to disrupt their attack formations so that the enemy planes would not be able to attack in a coordinated manner, and the shipboard short-range defense weapon system equipped on the USS Independence should be able to deal with scattered and uncoordinated torpedo attacks.

Ladies and gentlemen, you have put me on this path, and now it is my turn to repay you. Risen thought silently in his heart.

In the blink of an eye, the triangular formation of the three dreadnoughts grew much larger in front of his eyes, and Ryson's eyes were firmly fixed on the dreadnought on the far left, and the pilot of the enemy plane seemed to have spotted the approaching banshee, but the dreadnought could not attack Ressen, because Ryson's banshee was under his starfighter, beyond the attack range of the automatic defense laser turret on the tail of his dreadnought.

However, the fact that this dreadnought could not attack Risen did not mean that the other dreadnoughts could not, and the laser turret at the tail of the dreadnought attack aircraft flying in the lead position turned in a different direction and aimed at Resson's banshee fighter, and a series of red beams flew towards his position.

Risen gently swung the joystick, the banshee fighter dodged the energy beam sweeping towards her in a swinging way, only one or two lucky beams could meet the fighter's shield, excited a flash of ripples, but nothing remarkable, Ressen glanced at the shield strength, but lost about ten percent of the strength, the banshee fighter still resolutely and fearlessly continued to approach the dreadnought.

Risen fired, and he didn't press down with his fingers until he was very close, and the Banshee Fighter's ion cannon and laser cannon immediately poured out the energy that had been stored up in dense red and white beams. The strength of the shield on the periphery of the dreadnought quickly decreased under the continuous and fierce attack, and the pilot of the dreadnought finally couldn't take it anymore, and he moved the joystick to the left to turn the fighter to the left, avoiding the ensuing fierce attack, but this action also made the dreadnought break away from the formation and become an easy target.

Risen turned his head around the banshee-type fighter and easily bit the lone sheep out of formation, this fearless pilot really can't say it, who is not good to find, he wants to bully him this fighter, now no one can help him, all the hellcats are pestered by other banshees, and even self-protection is a problem, let alone to save him, and now he can only rely on himself. Despite the non-stop firing of the auto-defensive laser turret in the tail, the enemy planes seemed to ignore it at all, and the energy beams still mercilessly hit the tail of the dreadnought, and the Federation pilots could only watch helplessly and helplessly as the shield strength dropped to zero.

After losing the shield protection, the first thing to suffer was the automatic defense turret of the dreadnought tail, after three or four beams hit directly, the turret immediately fell silent, which allowed Risen to get close to launch an attack in such a close distance, at such a close distance, Resson was basically already a bullet, it was difficult to hit, the two engines of the dreadnought type caught fire one after another, and the pilots of the Federation were also smart, and before the second engine was hit, he had pulled the ejection handle and fled from the dying attack plane with the cockpit.

"The fourth." Risen said softly, this is already the fourth enemy plane he has shot down, and if he shoots down one more, he will become an ace pilot. He pulled up his fighter and continued to look for other Dreadnought attack aircraft, with the Independence being the closest as a priority......

The groups of aircraft on both sides were mixed together, and the Federation's originally neatly arranged attack formations began to appear chaotic, and there were constantly dreadnoughts who had to break away from the formation in order to avoid the fierce attacks of the Banshee fighters, but this often made it an easier target to attack, although the Federation's Hellcat fighters were desperately trying to cover the Dreadnought attack planes on their side, they still couldn't completely prevent the fighters from being attacked, the number of kittens was not enough, and there would always be a few Banshee-type fighters that they couldn't take care of, This previously quiet star field was constantly flashing with fires and explosions, and white missile trails and energy beams of various colors pierced the dark deep sky, like a colorful watercolor painting......

In the end, the Federation's pilots paid a heavy price for breaking through the Thunderbird squadron's interception, four Dreadnoughts and two Hellcat fighters were shot down, two more Dreadnoughts and two Hellcats had to return home because they were damaged, and three Dreadnoughts were forced to drop or fire torpedoes early because they were intercepted and attacked, and they had to withdraw from the battle, while the Thunderbird Squadron only paid the price of one Banshee being shot down and two being damaged. But the Federation pilots were not intimidated, and under the cover of less than half of the remaining Hellcats, the remaining six Dreadnoughts were still heroically advancing towards their targets, and were already within torpedo range, and the Imperial Banshee fighters were still in hot pursuit.

Rysson's banshee has been chasing one of the dreadnought attack aircraft, the tail of this attack aircraft shows the logo of the squadron leader, the automatic defense laser turret at the tail of the dreadnought is accurate and dense, like splashing water, Risen and Schneier are on each side, taking turns to attack it, the rear shield strength of the dreadnought attack aircraft has been almost exhausted under the fierce energy beam attack, but this respectable opponent still insists on flying along the original original route, the dreadnought attack aircraft has entered the torpedo attack route, He needs a few more seconds to wait for his quantum torpedo to lock onto the target, and he can't dodge at this time, otherwise the quantum torpedo will have to start again.

