Wings of the Starry Sky One Hundred and Ninety-One, The Disaster of Pearl Harbor (3)

Text 191: The Disaster of Pearl Harbor (3)

"Looks a little bit presentable." Risen said to himself as he looked at the data on the screen.

A wave of lightning starfighters in a neat and dense formation swept at a low speed in the open space beyond the nebula, although the speed was very slow, but such a formation was still not easy to fly, because the formation was so tight that there was no room for maneuver between the two fighters at all, and the minimum interval between them was completely determined by the large and strange device installed in the tail of some fighters, which made the control of those lightning bolts difficult and unstable, and made the handling characteristics of those lightning bolts different from those of other lightnings. Once a pilot, regardless of whether he has that device in the tail or not, as long as he does not have a good grasp of speed and interval synchronization, or the direction control is deviated, a collision incident is inevitable.

"Their position is very well maintained, it's completely different from before, the signal characteristics are the same, and now there are basically no more collisions." Lieutenant Colonel Stark muttered, although the forty-year-old pilot lieutenant colonel did not express it verbally, but he was already convinced, and he had previously had a lot of opinions about General Kirk handing over the entire training plan to this young man who was nearly twice as young as himself and almost the same age as his own son, but he did not expect that as soon as this young man took office, he took a series of measures such as demonstration instructions, mixed training, strengthening discipline, formulating reasonable norms, and increasing the amount of training. The whole combat training has been greatly improved.

The fame of the black tulip really didn't blow out. Not only him, but even the entire Ninth Air Force under his command, the quality and ability of the pilots are much stronger than the new pilots of the Eighth Air Force as a whole.

However, he was also secretly satisfied, and with the help of the Ninth Air Force, it was clear that his new recruits were well trained. There is a contrast to see the gap. Pilots are a group with a lot of self-esteem. Seeing the gap can stimulate their efforts, and they will grow much faster than the previous internal training stage of the Eighth Air Force, which will greatly help them in the next and future battles.

Risen glanced at the lieutenant colonel, who did not speak. The formation is indeed a great improvement from before, but it has not yet reached the standard he had in mind, absolutely not.

"They are about to fly out of the cover range of the nebula, do you order them to disband the formation, return to their original positions and remarshall, and do it again? The next wave of formations, the red team led by Lieutenant Jessica. Lieutenant Colonel Stark asked.

"Wait a minute." Risen said suddenly, and he quickly connected to the communication of the formation leader. "Sonia. Let's go. ”

"Yes." She nodded briefly.

In this wave of formation, flying at the front of the formation and acting as the leader is Sonia. Major Young. Her pink-painted lightning fighter not only had that strange device on the tail, but also an additional pod on the bomb point in the middle of the plane's belly, but this did not affect her control of the fighter in the slightest, and she pressed a button on the steering stick while stabilizing the fighter, maintaining speed and course.

The launch port in front of the pod on her belly opened, and a series of rockets were launched with red tail flames, and the rockets dispersed as soon as they flew away from the fighter, and exploded not far in front of the fighter.

The dazzling white light shrouded this wave of dense formations that were flying perfectly in an instant, and the cockpit of each lightning fighter in the formation was filled with a strong white light, which obscured almost all the targets in front, and the pilots did not need to say that they could see the front clearly, and they could see the adjacent fighters on the left and right sides for a while, and even the instruments in the cockpit of their own fighters could not see clearly, and many people quickly closed their eyes out of the instinct to protect their eyesight, and their control of the lightning fighters also deviated.......

The original neat formation was immediately chaotic, the communication was chaotic, they were all asking what was going on or I couldn't see the report, the collision incidents were one after another, the shields protecting the fighters kept colliding together, and the shield energy collided with each other to produce a white faint flash in the chaotic formation, just like the stars flashing in the night sky, it was beautiful, but the fighters were not damaged, it benefited from the low speed of the fighters, and the energy of hitting each other was not large, Even though a few pilots pushed the thrust control lever to their heads in panic, the speed of the fighter plane was strangely not soaring up.

"Flashbang?" Lieutenant Colonel Stark's eyes widened in surprise.

"Enhanced." Ressen's face was expressionless, and he asked calmly, "How many fighters were damaged?" ”

"No, but the BLU team has a few fighters that have a serious drain on shield energy." The lieutenant colonel was stunned for a moment, and after examining the data on the screen, he replied.

Before the training, he asked the ground crew to limit the thrust control and speed of each fighter to the maximum, and ordered the saved energy to be channeled into the shield to strengthen the shield energy to the maximum, it turned out to be for this hand, the lieutenant colonel muttered.

"Disband the formation, order them to return to the starting position, regroup, and prepare for another attempt." He shrugged his shoulders and said maliciously, "The next wave is the red team led by Jessica, and I think they should have noticed what happened as well, and hopefully they can have a better performance than the previous wave." ”

The lieutenant colonel shook his head, quite unimpressed by Ryson's sudden attack, and suddenly he couldn't see anything, and anyone would be a little panicked, but he still went to carry out his orders, he was in charge, and his previous training measures were also effective, so let's go on.

The chaotic Sonia formation has gradually regained control, reorganized the formation, starting with the lightning on the periphery, and then on the inner layer, one after another broke away from the formation in an orderly manner, along the prescribed route, gradually accelerating towards the designated location, and where they just passed, another wave of lightning swarm was slowly approaching. It was a formation commanded by Jessica, and the members of the Ninth Air Force in the mixed formation were all pilots of the Tulip Wing, and Risen sincerely hoped that this formation would perform well.

At the same time that the two converging fleets were stepping up their training, at the Pearl Harbor base.

