Personal combat logs

Combat unit: Tulip Squadron.

Date: September 15, 807 Ephemeris.

Written by: Risen Brown. Nigaul

The fleet has left the Harley system, we evacuated in time before the Imperial fleet arrived, and now that it is safe for the time being, I can also take a good look back at today's battle.

Today is a day to remember, but it is also a sad day. It is said to be memorable because the League won a great victory, and every member of the Tulip Squadron scored their first crash record in the battle; It is sad to say that it is because in today's battle against the large military base of the empire of Agama, the Tulip squadron suffered its first casualties, and the downed team member was the fighter Fan Fen Fen. Sergeant Claude and Ensign Dynn who piloted the Tulip XII fighter, Sergeant Claude's fighter was broken through the shield during the attack on the Imperial fast battleship Kong, and it was later judged that his converter and engine were faulty during the attack, and the power was drastically reduced, and as a result, he was easily tracked by the twin neutron beam turrets of several nearby Imperial warships, and under the attack of these powerful cannons, his fighter did not leave anything, and he did not even have time to eject. Second Lieutenant Dynn was shot down by a Banshee fighter jet, and he did not survive.

I don't know why they didn't eject in time, I have repeatedly ordered before, if the fighter is no longer good, it must not stay in the cockpit to die, for the Alliance, the pilot is more important than the aircraft, especially the pilot of the starfighter, the loss of a Lightning, the Alliance can produce another one, it is not a big deal, and the loss of a pilot, but it is not so easy to make up for it, especially if the lost pilot has a certain combat experience, with a crash record.

Now that I think about it, maybe their fighter ejection system also went wrong during the attack, maybe they felt that they could still control the fighter to return home, maybe they felt that his fighter was not seriously damaged, and they were reluctant to give up his beloved fighter...... Who knows? However, these speculations are irrelevant, and the fact now is that Fan. Sergeant Claude and Ensign Dynn have left us forever......

Alas, although fighting always kills people, it's not like I haven't seen my teammates die before, and when I was in the Empire's Thunderbird squadron, I don't know how many teammates have changed. But I wasn't a squadron leader at the time, so I just felt sad and didn't feel anything else. However, when it was my turn to be squadron leader, when it was my turn to collect the belongings of these deceased people, and when it was my turn to rack my brains to write letters to their loved ones, I realized that squadron leader is not so good, and that is not only an honor, but also a responsibility, a responsibility to every member of your team and every fighter......

He felt so troubled that it was hard to write any more, and the faces of the young men seemed to be shaking in front of him.

"Risson, Risson, are you there? Buddy. Schneyer's voice came from the communicator by the door.

Risen put down his pen and walked over to open the door, where his friend was standing.

"Hey, what's wrong with you, today is another big victory, but I look at your expression, as if it's not the Empire, but we have been beaten to the ground." His friends could tell at a glance that something was wrong with him.

"Oh, a big victory." Risen replied lightly, the crushing victory was about the same. But he didn't want to ruin the fun, "What, what's wrong?" ”

"Can't you come if you're fine?" His friend shrugged his shoulders, "I wanted to go to the bar with you to have a drink and celebrate, it's been a long time since we've had a good drink together, but, looking at you like that, forget it, I'll go by myself." ”

"I'm really sorry, there are still some things to do in the squadron, I'll go back later." Risen said apologetically.

"It's okay, you can get busy slowly, it's okay to come back later, there's still a lot of time, being a squadron leader is like this, good and bad, you have to worry about everything, I think it's much more comfortable to be an ordinary starfighter pilot now." His friend patted him on the shoulder and staggered away.

