Mao Yonggui hadn't even spoken when Instructor Yu Fei's voice came through their communication channel.
He chuckled and said, "Xia Chujian, you're overthinking it. They're just a few rebels, no need for pre-battle simulations. Just go up there and fight, then retreat. If you elites need to make a big fuss over a few rebels, then the Empire's Interstellar Legions might as well disband."
Xia Chujian: "..."
It seems I'm just making a fuss about nothing.
Yu Fei continued, "This is just for you to practice. There's no need for coordinated combat against these rebels, and you don't need to coordinate anyway, because this is also a test for you. You'll be scored for every rebel you kill. How can we score you if you cooperate and fight together?"
Xia Chujian was still confused, feeling like something wasn't right.
But she really hadn't participated in a real war before.
When she was a Bounty Hunter, she went on missions with her team in the Dark Night Hunter Association, and at most they dealt with four or five opponents. She definitely didn't have any large-scale military combat experience...
She didn't dare to ask too much, afraid of being discovered that there was something wrong with her identity.
But just as she was pondering, Yu Fei closed Mao Yonggui's communication channel and secretly said to Xia Chujian, "...Actually, there are ground troops cooperating, and the Kanli Star government's navy is guarding the sea. You are just acting as the air force, focusing on attacking the enemy's air defense system."
Hearing this, Xia Chujian suddenly understood.
That makes sense!
She happily said, "Roger that! Thank you, Instructor Yu!"
Thus, one hundred and ninety-seven ground fighters of various types took off from the base and flew into the bellies of two large Peng-type Transport Aircraft in an orderly manner.
Each of these Peng-type Transport Aircraft can transport one hundred ground fighters.
If they were transporting tanks and armored vehicles, they could carry even more.
...
Posuo City is located in the Southern Hemisphere of Kanli Star, mirroring Galuo City in the Northern Hemisphere.
Therefore, the two cities have the same time, but the seasons are opposite.
At this time, Galuo City in the Northern Hemisphere was in the height of summer, while Posuo City in the Southern Hemisphere was in the middle of winter, with heavy snow covering the city.
When two overwhelming large transport aircraft passed through the thick black clouds and descended over Posuo City, the entire city was already brightly lit, as it was nighttime.
They had flown for a full ten hours, from morning to night.
Soon, one ground fighter after another flew out of the bellies of the Peng-type Transport Aircraft.
The Harrier-type Warplanes were light and fast, the Owl-Class Fighters carried a sharp whistling sound, and the Eagle-type Fighters were silent, but their speed and momentum were no less than the Harrier-type and Owl-Class Fighters.
Xia Chujian was one of the ten pilots flying the Eagle-type Fighter.
She had been stuck in the belly of the transport aircraft all the way, and instead of doing anything else, she had learned all the functions of this Eagle-type Fighter.
She even simulated and demonstrated the parachute function of opening the hatch and ejecting the seat...
Her goal was clear: she wanted to earn merit, she wanted to compete for rankings, but life was the most important thing.
It would be a waste to lose her life in a training exercise! According to the instructor, they also had a attrition rate this time! She didn't know if it was the 30% they mentioned before.
In short, for Xia Chujian, who was participating in this kind of battle for the first time, she couldn't be too careful.
So when she flew out of the belly of the transport aircraft, she didn't rush to the front, but carefully hid among the ten Eagle-type Fighters.
Not too far forward, not too far back, staying in the fifth or sixth position.
Although it was her first time using the Eagle-type Fighter in actual combat, because of the training at the base, her piloting skills were the same as, or even better than, those veteran Eagle-type Fighter pilots with more than ten years of experience.
The instructors at the Flying Base were in the observation room of one of the Peng-type Transport Aircraft, observing the students' operations through a virtual three-dimensional holographic display.
The Peng-type Transport Aircraft had a very powerful monitoring radar system.
And each ground fighter at the base also had a special signal that would be captured by the Peng-type Transport Aircraft's radar, and then converted into a visual image and displayed on the virtual three-dimensional holographic display.
Pei Zijing and Yu Fei's eyes were intentionally or unintentionally fixed on a Warplane marked D10.
That was Xia Chujian's Eagle-type Fighter code name.
Watching the D10 sneakily hovering in the fifth or sixth position, Yu Fei chuckled, thinking that this girl was quite smart.
Moreover, her style is exactly like that of those old foxes in the Fourth Interstellar Fleet.
Always prioritizing covering the rear.
She really learned well.
As the flight altitude decreased, Xia Chujian could see the situation outside more clearly.
The coordinates they received were not within Posuo City, but near a very hidden ring of highlands outside Posuo City.
The center of the highlands was surrounded by a forest, looking like a mountain depression. It was said that the rebels attempting to attack Posuo City this time were hiding there.
And those air defense systems were deployed on the ring of highlands around that mountain depression.
