"Delaying time?" Chen Xin shook his head with a smile and said, "General Chang, do you believe it? Even if I let go of my hands and feet and let the Americans fight, the United States will not be able to capture Mogadishu." ”

"Huh?!"

Chang Siwei and Andrei Soratzhovsky were stunned.

Chen Xin didn't say this casually, although he won the Middle East war last time, it also gave Chen Xin a wake-up call.

If you rely on the electromagnetic pulse bombs in your hands and those hundreds of advanced unmanned fighters, it is okay to deal with ordinary countries, but if a nuclear power like the United States really admits death and wants to clean up Somalia, Chen Xin may not be able to defend it.

Therefore, as soon as the war ended, he and Ganglu immediately prepared for the next defense plan for Somalia.

The first thing Chen Xin had to think about was how to prepare for a nuclear attack by the big hooligans.

To this end, Chen Xinhe specially built a large ground-based laser weapon station in the northwestern suburbs of Somalia, which consists of four large laser cannons with a power of 12 megawatts and 10 medium laser cannons with a power of 4 megawatts.

The large laser cannon has an effective range of 1,300 kilometers, and the first test launch vaporized a satellite debris in near-Earth orbit in 20 milliseconds.

The effective range of the medium-sized laser cannon is 400 kilometers, and it is mainly used to meet the ★ air defense in the atmosphere.

The combination of the two laser cannons can shoot down any aircraft that enters Somali airspace.

In addition, four fortress-type electromagnetic railguns were built on the steel hammer, which had a caliber of 155 mm and a body made of tungsten ferroalloy, weighed 23 kilograms, had a power of 1,200 megawatts, and had a rate of fire of two rounds per minute.

After accelerating through a 150-meter-long orbit, the muzzle velocity of the electromagnetic railgun's shell reached Mach 8.3 and the effective range was 1,550 kilometers. Chen Xin once simulated on a supercomputer that just one such running bomb could completely destroy a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.

If anyone who wants to send troops from the army, navy and air force to land in Somalia, the electromagnetic railgun can teach them how to behave in minutes.

Of course, these weapons are powerful and require terrifying electricity. Even a five-megawatt fusion reactor unit can't afford it.

In order to ensure the operation of these weapons, Chen Xin had to use the Golden Dragon battery to build a huge power reserve for emergencies.

This is also one of the reasons why the US government put forward such an unbelievable condition, and Chen Xin agreed to it.

PLA Chief of General Staff General Chang Siwei and Russian Federal Defense Minister Andrei Soratzhovsky left the conference room full of concern, although they did not understand where Chen Xin's confidence was, but no matter what the outcome of this war is, I am afraid that it will not be a good thing for China and Russia.

Early the next morning, Kerry, Chang Siwei and Andrei Soratzhovsky left Mogadishu on a special plane.

Before leaving, Chang Siwei didn't say much. Just tell Chen Xin that if war really comes, the Chinese government may evacuate overseas Chinese.

Of course, Chen Xin can't deny this.

In the following three days, the international situation was calm, China was still in full swing preparing for the summit of the Eurasian New Energy Investment Bank member states, and most of the public opinion in the United States was still focused on controllable nuclear fusion. The main warships of the Pacific Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet are quietly being assembled, and the Army has canceled its vacation. US military bases deployed around the world began to enter combat readiness.

Except for ordering Yusuf to speed up the training of army units and build fortifications along the coast, Chen Xin has not taken any other actions, which has made China, the United States, and Russia, which are closely concerned about Somalia, a little confused.

On March 30, 2013, in the evening of Somalia local time. The sky was dark, a crescent moon hung high in the sky, and in the distance you could see the blue sky and the clouds dyed red by the setting sun.

Mogadishu International Airport is heavily guarded, and the Dream Aerospace Plane slowly pulls out of the hangar and into the tail end of the runway.

The modified Dream has not changed much in appearance. But the interior of the ship has long been unrecognizable.

The cargo compartment of the spacecraft is crammed with various materials prepared to prevent accidents.

For the second-level civilization, deep space exploration is a real adventure, and even if Chen Xin has the backing of such a god-defying existence as a steel hammer, he must be fully prepared.

