The Lyra Empire has a total of five expeditionary bases, all of which are located on the most frontier of the territory, and in total manage more than 4,000 fleets of astonishing size.

The fleet mentioned here is not a fleet composed of 800 warships, but an integrated fleet of a military nature.

Just imagine, as a seventh-level civilization, the Lyra Empire, with a territory spanning a galaxy, a territory of more than 50 billion star systems, and more than 5 billion habitable planets, how huge is the number of armies and warships possessed by such a high-level civilization?

Countless calculations were made with absolute accuracy, because the arsenals scattered throughout the empire were filled with a large number of warships being freshly baked at any given moment.

Roughly calculated, the total number of military warships of various types owned by the empire is at least more than one trillion, and the number of military personnel is in tens of billions!

So, as the most elite expeditionary force related to the future development of the entire empire?

Among the four major branches of the armed forces, the number of expeditionary forces is certainly not the largest: the defense army is located on every planet where a large number of people live, as well as the planet that produces various important resources, and the number is undoubtedly the largest, and the soldiers that Qin Yan fought against on Fixes Star belong to the defense force; secondly, there are wormholes in the stellar systems at the edge of the territory, and the border defense forces responsible for border security; The smallest number was the Imperial Capital Garrison.

But!

Although the number of defense forces and border defense forces is large, the overall strength is very low, because these two branches of the army rarely encounter dangerous situations.

As the force that guards the imperial capital, the imperial capital garrison is undoubtedly the strongest among the four major military branches, but it cannot be compared with the other three military branches in terms of quantity.

Therefore, in terms of both numbers and comprehensive combat effectiveness, the expeditionary force is undoubtedly the strongest!

The structure of the expeditionary force from high to low, namely: the five major expeditionary force bases are divided and ruled, each base is in charge of nearly 1,000 fleets, each fleet is divided into 100 squadrons, each squadron is divided into 100 squadrons, and each squad is divided into 50 standard formations, which are the smallest operational units.

Each formation consists of a hundred warships, usually with a five-star warship as the flagship, with ten four-star warships, thirty three-star warships, and the rest are transport ships of different types, otherwise the resources obtained from the mission are transported.

Yes, in the Lyra Expeditionary Force, there are no less than three-star ships.

From this, it can be roughly judged that the total number of warships of the expeditionary force has exceeded 200 billion, what an astonishing number?!

As for the number of servicemen, it goes without saying, that figure is at least a thousand times the number of battleships.

This is the difference between the higher civilization and the earth, the earth is only a planet with a diameter of more than 10,000 kilometers, even if Pangu opened up another star system, there is a planet far larger than the earth, but compared to the more than 5 billion habitable planets of the Tianqin Empire, there is already an insurmountable gap in terms of population base and resource base - this is a gap in science and technology, which cannot be bridged.

On 5 billion habitable planets, even if only one person from each planet joins the army, it is still an army of 5 billion, how can human beings on Earth compare?

Just like the Yan Huang in the past, a country with a population of 1.4 billion has more than 2 million troops, and the ratio of ordinary people to military personnel is about 700:1.

What about the Lyra Empire?

Obviously, all the habitable planets of the Lyra Empire are inhabited by less population density than the Earth, but even if the population of each planet is one-tenth of that of the Earth, how many people are there on the more than 50 trillion habitable planets? And their army is about 1200 trillion.

In fact, the proportion of their ordinary population and military personnel is much smaller than that of the planet.

This is the staggering disparity created by the population base.

The 1375th Fleet was located at the second base of the Expeditionary Force, and it took Qin Yan and Hou Qing nearly a month to finally arrive at the base near the wormhole of a star system on the edge of the Lyra Galaxy.

The expeditionary force has always been to search for resources in the depths of the universe in the smallest formation, but it has never been fully dispatched.

Just imagine, if all the fleets went to search for resources, what if the enemy attacked the base? How do I return the resources I brought back to the Empire? More importantly, the continuous conquest is impossible for the vast majority of soldiers to bear, so the expeditionary force has always been on duty in turns.

Usually, every time a formation completes a scheduled mission, depending on the time and difficulty of the mission, there will be a free vacation of at least half a year or more than a few years.

After nearly a month's long journey, Qin Yan and Hou Qing took the merchant ship that they had snatched from the Alpha Star and finally arrived at the jurisdiction of the second base.

Spectacular!

The spectacle that made Qin Yan stunned!

Although he had long known from Eller that the so-called expeditionary force base was extremely large, the sensory impact of the empty data and what he saw with his own eyes was completely different.

The base is located at the very edge of the Tianqin Galaxy, next to the wormhole of a star system, but Qin Yan can't see where the wormhole is.

A huge fortress with a diameter of 30,000 kilometers and made entirely of some kind of high-strength alloy was quietly suspended in the void. The spindle-shaped fortress is silver-gray in color, and if you look closely, you will see that countless high-energy weapons are installed on it, as well as interlocking portals, tracks, and so on.

