After leaving Pluto, the fleet officially entered the depths of the Kuiper belt.
This is an asteroid belt located outside Neptune. It is composed of a large amount of debris, and the main component is ice. According to the statistics of the Mechanical Society, there are about 100,000 small celestial bodies with diameters greater than 50 kilometers, but the total mass is only one percent of that of the Holy Terra. Some astronomers also classify Pluto as part of the Kuiper belt, but this statement has been refuted by some historians. Their theory is that according to ancient records, how could Pluto belongs to a planet?
Of course, this debate continued during the 41 millennium, but Pluto was already considered to be the outermost part of the Kuiper Belt.
In the Kuiper Belt, there are three other dwarf planets, namely the Abyss, the Abyss, and the Abyss, among which the Abyss is actually part of the discrete disc, but because the discrete disc itself overlaps the Kuiper Belt, the Mechanical Society and most astronomical historians also classify it as part of the Kuiper Belt.
During the Great Expedition, the Kuiper Belt was a key link in the defense of the Empire's solar system. Pluto can be regarded as the fortress of this defense belt, but it does not mean that other areas are unprepared.
Due to the special structure of this region and the small mass of dwarf planets, the Empire built the largest aviation base on the four dwarf planets: Episode , Bird , Chuang and Eris, and deployed tens of thousands of various fighter and bombers.
After the defeat of Pluto's battle, when the Imperial forces retreated to the star domain around Neptune, the Kuiper Belt became the key to slowing the advancement of the enemy fleet. Due to the large number of celestial debris distributed here, and the void thunder deployed by the Empire in advance formed a dense minefield, which made it difficult for large warships to move and attack. Therefore, the battles that broke out in the Kuiper Belt were mainly small ships and air fleets.
According to records, at least three tragic air battles between the two sides invested 10,000 fighter jets to participate in, and countless heroic stories and ace pilots were born.
The most famous of them is the story of the "Hedgehog" air team.
This is an aviation brigade stationed in the Chuangshenxing Aviation Base. During the deployment, there were 42 fighter jets. They were all composed of young pilots who had just graduated from Jupiter Flight Academy. They were even nicknamed "not powerful" in the academy. Because most of the members of this flight brigade were "thorny" in the academy, they were gathered together and threw them on the battlefield.
After the main force of the rebel fleet had crossed the Pluto defense line and easily defeated the defenders around Neptune, the air force in the Kuiper Belt was already facing a shortage of resources and exhausted troops. It could only be used to attack the desperately by small ships, also known as the mouse express adventure transportation method, replenishing limited fighter jets, pilots, and fuel and ammunition to the defenders in the Kuiper Belt.
The "Hedgehog" aviation team was deployed to this hellish battlefield under such a background. (Tuuuuuu, the Air Force was the most brave in leading the British World War II, and it was also the first country to establish an independent air force. As a result, HH's HNA's role was basically not equal, and I was really forgot about it)
The Creation Planet is the closest dwarf planet to Pluto in the Kuiper Belt, so it is also the "sting" that the Horus rebels are most eager to pull out. After occupying Pluto, a huge aircraft carrier and a fleet of drivers headed straight to the Creation Planet.
At that time, about 8,000 various types of fighter jets were deployed on Chuangshen Star, and its satellite Chuangshen Yi had long been transformed into a permanent fortress and deployed super-power weapons.
The battle was very fierce. In the first three days of the confrontation, both sides each lost more than 2,000 fighter jets.
Later, in order to eliminate the threat of Chuang Shenxing to Pluto, the rebels invested more power to attack Chuang Shenxing. Although the defenders resisted tenaciously and barely repelled the new attack, Chuang Weiyi was completely destroyed, and some of the fragments fell on the planet.
At this time, the number of fighter jets available on Chuangshen Star had dropped to less than 4,000. The deployed "Hedgehog" aviation team did not have much time to prepare for the battle and started fighting in less than 12 hours after entering the aviation base.
In the first battle alone, they will face the most cruel situation. This time the enemy attacked with all their might, and they will have to take over the Chuang Shenxing in one go. The number of fighters not only reached 6,000, but also many ace aviation teams. They are all super elites who have experienced tens of thousands of battle hours. They are the most outstanding ace pilots with the highest technology in the Great Crusade.
Not only that, for the first time, demon engines cast from demons, flesh and metal appeared in the enemy's air fleet. They may not be as perfect as the Hell Blades of later generations, but they are still terrible opponents.
The Hedgehog Air Force only has 32 old-fashioned Thunderbolt Heavy Fighters and 10 Furious Interceptors, and they are all newcomers who have just graduated from aviation schools. They are rookie-level pilots. In the eyes of most veteran pilots, it would be great to ensure that they can fly safely.
When their weapons and experience are behind their opponents, for them, they are not afraid of sacrifice and their courage to fight to the end is not inferior to their opponents.
But in fact, the nightmare had just begun. The rebels changed their past tactics. When the Imperial Air Force received radar signals and began to enter the flight deck and wait for the launch, the Horus rebels suddenly sent several modified ships to rush through the minefield and rushed towards the Chuangshen Star. With the planet's dense defensive firepower, they crashed into several major aviation bases.
The suicide impact caused catastrophic consequences, with heavy ice caps instantly evaporating, many ammunition and fuel ignited, and more than a thousand fighter planes and countless pilots and ground crews were killed.
However, to the rebels' surprise, the cruel losses did not collapse the defenders, but instead inspired their stronger fighting spirit.
When the overwhelming warship rushed through dense star fragments, the remaining fighter planes of Chuangshen Star took off and faced them fearlessly.
Although the defenders were brave enough, their number disadvantages were still difficult to resist. In the end, more than a thousand fighter jets were destroyed when the battle ended. At the same time, the "Hedgehog" aviation team also lost 12 lightning heavy fighters and 5 fury interceptors in the battle, losing more than one-third of their strength, and their results were only 3.
After the defenders lost a large number of fighter jets and live power, the rebel commanders made a judgment. They believed that the defenders were unable to resist, so they began to carry out bombing missions and prepared to send land forces.
But then this proved to be a fatal mistake. Although the defenders suffered heavy losses, their determination was not shaken at all. They also set up an ambush and did not take off when the enemy bombers entered the interceptor zone. This made the attackers relax their guard, but in fact all the fighters had taken off from the back of the planet.
Chapter completed!