Chapter 247: The Great Expansion of the Army

On the 17th day of the fifth month of the sixth year of the ephemeris, on the edge of the desolate star system in the unfamiliar star field, a sixth-level fleet was practicing non-stop in space. The battle formations www.biquge.info formed automatically as the battleships marched, and groups of target ships were reduced to ashes in the flying artillery fire. In the ranks of the warfleet, one individual fighter plane after another shuttled flexibly in the air defense phalanx, and from time to time a single fighter disintegrated in the air, and then another individual fighter plane was ejected from the hangar of the aerospace aircraft carrier in the distance of the fleet.

This is the monthly actual combat drill of the Fleet Command Department of Mercury Academy, and the commanders of all warships are all cadets who are about to graduate, and the results of this actual combat exercise will be an important reference for their assignment after graduation. As the academy with the highest average score in the fleet command department of the Golden Crow mothership, Mercury Academy has its own unique characteristics in training fleet commanders.

In the past five years, the Fleet Command Department of Mercury Academy has graduated three batches of outstanding cadets. They served in the various fleets of the Golden Crow Fleet, and many of them have now risen to the rank of captain of a battleship of the Colonel. Although this is not unrelated to the lack of fleet commanders, it is more the result of the efforts of the cadets. Several large-scale battles with successive victories were the most satisfactory answers that these young soldiers handed over to the entire Golden Crow fleet.

"The fleet maneuvered in a cross shape, lined up in battle formation No. 1053, and the assault formation went forward, ready to meet the enemy...... Inverted U-shaped forward, the frigate maneuvered in a spiral inner ring, and arranged the No. 014 battle formation...... "One by one, the orders were accurately transmitted to each battleship through the command link, and then they were accurately executed by the entire fleet, and the entire fleet was uniform, both offensive and defensive, so that Chen Peilin and Zhuge Wushuang, who were watching from the sidelines, were bowed one after another.

"Okay, our commander has finally grown up, and it is estimated that after a few more games, there will be a famous general. Heroes emerge in troubled times, and famous generals become famous after a long battle" Seeing the outstanding performance of the students, Chen Peilin said happily.

"It's not just the fleet commander who has grown up, but the ordinary ship-based soldier has also completed a difficult transformation. We are no longer the infantry who drove the battleship in the early days, we really adapted to the role of the ship-borne soldiers, and integrated our souls into the battleship" Zhang Zheng on the side was also very emotional.

"And don't look at the cost we have spent to train these carrier-based soldiers. Not to mention anything else, just to say that in this live military exercise, no less than tens of thousands of sixth-level individual fighters alone were consumed, and this was only a consumption of a command department of Mercury Academy. If the four major academies were to be rotated once, this number would be at least hundreds of times larger. This is not counting the consumption of energy and so on during the exercise, it really costs a lot of money to raise a fleet," Zhuge Wushuang, the chief steward of the fleet, muttered on the side.

"As long as I can cultivate a strong army, I am willing to exceed the cost of tens or hundreds of times," Chen Peilin said on the side.

The Golden Crow fleet has been dormant in the galaxy for almost a year. In the past year, the fleet has completed a large-scale expansion, successively forming 10 seventh-class fleets and 100 sixth-class fleets. It has trained 50 million ship-borne soldiers and more than 100 million carrier-based defense troops. In addition to the fact that all the ten seventh-level fleets are all earth-born soldiers, the regular fleet hires a large number of Amy soldiers, otherwise the population of the earth alone will really not be able to supply the personnel needs of the one hundred and ten fleets.

These are just fleets of descendants of the human race. The expansion of the regular fleet attached to the Union Army is even more staggering. In fact, even during the war, the training of ship-based troops by various civilizations has not been interrupted, and with the huge population base of each civilization, the number of troops provided by each civilization can make tens of thousands of fleets into an army every year. It's just that the alliance doesn't have that many warships.

During the Peach Blossom Land Defense War, the Brilliant Empire's huge regular legions made the defending fleet suffer a great loss, and Chen Peilin and the others also realized the disadvantages caused by the lack of conventional fleets. I thought that it would be a waste to create so many regular fleets, because the warships of the Golden Crow fleet were replaced too quickly, and a large amount of equipment was a pure waste of resources. I didn't expect that the consumption of warships in the interstellar era large-scale cluster operations would be so huge.

Therefore, for a year, the Golden Crow fleet has frantically manufactured warships for military expansion. The generation of spaceship formations passed through desolate star systems with rich resources, and each planet was full of plant warship types, and even formed a classified warship star for a time. For example, some planets are planted with battleships, some are planted with cruisers, and some are full of individual fighters.

