The so-called investigation report is the meaning of soliciting opinions, and Ye Fei left this matter behind after submitting his opinions to the headquarters, and did not take this matter to heart at all.

New Year's Day 2209.

Despite the limited conditions, the Aquila, which was still in faster-than-light flight, held a festival with military characteristics for the first day of the new year, and every such holiday break was a day of complaint from the veterans, who would rather train as usual than be exhausted by all kinds of boring group activities on their rest days.

It was also on this day that Ye Fei received a notice from the headquarters that the three traditional branches of the army, navy, and air force would be officially abolished from now on, and most of the personnel of the three major services and arms would be merged into the Heavenly Army.

After the reorganization, the Ministry of National Defense will remain the highest command organ of the military, the establishment of the headquarters of the Space Forces will be abolished, and all personnel will be merged into the Ministry of National Defense as they are, and it will be renamed the Strategic Command Center of the Space Forces, which will be responsible for the strategic command of the Space Forces.

Wu Han, commander of the Heavenly Army, was appointed as the director of the Strategic Command Center, and others also made corresponding arrangements, and basically the strategic command center was synonymous with changing the signboard of the Heavenly Army Headquarters and changing the soup without changing the medicine.

The strategic command center has jurisdiction over the four main arms of the space fleet, the space air force, the space force marines, and the planetary defense force, and the four major arms are expected to transfer 70 percent of the personnel of the army, navy, and air force.

The remaining personnel of the three branches of the armed services will either be abolished or reorganized into armed police forces for maintaining law and order, but because of the huge establishment of the three branches of the armed forces, the reorganization plan is expected to end by mid-2209, and the three branches of the armed forces will complete their historical mission by that time. Officially retired from the stage of history.

This plan involves a large number of problems and an unprecedented scope of scope, but this time the military is determined to dismantle all the services and arms that have consumed a large amount of military expenditure but have limited combat effectiveness, and concentrate resources on the blade of the heavenly army.

However, for the three major services, the situation is completely different.

In the course of this restructuring, all officers on active duty will be given the necessary training and assessment, and the principle of promoting those who are capable will be promoted to those who are mediocre and those who are mediocre will be demoted, and those who can adapt to their new posts will continue to stay in the troops. Those who cannot keep up with the pace of military change will be discharged from active service.

The destination of the senior command staff is basically retirement. Priority is given to mid-level commanders in the armed police force, while junior commanders in the prime of life are far more receptive to new things than old men with rigid brains, and can basically reach the level of adaptation to new posts through training.

It must be explained that for more than 100 years since the establishment of the Heavenly Army, the biggest reason for restricting the size of the Heavenly Army is not military spending or resources. It's that there aren't enough people to be found—the overall number of human beings is huge. But humans have always been terrestrial creatures. There are not many people who can adapt to weightlessness and low gravity.

In the end, the military made up its mind to break the shackles of artificial gravity, with artificial gravity, humans can live in warships as if they were living on the surface. The requirements for physical fitness of the Heavenly Army were greatly reduced, and the soldiers of the Army, Navy and Air Force were cleared of obstacles to joining the Heavenly Army.

In this way, the problem of insufficient manpower in the Celestial Army will be fundamentally solved!

You must know that although the strength of the Dao Heavenly Army is the best in the whole army, because it has always taken the elite line, the number of people is the smallest among several major military branches, and the reorganized Heavenly Army, not to mention the personnel of the eight fleets, even if there are eighty fleets, as long as they can be built, they are worthy of manpower!

It is completely foreseeable that the size and strength of the Celestial Army will achieve a historic leap forward in the near future.

There have also been considerable changes in the space forces, but the reorganization and reorganization of personnel does not involve fleets that are fighting on the front line, and the contents related to the forward fleet are to abolish the establishment of the existing expeditionary force, integrate and reorganize the various fleets, and rationally adjust the composition and command of the existing combat units.

To put it in more detail, it is to carry out the previous plan to phase out the giant warships equipped by the expeditionary force and replace them with the Skyhawk class and the Harrier Eagle class.

However, because only one new warship is currently in service, the Aquila still uses the name of a task force ship for the time being, and is directly under the command of the strategic command center.

Ye Fei completely imagined that the current local area must be a piece of chickens and dogs, but the long pain is better than the short pain, human beings need to develop into space, and it is a matter of time before they take this step.

If it weren't for the appearance of the Outer Bone Man, the merger of various branches of the armed forces might have dragged on for dozens or hundreds of years, but now, this process has been greatly advanced.

A series of major moves by the Chinese military have caused an international uproar, and various military powers, led by the United States and Russia, have also discovered the weakness of the traditional military after the establishment of the Celestial Army, but so far no one has dared to stand up and be the first to eat crabs. Therefore, all countries have maintained a high degree of concern about China's military reform and hope to draw relevant lessons from it.