"Wait a minute, Schneier." Risen moved in his heart, this guy squadron leader has much more time than himself, "I ask you something, when you are squadron leader, how do you feel if your pilots are killed?" Will you feel guilty and guilty? ”

Schneier stopped, and he slowly turned around, "I see, I forgot that you used to be an instructor in the training center, and this is the first squadron leader. ”

"Actually, it wasn't anything, it was very uncomfortable at the time, but it's easy to get used to it. Hehe, the first time my men died in battle, it has to be traced back to Operation Firefox, that was the first time I fought as a squadron leader with a group of rookies, and as a result, two died, one was shot down by the Imperial Banshee fighters, and one died from attacking enemy ships," his friend slowly recalled, "At that time, I felt very sorry for them, and I felt that I didn't take good care of these rookies, but war is like this, you can only adapt to it, and if you can't adapt, then it will be your turn to be shot down next." ”

"Dude, you're so much better than me, I can adapt to it, and you'll adapt soon. Listen to me, a good way to do this is to get drunk, and when you wake up, a lot of things will be forgotten. ”

"Well, forget it, I'd better finish my business first." Risen hesitated and said.

"Whatever you want, hurry up and get things done, then go relax and I'll be waiting for you at the bar."

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Seeing off his friend, Risen felt much calmer, sat down, calmed down, and continued his battle log:

...... Today's battle is actually just a continuation of a series of recent battles. Major Tulle of the Imperial Army, who had defected to us at the Holland space station, finally led the fleet to the Harley system after our troops had met his conditions and successfully rescued his father and sister, along with the rest of the rebels' captives, from the Tau-29 space station in the Hada system, and finally led the fleet to the Harley system, targeting a large imperial military base in the system, Agama, a target that the Rebel had never attempted to attack before. I don't know why we're not attacking easy space stations, outposts, or supply fleets to gnaw at this hard bone, but since the general has already made his decision, there must be his reasons.

When the 7th Fleet arrived at Agarma, it did not immediately attack, because the fleet was not strong enough, and one fast battleship and three cruisers had temporarily left the fleet with the captured personnel of our army rescued in the TAU-29 space station to join up with several transport ships and hospital ships sent by the Alliance.

Therefore, after the fleet arrived in the Harley system, it has been hiding in an asteroid belt, planning to wait for the four ships to return before launching an attack on the base, and at the same time to give the crew and flight personnel who have experienced continuous combat a rest. By the way, this Major Thule seemed to be interested in me, and after talking, I learned that he was also from the original 11th fleet of the Reich, and the expression on this guy's face when he knew that I and Schneier were on the Assault was simply very funny.

Just as the fleet was about to continue to wait in secrecy, we were unfortunately discovered by an Imperial space shuttle. General Martin had few options, either to evacuate the Harley system immediately, but that would mean that the opportunity to attack the Agarma base was lost; Otherwise, we will not wait for the four ships to return to the fleet and risk attacking, but we will not be able to form an advantage over the Imperial Army in the number of fighters, and we can only rely on the quality of fighters and pilots to win.

Needless to say, the answer would not have been this review. The Alliance's forces were one space carrier, two fast battleships, and four cruisers, and the total number of fighters was only one hundred and fifty-four, almost a third less. The Empire has two Führer-class fast battleships, two Sabre-class cruisers, and six destroyers and escort ships at the Agama base, and is supported by Imperial fighters and attack aircraft stationed at the Agama base. It is particularly worth mentioning that since the Agama base is a large and important military base, the base is permanently stationed with keyhole warning and control aircraft and guardian electronic jammers and other aircraft, not to mention these force multipliers, just in terms of the number of fighters, the number of fighters owned by the empire has more than doubled that of the alliance, this is a tough battle, although the performance of the banshee is not as good as lightning.

In this battle, if it is just against the Imperial fleet and fighters, we still have to race against time, the reinforcements of the Empire will arrive at any time, in addition, we have to cover the commandos to board the Agama base to search for all useful information, and we have to evacuate within the specified time, God, how can we do so much in such a short time?

But we did. Since our presence was discovered by the Empire, General Martin did not waste a single moment, and immediately made urgent changes to the original plan, and launched an attack, and it was a full-scale attack.

