"Arriving at the combat position, the Archangel enters the red alert level, all personnel are in position, this is not a drill, repeat it one last time, this is not a drill......"

Yao picked up the microphone and signaled, and the communications officer immediately connected the internal communication of the whole ship, and the girl cleared her throat and began to speak.

"All the crew of the Archangel, if nothing else, you will be personally involved in and witness the first actual combat of this ship, and I know that for many of you, it may be exciting and nervous, but you are training for this, preparing for this, remain calm, stay at your posts, trust your companions, and show the fruits of your hard work before the Empire. Good luck to all, good luck to the Archangel number, done. ”

She ended the broadcast, nodded at the other crew members, and ordered, "Inform Major Nigaul that our fighters are leaving." ”

"Yes, Captain."

One after another lightning starfighters catapulted off from the mothership, and the group quickly and carefully formed a formation in front of the Archangel space carrier, and under the envious gaze of the pilots and crew who stayed behind to guard the ship, the light blue tail flame light quickly disappeared into this dense nebula with poor visibility......

This mission was a standard sabotage battle, and the Alliance's intelligence department received accurate information about the Imperial ** transport, and a light convoy of Imperial code name HX-156 escorted by two Imperial cruisers and two destroyers was planning to send supplies to the border system facing off with the Federation. The flotilla consisted of three transports, and in addition to carrying general cargo including food, fuel, maintenance components, and other daily necessities, the most important thing was that one of the ships also carried considerable ammunition, including quantum torpedoes and image recognition missiles, and the original goal of the Resistance Alliance was to organize a surprise attack on this convoy in the Nefrie system, if not all three transports, at least try to sink the transports carrying the munitions.

However, after learning that the Archangel number had joined the battle. The Coalition's operational staff officers quickly changed their goals. Sink changed to capture. With nearly 100 lightning fighters on board the Archangel, it is not difficult to deal with a small fleet of two cruisers and two destroyers, and once the Imperial escort forces are cleared, the alliance will send assault ships to forcibly board the ships, clear the resistance on the ship, and 'liberate' the three transports. Especially the ground transport ship equipped with quantum torpedoes, quantum torpedoes are a scarce thing for the rebel alliance, although the current lightning fighter ground synchronous particle cannon can also be used against ships, but the power is far from comparable to the explosive power of quantum torpedoes.

The plan sounded simple, and yes, and Risen admitted, the combat part wasn't really a big deal at all, and they won by four to one in terms of the number of starfighters. And that's not counting the quality advantage of the fighter. To deal with a relatively weak Imperial fleet with such superior forces, if there is still a problem, it is really hell.

This mission. There are two real difficulties, the first is how to quietly reach the predetermined location of the attack without being discovered by the emperor. The route chosen by the Empire's convoy is a relatively safe route, with few background environments for hiding in the vicinity of the route, and there are no hidden space jump points, except for the Nefri system. There are more nebulae and gravel areas in that galaxy, but the empire also has more unmanned monitors set up here, in addition, there are two imperial outposts in the Nefri system, and the patrol actions of imperial fighters are also more frequent.

For this first problem, Yao just smiled and said Give it to me, Ressen noticed the confidence and nostalgia on Yao's face slightly, and also noticed Sonia's relaxed and uncaring expression, he then remembered that the Blue Angels used to be good at performing special tasks such as infiltration, reconnaissance, raiding, sabotage, and rescue, and they were definitely familiar with how to evade enemy reconnaissance, secretly complete combat operations and evacuate quickly, otherwise, in the rear of the emperor, once they were found to be under siege, For them it means death.

In fact, Yao did not disappoint everyone, she commanded the Archangel, and quietly passed through the Empire's reconnaissance network, unknowingly bringing the large and slow space carrier to this galaxy that the Empire considered safer, and lurking in this dense nebula, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Imperial transport fleet.

The second, more difficult problem is how to complete the mission and evacuate the Nevri system before the Empire discovers that the fleet has been attacked and reacts. After all, this operation is to capture, eliminate the Empire's escort forces, board the ships to occupy and liberate these transports, and escort them away, it will take time, if it is just to sink three transports, it will be much simpler, Risen thought, one wing against the escort fighters, and one wing of fighters on board

Synchronous particle cannons and quantum torpedoes attack weakly protected transport ships, and if you don't need strong escort ships, you can complete the mission and evacuate quickly in a few minutes at most, and the empire will not have time to react even if it learns that the fleet is being attacked.

