After careful consideration and the opinions of fourteen captains, Lü Jian finally chose to compete with the Americans for the Gliese 581.

The vast majority of the officers and men of the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force have a deep blood feud with the Outer Skeletons, and if it were not for the support of hatred, most of the members of the First Fleet would not have taken the initiative to sign up for the Expeditionary Force.

Such an army is destined to become the sharpest spear and can never become a defended army.

Although the Second Fleet also wanted to fight for the mission of Gliese 581, the headquarters of the Celestial Army finally chose the First Fleet, which had relatively rich combat experience.

Having determined the objectives of the next mission, the fleet immediately began intensive preparations. Due to the increase in speed, it is no longer difficult for the Earth to supply the space of the adjacent star, and the goal of this mission is far away from twenty light years, and it is relatively difficult to replenish, so the Second Fleet handed over a large amount of combat readiness materials to the First Fleet, filling all the warehouses of the First Fleet.

At the same time, the First Fleet began to carry out comprehensive repairs and maintenance of its warships except the Hengshan to keep them in the best condition. In addition, it is necessary to modify the Yuanwang to a certain extent, and increase the flight speed of the Yuanwang, so that it can fly with the main force.

At the same time that the Second Fleet sent a large number of personnel to help, it launched a top-down poaching operation, and the commander of the fleet, Zheng Guo, personally approached Lu Jian's door, hoping to exchange a group of officers and men with actual combat experience from the First Fleet to improve the combat effectiveness of the Second Fleet.

Lu Jian was very dissatisfied with Zheng Guo's poaching and explicitly refused, but Zheng Guo actually stabbed the matter to the headquarters of the Heavenly Army. And with the big hat of imparting experience and improving the combat effectiveness of friendly forces, it actually received the support of the headquarters of the Celestial Army.

Lu Jian had to support the decision of the headquarters, but the headquarters couldn't just transfer all the combat backbones of the First Fleet with a single order, right? After all, the First Fleet is the most effective force of the Expeditionary Force—and the only one that has engaged in a series of battles with the Outer Skeletons.

Zheng Guo asked himself where to go, he was absolutely not sure that he would finish the Battle of Proxima Centauri without sinking any of the warships, and on this basis, he had to dig up a few people.

The two sides disputed, and finally the Heavenly Army Headquarters mediated as a peacemaker, and Lu Jian no longer stopped Zheng Guo's poaching, but in order to take care of Lu Jian's emotions. It's not about giving it to whoever you want. The Second Fleet can only be transferred to the Second Fleet if it is of his own free will, and the total number must be strictly controlled, and the combat effectiveness of the First Fleet must never be affected.

Such conditions are acceptable to both parties and want to go. Barely left today. Sooner or later, I also leave. If you don't want to go, you can't leave.

Zheng Guo was also very satisfied and was promoted. Settle family members, the conditions are opened casually, and you don't believe that you can't dig people!

The open and secret battle between the two fleets was put on the table, and it spread throughout the whole army almost instantly, and there was no shortage of movers in the first fleet, but Zheng Guo didn't want everyone, combined with the combat record of the Battle of Proxima Centauri, he locked a group of excellent commanders, and Ye Fei's name was among the best.

A single ship drags the bone mound and finally annihilates it, who doesn't want such a commander?

Zheng Guo personally talked to Ye Fei, and promised a bunch of generous conditions.

Ye Fei was thrilled when he heard it, but there were brothers on the Yangtze River who shared life and death, and since the formation of the First Fleet, Lu Jian also took care of him, and after thinking about it, he finally regretfully refused.

Zheng Guo felt a pity more than Ye Fei himself, and kept slandering Lu Jian for what shit luck he had.

Not only Ye Fei, but none of the other middle and senior officers locked by Zheng Guo agreed to be transferred to the Second Fleet, and there were a few lieutenant-level officers who were willing, but the number was too small, and it was a drop in the bucket.

The disappointed Zheng Guo simply came to cast a wide net to catch more fish, and only then did he dig up a few more people, but the highest rank was only a major, and none of the commandos who shined in the Battle of Proxima Centauri did not catch any of them, which disappointed Commander Zheng very much.

On June 22, 2205, Proxima Centauri's defense system suddenly detected a large number of space fluctuations caused by faster-than-light flight, and the early warning system immediately transmitted the news back to the fleet, which immediately stopped recuperating and entered a state of combat readiness.

