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Many crippled starfighters returned to the fleet one after another, Tomcats, Lightning, Dreadnoughts, and even two or three Phantoms, generally speaking, except for some special or critical moments, the alliance does not require their pilots to fight to the death, pilots are the most valuable asset to the alliance, especially those pilots who fly starfighters, let those exhausted pilots fly the broken fighters to the last moment, so that you may win a battle, but lose a war, Although this battle can be regarded as a special moment, but the current advantage of the coalition forces has been quite obvious, they even have two almost intact air squadrons as reserves, one of which is still one of the most elite air forces in the league, plus the attack on the return of the fleet of federal fighters stationed in Corcoran, the third attack wave composed of these forces has not been dispatched, and the coalition forces do not need the pilots to fight hard to the end.

Having said that, such a favorable situation can occur, mainly because the Federation's reinforcements came too timely, and the coalition forces have an advantage in terms of the total number and quality of starfighters, especially in the number of starfighters, the sum of lightning and Tomcat, compared to the super banshees of the empire, has an advantage of almost 2.5 to one, and it is strange if it does not have the upper hand, and if the fighters of the federal army have not arrived, and they are supported by the alliance alone, then they may have to let the pilots fight hard to the end, even if they win, That would be a resounding victory.

No, these Federation Tomcat starfighters who arrived on the Archangel were not in this category, they were returning from the attack on the Imperial Corcoran Garrison Fleet, and these Tomcat starfighters were mainly deployed to cover and escort the dreadnought. It was not too directly involved in the attack, and the fleet stationed on the Corcoran side was relatively weak, both the fleet defense force and the starfighter force were relatively weak, so most of them were intact, and those who were damaged had already returned before.

Normally. Together with Risson's Ninth Air Force, they will form part of the Third Strike Wave, and will be responsible for escorting the Intrepid and Eighth Air Force lightnings carrying quantum torpedoes. Against the Super Banshees - If there is any land, the third wave will be the only hybrid of the three attack waves, the first two of which will be either a single Federation starfighter or all Alliance Lightning. Although it had been planned and communicated well. However, since this was the first time that the fighters of the two armies had cooperated in the operation, no one knew whether there would be any inadvertent or unexpected small mistakes in coordination, command, communications, and other aspects of this large-scale mixed operation of different types of aircraft, so for the sake of prudence, these friendly forces were directly arranged to land on the Archangel space carrier, so that the commanders and pilots of the two sides could familiarize themselves with each other and communicate with each other before the final attack, so as to avoid possible problems as much as possible. Lin Lei

But it doesn't seem necessary......

"I said, Resson, a couple of Federated guys in the back. What's going on here? Schneier asked curiously.

Several Federation Tomcat starfighters broke away from the main group that was entering the landing route, and swayed into the back and bottom of the two four-plane teams led by Resson and Schneier, who were slowly patrolling, and Resson certainly didn't see it, and like Schneier, he was also very strange. As a rule. The rear of the pilot is a very sensitive position, and he doesn't like to have any unidentified aircraft entering. , note that this refers to an unknown aircraft, and friendly planes follow behind, which is still very popular.

Of course, these tomcats were friendly planes, and the identification device on the lightning clearly showed the identity of the tomcat, otherwise, with their strange and inexplicable actions, Risen would have reacted a long time ago.

What do you want to do? You boring guys, he just wanted to open the communication to ask about the situation, but the tomcats reacted first, and suddenly an acceleration sped up, rushed up from behind, reached the top of their heads, and then quickly slowed down, rolled, and flew side by side with their cockpit cover, which was close enough for them to see the playful smiling faces of the opposing pilots.

"Damn, Hua Yunlong, don't catch you for me, or I'll pick your skin......" Ruisen was suddenly stunned, wait, Hua Yunlong? Didn't this guy stay in the Earth Federation?

He was immediately overjoyed!

"Hey, Risson, look," Schneier exclaimed gleefully on the other side, "who is this, isn't this Urredo?" Our 'lost' Lamb has returned......"

"Hahaha...... Risson, did you miss me? ”

"Captain, we're back again, I miss the Archangel so much!"

