split sky ride

Chapter 957 - Appropriate Tactics
The ranking of the "qualifying battle" only starts when the top 100 appear. Those outside the top 100 have no chance to participate in the ranking. They are all losers. Even the elite combat pilots from the sovereignty will not receive any preferential treatment. Elimination is elimination, and there is nothing to say if you are not as skilled as others.

If the first round of the "qualifying battle" is about participation and everyone is having fun, then the second round is about seeing the real deal. Amateur players who have never touched a joystick have basically stopped in the first round.

At the end of the second round, there were only 444 participants left, half less again, and this time the byes finally made up a pair.

The first day of the "qualifying battle" has finally come to an end. Most of the participants eliminated that day were amateurs and non-combat pilots. In addition, there were also some elite pilots who participated in this secret interception mission.

After all, there had to be a fight, which resulted in the second round being much more exciting than the first.

The grand party at the air force base was still lively, and even a barbecue party was held, but all the pilots were unable to participate.

After all, the dietary management standards in the aerospace industry are comparable to those of supermodels.

Anyone who can eat and drink to his heart's content with oil dripping from his mouth is definitely not a pilot. Pilots have to write a few thousand words of inspection form even for smoking a cigarette, so how can they have the courage to indulge themselves?

Chen Fei, who was about to take a few skewers of fried fried meat, was dragged away by local soldiers. He had successfully advanced to the third round of simulation battle tomorrow and did not bring shame to the First Sovereignty.

"Grill, grill! I see lamb kidneys! Kidneys, my kidneys!"

Chen Fei, who was carried away by people on both sides, looked at the barbecue stall getting farther and farther away. The unscrupulous barbecue man was showing off a bunch of grilled kidneys to him. The meat skewers poured with vodka were flaming up into the sky, and the aroma of the wine was like a biological weapon spreading in all directions, it was simply poisonous!
Damn, a string of six kidneys, full of meat!

The elite pilot of the First Sovereign advised earnestly: "Your kidneys are still on your body, pilots can't eat anything they want!"

Because of the strict dietary management, every pilot is a handsome man or beautiful woman with a well-proportioned body and a distinct temperament. Even if they don’t have eight-pack abs, at least they have clear lines, which makes the aerospace circle generally have high appearance.

Chen Fei protested: "I am the captain now, I want to eat barbecue!"

The two who caught him were Sky Knights, people with special abilities. Chen Xiaoer was held hostage and unable to move.

Now that he was a captain, he didn't need to squeeze into the narrow cockpit. It wouldn't matter if he managed his body, or even if he only had one abdominal muscle.

"Captain? Captain, that won't work either. You've revealed your cards today. Others are trying to figure you out. Sooner or later, they'll be able to find targeted tactics. So hurry up and come up with as many countermeasures as possible. Otherwise, you'll most likely not make it past the third round tomorrow."

"Don't be silly. You won't die if you skip a meal. Hurry up and make up for it! You don't want to lose to that Myron, do you? Don't underestimate the Sky Knight. The Sky Knight can also beat the Battleship in a single fight."

The pilots of the First Sovereignty who held Chen Fei had no intention of letting this guy go, and they tried to persuade him earnestly.

Of course, it was just verbal. It is not good to use fists to convince people and make the military and civilians become one.

We finally made it to the third round, we can’t stop here!

Although Chen Fei's current performance is worthy of his civilian status, the combat pilots of the First Sovereignty still want more.

On the second day of the “Ranking Battle”, there will no longer be amateurs giving away their lives, because the participants are all tough opponents, which makes the simulation battle suddenly become fierce, and there is a lot of tension between the participants.

Chen Fei exposed his combat aircraft on the first day of the "ranking battle". The combat pilots of other sovereigns were not fools and would definitely spend a lot of effort to figure out tactics against the aircraft. Therefore, the advantage of the information gap was gone.

For a skilled Aerial Knight, the same move will lose its effect the second time, or even backfire.

So what the combat pilots of the first sovereignty can think of, the pilots of other sovereignties will also think of.

The place for remedial lessons is on Chen Fei's cooperative ship. It is his territory. He is not afraid that the American Federation will do something secretly, such as eavesdropping, surveillance and so on. It is entirely possible. Despicable is the communication card of despicable people. It is natural for sovereigns to use every possible means.

"Leave aside the other pilots and focus on the Sky Knights, including our own people. After all, your opponents are everyone, and you must treat them equally..."

Four hours later!
"...I have already explained the Sky Knight's usual tactics and aerial combat skills. Now let's talk about the countermeasures, which mainly use traps..."

Two hours later!

"It's not enough to just talk about it on paper. Can you make two flight simulators? I think your supernatural skills should be able to do that! Let's do two warm-up games first! Let you have a taste of the power of a real air knight!"

Two hours later!

"Let's get here first. There are still three hours until dawn. Hurry and get some sleep!"

……

"Boarding number 748 'Rookie', aircraft No. 02, versus boarding number 017 'Swift Eagle', aircraft No. 55, please board."

"Boarding number 619..."

……

On the second day of the “qualifying battle”, the third round of boarding information appeared on the big screen.

