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Jessica, are you ready? ”

"You can go at any time, Captain." Jessica nodded in the affirmative.

"Okay, this mission, if our angels and the guys of the 23rd Squadron go well, it should be very simple, escorted by them, our trip may become redundant, of course, I also hope that we are redundant, but, I'm afraid of any accidents, no matter how small the possibility of this accident is, I feel a little uneasy in my heart, huh...... Think of it as a backup, it's best not to use it. ”

"Understood," worried about the Major or more worried about some Confederate One? ”

As soon as the words came out, she regretted it, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, how could she ask such a question?

"Ugh." Risen looked at Jessica in surprise, he didn't expect her to ask this question, due to the narrowness of the cockpit screen and the obscuration of the combat helmet, he could only see her head slightly lowered, as if looking at the control panel in front of her, as if the question was asked inadvertently.

However, he still replied calmly, "Actually, I'm very worried, but now I'm more concerned about Alliance One, and Sonia, as long as she sits in the cockpit of the fighter, there are not many people who can pose a threat to her, and it should be those Imperial pilots who should be worried." His voice was filled with pride and confidence.

"Hmm." Her voice was inaudible, "If only I could be like her......"

Risen didn't care, he switched the communication. "Archangel control squadron, this is Tulip One, request to take off."

"Tulip One, this is the Archangel Control Center, you can go, by the way, greet our beautiful angels, good luck."

"Thanks, Control Center ......."

Two lightning starfighters soon left the USS Archangel space carrier. The tail of the fighter is increased to emit a dazzling bright blue light. Brighter than the light emitted by the ion engine. The powerful centrifugal force made Risen feel a weight pressing on his chest, and he was a little out of breath, but his fighter chased in the direction of the Alliance One at a faster speed than usual.......

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“...... You follow me, cover my rear, and our goal is to rush close enough at all costs, and then fire all the ground torpedoes and retreat immediately. Captain Clark re-admonished his team. ...... It is absolutely forbidden to engage with enemy aircraft, the number of escort fighters on target is greater than ours, and the speed is also faster, under normal circumstances, we all have little chance, as long as we delay, there will definitely be no more chance. ”

"Opportunity? Captain, don't make fun of us, just with us four banshees? Still with torpedoes? Oh, my God. We're not newcomers to the Thunderbird squadron. ”

"That's right. I'm afraid that the newcomer was shot down before he left Corcoran. ”

"Damn, it's dizzy. Everyone was crazy, pinning their hopes for the success of the operation on luck, and it was the first time I had encountered ......."

If you don't rely on luck, then what else can you rely on? This is what Vice Admiral Billis, the commander of the ground fleet, who personally attended the briefing. The captain glanced back at the two banshees following him, they were all veterans of his Thunderbird squadron, the pilots selected to carry out this "suicide" mission, no, not only them, all the pilots who participated in the operation were not many (if there were too many people, it would attract the attention of the rebels and intercept them with all their might, then maybe they would not even have a chance to leave the planet Corcoran), but they were all excellent pilots of various wings and squadrons, because ordinary pilots would not have any chance.

The mission target is the rebels' Alliance 1 fast ship, which is a little closer to the planet Corcoran because it is carrying personnel from the Fifth and Seventh Fleets who are about to return to the Federation, so it was fortunately discovered by the Empire, which indirectly confirms Captain Canaris's guess that although it is not known whether Lady Almeida is on the ship, even if she is not there, the person who can take this ship to the Federation is definitely the most important person in the Alliance, which is a tempting target.

Although it is very tempting, but the fleet is now blocked on the planet Corcoran, the various space stations and batteries and other military facilities along the way have been basically swept away, and the reinforcements from the nearby star fields are not so quick to arrive, even if they can catch up, the rebels' strength in the Corcoran system is enough for them to eat a pot, General Bilis thinks about it, and can only use this way that there is no way, since they are lucky to find the Alliance One, then, can they still hit the big luck again?

His method is to send some small groups of elite pilots, trying not to rely on the strength of the formation, but to rely on their personal ability to infiltrate and break through the blockade and interception of the rebel fighters, each fighter carries one or two torpedoes, although the general also knows that there are not many chances to successfully break through the interception, and if he breaks through, the torpedo is "fired" out, and the possibility of breaking through the enemy fighters and automatic defense artillery fire to intercept and hit the target is even more minimal, but he still has a trace of luck, As long as one torpedo hits, as long as one, the Confederate One was converted from a cruiser, and a quantum torpedo can also cause great damage, if it hits the middle

......

Obviously, this is a gamble, and the skills of the pilots alone are not enough, now it is their luck that is being gambled.