Soon, a fleet was out of the faster-than-light state and appeared within range of the Centaur binary. The familiar streamlined appearance of the opponent's battleship made all the expeditionary officers and soldiers stunned, how could it be the giant whale class?

Through the real-time footage sent back by the early warning system, the expeditionary force found the Russian Aerospace Forces logo under the bow of the incoming ship, which confirmed the identity of the other party.

Could it be that the Russians have created another batch of improved giant whale classes?

Proxima Centauri is a springboard out of the solar system, and it is not surprising that the Russians have ideas, and there is no habitable planet here, there is no need to grab territory, and it does not belong to the first-come, first-served principle in the Moscow agreement, and does not have the conditions to occupy an extra-seclave enclave, so any country has the right to anchor and station after entering Proxima Centauri.

More than one person in the expeditionary force with closed information thought so, but Lu Jian and Zheng Guo were both people who understood and were faintly aware of each other's origins.

After all, they are in the same galaxy, and besides, the alliance has not been disbanded, and the two sides belong to the alliance, so they have to say hello. The Hengshan, which completed the maintenance of the whole ship ahead of schedule due to the faster-than-light experiment, immediately sailed to Shuangxing and was ordered to contact the other party and inquire about the other party's intentions.

After two days of full-speed flight, the Hengshan approached the Russian army, and after closing the distance, Yu Haiyi suddenly found that the Russian warship was damaged, and after careful inquiry and communication, it was finally confirmed that the other party was the remnants of the Russian expeditionary force sent to Wolf 359.

The Russian expeditionary force set out in July 2203 and arrived at Wolf 359 in June 2204.

The time was 9:23 a.m. on July 7, 2204.

Since then, mankind has only been able to get a little bit of information about the Russian Expeditionary Force through mechanical civilization, and has never directly restored contact with the Russian Expeditionary Force. I didn't expect them to appear on Proxima Centauri a year later!

Through further communication, the expeditionary force finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

The Russian expeditionary force withdrew from the battlefield after its defeat, and the Outer Bone Man was in hot pursuit. The last is still the pioneer of mechanical civilization, Jiu, who responded, and then escaped from the ascension.

After that, the whole army tried its best to rescue the battleship, but the total number of lost battleships was still more than half, but the Outer Bone Man seemed to have little interest in the Russian sunken battleship, so the Russian army hid, and soon after the Outer Bone Man left, the Russian army returned to the battlefield to search for survivors, and dismantled the equipment that was still usable on the sunken battleship, and repaired several battleships in a patchwork manner.

The face-saving polar bear lost the battle and refused to return directly to Earth. Hear from Pioneer Nine about the arrival of another human fleet on Proxima Centauri. That's when I made up my mind to fly to Proxima Centauri...... To put it bluntly, he just didn't have the face to go back to Earth and ran to Proxima Centauri for comfort.

Encountering such a two-person commander really made Lu Jian cry and laugh. As an ally, you can't leave it alone. It feels like a group of poor relatives who can't beat the eight poles suddenly come to my house.

However, the news brought back by the Russian army made Lu Jian and Zheng Guo have to pay attention to it - according to the Russian army. Originally, they wanted to stay at Wolf 359 for a while, but the arrival of another group of exoskeletons forced them to leave early.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force has eliminated two exoskeleton colonies. This is the third exoskeleton colony to have the exact news!

Lu Jian discussed with Zheng Guo, and jointly reported the situation to the headquarters of the Heavenly Army, and informed the remnants of the Russian Expeditionary Force.

The headquarters of the Celestial Army quickly replied: The First Fleet will be carried out according to the original plan, and the Second Fleet will guard Proxima Centauri.

In the reply, he clearly asked Lu Jian to help the friendly forces improve their combat effectiveness as much as possible, and conveyed the secret letter sent by the Russian side to the Russian Expeditionary Force.

Obviously, the First Fleet's record of three cities in a row gave the headquarters great confidence, believing that the current strength of the expeditionary force, one fleet is enough to fight against an outer bone group, and the second fleet will have no problem holding Proxima Centauri.

It's a pity that Zheng Guo himself doesn't think so, he thinks that the victory of the First Fleet has too many chances to be replicated, so another round of crazy poaching unfolds again.

