One Thousand and Ninety-Six Regrouping

( ) The fighter jets finally withdrew from the mothership. The mechanical arm quickly clamped the fighter jets back into the ship. Class 011 also slowly retreated not far in front of the mothership.

The international fleet on the other side has also shrunk across the board. At this point, the combined fleet has broken away from actual contact with the enemy and can withdraw at any time.

However, the evacuation did not occur. All Class 011s stood in front of the space carrier, calmly facing the oncoming alien fleet. A new batch of fighters also flew out of the space carrier.

This batch of fighter planes is small in number, less than 300 in total. Each plane is equipped with missile bays, above the wings and below the wings, on the back and belly of the aircraft.

"Still fighting?" Bian Ge was so shocked that his brain almost panicked on the spot, "Can you win?"

Qi Haifeng couldn't hide the shame on his face: "I don't know." He really didn't want the fleet to fail, but he really wasn't optimistic about the strength of both the enemy and ourselves.

Ye Han opened his mouth, but the words were stuck in his throat and could not come out.

He wanted to do everything in his power to obey fate, but this sentence was too negative. Even if the situation ahead was extremely bad, he was unwilling to say it.

Although he said it would not have a huge impact on the situation, at least he still had hope in his heart.

The alien fleet was getting closer and closer, the battlefield was tense, the air in the bridge was stagnant, and a calm voice suddenly sounded: "Smoke screen!"

Hearing this voice, Ye Han's heart skipped a beat: "Commander Huo?"

"Isn't it possible? Commander Huo never goes to space, right?" Qi Haifeng immediately expressed doubts.

"It's unmistakable." Ye Han said, "It must be Commander Huo's voice."

Everyone's eyes fell on the screen in unison, and they all thought of the importance of this battle.

Huo Qiang gave an order, and all the warships opened fire violently at the same time. The missiles flew away from the warships one after another and exploded in front of the first front line composed of Level 011.

Every time a missile explodes, an umbrella-shaped smoke screen will explode. The continuous explosions quickly form an airtight smoke screen in front of the lattice. The smoke screen covers all human warships and aircraft.

The smoke screen blocks the sight of both aliens and humans, but the smoke screen can only block visible light. The radar on the battleship can easily penetrate the smoke screen and determine the position of enemy ships and aircraft.

"Extend the smoke screen!" Another order was issued,

The missile began to extend forward, and some missiles exploded up, down, left, and right, forming a wider and thicker smoke screen.

The smoke screen had just taken shape, and the fleet moved sideways under Huo Qiang's order. The 011 class, fighter planes, battleships, and space carriers each moved in one direction, and each moved to the edge of the smoke screen and stopped carefully.

"Enemy plane enters range——"

"Don't worry about it, wait for my order!" Huo Qiang said.

After waiting for a short while: "The enemy plane launched a missile!"

"What direction?"

"In the middle of the smoke screen..."

"Don't worry about it!"

Wait a little longer: "The enemy plane is about to enter the smoke screen!"

"Assign target to lock enemy aircraft - fire!"

Countless missiles were fired from warships, fighter planes, and all places where missiles could be launched. They flew from the edge of the smoke screen to the center, then suddenly turned and plunged into the smoke screen, never to be seen again.

Everyone was silent waiting for the results, but the smoke screen blocked the line of sight, and no one could see the scene in the smoke screen.

Ye Han clenched his fists subconsciously.

It is indeed a way to induce the enemy into a smoke screen and then use missiles to kill the enemy aircraft. However, when the missile explodes, it will not only destroy the enemy aircraft, but the airflow will also blow away the smoke screen. In that case... No, Huo Qiang can be the commander. A member of the Communist Party of China relies on his ability and strength to make such a low-level mistake. Then... the only way is to carry smoke bombs in the missiles, which can not only replenish the smoke screen consumption in time, but also act as a cover!

The missiles hit the smoke screen one after another for nearly a minute.

A voice suddenly burst out: "The enemy plane has entered the range——"

Huo Qiang's voice was still calm: "Free fire!"

The continuous missiles seemed to have come to a rest, and suddenly there was an obvious fault. Then all the warships suddenly erupted, and the fire of the cannons formed a series. Countless shells flew out from the warships and smashed into the center of the smoke screen from all directions.

Bian Ge's eyes widened. The screen was full of missile trails a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye it turned into artillery shells flying everywhere. Wherever his eyes could see, he could see flying artillery shells. It felt like looking up at the sky in a heavy rain. .

From time to time, a few missiles were added to the shells. Everyone knew that the screen was a real battlefield, but they were still shocked by the overwhelming barrage.

This is the unique grandeur and magnificence of war, which cannot be replaced by anything else.

I don’t know how many enemy planes the fleet destroyed. First, some enemy plane fragments flew out of the smoke screen, and then more and more fragments became larger and larger. After a while, even half of the alien warship appeared.

But everyone's mood became more and more serious.

The larger the fragments are, the sparser our firepower is. I'm afraid it won't take long for the enemy planes to break through the smoke screen...

Finally, an enemy plane broke out of the smoke screen, but before it could see clearly what was going on outside the smoke screen, it was hit by several close-range anti-aircraft guns and was instantly reduced to pieces in the continuous explosions.

Huo Qiang's voice sounded again: "Attention, everyone, retreat slowly!" The fighter plane broke through the smoke screen, which means that the enemy already knows the layout behind the smoke screen, so it must adjust its position immediately, and the best plan is to distance itself.

More alien fighters poured out of the smoke screen, and the barrage immediately deflected towards the enemy aircraft.

There were more and more enemy planes, and the barrages became more and more scattered. After the alien fighters broke through the smoke screen, they finally broke through the fire net.

After breaking through the blockade, they immediately turned and rushed towards the human warships at the edge of the smoke screen.

Lasers were like sharp swords that cut through the sky, suddenly splitting the void and cutting down the alien fighter planes one by one. Due to the obstruction of the smoke screen, only rapid-fire cannons had been fired before. It was not until this time that laser close-in defense cannons joined the battle.

The addition of laser cannons nearly doubled the firepower density on the human side, immediately suppressing enemy aircraft that broke through the fire net.

Ye Han felt that the fleet destroyed more enemy planes in such a short period of time than the total number of enemy planes shot down by fighter planes.

Perhaps many people think that this battle should have been fought like this from the beginning, instead of sending fighter planes out to fight.

But that’s not how the account is calculated. The Space Carrier relies on fighter planes to fight, and the fighter planes are the arms of the Space Carrier. To put it more cruelly, how much does a fighter plane cost? The loss of one hundred and eighty is not as good as one battleship, and it is much easier to replace it.

On the other hand, there are only so few warships in human hands at the moment, which can be said to be the last capital of mankind. If one is destroyed, there will be one less. It is not that easy to rebuild.

As for human life... One general's achievements are worthless. Human life is the least important thing on the battlefield. No matter how great or heroic it is, it is an afterthought. Human life is just an extremely pale number on the battlefield, even if it is behind every word. They are all living beings.

To put it bluntly, victory is achieved by soldiers using their lives. This is not the case at all times and in all countries.