May 20, 2205.

After the short vacation made all the officers and soldiers who had just been reunited with their relatives reluctant, but there was no more time to rest, and after the expeditionary force returned to work, the high-morale expeditionary force launched a new round of all-out encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the alien fleet of centaurs α.

In order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy at the forward base, this time Lu Jian did not dare to put the Yuanwang in the seemingly safe rear, but ordered the Yuanwang to follow the whole process and stay with the supply ship.

In the event of a critical situation, the Yuanwang will directly enter a faster-than-light state to get out of danger - the Yuanwang is an armed migrant ship, and although the weapons on board the ship cannot be compared to the serious 800 warships, it can deal with ten or eight biological warships.

It's just that the Yuanwang carries not only the relatives of the soldiers, but also the bonds in everyone's hearts, and all the officers and soldiers of the expeditionary force, including Lu Jian, do not want the Yuanwang to engage the enemy.

Relieved of their worries, the soldiers took the lead bravely and swept away the enemy's main force in one go, but unfortunately they failed to completely annihilate the enemy and were fled by an unknown number of scattered enemy troops. The expeditionary force had to take the elimination of the remnants of the enemy as a supplement and extension of the overall combat plan, and expand the battle to the entire planetary system.

The fleeing enemy army can only be regarded as a small fight, and dispatching warships to encircle and suppress it is simply a cannon to fight mosquitoes, no matter how you look at it, it is not cost-effective. Fortunately, the North has returned to the team, and nearly 200 heavy fighters of the two fighter wings have attacked everywhere, pouring out the scattered enemy troops, which really makes Wu Ting out of the limelight.

The 10-point-long 4-kilometer-long North Aerospace Carrier carries four divisions of improved air-space fighters and one division of support aviation divisions, with a total of more than 500 fighters.

Among them, the main model is the F-447 heavy fighter. It is an improved version of the F-440, with a record fuselage length of 64.21 meters, which is 21 meters longer than the landing craft used by commandos.

The new fighter has changed the tradition, eliminating the recoil engine and the steering system that occupies a lot of space in the aircraft, and replacing it with a domestic magnetic engine and a supporting small fusion reactor, and the increased fuselage length is to accommodate the new power equipment.

The armament has also been greatly improved, and the weapon compartment under the belly can be quickly replaced with different built-in compartments to achieve rapid conversion of weapons. The Type A cabin is equipped with two laser cannons. Type B is an electromagnetic cannon.

Originally, there was also the design of the C-type microwave gun, but the shielding of the microwave of the fighter was not very good, and the high-power microwave could penetrate the shell of the fighter, and it did not wait for the enemy ship to be cooked. Just roasted the pilot first. It is therefore outlawed.

The first large-scale sortie of the Northern startled everyone. After a brief acceleration after jumping out of the mothership, the four leading fighters actually disappeared into the colorful glimmer one after another, entering a faster-than-light state. caused everyone to exclaim.

Later, everyone learned that these four fighters are still in the experimental stage of the F-447S, equipped with a domestic superluminal engine, but unfortunately the processing technology of human beings is much worse than that of mechanical civilization, and the maximum speed of the fighter can only reach 5.6 times the speed of light, and no matter how fast it is, there is a danger of disintegration.

However, this improvement alone injected a shot of strength into the air force, which was gradually showing its weakened state; during the 20-day encirclement and suppression operation, the number of enemy destroyed by these four fighters reached more than half of the total number of enemy destroyed by the Beibei, and after accurate calculation, the number of downs of the four experimental fighters reached 67 percent of the total number of air force downs.

This data really shocked all the officers and men participating in the war.

Not only were the battleship soldiers surprised, but the other pilots of the ship were also very enthusiastic about the neat row of red crash marks on the four experimental fighters - with one more superluminal engine, the maneuverability of the fighters would be drastically changed, and the number of downs would be indispensable for any one person.

Unfortunately, only the best pilots are qualified to fly the experimental type.

On June 10, 2205, the twenty-day encirclement and suppression battle officially came to an end, and although the battle involved all the star fields of the Centaur α all three stars, the official report continued to use the name of Proxima Centauri, the military's battle plan, and recorded it in history as the first battle of mankind out of the solar system.

The polar bear has a completely different view of this, insisting that the first battle of mankind out of the solar system was the battle of Wolf 359 started by the Russian expeditionary force, but the disastrous defeat of the Russian expeditionary force leaked all the confidence of the polar bear, but Russia is still one of the three major space nations after all, and finally the battle of Proxima Centauri was named "the first victorious battle of mankind out of the solar system".

The battle of the Russian Expeditionary Force and Wolf 359 was summed up in an understatement of "the first battle of mankind outside the solar system", which finally left a few feet of fig leaf for the polar bear.

Although there is still no news from the American Expeditionary Force, no matter how you look at it, the American Expeditionary Force does not have the strength and luck to annihilate the three bone mounds in one battle.