On July 23, 2205, after a month and a half of 34 times the speed of light, the supply ship Pengzehu arrived in the solar system, in order to prevent other countries from discovering the Pengzehu return, and then discover the secret of faster-than-light flight, the Pengzehu secretly docked at the base of Saturn, loaded with additional light-speed torpedoes and some small faster-than-light engines...... The time is too short, despite the full efforts of the Saturn base, it only produces two hundred and seventy small faster-than-light engines, and the gap is as high as more than a hundred, and the combat intensity of the fighters is large, and the small faster-than-light engines are the same as the fighter engines, and there must be a part of the balance reserve in case of emergency, so the actual shortfall is far more than this number.

For the sake of safety, the Pengzehu carried out a comprehensive maintenance at the Saturn base, after all, the Saturn base is the largest outer space base of the Celestial Army, and the support strength is extremely strong, in just five days, the sixteen-kilometer-long giant ship was renovated, and even carried out a small transformation, adding two fusion reactors specially designed to power the faster-than-light engine in the ship!

That is, the supply ship has enough space in the ship, so that it can find a suitable space for installing the reactor, and it will not have the conditions for transformation at all if it is replaced by other warships.

In the space of six days, the production line of the Saturn base added more than 60 small faster-than-light engines to Pengzehu, and the gap was reduced by half.

On August 9, 2205, the Pengzehu finally set sail with a full load after 17 days of berthing and left the solar system for the second time.

However, Penzehu did not fly to Proxima Centauri, but to Gliese 581 in Libra!

Libra is located at 15h right ascension, declination -15 degrees; Proxima Centauri is located at 13h right ascension, declination -50 degrees.

Although the two constellations are not at the same angle, the direction is very different, if the earth and the two are drawn into a triangle, the position of Proxima Centauri is exactly at the largest obtuse angle!

From Proxima Centauri to Gliese 581, the distance is about 17 light years, and the distance from Earth to there is about 20.4 light years, so Penzer Lake has to go first.

On August 17, 2205, the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force completed maintenance and left Proxima Centauri, and the fleet did not fly directly to Gliese 581, but headed perpendicular to the line between Earth and Gliese 581.

On September 9, 2205, the Pengzehu was the first to reach the meeting coordinates at a speed of forty times the speed of light.

On September 12, 2205, the main force of the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force arrived at the converging coordinates, and the fleet was fully loaded. Direct flight to Gliese 581.

In late October 2205, a second group of exoskeletons from Wolf-359 landed on Proxima Centauri.

The Second Fleet attempted to emulate the light-speed torpedo tactics, but failed to hit the bone mound, which appeared intact in the Centaur α Triad and was met head-on by the Chinese and Russian expeditionary forces.

The fleets of the two countries worked closely together, and after more than a month of joint killing, by the end of November, most of the group's main fleet had been annihilated, and because of the flexible and mobile guerrilla tactics, the Second Fleet of the expeditionary force had lost only one destroyer. The Russian army due to the poor performance of its warships. The loss of twelve ships was nothing compared to the enemy's forces.

During this period, Zheng Guo deliberately repeated the victory experience of the First Fleet. But asteroid impact tactics failed to help. The second launch of the light-speed torpedo hit the target. Heavy damage to the bone mound, compared to the hit in the faster-than-light state, the damage is not satisfactory. It was far from meeting Zheng Guo's psychological expectations.

In the end, he had no choice but to give up the illusion of winning by surprise, and honestly use his best fighting tactics to drag down the enemy.

The battle lasted thirty-seven days, known as the Second Battle of Proxima Centauri, not because it was another victory over the Outer Skeletons, but because it opened the dawn of the enemy's defense beyond the galaxy.

Although it is unsatisfactory, victory is victory, Zheng Guo raised his eyebrows in this battle, and finally annihilated the outer bone group with his own strength, and did not let Lu Jian specialize in the front - the dozens of warships of the Russian army, if they want speed or not, they want firepower without firepower, they can't help at all, they are simply to mix experience, and they are privately called by the expeditionary force: the soy sauce party expeditionary force.

However, the Russian side does not think so, at least the Russian Expeditionary Force participated in the whole battle, so it has made exaggerated reports, exaggerated the achievements of the battle, and publicly commended the outstanding personnel in the battle.

Although it is understandable to use exaggerated means to boost the morale of the military and civilians in the country, in the eyes of those who are familiar with the inside situation, it is inevitable that the polar bear is doing it.

