Fledgling One's mind went a little numb. The radar warning in the cockpit had already stopped; the other side had left. But he knew that he had just been shot down—if this had been actual combat!
And from the moment they discovered the other side to the moment he was shot down, how long had it taken? Thirty seconds? One minute?
He did not know, but he knew that the dogfighting skills he had always been so proud of amounted to nothing before his opponent. They had been utterly shattered. He had not even managed to hold out until Target Number 2 came to support him before being shot down by the enemy.
The Control Tower's voice in his earpiece snapped Fledgling One out of it. He took a deep breath, steadied his emotions, and said, "Number One received. I am withdrawing from the battlefield."
After saying that, he began operating the fighter, rapidly descending and pulling out at a shallow angle as he withdrew from the area. Meanwhile, Jiang Yan Hai had already plunged into the clouds and was reducing his speed.
Fledgling Two had naturally heard the Control Tower's announcement as well, and he was completely stunned. They might have only been trainees who had graduated from school within the past year, but so was the other side!
When they had first trained in aerial dogfighting with their instructors, they had been unable to beat them, but at the very least, it took those instructors over ten minutes to take them down.
Yet this opponent had taken out Fledgling One in less than a minute. He knew Fledgling One's capabilities very well.
But he was not afraid! He immediately shoved the throttle forward and charged after the enemy. Although the other side had entered the clouds, they were