The powerful thrust pressed Risen tightly on the driver's seat, and in the blink of an eye, his lightning fighter had left the Raider fast space carrier and returned to space, Risen gently made his fighters' left and right wings swing up and down a few times, and several fighters from the Tulip Squadron immediately leaned over and followed him, and the fighters of the other Tulip Squadron were also catapulting from the mothership one after another, and it didn't take long for his squadron to be all there.

It was a conventional assault with the clear aim of rescuing the Allies captive on the TAU-29 space station in the Hada system, Major Thule's father and sister, and other anti-Imperial dissidents who had been arrested for various reasons. Since the station has been on the Alliance's list of targets from the beginning, the Resistance Alliance has long been aware of the distribution of Imperial forces around the TAU-29 station and the Hada system, where the Alliance's spy network has always worked well.

According to the principle of taking turns to participate in the battle and training with battle, this operation did not need to be dispatched by the Tulip squadron, the carrier-based aircraft on the Raider space carrier had just experienced the battle of the Holland space station, and many young pilots had the best training in actual combat, so this operation was the same as the last time, the lightning on the Raider space carrier was responsible for alerting the security of the fleet, and the attack was carried out by the lightning fighter squadron on the fast battleships and cruisers escorting the ship. The early warning and control aircraft and electronic wind jammers on board the Raider participated in the entire process of supporting combat operations.

The initial battle was almost the same as the battle at the Holland station, with the support of a good intelligence system, the Resistance Alliance's lightning fighters first crossed the space jump point, destroying the unmanned monitors located near the jump point, and then the following electronic wind scrambler immediately carried out powerful electronic jamming and suppression of the TAU-29 space station. When the entire fleet jumped into the Hada system, more than a hundred lightning fighters had already pounced on the TAU-29 space station like an isolated island under the guidance of keyholes, and they were faced with only two multi-wing Banshee fighters, and the lightning were completely superior in both quantity and quality.

So from the very beginning, Risen has been staying on the Assault, although he is still sitting in the cockpit of the lightning fighter on standby, but in fact he doesn't think that they need to attack today, the nine escort ships have dispatched more than a hundred lightning fighters, more than the last time they attacked the Holland space station, almost twice the number of Imperial Banshees, and the lightning on the escort ship did not go out at all when the last attack on the Holland space station, according to Rayson, Naturally, there will be no chance that this battle will be their turn.

He sat in the cockpit very bored, and could only listen to the battle outside the space station through the communication channel, when the anxious, excited, and cheering voices such as 'that banshee is on fire', 'I'll bite another one', 'turn left, turn left', etc., came into the cockpit, he felt the mood of the pilots on the escort ship during the previous attack on the Holland space station, and he could not participate in the fierce battle on the side, so he could only wait, it was indeed very, very uncomfortable, he suddenly envied those keyholes and electronic storms, No matter what the battle is, they will never stay out of it, although not directly participating in the battle, at least it is much better than staying on the mothership.

However, just as he began to be a little lazy and lethargic, he suddenly received an order from the Tulip squadron to attack......

"Keyhole No. 2, Keyhole No. 2, this is Tulip No. 1, the Tulip Squadron is all out of sorts, ready to hit." He turned on the communication and began to call the AWACS and control planes, and behind his fighter fuselage, the other eleven fighters of the Tulip Squadron were already in position, and the group swept past the battleship Liberty at the front in a standard patrol formation, and entered the open space.

"Got it, Tulip One, this is Keyhole Two, in the direction of the top of the arc of the fleet's defensive circle, in the 2-7-4 area, there seems to be something, lead your squadron to find out the situation." The keyhole machine responded immediately.

In that direction? What will there be? Risson looked up, narrowed his eyes, and looked in the direction pointed by the keyholer, and there was nothing in the area, except an interstellar cloud, which glowed in a colorful and brilliant light under the light of the stars.

"Understood, Keyhole Two, what's going on?" He asked, a little confused, as he led the tulip squadron to turn around and fly towards the interstellar cloud. In general, it is enough to send patrol aircraft for such a thing, there is no need to send a whole squadron. On the surface, there was nothing unusual about that interstellar cloud, at least he didn't find anything on the sensor screen, but Risen didn't dare to be careless, under the beautiful exterior, who would know what danger was hidden there? In Operation Firefox, he was a lightning plane, and didn't he rely on the cover of the interstellar cloud to make the Imperial fleet almost helpless against him? And Keyhole must have found something in this interstellar cloud, otherwise it wouldn't have sent so many fighters.