Fortunately, the morale of the Russian side has been unprecedentedly high, and Russia, as one of the three major space powers, has regained its passion, which is a good thing for all mankind, but there is no stupid person who knows but does not have a long brain, and jumps out at this time to splash cold water, which can be regarded as a small face for the Russians - the insiders are basically all people from the Chinese military, with a few exceptions, they are also high-level government officials, and all of them belong to the category of people with high political consciousness.

In the blink of an eye, it was a new year, and on February 12, 2206, a bright colorful light flashed in the distant void, and then sixteen giant ships appeared one by one.

Yanjing, the flagship of the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force, Lu Jian sat on the command chair with a golden sword, and scolded Fang Xuan with pride: "Confirm the position of the fleet!" ”

"Confirm the position of the fleet...... Confirmed arrival at the periphery of Gliese 581, 25 AU from the target! Hu Bin was full of passion, his voice did not fall, and the command was jubilant......

"It's finally here, it's finally here!" Hu Bin clenched his fists, unable to suppress the excitement in his heart.

Twenty light-years away is beyond imagination, and humans have never sailed so far, nor have they been able to set foot in such a distant region. No matter how precise the direction of the fleet is when it sets sail, there will be a lot of small yaw after a long distance of light years.

For the first time, the expeditionary force broke away from the faster-than-light state, yawed for more than half a light-year, and then successively made fourteen course corrections before finally reaching the vicinity of the target.

At this point, the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force finally appeared on the periphery of the planetary system Gliese 581.

Lu Jian once asked Hu Bin why he had such a strange name as Gliese 581, instead of names like Proxima Centauri and Sirius.

Hu Bin's answer is very interesting, he said that astronomers have always lacked romantic factors, such as Jupiter's great red spot, Neptune's great black spot, the name is straightforward and clear, without the slightest embellishment and beautification.

Even the only astronomical phenomena in the solar system cannot escape this law, let alone the asteroids and red dwarfs all over the universe - red dwarfs have extremely long lifespans, some can even reach a trillion years, far exceeding the lifetime of the sun in 10 billion years, and the lifespan of massive stars is even only a million years!

As a result, 70 percent of the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs, and most red dwarfs are less than one-third of the diameter and mass of the Sun, and their largest is only about half of the Sun, and the light released is much weaker than that of the Sun.

There are countless stars in the sky, and it is impossible to name them one by one, so the method of replacing them with numbers has naturally become the mainstream.

Gliese 581 is taken from the Gliese Near-Star Catalog, which was written in 1957 by the German astronomer Wilhelm? Gliese published a catalog of 915 stars 20 parsecs from Earth, or 65 light-years.

Gliese 581 is just a red dwarf star with a mass of about one-third of the Sun and a diameter equal to 30 percent of the Sun's diameter. Although at the beginning of the 21st century, humans discovered that there may be habitable planets here, and in the middle of the 21st century, the existence of habitable planets was proved, and in the astronomical community, there has been no independent name for this planetary system.

Lu Jian was not as excited as he imagined, and calmly ordered: "Adjust the direction immediately...... Target the planetary system inside! ”

"Adjust the direction, target the planetary system within the ...... Orientation adjusted! ”

"Departure...... Start exploring the galaxy now! "Twenty-five astronomical units are not worth another faster-than-light flight, and Lu Jian simply ordered to approach the target in a conventional way.

"Report, a high-speed non-celestial body has been found ahead, and the distance is 1.6 astronomical units!" The fleet flew only two astronomical units before an accident.

"Evade it now!" Lu Jian ordered urgently.

"Left Rudder Seven!" Xu Dong ordered.

"Seven degrees left...... Don't turn around and approach us! Distance: 1.2 AU...... Confirm that the other party is not a natural celestial body! ”

"Sound the battle alarm and prepare for battle!" (To be continued......)

PS: Today's chapter is mainly transitional content, if you expand the writing, you can write 50,000 at least, but it's not interesting to pour so much water, so try to be as brief as possible, and start writing new content tomorrow.

In addition, the book friend Atlantis found a mistake, the naming of the Chinese fighter is the beginning of the word J, that is, J-440, not F-440, so the F-447 in the previous chapter was changed to J-447, and the F440 will not be changed because there are too many, please understand.