Chen Xin sat in the main driver's seat, flanked by two mimic machines.

He looked a little nervous.

Although the Americans had completed the feat of landing on the moon decades ago, the Apollo program at that time can be said to have gathered the national strength of the superpowers, such as the Saturn 5 launch vehicle capable of sending the Apollo spacecraft up to 46.7 tons to the moon. Not to mention the Apollo spacecraft, it can be said that it was the crystallization of the most advanced science and technology in the world at that time.

However, because of this, the U.S. government was overwhelmed by the huge cost of the Apollo program, and they were never able to find a way to enter the Kahn spacecraft, and in the end, the U.S. government had to reluctantly terminate the largest scientific project in human history.

The Apollo program can be said to be the last space program that carried the glorious dream of mankind, and since then, human space activities have become more and more utilitarian and purposeful.

The cost-effectiveness ratio became the first element to be considered in all space programs, which is why in the following decades no country developed a megaproject like the Apollo program.

Therefore, this moon landing operation can be regarded as the second moon landing operation in the history of mankind.

Unlike the Apollo program, which was extremely crudely completed by the United States at the beginning, the "Dream" lunar landing spacecraft was much higher than the Apollo spacecraft in terms of reliability and economy, and Chen Xin believes that he can achieve much greater achievements than the American plan.

Chen Xin took a deep breath and began to issue orders in an orderly manner!

"Fuel tank pressure valve open!"

"Fuel tank pressure valve open!"

"Main engine warm-up!"

"Main engine warm-up!"

"Enter the system self-test program!"

"Enter the system self-test program!"

"The ship is in good condition and can be ignited!"

"Ten, nine, eight, seven...... Three, two, one, zero......"

"Engine ignition!"

"Engine ignition!"

The fuselage of the Dream vibrated suddenly, Chen Xin opened the fuel valve to the maximum, and the tail nozzle of the engine sprayed a light blue light.

Soon, the brake valve closed, and the Dream was like an arrow from the string. Start taxiing along the runway at high speed.

On the tarmac on both sides of the runway, unmanned fighters lined up neatly, as if to see off Chen Xin's feat of landing on the moon.

Upstairs at the end of the runway, Qiao Ting was silently seeing off the "Dream".

Although Chen Xin did not tell her what was going on with the dispatch of the "Dream", Qiao Ting could faintly feel it. I'm afraid that this mission of the Dream is a little different.

The altitude of the Dream gradually increased, ten kilometers, twenty kilometers, fifty kilometers, one hundred kilometers......

The sky also gradually became deeper in Chen Xin's eyes, from light blue at the beginning, to royal blue, then to dark blue, and finally, the Dream blended into a dark night.

Because of the non-working propulsion engine and solar sail, Dream does not need to circle the Earth non-stop like ordinary lunar exploration vehicles. Increase the apogee, and then use the gravitational effect to enter the Earth-Moon transfer orbit step by step.

The Dream shifted its stance. ”

The Dream shifted its stance. ”

"Turn off the take-off engine!"

"Turn off the take-off engine!"

"Main engine starts!"

"Main engine starts!"

"The sun sails are ready to open!"

"The sun sails are ready to open!"

Chen Xin only felt that the spacecraft shook slightly, and a solar sail with a diameter of 2.5 kilometers and an area of 5 square kilometers opened silently, forming a huge film of light in the night sky!

The speed of the spacecraft increased suddenly, and from takeoff to low-earth orbit, Dream only circled the Earth for less than half a circle. Subsequently, propelled by a working fluid engine and a solar sail. Dream suddenly bent in space and flew straight towards the moon.

Chen Xin took off his seat belt, yawned and said, ", I'll go sleep first, and wake me up when I enter the lunar orbit and prepare to land!"

"Don't worry, old bean!"

From the Earth to the Moon, a general flying vehicle. It takes about four to five days, and there are many changes in between.

Considering acceleration and deceleration, it takes less than six hours to cover this 300,000-kilometer distance.

When Chen Xin woke up again, the spacecraft had already docked 100 kilometers to the apogee. An elliptical orbit of the Moon at a perilunar perigee of 30 km.

At this time, the earth has become half a sapphire-like planet, quietly embedded in the darkness of space.

