From Runa to Kerna City, the Thirteenth Fleet took more than a week to sail because of several battles along the way. Of course, the only real tough battle was the battle of wits and courage with the Empire's Clear-Sky class battleship in the ISA782 system at the beginning. All the battles that followed, including facing the Moda group, which had several times the number of troops on their own, were all flat A without accidents or thrills.

However, by the time he returned to the Runa system, there was no more fighting, but it was estimated that it would take nearly twice as long as it had been. No way, as the star moves through its cycle, some transition channels close again.

In addition, the two captured Imperial warships, one of which was wounded, and the other was not even finished, were also overstretched, so it was necessary to be even more careful when flying.

Moreover, with one more burden from the boss, some "narrow" jump passages that exceed the mass carrying limit cannot be used, so they have to take a detour.

In fact, if there was really a surname Zhang Mazi in the Far Shore Star Region at this time, and he could still gather a group of bandits who dared to fight and die to sneak attack, maybe he could really catch the 13th fleet off guard.

However, the ruins of the city of Kerna gave this nebula too much shock, and walking in the space junk of this galaxy is like a reminder to the world. Those who escaped from the pirates had already spread these fears to the surrounding star fields. At this time, in this large nebula, this small fleet, which had been attacking for a week and had become the end of the crossbow, was like a tiger patrolling its own forest, and no beast dared to come out again.

Therefore, during the whole return journey, everyone's atmosphere was naturally very relaxed. Commodore Marklov and Senior Sister even picked out the best part of the fleet and sent them to two ships with great interest. Begin initial familiarization and acclimatization training.

Look at them like that, they completely think of these two ships as the new ships of the Thirteenth Fleet.

"Mine is mine! Since I seized it, it's mine! It's a galactic naval tradition! Eleanor said loudly. Who dares to take a second look at the old lady's wife, no, the boat, and destroy his whole family.

Brigadier General Maklov also said: "In my life, I have never fought for anything, and I have never made any trouble. I think that Your Excellency the Marshal and the Lords of the Council, if they had taken into account the hard work of old age all their lives, would have met my request before I died. ”

What the old man means is that I have been an aircraft carrier soldier all my life, and I was ready to die on my beloved aircraft carrier, but I had to be mentioned by you as a nanny. In the past, because of the start-up of the fleet, there was no serious aircraft carrier. Now, I've got one of my own, are you too embarrassed to take it?

This old man is sixty-five years old this year, what kind of big scenes and big people have not seen? The military rank and position are not at the top level, but the connections are very wide, and I don't know how many generals and even big figures in the political arena have listened to orders under his command.

This kind of veteran, even His Excellency the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, will not be easily offended.

Anyway, according to Commodore Maklov's intentions, even if he fought hard, he would definitely leave these two ships in the fleet. Such a look full of energy, but much more enthusiastic and generous than when he attacked the city of Kerr.

"However, our full name is the New World Cruise Strike Fleet! The main space for future activities must be in the New World, and these two ships are in violation of the New World Naval Limitation Treaty. Akinayama Hachiman objected.

"Didn't our rangers break the contract? Left and right is just a matter of registration. As far as I know, the New World Fleet of the Empire and the Alliance is already equipped with large warships of this quality. Yu Lian sneered: "I'm thinking, soon they will not be the master, and they will propose amendments to the Naval Limitation Treaty on the grounds of public security." ”

Of course, in order to pay attention to the appearance of food, the boss of the camp like the empire and the alliance will definitely not end up in person, and should let its second-tier thugs play.

In addition, after a while, there should still be a little big news such as "a large number of pirates" attacking cities and trade routes.

"Of course, the battle patrol is still too conspicuous. At present, the development of the New World is still mainly based on peaceful and stable development, and no one wants to start a war in that kind of place, but in fact it is still relatively restrained. Yu Lian said again.

"Exactly, but that's to the Empire and the Union. Generally speaking, it is easy for ships under 200,000 tons to be registered as armed merchant ships with the Galaxy Standard Shipping Association, but these two imperial warships are both giant ships of more than 300,000 tons, and the shipping association will send commissioners to investigate. We have to plan ahead. Akinayama Hachiman pushed his glasses: "For example, find out the attitude of the shipping association, the identity of the commissioner who has been appointed, his political leanings, and whether there are any hobbies and levers that can be used, so ......."

