Chapter 1008 Speed up and run away
Long, Sofia and Carlos all went to the artillery position with Alyssa. The fortress was short of manpower, so anyone who was idle had to be dragged to work.
Hall and Villania followed the space fighter out, while the remaining people were helping the ground crew.
The staff of the fortress knew that the pilot who drove out in '13-1' was from the Swan. Since Fang Lanyin said so, the other party gave up the idea of opening the cockpit and drifted away.
Shanafia was still lying on Benben's back, but Benben, the golem with its own small propeller, was not idle and was transporting the barrel of liquefied magic power here.
The same goes for An Yun. Although she doesn't have much strength, she has psychic powers and directly pulls the cart filled with ammunition boxes.
Then he started busy with the work of replenishing ammunition and adding liquefied magic power.
"How does this space fighter feel? Is there anything that needs to be changed?"
"Magic storage pool."
Li Chengqi said without hesitation:
“It’s too small and not enough.”
After all, '13-1' is just an experimental platform, a tool to verify whether the technology can be applied. Its endurance was not considered when it was originally designed, so it was stopped immediately after unfolding the light wings once.
The fuel tank it uses is no different from that of ordinary space fighters, and is not even as big as that of the Manta. It does not have a compressor with magic power to compress it, and its capacity is pitifully small.
But the consumption is much greater than that of ordinary space fighters. If you just go out for a spin, you have to come back to refuel.
Originally, these testing and improvement work were only started today, but unexpectedly the enemy fleet came, so we had to fight and do it at the same time.
Li Chengqi then mentioned a few more areas he hoped to improve, and then asked Fang Lanyin:
"Have the others come back?"
"No, you were the first to return."
Physical ammunition is the easiest to be consumed in an air battle, but no space fighter has come back to replenish it yet. It is probably because the battle is too fierce and there is no time to come back to resupply.
"Don't replenish the physical ammunition yet. I'll set off after adding the magic power."
Adding liquefied magic power is easy. Once the pipe is connected, the pressure pump fills it in. To replenish the ammunition, you have to send it in one round at a time.
I don’t use much physical ammunition, so that’s it.
Li Chengqi was a little worried about Villania. Her physical fitness was unlikely to support long-term combat.
Just as he was talking, the entire hangar suddenly shook slightly, and even the pipe that was filling with liquefied magic power was straightened a little.
"Hit?"
"I hope not. It's a fortress after all, so it shouldn't be that big, right?"
It is indeed not a bullet. If you zoom in, you will see dense engine lights on the back of the fortress, which is slowly accelerating the planetary fortress.
The air combat victory of the space fighter is not important, what is important is whether it can get out of the current predicament.
The more than thirty warships in the squadron do not have an advantage in the firepower exchange with the fortress level. Their role is to entangle the fortress and wait for the main fleet to arrive.
Therefore, the enemy troops adopted a loose formation to avoid being concentrated fire.
At the same time, the fleet began to smoke from time to time, interfering with the work of the optical sighting instruments on the fortress. Although they were also blocked by the smoke and could not shoot accurately, they were delayed anyway and did not care about accuracy.
This move is very ungrateful. The fortress cannot continue to wait to be besieged.
Therefore, seeing that the fleet could not be settled in a short time, the fortress started the engine, hoping to break away from the squadron's shielding force field and initiate a jump escape. But it is estimated that the fleet is unlikely to let it run away like this.
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Hall was panting a little. She was trying to calm down her breathing to avoid oxygen intoxication and also to silence the 'over-breathing alarm' in the protective suit.
Although Hall was very confident in her flying skills, she obviously underestimated the battlefield situation.
When Hall was in the Constellation Alliance, he participated in low-intensity conflicts such as exterminating pirates. Later, he joined the team of recyclers, which was similar. The two sides combined were only at the level of dozens of space fighters.
However, this time, hundreds of them were dispatched on their own side alone, which was too large.
The eyes must not only accurately identify whether the engine light directly ahead is an enemy, but also frequently scan the identification friend or foe radar, and pay attention to the reflectors to see if there is an enemy aircraft chasing behind you.
This consumption of attention and energy is far greater than physical strength. It is no wonder that the returning pilots will be comatose and even incontinent. It is indeed anti-human.
Pulling the joystick with both hands, Hall moved away from the wreckage of the fighter plane floating in the void. He pressed the red fire button with his finger. As the body shook slightly, a series of cannons mixed with an ion beam would chase Villania. A running space fighter exploded.
And Villania is almost reaching the limit of his physical strength.
It can be seen that the movements are obviously much slower. In the hands of Silver Whirlwind, a specially made shield by Fang Lanyin is now in tatters, and it is estimated that it has almost no defensive effect.
Someone should have returned long ago to replenish ammunition and take a short rest, but the battle situation was too intense and there was really no time to go back.
The enemy plane must have issued a death order, requiring them to entangle them, so both sides were engaged in a physical tug-of-war, and whoever failed to withstand it first would die.
And just as they were pulling each other off, Li Chengqi's energetic voice came from the public channel.
"Hey, hey, hey! I'm going to be hot on horseback!"
Immediately, Hall saw a striking purple-red flash passing quickly from behind, even passing by the radar, and brought with it several orange explosion flashes.
This time, Li Chengqi learned the lesson wisely. The light wings could not be used for anything, at least not until the fuel tank was modified.
Because '13-1' was too conspicuous, a purple-red flash of lightning would light up every time it turned. Almost as soon as it appeared on the battlefield, it was immediately surrounded by enemy planes.
In terms of speed, the enemy planes couldn't catch up at all. Li Chengqi felt like he was driving a train, followed by a bunch of them.
He turned his perspective and glanced around, nimbly avoiding the wreckage of a battle cruiser, and then yanked the control stick.
Almost at the same time, '13-1' erupted with a striking purple-red flash, and it did not pass by in a flash, but flashed in continuous pulses.
It's like there is an invisible hand holding on to the machine body at high speed, and the speed is decreasing sharply.
The space fighter chasing behind him obviously did not expect Li Chengqi's sudden deceleration. Although some people tried to seize this shooting window to activate the cannon and ion beam, the window was too short and too sudden, and there was no way to take good aim.
Li Chengqi was able to suddenly decelerate due to his body's performance, but the space fighters behind him obviously did not have this ability. In the blink of an eye, all the space fighters chasing Li Chengqi were ahead of him.
Then the engine restarted and the '13-1' accelerated again.
"This is a Cobra maneuver!"
When the enemy pilot did not understand what Li Chengqi was shouting on the public channel, the ion beam was fired continuously, and the three space fighters that could not dodge were ignited into flying fireballs, and finally turned into an orange explosion flash.
(End of chapter)