The Russian army, having learned from the pain, worked hard and submitted new fleet drawings to the Vanguard IV.

Russia's technical strength is not much worse than anyone else's, but the stubborn ideology limits their imagination, the success of the Chinese expeditionary force has opened a door to success for a large number of unambitious Russian technical personnel, and the new warships have carried out drastic technical improvements with reference to the achievements of the Chinese side, but whether they succeed or not still needs to be tested in actual combat, and in a short period of time, the Pioneer Four has no spare strength to build new warships for the Russian side.

The situation in the United States is similar, and the Yankees have used their usual super imagination to design warships far superior to the Chinese giant ships in terms of size and armament.

The Russian expeditionary force was defeated and lost, and could not afford to lose the next battle, so their new plan was relatively conservative, and the weapons designed on the ships were all from mature weapon systems, but the power was greatly improved.

The Americans, on the other hand, once again took their romantic ideas to the limit, and proposed a variety of fancy science fiction weapons in their plans, such as plasma guns, black hole gravity guns, molecular fission guns, antimatter missiles, etc., neutron cannons, proton cannons, etc., which are simply petty fights.

These weapons can theoretically become a reality, but no one can say what the combat effectiveness will be.

For the general public. The shipbuilding plans of various countries are top secrets, but for powerful powers, even if they do not have a complete set of drawings, it is not difficult to grasp some of the data.

The Russian warships are decent, and it can only be said that they are conservative and improved, but the American warships are too wild, and so many weapons that only exist in theories and laboratories have to be installed on the new warships, which can't help but make everyone wait and see - the next step that is easy to use can be borrowed and borrowed, and the Americans will naturally be used as experiments if they are not good.

In addition to the three major spacefaring nations, the countries of Europe are finally united under strong pressure. A close political union based on the European Union. Sharing skills and resources, he officially joined the Space Race and submitted the ship's design drawings to Pioneer IV.

Who doesn't want to borrow the shareholder style of Pioneer Four?

The four pioneers did not refuse. Just very clearly informed the EU. You have to wait in line. When the battleships in front will be built before they can be built for the EU.

For mechanical civilization, the stronger the human being, the better.

It's a pity that all the countries don't know the secrets of the faster-than-light engine. All warships are still designed for a maximum speed of 9.2 times the speed of light, and these ships are destined to be inherently short and short-legged.

At the same time, the Chinese military has also launched a big move, abandoning the practice of only recruiting its own citizens, and recruiting professional soldiers from all over the world, as long as the conditions are right, anyone can apply to join the Chinese Expeditionary Force Foreign Legion and become a part of the resistance to the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations.

There is no special treatment for Chinese servicemen, but after the expiration of the service period or after reaching a certain number of years, they can unconditionally join the Chinese nationality and become a member of the great Chinese nation. It is also possible to choose to leave after financial compensation.

Although China's strength leads the world, it is not far away from the United States and Russia, and this announcement has little appeal to the United States and Russia, but for Europe and other underdeveloped countries, it is like a pie in the sky.

See the conditions? Anyone can apply, which means that active duty military personnel from various countries can apply too!

For the Chinese military, this is an opportunity to absorb high-quality soldiers from all over the world, but for less developed countries, why not an opportunity to learn more about China's Celestial Army?

The proposal remained a secret until it was made public.

The military was also forced to do so.

Since the formation of the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force in early 2204, the Mechanical Civilization has handed over five batches of warships to the Chinese Celestial Army, a total of 70 giant ships, but only the First and Second Fleets of the Expeditionary Force and the remaining fleet of the solar system have been fully manned.

Because they did not have to leave the solar system and the home planet Earth, many officers and men chose to serve in the left-behind fleet, so up to now, only two fleets have actually been formed by the expeditionary force, and although the 28 huge ships of the remaining two fleets have been assigned officers to set up shelves, there are still a large number of posts lacking manpower, and the shortage is as high as 40 percent!

Since the expeditionary force follows the route of elite soldiers, the military, in line with the principle of preferring shortage to abundance, would rather recruit recruits who voluntarily fight away from the solar system to start training from scratch than reluctantly reluctantly join the expeditionary force's active-duty officers and men. However, the Heavenly Army is a real high-tech military branch, and from enlistment to work, it must go through long-term technical training.

Beginning in 2200, the military recruits two groups of volunteers each year, in which soldiers enter the expeditionary force after two years of training, and volunteers with a technical foundation must undergo at least four years of professional training to become officers of the expeditionary force.

The newly trained officers and men of the Second Fleet of the Expeditionary Force accounted for 64 percent of the total!

The proportion of rookies who have never been on the battlefield is too large, and the combat effectiveness of the Second Fleet makes the headquarters of the Heavenly Army worried, but the Heavenly Army does not have so many mature officers and soldiers to replenish it, and even if it is a rookie, it is much better than nothing, and it can only let the Second Fleet gradually grow in battle.

