Despite Duan Jingwen's best efforts, an accident still happened. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the grating that swept through the void landed on the smoke screen that concealed the carrier-based aircraft.
Duan Jingwen's heart suddenly rose to his throat: "How is the situation of the fleet?"
"One plane lost contact and the other two were seriously injured and must be withdrawn from the mission."
"Three?" Duan Jingwen breathed a sigh of relief, "It's not a big problem. How is the pilot?"
"Everything is fine in the cockpit."
The heavy-duty carrier-based aircraft is more than forty meters long and seven or eight meters high. It is not surprising that such a large aircraft will be hit by the fine light. However, the cockpit and pilot only account for a small part of the aircraft, so the chance of being hit by the fine light is very high.
Very small.
"That's good, notify the fleet that all aircraft must remain in place and let the pilots save themselves as soon as possible!"
"Understood, let me know immediately."
It's not that Duan Jingwen is cold-blooded, but that he must prioritize the completion of the mission. If the fleet is exposed in order to rescue those pilots, more than three aircraft will be lost.
Moreover, the cockpits of all three planes were fine. The pilots' pressure suits had flight functions, so they could fly to other planes and be rescued before the operation began.
Not allowing carrier-based aircraft to move may seem unkind, but it is actually to ensure the concealment effect.
Carrier-based aircraft still use chemical fuel. As long as the engine is started, a tail flame will be produced. While this thing propels the aircraft, it will also eject gas in the opposite direction!
If a carrier-based aircraft flies inside the smoke screen, the gushing wake will definitely stir up the smoke screen!
Although the smoke bomb keeps spraying smoke outwards, and the surface of the smoke screen is not very calm, the normal surge of the smoke screen is like calm water waves.
This is not the case with the wake. This thing is extremely fast. If it is ejected from the inside of the smoke screen, several plumes of smoke will burst out from the surface of the smoke screen like fountains. By that time, no matter how stupid the alien is, they will be able to tell that something is wrong.
However, the pilot's self-rescue was not that easy. The thick smoke screen obstructed the line of sight. Without the equipment on the aircraft, it was difficult to determine the position of the friendly aircraft with only the flight suit on his body.
When the situation was reported back to the Nanzhou, Duan Jingwen simply ordered the pilots to stay in the damaged aircraft and wait for a while before the battle started before dispatching aircraft to carry out rescue operations depending on the situation.
A few minutes later, the Nanzhou retreated in time. When the two sides broke away from contact, the Nanzhou turned around and flew back.
The alien fleet seemed to be alert, and no longer stood in front of the Nanzhou. Instead, they made a slight detour, escaped the obstruction of the smoke screen, and then focused on the Nanzhou again.
Duan Jingwen was so angry, why didn't he block Europa? This is so unethical!
He immediately ordered the battleship to make a direct flight to Jupiter.
Although the enemy troops on the opposite side made blocking movements, they were just gestures and had no intention of moving. They seemed to be waiting for the actual action of the Nanzhou.
Duan Jingwen scratched his head and was hesitating about what to do when Ling Yu said impatiently: "Isn't there a second regiment? Send it out immediately and take the initiative to attack, and let the regiment in front wait for orders!"
"Ah?" Duan Jingwen exclaimed, but he immediately came to his senses and quickly passed on the order.
There were two flight groups on the Nanzhou, with a total of about seventy aircraft. After the order was issued, the second group on standby immediately took off. More than 30 aircraft, like more than 30 missiles, flew from the Nanzhou at extremely fast speeds.
He rushed out of the ship, quickly turned around and flew towards the enemy after leaving the ship.
In fact, this is also a feint attack. As long as they do not enter the effective range of the thin light, the aircraft of the second regiment will not be in danger, while the first regiment has already arrived near the enemy and can launch an attack at any time.
This was not the first time the aliens encountered a space carrier. They had a certain understanding of the combat methods and power of carrier-based aircraft. They judged that it would be difficult to block so many carrier-based aircraft with only a dozen ice ships, and immediately sent out a
received a rescue signal.
The alien battleships that were entangled with the main force of the Third Fleet immediately detached themselves, and the fleet guarding Europa Zero also sent more than twenty battleships to support them.
These two waves of enemy troops take a while to arrive, and the smoke screen where the first group is located has just passed the enemy troops and is located exactly behind the enemy troops!
The opportunity must not be lost and it will never come back. Ling Yu gave an order, and a group of more than 30 aircraft started their engines at the same time, turned around at the fastest speed, and pounced on the enemy like a dragon leaping out of the sea of clouds.
The plan that Duan Jingwen racked his brains to implement finally paid off. The alien fleet in front of the Nanzhou was not prepared at all, and the alien warships had no ability to shoot back at all. The more than thirty carrier-based aircraft were like more than thirty sharp weapons.
The sharp knife was inserted fiercely between the alien battleships.
The two-plane formation flying at the front locked an enemy ship under the command of the leader. The two planes approached the target and passed by just over a hundred meters away from the alien warship. The moment they flew over, they were full of firepower.
Open, each aircraft launches six heavy air-to-air missiles before flying away from the target.
The distance was too close, and there was no room to dodge. The twelve missiles were lined up in two straight lines on the surface of the alien warship. The smashed missile casings fell apart in all directions, leaving only puddles of plastic explosives stuck to the surface of the ice ship.
A few seconds later, twelve missiles exploded simultaneously, blasting twelve holes with astonishing diameters on the surface of the alien battleship, but the alien battleship still emitted a thin light.
The heavy missiles equipped by fighter planes can only be considered light for battleships. It is good if they can blast through the armor of ice ships. It is impossible to severely damage ice ships with one missile like the Hidden Sword missile.
But twelve holes are enough for an alien to drink from a pot.
The two aircraft quickly flew away and made a large circle towards the second target. Because they flew in front of the enemy ship, several layers of gratings fell together.
The two planes immediately dispersed and performed a series of dazzling maneuvers, like two large and flexible fish slithering between the gaps in the grating.
But the gratings were too dense, and one of them couldn't escape and was cut off by the thin light.
At this time, other fighters in the group also completed their first round of launches and appeared in front of the alien battleship.
So many fighter planes dispersed the aliens' firepower, but it was a pity that the aliens failed to attack again, and the shells of more than a dozen ice ships exploded at once.
The group's action was not over yet. The fleet quickly turned around and re-inserted between the warships, firing a second round of missiles at the enemy ships.
And this time the target is not the hull, but to slow down and insidiously drive the missile into the hole that was previously exploded!
If it still explodes on the hull, the damage to the ice ship will be limited no matter how great it is. However, the damage to the ice ship from the internal explosion is not that simple. More than a dozen alien warships all went silent.
From the time a group launched an assault to the destruction of an enemy ship, it took less than half a minute to complete the attack. Although they had the advantage of a sneak attack, no matter how the process went, the results of the dozens of enemy ships were not fake!
There was cheering in the Nanzhou, and Ling Yu seemed to see hope of breaking the deadlock.