"Damn, I don't want to live, don't you, that's what will fulfill you." Risen was in a hurry, he could see what the dreadnought was doing right now, and he had to stop him.

The last two image recognition missiles were launched from Resson's Banshee fighter and rushed forward at high speed. It was too close, and the pilot of the Federation knew that it was too late to dodge by relying on the fighter plane to maneuver, and besides, he didn't want to dodge, if he wanted to dodge, he had already dodged just now, he continued to maintain the same course and waited for the quantum torpedo to complete the lock, only throwing out a string of decoys behind the fighter, hoping to deceive those missiles.

However, his luck was not good, the missile ignored the decoys and continued to approach his dreadnought relentlessly, and just as he was already desperate, he heard the beep of the quantum torpedo locking onto the target, and his spasmodic fingers immediately pressed the button for the torpedo launch.

The first missile completely destroyed the already weak rear shield of the fighter, along with the automatic defense turret and large chunks of armor in the tail, and the second missile turned the dreadnought into a huge fireball, which, along with the heroic and respectable pilot, was the fifth enemy plane shot down by Resson.

"Damn it." Risen was not at all overjoyed to be an ace pilot, and just before the Dreadnought exploded, two of the four quantum torpedoes carried on the Dreadnought were successfully launched, and the two light blue trails were drawn towards the space carrier Independence, which was still faintly smoking and burning in the distance.

"Hey, Risson, what are you doing?" Schneier, who was turning to dodge the exploding dreadnought, suddenly found his friend's fighter plane straight through the cloud of smoke from the explosion, following the two quantum torpedoes in the direction of the USS Independence.

"Schneier, leave me alone, you go and help the others deal with the rest of the Dreadnoughts, understand?" Risen increased the thrust of the fighter to the maximum, activated the afterburner, and switched to the energy management system, transferring all the shield energy to the engine, and the Banshee pursued the two quantum torpedoes in front of it at frantic speed.

"You, madman." His friend shook his head, but did as he was told, he understood that since he had turned that corner, it was now impossible to catch up with Resson, let Risen try it, that guy's shooting skills had always been good, maybe he could do it.

The people on the space carrier Independence have noticed two torpedoes that are coming, and they have also noticed a friendly Banshee fighter chasing the torpedo, people's hearts have been raised to their throats, according to the short-range defense weapon system installed on the Independence, it should be easy to deal with these two torpedoes, but now the mothership has been severely damaged, most of the systems on the ship have been paralyzed, whether they can intercept the two quantum torpedoes that arrived almost at the same time, no one has the bottom in their hearts, and according to the current situation of the mothership, it is estimated that one more will be hit, The ship is finished. All eyes were on the banshee-like plane, expecting a miracle.

Although the ultra-high-speed flying Banshee fighter barely kept up with the speed of the torpedo, the fighter kept shaking, and the body shook non-stop, which made it difficult for Risen to aim at the two torpedoes in front of him, but fortunately, the light blue wake of the torpedo was still very eye-catching in the dark space, and it took a lot of effort for him to barely put one of the torpedoes into the aiming circle, and all the cannons of the Banshee fighter immediately fired.

Although Risen had good long-range shooting skills, the torpedo profile was too small, and the fighter was shaking, and most of the shots missed, until the cannon energy was consumed by more than half, and the torpedo spun crookedly and began to roll, and Risen could even see yellow and green sparks mixed in the light blue wake, and a certain beam fired by the Banshee must have hit the torpedo's power system, but fortunately the torpedo had no shield.

Suddenly, a fierce light shone in front of the Banshee fighter, this quantum torpedo exploded right in front of Ryson's eyes, at a considerable distance from the Banshee fighter, the huge explosion wave threw the Banshee fighter that had no shield up, the Banshee fighter completely lost control, like a fallen leaf in the wind throwing it directionlessly, all the systems in the plane lit up red lights, Ryson's face turned pale, he could only hold the joystick and thrust lever tightly with both hands, praying that the fighter would not disintegrate.

By the time the aftermath of the explosion had passed, Rayson's fighter had been completely paralyzed like a piece of scrap metal in space, it was slowly spinning and floating in the dark and cold space, Risen turned his head and looked around, in addition to the quantum torpedo that was about to arrive on the Independence, there was a light blue trail that was passing his fighter, it was a quantum torpedo fired from another dreadnought, but fortunately, there was only this trail, it seemed that Schneier and the rest of the Thunderbird squadron did a good job of stopping most of the dreadnought attack planes.

I'm sorry, I've done my best, Risen thought silently, two torpedoes, two quantum torpedoes with scattered and sporadic attacks, Independence should be able to handle it.

Good luck, Independence.