On the large screen in front of Lieutenant General Dwight, the commander of the base, an Imperial technical officer cautiously reported, "Sir, everything is ready. ”

His caution is for a reason. cause

The Trident main gun was damaged. In total, two repairs were carried out. When he was ready to prepare for the secretary, there was another problem in the test of the results, which made him embarrassed, and also made the commander thunderous and angry, so that he was scolded and used up all the critical maintenance spare parts; Now that the Xindi maintenance components were being shipped from the battleship USS Warweary, he was even more careless. Replacing damaged parts and inspecting and testing took more time than normal, which inadvertently also gave the Third and Fifth Separate Mobile Fleets more time to prepare for training.

However, fortunately, nothing has been answered, all the tests have passed, and now it is time for the final step: the actual test launch stage, and he sincerely hopes that there will be no problems in the last level.

He overlooked, consciously or unconsciously, one thing, a small thing. It's really a trifle: when there was a problem with the main gun before. It was all due to the problems of the main gun body, not the maintenance components, so he and other local departments were more strict in the inspection and testing of the main gun body. Before the maintenance components arrived, they used this time to conduct an in-depth analysis of the problems of the main gun body, and carried out a comprehensive inspection over and over again, and for the newly shipped maintenance components, the inspection and testing work was much looser, and after the normal procedures confirmed that there were no problems, they installed these components on the Trident main gun that had been paralyzed for a long time, and the final comprehensive inspection would of course not have any problems.

"Are you convinced? I don't want another accident like this. Commander Dwight said with his eyes fixed on the officer.

"Yes, sir, I'm sure." The Imperial officer replied stiffly, praying quietly from the bottom of his heart.

"Okay, start the test firing immediately, charge the main gun, 50 percent of the firing power, first of all, the A-gun barrel, ready to fire the target. A slight smile appeared on the commander's face.

"Understood, sir."

On the side of the Pearl Harbor base, a small unmanned target was quickly launched from the base, and the unmanned target quickly moved away from the base, although its size was very different from that of the actual battleship, but because the target carried a simulated battleship ground signal transmitter, even if it was far away from the Pearl Harbor base, its signal could be easily captured by the base, and the unmanned target was quickly locked.

"Targeting."

"Open the firing port cover of the barrel of the A-gun. On a surface of the Pearl Harbor base, a round metal cover is sliding open to the side, revealing a black hole in the muzzle, this muzzle is so large in diameter that it can accommodate a space carrier without difficulty, and there are three such metal covers in different directions of the entire Pearl Harbor base, which is why this main gun is called a trident, and the three barrels share the same firing device that penetrates deep into the center of the base, and through the deflection device of the muzzles in three different directions, the all-round 360-degree coverage of the main gun fire is realized, no matter from which direction the enemy attacked, they had to face the attack of this main gun.

"The energy level is rising, the Trident cannon has a firing power of forty-one percent, and fifteen seconds later it reaches fifty percent."

"Activate the tracking device and aim at the target."

"Yes, sir." A barrel muzzle:.

"Aiming complete, target tracking is good."

"Energy levels up to fifty percent of the power rating."

"Launch ......"

The huge light blue energy pillar surged out from the inside of the base, and after passing through the deflection device of the muzzle, it shot accurately towards the target target, and quickly caught up with the unmanned target that was quickly moving away from the Pearl Harbor base, and the thick energy light covered the entire surface of the target, and the unmanned target didn't even have time to explode, and the huge energy vaporized it.

The signal of the unmanned target disappeared in an instant, the test firing of the main gun was a complete success, the imperial technical officers were relieved, and Commander Dwight was also satisfied, although there were still B and C barrel tests not yet over, but everyone was full of confidence that the main gun, which had been paralyzed for a long time, was finally back to normal, and the defense of the Pearl Harbor base was once again perfected.

No one noticed that a series of faint energy pulse signals quietly left the Pearl Harbor base with the huge beam of light fired by the main gun, it was too insignificant and too weak compared to the huge energy of the main gun, and even if someone intercepted it, they would not notice, it was not a communication signal with any actual content, it was meaningless at all, it looked more like clutter interference or energy interference.

A deep space probe picked up the signal, and it couldn't have been more obvious to the Rebel Alliance, to the Lady of Almeda, the Confederate Council, and all the Confederate fleets that had been waiting for it......

Lady Elmeida issued an order for action from the Alliance headquarters in the Siberian system, addressed to Admiral Martin of the Seventh Fleet, who had been waiting for the order at the helm of the Seventh Fleet and the newly formed Second Fleet, centered on the Challenger fast space carrier.

The same order was forwarded to the Third Fleet and the Fifth Separate Mobile Fleet, and a communications officer excitedly informed Risen of the contents of the order while he was still in command training.

"What about Captain Schneier's Green Team just now?" He asked.

"The three collisions, under the flashbang light, were much better than the initial ones, and the best performance was still the red team and the blue team, they only had one collision."

"The old rules, disband the formation, and start over." Risen said expressionlessly.

The lieutenant colonel, this time, hesitated for a moment and said, "This is already the seventeenth time. ”

"Got it, then the next time it's eighteen." Risen said lightly, handing the piece of paper to Lieutenant Colonel Stark beside him.

Lieutenant Colonel Stark took the order, and he glanced at the contents of the paper, and his face became grim.

He didn't insist anymore, he knew that the order to attack would come at any time, and if their training could not be completed, it would inevitably cause a delay in the attack and a loss of opportunity.

"Green team, green team, this is Lieutenant Colonel Stark, disband the formation, return to the alpha position to regroup, and start over."

"Wait, tell the pilots about this order." Risen thought for a moment and said.

"This .....," Lieutenant Colonel Stark glanced at Risen in surprise.

"They need to persevere, and that might help them." That's how Risen responded to Lieutenant Colonel Stark. 191. The Disaster of Pearl Harbor (3)