"Very well, this is the Hachiman-brother I know, so I'll leave it to you." Yu Lian couldn't help but say the authentic.

What I'm talking about is to let the Venezuelan and the National Unification start to do preliminary investigations! In addition, I don't know if it's my delusion, but I always think that you only say "brother" when you ask me to do something, right?

Akinayama Hachiman hid his sad and angry eyes behind the lenses and continued to be expressionless.

"I think that Brother Hachiman's own intelligence channels are much more reliable than those of the National Unification and the Commissariat General!" Originally, this kind of thing, how can the two barrels that are all legal systems compare to the black (meow) Dao?

Thank you for the compliment, I'm not happy at all.

"In any case, this is the perfect ending for a new fleet. I was able to write a beautiful story because of that. Fei Fei adjusted the shooting equipment and said in a casual tone: "In this case, why don't you discuss the name of the ship first?" ”

According to the Community's naval nomenclature regulations, the names and numbers of new ships are approved and registered by the Ship Authority, but they will basically adopt the opinions of the front-line commanders. Of course, the kind of battle patrol and fearlessness of the country's heavy weapons have to pass the Congress. This is a great honor, of course, to give the cool opportunity to the masters.

The words of that aircraft carrier were naturally handed over to Commodore Marklov, an expert in aircraft carrier warfare. The old man thought for a moment, and then said: "I once thought that I would serve on the Lexington until I died, but I didn't expect that the end of my military career would start another journey. So, hopefully, the new ship will become her sister, so let's name it Saratoga. ”

The history of the world changed after the 15th century, and there were no pretty countries, and certainly no American Revolutionary War. However, in this world, there is an independent war for all earthlings. The first plenary meeting of Marshal Lee and his comrades-in-arms was held in a remote town called Lexington. Later, the last meeting before the first shots of the Revolutionary War was held on an intraplanetary fishing vessel called Saratoga.

All in all, these two ship names are still quite commemorative on this world line.

In short, this can be regarded as a kind of contraction of the world line, and the spirit of the universe on the outside is a little capricious.

Then, it was time for the Imperial Clearsky-class battleship that made Eleanor's heart even more pleasant. In the previous battles, the 13th Fleet fought more and less, and the fact that the enemy took the lead, but still failed to take it, which indeed proved the combat effectiveness of this ship.

As a senior sister of the big ship and giant artillery party, I really like it very much, just like every normal girl will definitely like Prada's limited edition bags. Moreover, it would be even happier if this bag was snatched by her from the most unpleasant little on the other side.

"This time, the biggest credit should actually belong to Yuri. So, this time, let's let Yuli make a name. Eleanor was generous. She is such an atmospheric good sister.

However, as soon as she said this, Anne, who had been watching the play by the side, almost smothered the vodka into her nose, and immediately coughed loudly.

Lilia looked like she wanted to say it but couldn't say it. After all, she is no longer an active soldier, so it's really hard to say anything about this issue.

“…… Are you sure, Sir Bonaparte? Fei Fei also smiled distressedly.

This is really not like Fei Fei's usual style. She's always been a smart girl, and she doesn't usually interject in situations that have nothing to do with her.

Eleanor was slightly stunned, and then as if she suddenly remembered something, her face suddenly froze, and she said to Yu Lian embarrassedly: "This, Yuli......"

However, Yu Lian had already taken out the name of the ship that he had been preparing for a long time, and immediately said aloud: "It turns out that a magical ship name will definitely bring good luck!" This was already demonstrated at the last Navy Day. So, in order to continue to make everyone respect us, I decided that the new ship should be the sister ship of the Red Tiger, which will be called the Gray ......."

"Fish, don't talk!" Fei Fei said loudly.

Yu Lian shrank his neck, thinking that such a Fei Fei was also very against the human design. However, Fei Fei, who is strong, is also very good-looking, so I won't meet you in general.

"I think this battle is the first cry of the Thirteenth Fleet, but it is also the cry of the earthlings. If the results are passed back to China, not to mention what the big names above will think, but for the general public, we are like a ray of light...... It is the long-awaited dawn of the people of the community after the departure of Marshal Li, the founding fathers of the country! ”

Fei Fei can indeed say the same!

