Because Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi's scores soared and they made it onto the leaderboard, the other trainees felt a sense of urgency.
They didn't have much chance to strafe the air defense strongholds, so they had to increase the speed of killing ground rebels and start competing with the frantically slaughtering Lü Luyu for kills.
Lü Luyu was furious!
These were all hers! All hers! At the same time, the garrison detachments of Posuo City also took this opportunity to launch another attack.
The Regular Army's encirclement from the sky to the ground, along with sophisticated equipment and higher-quality soldiers, made them more and more comfortable in combat.
Half an hour later, the number of surviving rebels out of the initial forty thousand was less than five thousand.
The Star Region Guard ground forces' encirclement gradually tightened.
Coordinating with the ground forces' actions, the more than one hundred Warplanes from the Flight Training Base sealed off the entire airspace.
Just as they were about to launch their final attack, on the other side of the mountain col, white Warplanes finally took off like ghosts.
In the Instructor command room of the high-altitude transport plane, everyone noticed the movement on the other side of the mountain col.
Pei Zijing's expression changed, and he immediately said, "Notify the trainees, the rebels have more Warplanes taking off, estimated to arrive at the battlefield in three minutes."
Yu Fei was very uneasy and said, "...The number of these Warplanes far exceeds our prediction. Should we directly call for air support and deploy Falcon-Class Bombers?"
Pei Zijing carefully looked at the data transmitted by the airborne radar and said in a deep voice, "It hasn't exceeded too much. The rebels have deployed thirty Warplanes. Judging by the model, they should all be Owl-Class Fighters. Although they are more powerful than Harrier-type Warplanes, a swarm of ants can kill an elephant. We have more than one hundred Harrier-type Warplanes, plus ten Owl-Class Fighters and ten Eagle-type Fighters. Can't we deal with thirty Owl-Class Fighters?"
"Notify everyone."
Therefore, in the trainees' public communication channel, the Instructor command's prompt sounded quickly.
"Attention all trainees, the rebels have thirty Owl-Class Fighters that have just taken off, crossing the ridge, the coordinates are..."
Xia Chujian almost rolled her eyes.
Wasn't it said before that those three Harrier-type Warplanes were already beyond their expectations?
Now, another thirty Owl-Class Fighters are unexpected! How many surprises are the rebels going to bring them?!
Xia Chujian directly asked in her dormitory channel, "Sister Mao, Sister Chu, Sister Sang, what are you planning to do to fight the rebels' Warplanes?"
Mao Yonggui said, "I'm fine with either solo or cooperation."
Chu Qingjuan: "Let's cooperate, but control our own firing time."
Sang Yadi still sent a message.
[D08]: Agree with Qingjuan.
Xia Chujian said, "Then let's do that, we'll cooperate, but control our own firing time. Be careful not to be locked on by the opponent's fire control radar, and play a few more tricks when necessary. I've found that the rebels' pilots aren't elite, we can crush them technically."
The three roommates chuckled together.
The next moment, thirty white Owl-Class Fighters appeared in everyone's view.
With the white snow, from the outside, those white Owl-Class Fighters seemed to blend into the snow, and even with the naked eye, it was difficult to distinguish their existence.
Soon, everyone also discovered that the rebels' white Owl-Class Fighters, for some reason, used some kind of special coating, and the far-infrared detectors of their Flying Base Warplanes couldn't detect the actual coordinates of the rebel Warplanes at all.
In other words, the special coating used by the rebels confused the Mechanical Intelligence on their own Warplanes! The Mechanical Intelligence determines whether there is a shooting target in front based on the heat source data detected by the far-infrared detector.
But now, even though the rebels' white Warplanes are already visible to the naked eye in front of them, the Mechanical Intelligence on the Warplanes judges that there is no attack target in front! This was just too damn annoying!
Not only was it the first time Xia Chujian had encountered this situation, but even those Starry Sky Fighter pilots who had experienced hundreds of battles were encountering this situation for the first time! They were, after all, elite pilots of Starry Sky Fighters.
And the performance of Starry Sky Fighters determined that they had to rely on Mechanical Intelligence for at least more than half of the time to do various data analyses, so as to formulate combat plans as quickly as possible.
Now, their Warplanes judged that there were no targets in front, so they could only rely on visual observation to launch attacks on the white Owl-Class Fighters in front.
But the rebels' Owl-Class Fighters could quickly lock onto their Warplanes.
*Boom!* The rebels' Owl-Class Fighter launched the first Missile.
It hit a trainee's Harrier-type Warplane all at once.
This trainee reacted quickly, immediately opened the hatch, and ejected the seat.
Then, holding a Submachine Gun in his hand, he parachuted while shooting at the Owl-Class Fighter with a *tat-tat-tat-tat*.
As soon as he ejected, at least three Harrier-type Warplanes came to cover him.
But that Owl-Class Fighter had very fierce firepower, and quickly made the other three Harrier-type Warplanes unable to get close.
Not far away, Xia Chujian also quickly flew over to help cover the ejected trainee.
She keenly noticed that the rebel Owl-Class Fighter's fuselage had tilted at least thirty degrees.
The knowledge she had learned in class a few days ago flashed through her mind instantly.