Now, the situation is much more complicated, not only to deal with the Imperial escort ships, but even if this mission is successfully completed, they will have to stay at the scene of the attack for a short time, at least until the transport ships are safely evacuated, Ryson has no doubt that the two outposts of the Empire in the Nefrie system will send reinforcements, including fighters and warships, which is also the size of several squadrons, sixty or seventy fighters and attack aircraft, not to mention that there are other Imperial reinforcements in the adjacent star fields, Although with the strength of the fighters carried on the Archangel, it may not be lost to these imperial troops, but not afraid of 10,000, just in case, the new pilots of the Archangel account for the majority, many people have not seen the real battlefield, if there is really such a fierce battle, the loss of personnel must be quite heavy, a good sabotage war has become a hard-fought war of attrition, how to say it is also a failure, the alliance is unable to fight with the empire, and the battle with excessive losses, no matter what the final result is, is a disaster for the alliance.

So he can't let this battle turn into a war of attrition, the only way is to keep the attack secretive, before they complete the mission, must ensure that the empire can't learn the news of the attack too early, for this reason, he specially borrowed four electronic storm jammers from the rebel alliance headquarters, these jammers will be responsible for suppressing and jamming the imperial fleet communications when they attack, so that they can't send distress signals, of course, Risen also knows that they can't suppress the communication system of the imperial warships for too long, so, At the operational briefing, he readjusted the order of attack, and the priority target was no longer the transport ship or the escort force of the clearing fleet, on the contrary, the communication system of each ship would be the first key target, and the main escort task was the Emperor-class cruiser, this class of cruisers, the alliance had it, and Risen had also served on the same class battleship Copernicus, and he was simply familiar with its structure, focusing on attacking where to paralyze and destroy the communication system. Every Allied pilot had been kept in mind before the battle began, and as for destroyers and transports, the shields and defensive firepower were weak, and with the cooperation of the synchronous particle cannons, the attack of the ion cannons was enough to paralyze most of the ship's electronic systems, including the communication system.

That's his plan of attack, and it's up to the Storm Commandos to perform, and Risen sincerely hopes that they can complete the mission of 'liberating' the Imperial transport ship in the shortest possible time, and then get out of the way.

The formation had approached the edge of this dense nebula, the huge formation slowed down, and a keyhole warning and control aircraft that had been following behind the formation, escorted by several lightning starfighters, accelerated past the group, and just as it was about to leave the nebula, the keyhole activated the complex and sophisticated sensors on board.

"Keyhole One, any good news? Do our guests arrive on time as the intelligence says? Risen opened the comms.

"Tulip One, the sensor is receiving and analyzing the information, please wait a moment......." After a while, Major Thule gave him an affirmative answer, "That's right, Tulip One, we detected the Imperial convoy, they are appearing at the time and direction we are expecting, at a distance of 52000, + there are eight > Demon fighters, etc., two of which are Super Banshees." ”

Super Banshee? Risen frowned, he wasn't afraid of these fighters, but he felt a little puzzled, the previous intelligence report, the production of the Super Banshee has only reached the stage of small batch production, and the space carrier that should be equipped with the main fleet should be the most priority, how can even a small escort transport team be equipped with the Super Banshee?

He vaguely felt that there was probably something wrong with the previous intelligence, and I was afraid that the production and costume change of the Super Banshee would be much faster than the Alliance expected.

But now is not the time to think about this, the Imperial convoy has appeared, and it is time for them to take the next step.

"Prepare for the attack, and the attack groups report to me."

"Angels United is ready." The girl who reported was Iasilia, and each wing participated in the attack operation, and each wing only sent two squadrons of fighters, and each wing left one squadron as a reserve squadron and was responsible for the security of the Archangel, and Sonia was in charge of the remaining one.

"Thunderbirds United ready." Schneier reported.

"The Fourth Prowler Squadron is ready." This is what Risen hard-borrowed, the squadron of electronic storm jammers responsible for electronic suppression and jamming.

"The Storm Assault Group is ready." The assault group consisted of six assault boats, each of which was responsible for 'liberating' one transport ship.

"The teams followed the plan, and the attack began." Risen took a deep breath, this was the first time he had organized an attack operation of this scale, and for many young pilots, it was also their first actual combat. Wings of the Starry Sky Text One hundred and seventy-two, the attack begins