"Well, we don't know too well, our long-range sensors seem to have found something inside the interstellar cloud before, but the interference inside the interstellar cloud is too great, and we have lost contact again, only one thing is certain, there are at least four or more Banshee fighters there, and due to the interference, we can't be sure if these fighters are from the Imperial Army, and we can't be sure if there are more fighters, attack planes, or ships inside the nebula, so I ask you to make a close encounter, Looking at the situation inside the interstellar clouds, are these ships hostile to us? And what are their intentions? ”

"Got it, Keyhole Two."

As the group approached the edge of the interstellar cloud, Risen glanced at the screen of the sensor again, but still found nothing, and it seemed that the only way to find out the real situation was to go to the interior of the interstellar cloud for sightseeing.

He was a little apprehensive in his heart, the interstellar cloud interfered with the lightning or banshee's sensors are the same, although the detection range of the lightning fighter's sensor is larger than that of the banshee, but there are still many, such as the remote sensors on the ship and the keyhole, all of which have a much larger detection range than the lightning sensors, if there are other ships or keyholes and other early warning and control machines inside the interstellar cloud, relying on their guidance, the possibility that the lightning will be surrounded by the banshee behind him still exists.

However, the order must still be carried out, Risen thought about it, he divided his squadron into three squads, each squad includes two detachments, each entering from three directions of this interstellar cloud, one detachment enters at the same time, and the other detachment is on the periphery of this interstellar cloud ready to provide cover at any time, this interstellar cloud is not too big, they don't need to go too deep, they should be able to get a rough idea of the situation inside the nebula.

"Once you find out that you are attacked, quickly withdraw to the periphery of the interstellar cloud, don't be a hero, we don't know if there are really only four Banshee fighters inside, and you can get the support of your companions and even the fleet in time when you go outside, understand?" He finally admonished.

"Understood, Tulip One."

"Let's do it." Risen gave a brief order, and he relayed the communication to his squad, saying, "Tulip Three, Four, you stay outside, stay vigilant, don't be careless." Tulip Two, Jessica, follow me. ”

"Yes, Tulip One."

After watching the other Lightning teams disperse and fly in their respective directions, Risen slowly pulled the joystick, and his Lightning turned around and plunged headlong into the dense interstellar cloud. He carefully controlled the fighter jet, not daring to fly too fast, the density of this interstellar cloud is higher than he imagined, and all kinds of infrared, ultraviolet and other interferences are more serious, because the clouds block the light of the stars, so the inside of this interstellar cloud that looks colorful and beautiful on the outside looks dark gray, and from time to time there are lightning rays blooming on the fuselage. In this harsh peripheral environment, even the advanced sensors of the Lightning fighter could not detect much distance, and Risen sometimes even wondered if the sensors on the plane were as far away as his visual distance. Behind him, Tulip 2 was struggling to follow, and she couldn't get too close to it, as it might crash into her long plane; But don't get too far away, otherwise one will be lost if you're not careful. To be honest, it's not easy to maintain formation in such an interstellar cloud.

"Tulip One, I still don't find anything on my monitor." She looked at the almost blank sensor, where there was only a small green dot, which was the signal from her long Tulip One, and nothing else.

"Be patient, keep searching, and if the sensor doesn't detect anything, keep your eyes open, in a sense, your eyes are part of the sensor, don't ignore it." Risen warned.

"Understood, continue the search ......"

As the two lightning fighters continued to penetrate deep into the interstellar cloud, still no ships or ships were found, a nervous feeling began to rise quietly in the hearts of the two people, Ressen's head felt like a noose, turning up and down, back and forth, left and right, carefully searching the direction around the fighter, and sometimes he lowered his head again, looked at the sensor screen, and never dared to let his gaze stay in a certain direction for more than three seconds, he had not yet been shot down, and he didn't want to make an exception in this unlucky interstellar cloud.

Didi, a hurried sound suddenly appeared in the cockpit of the two lightning fighters almost at the same time, Ruison glanced at the sensor screen, several bright spots appeared in front of him, four of which were small bright spots in the front, and the computer system quickly recognized their models: Banshee fighters, behind the four Banshees, there were four other Banshee fighters and a ship.

They showed small blue dots on the screen of the Lightning Fighter Sensor, and the ship was not an Imperial military ship, but a fairly ordinary civilian vessel.

"Neutral ships?" Risen said with some surprise.

"Why are they here?" This was his second question......