Each time you leave an empty star system, the fleet multiplies in size. Nowadays, the regular fleets of the Alliance Army are no longer classified by fleets alone, but are organized by regiments, following the example of the glorious empire. Every 500 fleets are a legion, and the current regular corps of the Alliance Army has been organized to the hundredth, and the number is still increasing.

Of course, the combat effectiveness of the plant battleship is still a little weaker than the all-technology battleship of the humanoids. Therefore, the all-technology sixth-level fleet reorganization corps outside the plant fleet is also working overtime to build. However, the army was no longer an ordinary civilization, but a fleet of Amy, Kawa, and Wai soldiers. Now, after a year of hard work, the all-metal fleet has been installed in the tenth legion, which is nearly ten times slower than the plant fleet due to resource constraints. This is the main reason why the Alliance Army is so heavily equipped with the plant fleet.

Nowadays, the Golden Crow fleet can provide four types of warships, Type A is a battleship based on Terran technology, Type B is a plant battleship based on Greenskin technology, Type C is a crystal battleship based on silicon crystal technology, and Type D is a Zerg battleship based on Doze technology. However, the latter two types of warships are too different from human technology, there is no way to use them directly, and now several major academies of science are working day and night to tackle key problems, and strive to truly master these warship technologies, but so far no breakthrough has been made.

In fact, Chen Peilin had an idea a long time ago in his heart, that is, to integrate the technology of the five major races and walk out of the unique scientific and technological route of human beings. In the future, the warships to be built will not only have the strong combat power of A-type warships, but also have the convenience and speed of biological warships, as well as strong self-repair and regeneration capabilities.

However, the scientific and technological background of human beings is too poor, and it is not easy to make a breakthrough on the plant warship in five years, and Chen Peilin does not dare to force more. As for the transfer of scientists from several other fifth-level civilizations, it is even more impossible. Advanced technology is the foundation of human beings in the universe, and it is better to slow down than to bring hidden dangers to the development of human beings.

At the same time, large-scale infantry drills were also conducted simultaneously on several desolate planets within the star system. The large-scale offensive and defensive battle of armored forces, with the Xingtian Type 1 mecha as the vanguard, teams of soldiers equipped with alloy armor are in full swing attacking each other on the desolate planet. Plains, canyons, mountains...... Heavily armed legions are clashing on a variety of terrains at all times.

Not only on the surface of the planet, but also inside the warship, large-scale boarding assault drills are also in full swing. The soldiers who played the defender and the attacker had a fierce confrontation at the starport of each large warship, and the inside of the battleship was scorched black by the lasers used in the exercise, but fortunately, the high-grade alloy has high resistance to light energy weapons, and if it was a fourth-level civilization warship, it would have been hit with thousands of holes.

The training cost of the army is much lower than that of the ship-based troops, and in several large-scale wars, the role of the army is very low, mainly as a defense force in the ship. Therefore, more than once there was a proposal within the military council to abolish the huge army units and reduce them all into carrier-based defense forces. However, Chen Peilin has his own ideas and is prepared, especially when he has spare strength, and the establishment of army units is not an unacceptable problem.

Now, the Golden Crow fleet has not left the galaxy, and the pattern is too small to limit the vision of the high-level, who knows what will happen after it goes out. Therefore, at Chen Peilin's insistence, the army units not only did not decrease, but continued to expand. The establishment of the army has also undergone the latest reorganization and standardization, with squads, squadrons, and brigades forming grass-roots combat units, and then establishing grass-roots command centers with battalions as units, with combat brigades on them, and then directly to the corps, then to the corps, and then by the corps to form strike corps, each of which is composed of 150 million soldiers.

In fact, since the Golden Crow fleet left Earth, the size of the army has been constantly adjusted. There is no way to do this, the military establishment of the interstellar era is definitely completely different from that of the planetary era, Chen Peilin has no place to learn from them at this point, everything has to be explored by themselves. Moreover, it is certain that this kind of adjustment will definitely not be the last, and it is not certain that there will be an even greater adjustment of the military system in the future according to actual needs.

After more than three years of continuous expansion, according to the data obtained so far, the army forces of the entire alliance have expanded to a terrifying number of 300 billion, but it is completely insignificant compared to the hundreds of civilizations that make up the alliance and the countless command creature base. You must know that just a stronger fourth-level civilization within the alliance has a much larger number of regular armies than these, but the combat effectiveness is up for debate.

The buzzing sound of the "buzzing ......" personal terminal called Chen Peilin back from the exciting military drill, and after a brief look, he called Zhuge Wushuang and Zhang Zheng and a large number of henchmen to hurry back to the command center.

"The Ancient Dynasty has invaded the hinterland of the glorious empire, and the galaxy has completely become the inland of the Ancient Dynasty. Before the Zarians come back to the Great Purge, we need to get out of here as soon as possible......"