In the afternoon of the next day, Bai Qi led the armored convoy back to the base of Fort 13.

As soon as they returned to the base, they were immediately received by the commander of the base, Brigadier General Hoenze.

Huo Enze is a middle-aged man in his forties, tall and majestic, looking like a mixed race with Eastern and Western blood, this situation is very common in the Federation, the earth has been unified for thousands of years, and all kinds of mixed races have become the norm.

Brigadier General Hoenze spoke highly of Bai Qi's actions, announcing that Bai Qi would be awarded 150 points of Federal Merit, Barian 100 points of Federal Merit, and 50 points of Federal Merit to the others.

With this feat, Bai Qi was promoted to second lieutenant in the federal army, and Baryan was promoted to warrant officer, both of whom received the status of officers, and the ranks of others were also raised.

After the award ceremony, Brigadier General Huo Enze asked Bai Qi about the process of obtaining the electromagnetic gun transformation technology, and when he heard that the black fox who had invented the transformation gun technology also returned with Bai Qi and them, he immediately offered to meet the black fox.

After seeing Brigadier General Huo Enze, he turned to the other party in a few words, accepted the brigadier general's employment, and became an ordnance technician in the army stationed at Base 13, and obtained the rank of sergeant.

Bai Qi didn't care about this, of course, a person like Black Fox could only play his role if he entered the military.

Next, under the guidance of Black Fox, the sappers of Base 13 began to make every effort to transform the existing electromagnetic gun, and Brigadier General Huo Enze even summoned all the soldiers in the base who knew how to understand electronics to learn the electromagnetic gun transformation technology.

In this era, the level of education of soldiers is very high, and the technology of electromagnetic gun modification is not particularly complicated. So a large number of soldiers who were able to modify electromagnetic guns soon appeared in the base......

According to Bai Qi's suggestion, the first batch of renovations to the base were the "high-speed electromagnetic machine guns" that were erected on the walls of the base and controlled by the base's intelligent system.

Maybe it was Bai Qi who left too much impression on the black fox. Or maybe he learned that Bai Qi and his special forces did not completely obey the command of Brigadier General Huo Enze and had great autonomy. Or maybe it's both, and even though they have found a new backer, Black Fox still has a great deal of awe for Bai Qi and knows almost everything about them.

From the mouth of the black fox, Bai Qi knew that the transformation would have considerable damage to the electromagnetic gun itself.

The modified electromagnetic gun is nearly twice as powerful, but its lifespan is almost ten times shorter, and the rate of fire is reduced to one-third of the original rate.

Take those "high-speed electromagnetic machine guns" on the walls of the fortress. Originally, these rapid-fire machine guns had a service life of nearly 10 million rounds, and even at the rate of fire of high-speed machine guns (6,000 rounds per minute), they could last for twenty hours.

After the modification, the life of the high-speed electromagnetic machine gun dropped to less than one million rounds, and the rate of fire was only 2,000 rounds per minute, and in the event of high-intensity combat, it would be completely scrapped in five or six hours.

Although there are a lot of spare machine guns in the base, in battle, it is necessary to replace this large weapon weighing more than a ton. It was also not a simple matter, in order to avoid the simultaneous scrapping of all machine guns, the military divided the hundreds of high-speed machine guns around the fortress into three groups, stipulated. In normal cases, only one group of machine guns can be activated at the same time, and only as a last resort can two groups be activated at the same time.

In this way, these high-speed electromagnetic machine guns can form a network of firepower. It is almost ten times lower than the design theory of firepower, but even so. It was also the top brass of the military who cheered, and breaking the defense and not breaking the defense are completely two different concepts.

The modification of all active and stock combined nearly two hundred high-speed electromagnetic machine guns was completed. Then it was the turn of the modification of a heavy electromagnetic machine gun mounted on an armored vehicle.

The rate of fire of heavy electromagnetic machine guns is far inferior to that of high-speed electromagnetic machine guns, the conventional rate of fire is 1800 rounds a minute, and only 600 rounds / minute are left after the transformation, and the design life of heavy electromagnetic machine guns itself is far inferior to that of high-speed electromagnetic machine guns, after the transformation, there are only less than 200,000 rounds left.

There are more than 400 armored vehicles in Base 13, each armored vehicle has a spare heavy electromagnetic machine gun, plus some parts for maintenance and replacement, and there are nearly 1,000 electromagnetic converters that need to be transformed.

With the addition of high-speed electromagnetic machine guns, a total of nearly 1,300 large and medium-sized electromagnetic converters need to be transformed.

Base 13 has a team of about 100 weapons maintenance engineers, and only half of them are currently capable of electromagnetic gun modifications, while Black Fox is fully training the remaining engineers and hundreds of soldiers recruited from ordinary soldiers with electronic technology foundations.

At the beginning, these more than 50 sappers could only transform about seven or eight electromagnetic converters a day, but after a period of practice, the craft gradually became proficient, and it took three days to finally complete the transformation of 1,300 large and medium-sized electromagnetic converters.

In the next few days, more and more soldiers mastered the transformation technology, and the sappers who had mastered the technology before became more and more proficient, and in the next four days, more than 3,000 medium electromagnetic assault rifles used by individual mechs were transformed.

The medium electromagnetic assault rifle used by the individual mecha has a rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per minute and a service life of about 100,000 rounds, but after the transformation, the rate of fire is reduced to more than 300 rounds per minute, and the service life is only about 10,000 rounds.

Just when everything seemed to be gradually improving, Base 13 suddenly received a distress message from the Miners' City, and the Zerg launched a full-scale attack on the Miners' City.

At the same time, the space soldiers also received a large-scale advanced mission.

Large-scale advanced mission "Defend the Miner City": There are not only 30,000 federal defenders in the miner city, but also 100,000 human miners who have not had time to retreat, once it is broken by the Zerg, the organic energy in the human body inside is enough for the Zerg Mother Emperor to hatch another 100,000 Zerg army, in order to curb the development of the Zerg on the nineteenth resource star, you must help the military defend the Miner City.

Concentrate; This mission is mandatory and must be accepted by every Space Soldier.

Note: Mission failure penalty, the difficulty of the basic mission is increased by one level.

After receiving this mission, the space soldiers couldn't help but lament.

In fact, as early as five days before the release of this mission, Bai Qi suggested that everyone get some modified armored vehicles, apply for some individual mecha fighters equipped with modified electromagnetic guns, and go to the Scarlet Plateau to fight guerrillas. It can not only weaken the power of the Zerg on the outskirts of the Miner's City, but also test the transformation effect of the electromagnetic gun.

However, after the previous two battles, many soldiers were frightened by the ferocity and cunning of the Zerg and lost their courage, coupled with the fact that the modified gun gave them the confidence to complete the basic mission, these people just wanted to survive this mission in peace, just save their lives, and were unwilling to go out with Bai Qi to risk it again.

After trying his best to say that less than half of the people were willing to follow him, Bai Qi couldn't help but sigh that his understanding of human nature had taken another step.

Humans are really forgetful and fickle creatures, even a few days ago, they were still cheering for Bai Qi, seeing Bai Qi as their savior, eager to obey him, just three or four days later, all this changed unconsciously...... (To be continued......)