Huge metal arms stretched out from the fortress, and warships of different levels were connected to the metal arms, and from time to time there were various warships, warplanes, and small aircraft coming and going, building this expeditionary force base that spanned tens of thousands of kilometers and was full of metal smell.

The merchant ship flew very close before a mecha flew slowly.

It's not that the base didn't find this merchant ship, but that such a powerful base didn't take this merchant ship in its eyes at all, and didn't think that this merchant ship came from an enemy country at all.

"Stop!"

The mecha stopped very close to the merchant ship, and a deep voice immediately came: "Don't you know that this is the no-fly zone of the Lyra Galaxy?" ”

The merchant ship stopped, and Qin Yan and Hou Qing walked out of the cabin: "In Xia Qin Yan, I have come to visit the captain of the seventh squadron of the 1375th fleet, Arus, and I will report on my behalf." ”

"You can contact Squadron Leader Arus directly and ask him to come and pick you up instead of driving the ship here." The man in the mecha said.

"Private signals are blocked here, and it is impossible to contact Mr. Arus."

"But what credentials?"

"Yes."

Qin Yan took out the token that Elle had given him and said, "Your Excellency can contact Mr. Arus through audio-visual communication and let him see this thing with his own eyes. ”

Soon, a faint blue light was cast from the mecha, enveloping the things in Qin Yan's hand.

After about a minute, the man in the mech said, "Follow me...... However, ships are not allowed to enter the base, the rules are clear, right? ”

"Understood."

"Someone will come and check if there is anything wrong with the ship, and if it is okay, it will be towed into the dock."

After the man finished speaking, a blue flame of light erupted from the back of the mecha and flew towards the huge steel fortress - compared to this steel fortress, the demon fortress that has been impassable by humans for thousands of years is simply a small toy worth mentioning, this is the real absolute line of defense.

After a series of verification checks, Qin Yan and Hou Qing followed the mecha into the inside of the fortress, but nothing special happened along the way, and finally entered an office.

The office doesn't have any extravagant decorations, and the first impression is seriousness.

When Qin Yan and Hou Qing walked in, a middle-aged man with a grim expression and a look of forty or fifty years old was busy at his desk.

"You get out of here."

The man waved his hand at the soldiers who brought Qin Yan and Hou Qing, and when the soldiers left, the door to the office immediately slammed shut.

It wasn't until the door closed that the man got up from his desk and looked at the two of them: "Who gave you your family token?" ”

"For Mr. Arus, it was Eller who gave it to me." As Qin Yan spoke, he took out the thing and walked over and put it on the desk.

"Eyler?!"

Obviously, this token has been distributed to more than one in his family, and the answer given by Qin Yan made Arus couldn't help but be surprised.

He hurriedly picked up the small instrument, then took out another instrument from himself, and then put the instrument given by Qin Yan into the groove, and then a small light curtain appeared, and the figure of Eller was revealed on the light curtain, and the surprise on Arus's face slowly disappeared.

In the end, he closed the light curtain and looked at Qin Yan, nodded and said, "It's really Eller's, it's just ...... That little guy is the most favored son of His Royal Highness, since you are his friend, what else can he not solve, but need to ask me for help? ”

As Eller said, his mother was only a small family, and the power held by a family of that level was really average.

If there was anything that even Eller couldn't solve, Arus, as his uncle, couldn't solve it.

"Mr. Arus, my friend and I want to join the Expeditionary Force." Qin Yan said.

"Join the Expeditionary Force ......"

Arus's brow furrowed, not knowing what he was thinking, and after a long moment he said, "It seems that the little guy doesn't want anyone to know that you have something to do with him. It's no wonder that there are many people who are jealous of him, and if it is known that you are his friends, hehe...... Alright, I'll let you join the expeditionary force. In addition, you must prepare all your personal information first, and to join the expeditionary force, you must first transfer your status within the empire. ”

"We are not from the Lyra Empire."

"It's not...... This...... Eller, this little guy, really gave me a problem. Arus couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Mr. Arus, can't you join the expeditionary force if you are not from the Lyra Empire?"

"Yes, yes, but you must first give up your original nationality to join the nationality of the Tianqin Empire, and as an introduced talent, your strength must at least reach the early stage of the Tianwu Four Heavens."

The reason why he said that Eller gave him a problem was that in his opinion, since Eller asked him for help, it must be because Qin Yan and Houqing couldn't meet the requirements in some way, such as their cultivation was insufficient, otherwise why would they need to go through the back door?

"None of this is a problem." Qin Yan hurriedly said.

"Are you sure?" Arus was stunned.

"I'm sure."

"So ......"

Qin Yan and Hou Qing glanced at Qin Yan and Hou Qing a few times with some suspicion, and Arus walked over from the desk and walked towards the outside of the office: "Come with me, I'll take you to go through some procedures, and by the way, tell you about the various regulations and rewards and punishments within the expeditionary force." ”