Now the domestic political ecology of the community is obvious. Because the brains of the upper echelons are not unified, the backbone will naturally not be too hard, even the pro-alliance faction like Nichta, who is tough, at least tough on the surface, is actually not too confident when facing the first military power in the galaxy.

However, after all, the earthlings are the only regime and race that has successfully succeeded in independence from their domination since the founding of the Dawn Dynasty, and they have indeed defeated the imperial fleet head-on in the War of Independence. Ordinary earthlings and ordinary soldiers are actually quite high-spirited. At least not like other second- and third-tier countries, when they see the imperial army, they are afraid to go up to three points first.

Once this victory is transmitted back to China, ordinary people, who have already accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction with the central government, will probably feel as if they have seen the dawn of tearing through the darkness.

…… It's just that Yu Lian always felt that something was wrong.

"So, it's called the Dawn?" Eleanor thought about it for a moment and thought it was good.

"Aurora? It's okay to adopt ......" Akinayama Hachiman quickly checked the database, shook his head and said, "However, among the active ships of our Navy, there are already four Aurora, all of which are small ships. But since this is a heavy cruiser, according to tradition, it still has to have a separate name. The Authority will not necessarily approve our recommendations. ”

"Then let's call it Aurora." Miss Anne Romanova added a phrase from her native dialect.

"Aurora......"

Yes, yes, this is it!

Yu Lian suddenly felt that his blood was boiling, but out of caution, he still said carefully. "That's too high-profile......"

"Where's the high profile? Isn't it auspicious and poetic too? In the pronunciation of Anne's native dialect, I think it is more poetic than the original text! Eleanor said.

Oh, yes! Quite poetic! And it's fiery poetry! It's just that this universe is probably only available to me.

…… It seems interesting to think about it!

So, Yu Lian agreed, full of enthusiasm and a certain irrepressible bad taste.

In this way, the Aurora and Saratoga should be the biggest gain of the 13th Fleet. Everyone soon began to discuss how to recruit people from Father Perris, who had officially become the head of the Military Command Headquarters. Now that there are new ships, of course there must be people, and you can't really recruit bandits to absorb the homeless, right?

Regardless of whether these two ships will belong to the Thirteenth Fleet in the future, at least they are quite happy for now.

Of course, there are still small regrets. Meng Jiao told everyone that although the battleship was snatched intact, the crimson machine was destroyed.

"I'm sorry, but its shell armor has basically not suffered any damage, but the core psionic array has been destroyed......"

Indeed, compared to a battleship, a small heraldic machine is much easier to deal with. Even if the alchemical armor constructed with occult science is difficult to destroy for a while, it can be destroyed beyond recognition by removing the strongest armor plate on the back and stuffing two concussive grenades into the psionic array at the center of its energy.

Meng Jiao and Simon looked depressed. They always felt that if they could snatch the marquis of Odegar's heraldic machine, its value would never be lower than the two warships here, but after all, they only grabbed a "scrap".

"Can't say that. We have a huge gap with the Empire in terms of alchemy materials, structural design, nerve conduction, and energy delivery, and with this thing, we should be able to avoid many detours. In comparison, the psionic array is the most likely to overtake in a corner. ”

"Yes, is that so?" Meng Jiao is still skeptical. In the public's perception, the reason why the empire is the first military power in the universe is not because of the size of the fleet and technology, but because its extraordinary power is also the first in the galaxy. Therefore, in Meng Jiao's view, the occult level of the empire is naturally too high to match.

"Of course it's like this, the front is a serious science, which needs to be accumulated seriously, and there is no room for mistakes! The latter is an unserious occultism, who knows if one day there will be a super genius who is like the illegitimate child of the spirit of the universe, and he will directly give the whole mechanical séance. “

Meng Jiao felt that the other party wanted to say that it made sense, but he seemed to feel that something was wrong.

Simon Vayali said that it was the first time he had seen a transcendent person use the word "improper" to describe the occult, and for a while he didn't even know what expression to make.

"Trust me, at least no one here knows more about the occult than I do. The heraldic machine you picked up, even if it lacks the psionic array, is still a great contribution to the country! ”

Seeing that Yu Lian said so firmly, Meng Jiao and Simon were relieved.

Fei Fei glanced at Yu Lian quietly, pursed her lips and smiled, and didn't say anything.