It was a risky bet, all the one hundred and fifty-four lightning fighters of the fleet were dispatched in the first wave of attacks, and the entire fleet did not leave a single fighter to cover itself, except for the space carrier Raider, the other ships also moved closer to the Imperial fleet at full speed, and the general's intention was: the best defense was to attack.

I have to say that this old guy still had a little bit of luck, and he won the bet. The Empire did not expect the Alliance to be so crazy and was taken by surprise, and the commander of the Agama base did not send all the fighters in one attack during the Alliance's attack, and he also kept a few reserve fighter squadrons in case the situation changed.

As a rule, there is nothing wrong with the actions of the commander himself, and who knows if there will be a second or even a third attack wave in the Alliance? How did he know that the alliance was only these troops, and there was no other support. By the time he tried to order the remaining Banshee fighters to attack, it was too late, and our Lightning fighters fired a large number of expensive, generally rarely used quantum torpedoes at the base before the Banshee intercepted them, although a considerable number of torpedoes were destroyed by the Agama base, the interceptor fire of the battleships, and the Banshee fighters, but the few remaining torpedoes effectively destroyed the base's shield system and fighter launch channel. According to later statistics, there were about more than three squadrons of Banshee fighters trapped in the base and doing nothing.

After the lightning launched the quantum torpedo, it turned into a battle with the Imperial Banshee fighter group, and it was at this stage that Second Lieutenant Dynn was shot down by two Banshees, and the situation at that time was chaotic, and the two sides were completely melee, and the chain eyes were almost unable to command effectively, at this time the quality of the pilot and the performance of the fighter were very important. The Empire's fighter fleet suffered a big loss, but thanks to their numerical superiority, they also achieved considerable results, at least much better than the Alliance's first two battles, and even some of the Banshees attacked the approaching Alliance fleet under the cover of the Gladiator attack aircraft, and they performed well, before these attack groups were shot down or driven away by the returning lightning fighters and the fleet's close fire force, they sank one of the Resistance's cruisers, severely damaged one, and slightly damaged the fast battleship Liberty.

But we are not easy to mess with, and no one has stipulated that only the Empire should attack our fleet, and we should not be allowed to attack theirs. When the Imperial fleet attacked the Confederate fleet, our planes also surrounded the Imperial fleet, and the boys of the Tulip Squadron first sank a destroyer with a synchrotron cannon, and then surrounded the fast battleship King Kong with Schnell's Thunderbird squadron to attack the big guy in coordination. During the attack, Sergeant Claude was killed, and a lightning bolt was shot down by the Thunderbird squadron, but the pilot was fortunately saved, and after a third squadron of lightning fighters joined the attack, the sinking of the fast battleship was a sure thing.

In the end, after the fleet arrived and joined the attack, our troops took control of the situation, all the Imperial warships were sunk, including two fast battleships, two cruisers and other ships, the total number of fighters and attack aircraft lost by the Empire was more than 270, and two keyholes and two Guardian jammers were captured, and the commandos were able to successfully enter the base to collect the required information and information, and evacuated the Harley system in time before the arrival of the Imperial reinforcement fleet, leaving behind a large area of warships, warplanes, and the wreckage and debris of the Agarma baseLet the empire cry.

However, the price was also heavy, one cruiser of the Alliance was sunk, the other was seriously injured, and was forced to abandon the ship and sink because it could not evacuate with the fleet, and the other ships, except for the fast space carrier Raider, were more or less wounded, losing 47 Lightning fighters, with a battle loss rate of nearly 30 percent, and 21 pilots killed.

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Is it worth the sacrifice that is so great? Risen couldn't help but question. Is it wise to forcibly attack a large military base of the Empire? What exactly is the information that you got from the Agamer base? It's worth the risk that General Martin takes.

"I only hope that the information we get from the Agarma base is worth the sacrifice."

He finally wrote this sentence at the end of the journal, underlined it with a red pen to make it stand out, and closed the journal with a heavy slam......