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The battle is over, and the interception of the Imperial Starfighters is complete without suspense

The vast majority of the starfighters who left the firepower cover of the Imperial fleet's frigates to intercept the rebels failed to come back, and those Imperial starfighters who were lucky enough to survive from the guns of the Alliance's lightning fighters and temporarily picked up a "life" had lost nearly three-quarters of them before escaping back to the fleet's anti-aircraft fire network, and Rear Admiral Piper was now able to protect the fleet with only the pitiful nineteen super banshees, six banshees, and four short swords. The resistance alliance paid a paltry price of five Lightning fighters, with another eleven damaged and forced to return to their respective motherships early.

The lightning group did not pursue the escaped Imperial fighters, nor did they continue to attack the Imperial fleet, they just wandered leisurely around the perimeter of the fleet's anti-aircraft fire network, in the face of the huge fleet of aircraft and the strong momentum that was calm and unhurried, the officers and men of the Imperial fleet were full of powerlessness one by two, and the expressions on their faces became like ashes, panic and chaos spread rapidly within the fleet like a plague, many people were thinking about what to do next, and some people had already taken advantage of the officers' lack of attention. Quietly go to the vicinity of the escape pod; Others hit the head of the assault ship or ambulance support ship, wondering if they could use the space to escape the pursuit of the rebels, or they just hoped that the rebels would disdain these slow-moving ships; There are many more who are contemplating another possibility that they have never thought of or dared to think of before—the possibility of surrender.

But at present, they are just thinking and thinking, even if it is already the moment of burning their eyebrows. The inertia of restraint that has long been formed by the imperial military discipline on these professional soldiers cannot be eliminated in a short period of time, and the slogans of orders and prohibitions, and the soldiers' duty to obey orders have been deeply embedded in the minds of these imperial officers and soldiers, who are hesitating and hesitating, but that's all, this is a fleet, and the crews of each ship have to obey the orders of their captains, and those captains. There is also a commander above them. They have become accustomed to absolute obedience, or rather fear of his authority and commands. Even if those orders are no longer reasonable......

"I said, what are you waiting for, don't go on, wait for the colonel's attack aircraft group to arrive, we won't have much chance." Schneier was anxiously urging.

"What's the hurry, I just have to wait for the colonel to come...... Oh, here they are. It came really fast. Risen looked at the sensor, a group of green "color" bright spots appeared behind them, due to the harsh space environment, its detection range is not very large, so when you can see the first wave of 108 lightning attack aircraft under the command of the colonel, it is already quite close, and the second and third waves of attack aircraft later, due to the barrier of dust and rubble, can not be seen. But it should be not far behind.

"Not the Colonel fast. The attack aircraft arrived exactly on time, and we moved faster. Sonia immediately got to the bottom of the matter.

"Have you broken three?" Risen asked with interest.

He was answered with a raised V-shaped gesture and a faint, rightfully confident smile, and the answer was needless to say.

"Great. Celebrate when you get back, I know Philen, Annie, Juney, and Iasilia are all waiting for you to go back and celebrate......" Although it was expected, Risen was very happy, and the number of downs was more than one, which was a remarkable achievement, and he was already ranked second in the league, and the first place was Colonel Sherman, one hundred and twelve downs, and he was also the recipient of the Star Wing Medal, although he was already lying in a cold coffin wandering in space when he received the Star Wing Medal.

"I said brother, you're still in the mood to chat, I'm really convinced." Schneier shook his head helplessly.

"Of course, what else? Attacking the enemy fleet? Of course, it's not impossible, but that's not our main business, and it's ......not good to rob the colonel of his life before he arrives," he said indifferently.

Of course, this is not the reason, the reason why he temporarily stopped the attack on the Imperial Fleet is largely due to the problem of casualties, the four escort fighter wings he currently leads, it can be said unceremoniously, is the most elite starfighter force in the alliance, although it is not bad in terms of ship attack capabilities, but the biggest difference between these four fighter wings and other starfighter wings is still in air combat, which is also an important reason why Colonel Taylor and General Martin specially designated them to serve as escort missions.