444 contestants will be narrowed down to 222 in the third round, getting closer and closer to the top ranking.

Adam: Enter the simulated battlefield!
Adam: Enemy target detected, direction 090, distance 65 kilometers, altitude 8000 meters, speed 1.7 Mach, 4 medium-range element annihilation bombs, arrival in 13 seconds.

Identified as a crystal-energy jet, the opponent "Swift Eagle" is undoubtedly an air knight.

"Railgun swarm fires to intercept, lock onto enemy target, 12 long-range missiles, fire in salvo!"

As soon as we entered the battlefield, the battle started immediately.

The pace of the fight was very fast, and if your reaction was even half a beat slower, you would probably be eliminated immediately.

Even Chen Fei's cooperative ship could not withstand the elemental annihilation bomb head-on. The opponent was very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of the combat aircraft, so he used elemental annihilation bombs right from the start.

If the elemental annihilation bombs were allowed to approach the no-escape zone, the flying ships, whose mobility was originally inferior to that of light combat aircraft, would inevitably be unsustainable.

The dense volley of solid-core projectiles formed a neat and uniform formation, rushing up like a wall to meet the rapidly approaching missiles. Then there was the second barrage, the third barrage, the fourth barrage, the fifth barrage...

The simulated battlefield also has realistic physical rules. The thick atmosphere limits the effective range and initial velocity of magnetic rail weapons. In order to ensure the range, the initial velocity cannot be too high.

Blue lights burst out one after another, and the salvo of railguns finally intercepted the elemental annihilation bomb. Balls of annihilation force exploded around the flying ship, and the nearest ball of blue light was less than 20 kilometers away from the hull.

Twelve long-range missiles were sent in multiple directions, ready to surround the crystal jet that had just launched the attack.

"Particle beam cannon ready, four rapid shots, 3, 2, 1, fire!"

Chen Fei prepared to use the same trick again.

However, in the next second, the crystal energy jet, which was about 120 kilometers away from the cooperative ship, moved horizontally two kilometers without any warning, and four blue-white light beams all missed the target.

As the First Lord Sky Knights who gave him extra lessons last night said, the same tricks were useless against skilled Sky Knights.

Attack prediction is almost a standard ability of the Sky Knight.

"The laser cannon releases its guidance beam, locking onto the enemy aircraft. The ship is moving forward at full speed, with a flight trajectory of an arc with a radius of 180 kilometers and a maximum speed of 3.1 Mach."

Chen Fei immediately switched tactics. The combat aircraft and the crystal energy jet competed in mobility, which was tantamount to using one's own enemy to attack his strengths, and was no different from giving away one's life.

A crystal energy jet launched at full power has the ability to break through the defenses of a flying ship, so even if the cooperative ship has a protective force field and magic shield, it still cannot underestimate the opponent.

Several eye-catching thin beams of light were fired from the coordinated ship, pointing at the enemy crystal jets whose flight postures began to change. The guidance beams did not have any lethality, but were only used to enhance the capture and guidance effects of the naked eye.

If the crystal energy jet is slow to react, the power of the guidance beam will be instantly increased to a lethal beam. Even if it cannot directly shoot down the opponent, it can still cause some damage. In high-level competition, a little bit of damage is enough to become the key to determining the outcome of both sides.

Adam: The ship is flying at an altitude of 11000 meters and a speed of 0.9 Mach!

The speed of the cooperative ship is getting faster and faster, and it seems to be trying to break away from the entanglement of the crystal energy jet. The greater the distance between the two sides, the more advantageous it is for the flying ship.

If the battle is beyond visual range, the flying ship is more likely to gain the upper hand.

The simulated sky was resounding with deafening earthquakes. Given the size of the coordination ship, once it exceeded the speed of sound, the noise it caused would be no less than a meteorite falling from the sky, with flames and white smoke all the way.

The crystal energy jet, which was being held tightly by 12 missiles, dodged left and right, making dazzling evasive maneuvers while chasing Chen Fei's cooperative ship, and was not left too far behind.

The flight trajectory of the 180-kilometer radius arc is itself a tactic, not for escape, but for attraction. This was a trap tactic designed for Chen Fei by the First Sovereign's Air Knights last night, to lure him into the trap.

The opponent, Sky Knight "Swift Eagle" Ramsdoran, had to take the bait.

12 missiles are almost the majority of the firepower output of a light combat aircraft, but not all of a combat aircraft. He knows very well that Chen Fei's cooperative ship can launch more missiles again.

"'Adam', 48 missiles, fire!"

Chen Fei is very clear about the respective advantages of combat aircraft and crystal energy jets.

In terms of mobility, the Crystal Jet definitely wins.

However, in terms of firepower output and endurance, combat aircraft have an absolute advantage.

No matter who the opponent is, the first principle is to play to one's strengths and avoid one's weaknesses.

The trap tactic not only increases the distance between the two sides, but also creates opportunities for the first batch of 12 missiles and suppresses the mobility advantage of the crystal energy jet.

Missiles trailing white smoke whizzed out from the left and right sides of the coordinated ship, leaving trails in the sky, like surging rivers, rushing towards the crystal energy jets that were trying to catch up.