Of course, they were extremely well camouflaged. Even if the warplanes of the Flight Training Base were equipped with Phased Array Radar systems, it was difficult to distinguish which on the ring of highlands were disguised air defense systems, such as high-altitude smart cannons and surface-to-air missiles, and which were real rocks or treetops.
Also, it was snowing heavily here.
The visibility outside was dim. Their warplanes were flying through thick clouds, and they could easily lose sight of their surroundings.
In this kind of bad weather, if it were a Civil Aviation flight, they would be returning or landing anywhere.
No Civil Aviation flight would risk traveling in such heavy snow.
But warplanes were different.
Sometimes, warplanes specifically chose to fly in bad weather.
Because it was the best training and the most natural camouflage.
The natural magnetic field changes caused by this cloud-rich weather would increase the difficulty of identification for the opponent's radar defense system.
Xia Chujian secretly observed while mixed in with the first ten Eagle-type Fighters that flew out.
But soon, a group of Harrier-type Fighters took the lead, surpassing the Eagle-type Fighters and quickly flying down.
Then came the Owl-Class Fighters, which also flew below them, closely following the Harrier-type Fighters.
Only their ten Eagle-type Fighters remained hovering at the highest altitude.
Xia Chujian was a little excited and really wanted to fly down too, but seeing that the other Eagle-type Fighters were not in a hurry, she suppressed her eager heart and temporarily maintained the same speed as before.
Chu Qingjuan's voice came through the communicator at this time.
"Chujian, we are Eagle-type Fighters, the trump card of this operation. Don't worry, wait for the Harrier-type Fighters to go down as a decoy, and when the ground air defense system is activated, it will be our turn to strike."
Xia Chujian: "... Oh, roger!"
All four of her roommates were in the top ten!
Xia Chujian was very happy and had already thought of a title for the commendation of her dormitory in her heart.
After flying for a while, after Xia Chujian adapted to the thickness of the clouds, she lowered the altitude of her warplane again and looked at the situation on the ground.
From the display screen of her warplane's observation system, she found that Posuo City was similar to Galuo City, worthy of being the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere of Kanli Star.
There were more towering buildings than in Galuo City, but the villa areas were much smaller.
There were also winding waterways in the city, running through it.
In addition to the streets, there were also waterways in the city, and even boats could travel on them.
Xia Chujian watched silently, and also silently noticed that the bright lights in the city were starting to go out one by one.
The highlands and mountain depression outside the city were silent, as if nothing was happening, or as if countless fierce beasts were hiding, waiting for someone to give an order, and they would pounce out and tear everyone to pieces.
Although nothing had happened yet, Xia Chujian could feel the tense atmosphere in the world, as if it had solidified into substance.
Just as she continued to descend, suddenly, a bright white flare shot out from the mountain depression, illuminating the night sky and clearly illuminating the warplanes that had just arrived.
One hundred and ninety-seven warplanes, not too many, but not too few either.
At this moment, they were all circling in the high altitude, the noise of the engines reduced to the lowest level, and the urgency of the army pressing in was overwhelming.
At the same moment, countless buzzing sounds rang out in the sky and on the earth.
Then, hundreds of drones rose from the rebel mountain depression with a whoosh, murderous and rushing towards the warplanes in the high altitude.
Immediately following was the sound of drones firing, bang bang bang bang.
Xia Chujian then witnessed the skills of these elite Interstellar Fleet pilots.
Not a single one of the hundred-plus warplanes panicked and fled, nor was any hit by the bullets fired by the drones.
Because the Harrier-type Warplanes flying at the lowest altitude unanimously pulled up their fuselages, just outside the range of the drones!
Then the Harrier-type Warplanes turned on electromagnetic interference, and then opened fire, strafing the drones. No matter how many drones there were, they could not withstand such an attack.
Many drones began to "kill each other" directly when the electromagnetic interference was turned on, colliding with each other and falling to the ground.
And those that did not fall were all swept to the ground by the warplanes flying in the air.
In the first round, the battle ended in less than three minutes.
No more drone swarms flew out of the mountain hollow on the ground.
In the warplanes' public communication channel, the instructors' praise and encouragement sounded.
"Well done!"
"The first round was beautifully done!"
Xia Chujian did not fire a single shot, and inevitably felt ashamed to receive these praises.
She gripped the control stick, searching for the anti-aircraft system on the high ground.
She wondered if she could try to provoke them...
Of course, the premise of provocation was that she had to be able to run fast.
If she provoked them but was used as a target by the other side, that would be idiotic.
Just as Xia Chujian was calculating, gunshots rang out from the mountain hollow below.
The instructor notified everyone on the public communication channel: "The Posuo City garrison's ground forces have begun their attack, and the rebels' air defense system is about to open fire. Your next target is to take out a total of two hundred and fifty-four rebel air defense points, four of which are major air defense points."
Xia Chujian's mouth twitched.
Where did these rebels come from? How could they have so many air defense points! The entire Posuo City probably doesn't even have that many air defense points, right? Of course, she was just complaining in her heart.
She would definitely listen to the instructor's command on how to fight.
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