At this time, before the main force of Colonel Taylor's attack group arrived, the defensive firepower of the enemy fleet had to be borne by their main group of aircraft, which was mainly based on anti-air aircraft, and although the Imperial fleet lacked cruisers and destroyers, their four starfighter wings were not equipped with a sharp weapon for attacking ships - quantum torpedoes, The dense anti-aircraft fire network built by dozens of destroyers and frigates gathered together cannot be underestimated, and the losses are not estimated to be very large, but they will not lose a single one, and it is estimated that more or less than a dozen are still very possible, and even more when they are unlucky. Consume the power of this elite anti-air-based interstellar fighter on the ship, Risen feels that the gains outweigh the losses no matter how he calculates, and the cost-effectiveness ratio is not high, this is not forced by the situation, no one "forced" them to attack the Imperial fleet, their task is only to deal with the enemy fleet's interceptor fighter group, cover the attack aircraft group commanded by Colonel Taylor, and the task of attacking the ship, to be exact, is handed over to Colonel Taylor's attack aircraft group to complete, they are now the first to attack, what is it, No matter how you look at it, you are suspected of being greedy for merit and risking the lives of your subordinates.

When the colonel's attack aircraft group arrives, it will be different, a large number of interstellar fighters will attack in a coordinated manner, which will not only help disperse the density of the enemy fleet's anti-aircraft firepower, but also the primary target of the enemy's air defense and self-defense firepower will not be them, but give priority to intercepting those attack aircraft carrying quantum torpedoes and the quantum torpedoes they "fire", and they can naturally "touch" the fish in mixed water. The losses will be greatly reduced, or even basically nothing, even if they don't sink those spaceships, what does it matter? It's all a victory for the rebel alliance, and that's enough.

Attacking first, apart from venting the resentment in his heart, what other benefits are there, he really didn't think of it.

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Such a communication came. After the colonel approached the battlefield, it was easy to understand the entire battlefield situation, there was no longer any obstacle in front of the attack aircraft group, and the few sporadic imperial starfighters that fled back were no longer a threat to a few attacking starfighters, and they couldn't even count as some of the least "riots".

"Colonel. Let us cover you, by the way, to disperse and interfere with the anti-aircraft fire of the Empire. ”

"Good!" Colonel Taylor nodded, he switched the communication back to the first wave of attack aircraft, "Boys, I'm Colonel Taylor, I don't need to say more, I'm sure you all know the tragedy of our Po17 transport fleet, I won't say much nonsense." There is only one requirement. Hit me hard. ”

"Understood, Colonel." He was answered by an impassioned roar.

"Scatter the attack and fire freely."

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The first to suffer were the destroyer and frigate groups on the periphery of the Imperial fleet. Originally, the primary target of the Rebel Alliance's attack aircraft group was the four Imperial-class space carriers, but those destroyers and frigates were too heroic and prominent, tightly surrounding the four space carriers that had adopted a dense defensive formation in the core of the fleet, and the attack aircraft group did not use the Ninth Air Force ground close attack tactics - although this tactic was effective, the danger was also greatly increased, and many torpedoes died before they could reach their targets. In the process of flying to the target, it was destroyed by the self-defense anti-aircraft fire on the destroyer and the space carrier, as well as the surviving Imperial starfighters, this dark space was full of large fireballs caused by torpedo explosions, and many quantum torpedoes deviated from the target due to the harsh space environment and the interference of the Empire.

In short, the results of the first round of attacks were not particularly ideal, only a few quantum torpedoes successfully hit the target, four destroyers were destroyed, the Pioneer and the Wyvern each hit one or two quantum torpedoes, although the explosion of the torpedo violently shook the huge Imperial warship, but the two space carriers did not actually suffer much damage, only the Triumph was more miserable, the four quantum torpedoes hit the bow of the ship, the bow shield was penetrated, half of the capital of the ship was blown away, and billowing smoke and flames continued to gush out from the mouth where the bow was blown upIt was only because of the strong damage management work and the timely closure of all the hatches leading to the front of the bow that the mothership was not engulfed by the continuous explosions, but it had completely lost the ability of the starfighter to "shoot" and recover operations, although it no longer needed this ability.