Before the start of the Battle of Proxima Centauri, feeling the grim situation that was coming, the military originally planned to end the training ahead of schedule and form the Third Fleet of the Expeditionary Force on the basis of the officers and soldiers who had just completed their studies, so as to deal with the threat of the Outer Bone Man.

When immature officers and men are sent to the battlefield, they are not only irresponsible to the fleet, but also irresponsible for the lives of the officers and men.

In fact, the Chinese military has long considered recruiting foreign soldiers. However, due to national conditions, it has not been implemented. This time it was sent directly to the meeting of the Military Commission, at which the two sides for and against quarreled with each other, and the main consideration of the pro-side side was that the military reserve personnel was insufficient, and the follow-up expeditionary force fleet could be quickly established; The opponents feared that the hostile forces would send men to infiltrate our army.

After the most deaf, Nie Jianrong slapped the table at the meeting of the Central Military Commission: time does not wait, it is better to let people wait for equipment, not to let equipment wait for others, the times are advancing, the nation is integrating, let foreigners fight for the Chinese, let the children of the common people die a few less, what's wrong? The enemy will come if he loves it. Won't we censor? Will not be monitored? The Foreign Legion has been around for hundreds of years. Let's just worry about choking on this?

The final resolution was voted in favor by a show of hands, and was approved on the premise that a purely foreign legion would not be formed, but that trained foreign soldiers would be evenly distributed among the fighting units.

The decision also caused an uproar in the army, but the officers were concerned about how to manage it in the event that there were more foreigners under their command in the future. The soldiers were interested in having a few more high-eyebrow eyes in the ranks in the future. Even what does a dark-skinned guy look like...... It's just that no one cares about spies. There is a personal terminal, where the person is and what he has done is clearly recorded. Want to wreak havoc? How can it be that easy?

In any era, traitors are indispensable, and Chinese there is no shortage of those who sell military secrets, and foreigners are much more conspicuous than their own people, and they attract attention everywhere, but they are safer...... Moreover, it is highly unlikely that foreign soldiers will have access to classified duties, at least until loyalty is confirmed.

Small fights can be figured out without breaking into our army, and there is no need for people to make so much effort.

In just 24 hours, more than 200,000 applications were submitted from all over the world, and the number was constantly increasing.

After the initial screening of qualified applicants, the military's intelligence department immediately began to conduct a detailed investigation of the applicant's identity and background, even if it is from a foreign army, it does not matter, such fighters are easier to train, can join the army faster, the only thing that needs to be cautious is the applicant's political background, the application with Chinese blood or from friendly countries is easier to pass, and the dangerous elements who may be related to terrorist organizations, may be spies in other countries, have a criminal history and other bad records will be eliminated.

Considering the heavy casualties of the Russian-American immigrants in the Battle of Mars, applicants who have a blood feud with the Outer Bone are also given priority.

Not to mention the rights and wrongs on Earth, shortly after the end of the Proxima Centauri battleship, an application for the installation of faster-than-light engines on all F-447 fighters was sent to the Lunar Headquarters of the Space Army, with the signatures of Lu Jian and all the captains of the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force.

Retrofitting the engine is not a difficult task, and the F-447 has been designed with this in mind, leaving the necessary room for subsequent improvements. However, the earth did not have any improvement plan in this regard, and after receiving the report, he was stunned, and after several times of communication and understanding, he understood the cause and effect of this report.

It is also wrong and wrong, after the military has thoroughly understood the technology of the faster-than-light engine, it first trial-produced several small faster-than-light engines, with the purpose of verifying the results of the technology and laying the foundation for the design and manufacture of the next large-scale faster-than-light engine. After the verification is completed, these four fighters will end their historical use, but the fighters will be intact, and if they are thrown in the laboratory, the sky-high fighters will slowly decay. So they were simply handed over to the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force, along with the other fighters.

Unexpectedly, the four unexpectedly obtained fighters actually brought a glimmer of hope to the dying aerospace forces.

Once the fighter group of the expeditionary force has the ability to fly faster than light, it will definitely greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the fighters, and the north, which has an embarrassing position at the time, will have the opportunity to become the core warship of the expeditionary force again, so Wu Ting spares no effort to hope to promote this matter.

Although Lu Jian had the intention to suppress Wu Ting, he was even more pleased with the enhancement of the fleet's strength, so not only did he not block it, but continued to add bricks and tiles, and the two old rivals thought about it together, and the relationship between the two eased a lot.

In addition, Lu Jian made a request to the headquarters of the Celestial Army to replenish the light-speed torpedo and place the martyrs.

After a big victory, Lu Jian was full of confidence when he made his request, if the headquarters of the Heavenly Army didn't even agree to such a reasonable request, who would be willing to work hard in the future?