Underneath the spaceship is a pock-faced beauty wrapped in a crater.

Chen Xin hurriedly ate an aerospace meal, and then returned to the main driver's seat and sat down.

Next, he had to gradually reduce the height of the spaceship under the guidance of the steel hammer.

The surface acceleration of the Moon is only one-sixth that of the Earth, and the thrust reverser engine of the Dream spacecraft did not need to drive much force, and it was firmly parked 15 kilometers above the surface of the Moon.

Due to the strong tidal gravitational pull of the earth, the moon can only be pointed at the earth in one side, so the far side of the moon is a mysterious area that is never out of sight for humans.

But this does not mean that the back of the moon is a cold, dark area, it is just as much surrounded by craters and as illuminated by sunlight as we can see the other side.

The area where Chen Xin chose to land was less than three thousand meters away from the crater where the Karn spacecraft crashed, and it was the only flat land nearby.

It was the day of the moon, and the dazzling sunlight cast a dazzling spot of light on the moon.

As the Dream gradually descended, the thrust of the thrust reverser engine gradually increased.

10 km, 7 km, 3 km, 1 km, 500 m, 300 m......

Eventually, Dream hovered fifteen meters above the moon's surface.

The high-temperature gas ejected from the thrust reverser engine kicks up a large cloud of dust below.

"The landing gear is on!"

As the Dream began to gradually descend at a speed of 0.1 meters per second.

Bang –

Chen Xin felt a slight shock of the spaceship, and his nervousness finally eased slightly.

"It feels so good to be down-to-earth!"

Chen Xin couldn't help but laugh dumbly, got up from the driver's seat, and put on a thick spacesuit with the help of two mimic machines.

The gravity on the moon is very small, and Chen Xin doesn't need to spend too much effort to jump out of the way.

This made Chen Xin very uncomfortable walking, so he had to learn Armstrong's moon steps and jump forward.

Finally came to the equipment cabin in the rear, Chen Xin entered a fully enclosed lunar rover, started the engine, and said to the steel hammer: "Steel hammer, let's start!"

The equipment hatch slowly opened, then descended, forming an oblique angle to the lunar surface.

The lunar rover vibrated slightly, and under Chen Xin's control, it slowly drove away from the equipment cabin.

Chen Xin drove the lunar rover about ten meters away from the Dream spacecraft before stopping.

He took a deep breath, opened the hatch of the lunar rover, awkwardly maneuvered his body, and stepped out of the lunar rover.

When Chen Xin took a step and looked at the first footprint he had made on the red lunar soil, an inexplicable feeling rose spontaneously.

I don't know what Armstrong felt when he said, "This is a small step for me, but a big step for all mankind"!

Chen Xin shook his head, driving away all kinds of distracting thoughts that rose in his mind.

According to scientists' calculations, the moon was born at the same time as the earth, about 4.6 billion years ago. After the birth of the moon, a thin crust formed on the molten surface very quickly. As the heavier elements converge and sink towards the center of the moon, the outer shell gradually thickens. The outer shell, after chemical differentiation, is bombarded by large meteorites or comets, forming huge basins on the surface of the moon. Over time, the bombardment of the lunar surface by alien celestial material gradually decreased. Many large basins filled by lava flows formed what is now the Moon Sea. The slow and uninterrupted erosion of the lunar surface by small rock blocks continues to the present.

There is no doubt that this is an unusually cold and lonely world.

There is no atmosphere on the moon, it is in a state of high vacuum, and because of this, the sunlight is not scattered, it is extremely dazzling, although it is daytime, but the sky is dark, giving people an extremely oppressive feeling.

There is no water on the Moon, and even in the analysis of the rocks of the Moon, no storage of water has been found. The surroundings are desolate and lifeless, and since there is no atmosphere, the lunar surface is directly exposed to the universe, and the temperature changes on the lunar surface are very drastic. During the hottest day, the surface temperature can reach 127C, and at the coldest night, the temperature can drop to -183C.

Although Chen Xin has already learned about the environment of the moon from words and pictures countless times, the first time he has been in such an environment that is comparable to hell for life, his heart is still filled with a trace of unease. (To be continued......)