"...This type of Warplane's operating system also has certain technical flaws, which is that when it launches a Missile, the fuselage will tilt to a certain extent..."
The other side had just launched a Missile, so it tilted.
And the tilting of the fuselage can lead to aircraft operation errors, and even loss of control!
Xia Chujian narrowed her eyes, suddenly accelerated sharply, and roared past above the rebel's tilting Owl-Class Fighter, while opening the Smart Machine Gun and strafing randomly.
Her Eagle-type Fighter had a larger fuselage and greater mass.
When the speed exceeded a certain level, it would not only produce a sonic boom, but also bring up a large number of cyclone flows.
This level of cyclone flow was like adding insult to injury for the already unstable Owl-Class Fighter! And that Owl-Class Fighter was locking onto the ejected trainee, and soon, the Smart Machine Gun rattled.
But as soon as its Smart Machine Gun started firing, the entire Owl-Class Fighter, which was already on the verge of losing control, was given the final straw.
Whew—boom!
The tilting Owl-Class Fighter completely lost control and spiraled down rapidly.
The rebel pilot also quickly ejected from the seat and then parachuted.
Xia Chujian symbolically fired a few shots at the falling Owl-Class Fighter, and the parachuting rebel was also harvested by Lü Luyu's Harrier-type Warplane that roared past, ending his life.
Then, the rebel Warplane crashed to the ground with a bang, igniting a raging fire.
On the scoreboard, Xia Chujian's score rose by another four thousand points.
The explanation for the extra points was that the unexpected Owl-Class Fighter received an extra four thousand points. Although the Instructor command provided the coordinates, the special coating on the rebel Warplanes caused the Mechanical Intelligence of these Warplanes at the Flight Training Base to malfunction. Therefore, being able to shoot down the Warplanes at this time relied on real skills, without any Mechanical Intelligence assistance.
Xia Chujian was the first trainee to shoot down this batch of Owl-Class Fighters.
Immediately afterwards, Xia Chujian's three roommates cooperated with each other. Although the Mechanical Intelligence detection system malfunctioned and could not lock on, the three of them cooperated, relying on visual rangefinding, and quickly took down three Owl-Class Fighters.
Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi each gained four thousand points, and their total scores immediately exceeded ten thousand.
Other trainees were inspired and began to unite in dormitories to cooperate and greatly improve combat efficiency.
The rebel's thirty Owl-Class Fighters were thus divided and surrounded by the trainees, and eliminated one by one.
On the trainee side, there were also some battle losses—several Warplanes were blown up, and several ejected pilots were seriously injured by the rebels on the ground.
Other than that, there were no trainee deaths for the time being.
After all thirty of the rebel's Owl-Class Fighters were eliminated, the trainees' target now seemed to be only those rebel infantry on the ground.
They were not elites, but they were numerous! If they were not facing the one-sided slaughter of aerial Warplanes, the combat effectiveness of these ground rebels was actually very strong. The Posuo City garrison had been fighting for so long, but had not tightened the encirclement. Instead, their ranks were broken through from time to time, resulting in heavy casualties.
Just as the Warplanes of the Flight Training Base were taking down the rebel's thirty Owl-Class Fighters and began to cooperate with the ground forces' army to encircle and suppress the rebels, the Instructors in the transport plane high in the sky discovered that more white Harrier-type Warplanes were taking off from the other side of the mountain col.
"Quickly withdraw! The intelligence problem this time is too big!" Yu Fei said nervously, clenching his fists and shouting loudly, "A loss rate of thirty percent! You don't want to achieve this goal in this battle, do you?! There are more dangerous actual battles later!"
Pei Zijing also felt something was wrong at this time, and immediately said, "I think Yu Fei is right. I propose to end the actual combat assessment and order the trainees to withdraw."
But the other Instructors did not agree with their ideas.
A Vice Chief Instructor Zhuo, whose surname was Zhuo, said dissatisfiedly, "If they can't even handle mere rebels, how can they be the Chief Pilot of the Interstellar Fleet?! I think we can increase the rewards, but they should complete the military mission according to the pre-set goals!"
The others' eyes flickered, but they all agreed with this Vice Chief Instructor Zhuo's opinion.
They all said, "Vice Chief Instructor Zhuo is right. It's just training soldiers. Training without casualties is like playing a game! We are an elite unit, and all elites should crawl out of a pile of dead people!"
Yu Fei looked at them dumbfounded and muttered, "...Zhuo Wangying, are you sick?! We are a Flight Training Base, not a death base! Also, there has never been such a high loss rate before! Do the major Interstellar Fleets know about this loss rate you set?! They gave us their most potential and most talented pilots for training!"
"Talented pilots who can't survive on the battlefield are not geniuses," Zhuo Wangying said lightly.
Although Zhuo Wangying was only the Vice Chief Instructor of the base, he came from a Viscount family, which was one level higher than Pei Zijing and Yu Fei's Baron background.
Therefore, his words carried a lot of weight.
Among the instructors at the Flying Base, Zhuo Wangying had even more supporters than Pei Zijing.
Some instructors clamored, "Why not vote! See if we should continue or withdraw!"
Pei Zijing looked at them and said, "Then let's vote, a recorded vote."
Zhuo Wangying, with his hands behind his back, said indifferently, "Then let's have a recorded vote."
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