Captain Clark and his Thunderbirds team were also selected for this mission, because they were piloting an old-fashioned banshee, so they only brought a quantum torpedo, and after losing another wingman under the feint and cover of others, the Thunderbirds team and some other friendly starfighters successfully broke through the blockade and entered the depths of space.

"Well, now is not the time to complain." He put an end to the dissatisfaction of his subordinates, and since they were assigned the task, these 'old guys' have been "whining" at every opportunity. "Friendly planes are coming in from other directions, and we can't be late. Only by cooperating with each other can we hope for success, so let's take action. ”

"Yes, Captain."

He finally sighed slightly, and then said, "Remember, with these old-fashioned banshees, we don't think we can do much, at most to distract and interfere with the rebels' escort operations. Provide cover for other people's actions. The real protagonists should be the guys who drive the super banshees. Therefore, if the fighter plane is hit, don't hold it to death, immediately eject and "shoot", and it is better to fall into the hands of the rebels than to die in battle, and the rebels seem to treat the prisoners well. ”

What's more, there are two of his front subordinates who are in important positions over there. With what he knows about them......

"Start your ground afterburner, accelerate to the maximum, transfer all the fighter's energy to the engine and shield, forget about your ground cannon, it can't help our mission now, and if you want to fight the rebel starfighters, it can only be a dead end, now, follow me."

Three Banshee starfighters scurried under the fast ship. But their actions did not hide from the enemy. The target's array of sensors had already spotted them, and in front of them, several Allied lightning starfighters were already in interception positions.......

The airspace near Alliance One is still quiet. The anti-air defense weapons on the battleship have not fired, because none of the Imperial starfighters can get close to this battleship, they have been intercepted by the lightning starfighters protecting the ship at a long distance from the battleship, although the Imperial pilots are veterans, but the pilots on the Alliance fighters who went to intercept seem to be more powerful and terrifying than them, most of the Super Banshees have been shot down long before they enter the range of the quantum torpedo, and the rest have to abandon their quantum torpedoes, Otherwise, they will not escape the bad luck of being shot down.

But now, the situation seems to have changed a little, the surface-to-air defense artillery fire on the Alliance One finally spat out a fierce beam of light at a group of invading Imperial starfighters, and unexpectedly, these planes broke through the escort lightning interception site, and it turned out to be not a super banshee with more advanced "sex", faster speed, and newer, but an old-fashioned banshee.

Captain Clark was also surprised, he didn't expect this to be the case, the lightning that came to intercept them seemed to be far inferior to the lightning that went to intercept the friendly planes that flew the Super Banshee, which cheapened them, and as a result, the friendly planes that had high hopes were beaten to a mess, while they saw a glimmer of hope in the old fighters.

He could guess what the reason was, the super banshees were treated with special attention and treatment because of their good "sex" and large numbers, and the elite pilots of the rebels must have focused on dealing with those super banshees, while the old banshees were relatively ignored and dealt with by those who were more 'poor' pilots, which was also common sense, but those pilots who intercepted them probably didn't expect that they would rush desperately forward, and as a result, they unexpectedly broke through the first layer of interception.

But the rebels still have a second interception, in order to break through the second layer of interception defense, the captain paid the price of two of his subordinates, and now, he is left alone, and behind him, the enemy army is desperately chasing, and on both sides of his front, there are also enemy planes approaching.

Although the cockpit was filled with the sirens of approaching missiles, his hand holding the "" stick was steady, and the banshee's bait was released one after another, and it looked like it was about to run out, but it didn't matter, he was already close, and he could get close enough distance before the bait was gone......

His sweaty fingers finally pressed down hard, and he felt the fighter tremble slightly: the torpedo finally left his fighter, and the captain immediately turned sharply and fled, his mission was accomplished, and now the time to flee for his life had come.

The quantum torpedo, which had all the Empire's expectations, dragged the blue light straight into the cruiser's hull, and it was surprisingly lucky to miraculously evade the interception of two lightning beams of energy and avoid the fire of the target ship's automatic defense system......

It's getting closer...... Seeing that he was about to succeed, the captain stared at the enemy ship, staring at the smaller and smaller blue "color" ion tail flame, his eyes were wide open, and he did not blink, and his mood became more and more nervous and excited......

"No!" Captain Clark screamed suddenly, and then leaned back in the driver's seat in frustration as if he had been drained of his strength.

The torpedo did not hit the target.

It exploded at a very close distance from the enemy ship, and despite its close range, it did no damage to the enemy ship.

The two enemy planes that drilled out of the stern direction of the enemy ship only fired in a salvo and hit the quantum torpedo, which had been surprisingly lucky and had almost completed a key historical mission.