After discovering that the attack effect was not as great as imagined - in fact, it was already a pretty good achievement to be able to severely damage a space carrier, but so many attack aircraft, so many quantum torpedoes, and an Imperial space carrier were not sunk, which was too far from people's psychological expectations, Colonel Taylor immediately realized that he might be in too much of a hurry, and he adjusted the attack target, no longer forcing the first wave of attack aircraft to be able to achieve full success, and instead turned the target to the destroyers and frigates around the Imperial space carrier, Creating real opportunities for the second and third waves of attack aircraft, he saw very well that the quantum torpedoes that hit the Triumph were taken advantage of from the gap in fire left by the four destroyed destroyers.

The destruction of the Imperial destroyer was the masterpiece of the escort fighter group led by Risen , they used the cover of the attack aircraft group and the quantum torpedo, and used the Imperial destroyer to focus most of the firepower on intercepting the quantum torpedoes that went straight to the mothership, and concentrated the fire of the synchronous particle cannon to attack, a wing was responsible for a destroyer, and the powerful firepower of the four destroyers completely exploded into countless metal debris in an instant, and almost no one had time to escape, and the price paid was only three fighters were damaged, but they could still insist on returning to the mothership, there are no losses.

After the alliance attack aircraft group adjusts the target, the end of the imperial destroyers and frigates has come, because there is no need for quantum torpedoes to pass through the escort ship fire network on the periphery of the imperial fleet to attack the space carrier, so the hit efficiency of those torpedoes is greatly improved, coupled with the accompanying attack of a large number of lightning synchronous particle cannons, the imperial destroyers and frigates are like flowers that are constantly blooming, and the self-defense and anti-aircraft fire of the four space carriers cannot help these ships, so they can only stare dryly and watch them become victims of the alliance.

With the outer periphery of the fleet being destroyed one after another, the four space carriers will become pitiful insects that can be wreaked havoc by the alliance's attack aircraft group, although the air defense and self-defense firepower on the mothership is also very dense and powerful, no one believes that it can block the attack of a large number of enemy attack planes, and all it can do is the useless struggle of the raped "woman" girl, and it will not play any role in changing the outcome at all.

The second wave of attack aircraft soon arrived on the battlefield, the first to finish was the Kaisch, which had been heavily damaged, without the strong fire cover of the escort ships, seventeen quantum torpedoes quickly turned the space carrier into a hell of burning and exploding, its captain saw the opportunity very quickly, the second wave of attack aircraft group had just arrived on the battlefield, the captain immediately ordered to abandon the ship, anyway, his ship had already been hit hard, as for whether it reached the point of abandoning the ship, that was another matter, anyway, the ship was destroyed, No one can really investigate the damage to the ship at the time of the order to abandon it.

Almost at the same time as the Kaishi was the flagship Wyvern, the internal explosion of the space carrier began at the stern, all the ion engines were blown up, the bridge was almost gone, the explosion and gradually spread to the whole ship, and unstoppably "approached" the ship's nuclear fusion reactor, that posture, everyone could see, was absolutely hopeless, and the burnt crew was busy trying all means to leave the furnace that was about to be completely destroyed - some went to the escape pod, Some boarded the ambulance support ship, while others simply put on space suits and opened the airtight compartment and flew out with the air current..... It can be said that the eight immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers.

At this very moment--- as the third wave of attack planes arrived on the battlefield, when the Alliance once again refocused its attack on the USS Vanguard, when the Imperial escorts were almost lost, and when the final victory was imminent, they received a communication from a public channel. "Rebel allies, please cease fire, we are willing to surrender."