The fleet soon got a reply from headquarters. The faster-than-light engine used in the fighter can start production immediately, and the replenishment of light-speed torpedoes is no problem, but the Second Fleet of the expeditionary force has already departed, and the Third Fleet has not yet been formed, and even if the faster-than-light engine is produced, it will not be able to be sent to the First Fleet in a short time.

The same is true for light-speed torpedoes, fortunately, the Second Fleet is fully loaded, and four light-speed torpedoes can share half of the profit for Lu Jian's emergency.

The request to place the martyrs ran aground for the same reason, and Lu Jian was so angry that he scolded on the Yanjing for half an hour.

Isn't it just that there is no capacity? You don't, Lao Tzu does!

For the first time, Lu Jian acted arbitrarily. The Pengzehu was ordered to immediately transfer the ship's supplies to the Taihu. After emptying the battleship, bring the remains of the martyrs and their families back to the solar system, and then bring back the supplies needed by the fleet.

Although it was not experimental, the supply ship was equipped with twenty fusion reactors. The total power is second only to the capital ship. The theoretical upper limit of speed is higher than 34 times the speed of light. Moreover, when the empty ship sets sail, the speed should still have a certain bonus, and it will definitely be able to go back and forth in the shortest possible time.

June 14, 2205. The headquarters of the Celestial Army finally agreed to the return plan on the third day after Lu Jian's opinion, and the empty Pengzehu single ship sailed away from the fleet and headed for the solar system.

On June 15, 2205, the Second Fleet of the Expeditionary Force, which had accelerated in the middle of the process, arrived at Proxima Centauri ahead of schedule and successfully joined forces with the First Fleet.

After the meeting, the two fleets did not have unified command, and the headquarters of the Celestial Army highly affirmed Lu Jian's idea of using Proxima Centauri as a springboard for human beings to go deep into the universe, and decided to establish a permanent large-scale forward base on Proxima Centauri, and in addition, the next tasks of the first and second fleets of the expeditionary force were also issued at the same time.

One is to garrison Proxima Centauri to escort the establishment of the new base, as part of the solar system's defense system, and in the process of establishing the base, send warships to Wolf-359 and Sirius, and arrange a network of long-range early warning bodies, so as to provide accurate information about the enemy in time when the enemy enters these two galaxies - the exoskeleton army comes from the constellation Perseus, which happens to be located in the direction of these two stars.

However, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, in the case of mechanical civilization, the distribution of the Outer Bone Man can reach a three-dimensional space of fifty light years, and the Outer Bone Man does not necessarily have to come from this direction, so the establishment of the Wolf 359-Sirius early warning system is only the first step, and the next step is to continue to complete Barnard's Star, WISE1049-5319, Laland 21185, Rutan 726-8, WISE1541-2250, Ross 154 and Ross 248, The construction of the early warning system for the stars around the solar system such as Tianyuan IV will eventually include all 50 stars about 16 light-years away from the solar system in the early warning system, establish a complete spherical early warning space, and firmly guard the solar system in the center.

Due to the significant increase in the speed of light, the completion time of this early warning system will be greatly shortened, and perhaps after the completion of the early warning range, the early warning range will be further expanded, and at that time, human beings will be able to carry out a wide range of maneuvers with a limited fleet to resist the continuous invasion of the outer skeletons!

The second is to sail to Gliese 581 to occupy the habitable planet there before the Americans arrive.

According to the first-come, first-served principle of the Moscow Memorandum reached between China, the United States and Russia, as long as the expeditionary force reached Gliese 581 before the Americans, the habitable planet there could be legally incorporated into Chinese territory.

And occupying Gliese 581 in the constellation Libra is only the first step, there is also a star Gliese 667C in Scorpio not far from Gliese 581, where there is a potential migration planet Gliese 667Cc, the distance between the two stars is extremely close, and both are located in the southern sky star map, the direction is exactly the opposite direction of the outer bone man, if it were not for the temptation of the two habitable planets, the Yankees would not have directly sent an expeditionary force to seize it.

China and Russia were very annoyed by the fact that the Americans gave up blocking the preemption of the aliens, and now that they have the opportunity to retaliate in a reasonable and reasonable way, how can the military and the government give up this hard-won opportunity?

As for the reaction of the Yankees...... The truth is only within the range of the artillery, if you don't have the strength, shut your mouth, when the strength exceeds the Chinese Expeditionary Force, it's not too late to speak again!

But by that time, the Chinese occupation will become a fait accompli, and the Americans will have no choice but to go to war but to knock out their teeth and swallow blood...... With the increase in the strength of the Americans, will the Chinese Celestial Army, which has always been in the lead, stagnate?

Regardless of population, technology, or economy, the Americans are all lagging behind, so what can they do to confront China? (To be continued......)

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