The pilots on the other Tomcat fighters were also gradually recognized, Hua Yunlong, Ulredo...... These people are all old people from the Ninth Air Force, after Operation Pillar, these volunteers and mercenaries from the Federation returned to the Federation with Sonia, Annie and others, Sonia, Annie, Lan Lan and others later returned to the Alliance with the Alliance No. 1, but Hua Yunlong, Xue Qianyi, Juni and some other people stayed in the Federation for various reasons, and Ruisen didn't expect that so soon, they would meet again.

"Welcome back,, you guys, come back when you come back, engage in this kind of fame, almost jumped me, and I said what went wrong with this? You should be among the first to enter the Corcoran system, why didn't you say something sooner? "Risen is overjoyed.

"Juni and Xue Qianyi's idea is to surprise everyone, and the effect seems to be good." Hua Yunlong seemed to be very proud of this effect.

"Are they back too?" Risen was feeling more and more surprised. "Where?"

"They're going to have fun with the rest of the Angel United!" The Tomcat fighters returned to their normal formation, and Hua Yunlong smiled, "They have already spotted the familiar sky blue 'color' painted lightning in the other direction just now, one step faster than us." ”

"Hey, by the way, haven't you quit the Federal Army? Why, it's back again, and I've been promoted to major. Schneier asked, confused.

"That's, I can't lag behind you, in fact, they may think that my combat career and experience during that time in the alliance are still a little useful, plus not long ago, No, that thing," Hua Yunlong pointed in the direction of the Imperial Battle Base, "The shock caused within the Federation is too great, the Federation has quietly expanded its army, and the Blue Angels have also recovered, since Fei Ren, Sonia and Xiaojing are not there, it is now Alice as the captain, and I, the reserve, have also received the order to rejoin the active service, and I also have my own fighter wing, Not bad, right? ”

"Doesn't sound bad, how's it going, new wing, new fighters, how does it feel? Your Excellency, Wing Commander? ”

"Not good." Hua Yunlong had a bitter face, "There are many things, and there are many troubles, at first I was used to flying heavy lightning, and I was a little unsuitable for medium-sized tomcats, and then I found out that my new wing is too new, there are few veterans with combat experience, and there are a lot of rookies, compared with our Ninth Air Force, ***, those bastards in the military department, when I am a god, let me train people to go to the battlefield in such a short period of time, it's just ...... It caused me to dig people everywhere, and I also used the authority of the wing commander and some privileges to easily bring in those brothers who had served together in the Ninth Air Force to help, and finally barely met the requirements......"

In fact, this is his requirements are higher, after hard training, the level of his wing has been higher than the average combat level of the Federation Starfighter Wing, so in this reinforcement operation, his wing can be arranged to set off in the vanguard together with the Blue Angel Squadron and other once famous troops, but in the eyes of the new wing leader, compared with the Ninth Air Force where he had stayed, there is still a considerable gap, which naturally makes him feel not completely satisfied.

"Alright, alright," Risen interrupted the emotional old friend's gushing, "You see, your people are almost finished, just a few of you, go quickly, there will be something to say later, adjust and rest after landing, you will soon be dispatched to replace us, and when we are ready, it is estimated that the third wave of attack will be dispatched." ”

"Hehehehe, I can't wait, I missed a lot of good shows when I left before, this big scene can't be absent anymore, by the way, look at Fei Lun and everyone on the ship, I can't wait to see what kind of expression they have when they see us, it's interesting and interesting."

Several Tomcat fighters shook their wings and slowly flew towards the Archangel.......

"I said Risson, is it really going to be dispatched soon, you see now, the Imperial escort fleet has been defeated, we are still escorting and standby, even if it is dispatched immediately, it will take a while to reach the battlefield, who knows what the battlefield will become at that time? Besides, we're gone, who will defend the fleet? Schneier guessed in a slightly skeptical tone, "General Martin must have intended us to be spectators here from beginning to end." ”

"Well, it shouldn't be." That being said, Ryson was also a little weak-hearted, and the third wave was different from the first and second waves coming out one after another, and they had to wait too long.

"Hey, you've been awarded the Star Wing Medal, and you have this right, why don't you go and find out General Martin's mouth?" Schneier suggested.

It's a good idea, Risen moved in his heart, he can't wait all the time, it's time to take the initiative to fight for it, even if the admiral doesn't plan to send them, he has a bottom in his heart.