In fact, the core of China's reform is to expand the space army, and the rest is simply a compromise made to accommodate surplus personnel, which is just a dispensable foil.

February 2, 2209, the Giant Galaxy.

After more than forty days of full-speed flight, the Aquila finally arrived at the Giant Galaxy, and after flying away from the speed of light, Ye Fei, who couldn't wait, contacted Lu Jian, the old superior of the First Fleet, as soon as possible.

Although the number of the expeditionary force has been revoked, the reorganization can only be carried out until the fleet returns to the mainland, so the fleet under Lu Jian still bears the title of the first fleet.

Ye Fei was very familiar with the communication code of the First Fleet, and he didn't need to transfer it from the communication center at all, and directly established a communication connection with the Yanjing.

The communications staff officer of the First Fleet Command suddenly received an access request for an unfamiliar communication number, and he didn't even think about connecting the communication, and Ye Fei's bust suddenly jumped into his eyes: "Captain Ye? The communications staff officer was amazed.

He is the old man of the First Fleet, since the personnel on the Yangtze River left the Giant Star with the transport ship two years ago, he has never been in contact with Ye Fei's news, but he didn't expect to receive Ye Fei's communication today!

The communications staff officer saw the rank of colonel on Pilot Ye's shoulder at a glance, and hurriedly greeted: "Captain Ye has been promoted to colonel?" Congratulations! ”

Ye Fei smiled reservedly: "Rejoice and rejoice!" Staff Officer Liao, is the commander here? "At the time of the First Fleet. Ye Fei had a lot of dealings with Staff Officer Liao, who was in charge of communications at the headquarters, because Ye Fei spoke very casually and never put on the captain's shelf, and the two were close in age and familiar with each other.

"The commander is here, I'll help you turn around immediately!"

Ye Fei's screen went black, and in the blink of an eye, Staff Officer Liao's image disappeared, replaced by Lu Jian's tired appearance.

Lu Jian breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ye Fei: "Ye Fei, you kid has finally arrived." "The rest of the fleet didn't know Ye Fei's current situation, but as a vice admiral commander of the First Fleet. As early as when Ye Fei was appointed as the commander of the Aquila. I received a notification from the headquarters of the Heavenly Army.

Moreover, not long ago, the headquarters also informed him that the Aquila was about to rush to the Giant Star to support the First Fleet, and seeing his old subordinates getting ahead, Lu Jian couldn't help but feel a little emotionally that the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves.

Ye Fei smiled: "I didn't expect to arrive two days early, Commander." What is the current situation? "He had contacted Jian Lu once when the Aquila had just left Gliese 581. At that time, Lu Jian introduced the situation of the Giant Star to him.

The Outer Bone Man's bone mound appears behind the Giant. Lü Jian immediately organized a fleet to put up a resolute resistance, but the situation was not optimistic.

Although there is only one bone mound in the Giants, the problem is that the Giants have entered the stage of mass migration. Every day, a large number of immigrants wake up from the freeze and join the construction army of transforming the giant star.

In just two years, more than one million people have been invested in the Giant Star, Lu Jian and the First Fleet have invested a lot of time and energy, don't look at the time, but the Giant Star has undergone earth-shaking changes in the hands of a large number of immigrants, although it is far from being comparable to the mother planet Earth, but it is no longer the original planet.

A colonial star with immigration conditions, this sentence is incomparable in political and propaganda lethality, but militarily, it has become an out-and-out drag on the First Fleet!

The advantage of human beings lies in the speed of warships and the huge lethality of technological weapons, rather than the overwhelming number, and in the case of the pressure of the outer skeleton army, the most suitable tactic is to exchange space for strategic superiority and gradually eliminate the enemy's vitality.

This time, if the First Fleet drops the Giant Star, more than a million immigrants will all die without a place to bury, and the construction achievements of the past two years will also be destroyed.

Lu Jian had no choice at all, so he could only drag the bone mound as much as possible.

For this reason, he sent a fleet to conduct a non-stop harassment battle when the bone mound had not yet entered the giant galaxy, but when Ye Fei contacted Lu Jian, the fleet had not yet come into contact with the bone mound, and the situation after that was not clear because he had not been contacted again.

A little bitterness appeared on Lu Jian's tired face: "The situation is really not good, our light-speed torpedoes have long been used up......

The First Fleet intercepted the Bone Mound on its way to the Giants, but the ships without light-speed torpedoes lacked powerful weapons to make a final decision, and could only slowly wear down the enemy's biological warships with conventional weapons.

Ye Fei's combat effectiveness of the First Fleet is very clear, but it is difficult for Qiao Woman to cook without rice, even if he is replaced by himself, he does not have the ability to defeat the enemy without a beam torpedo.

The bone mound flew to the Giant Star in the face of the First Fleet's harassment and attack, and flew near the Giant Star on January 25th.

The next action of the Outer Bone Man must be to parachute into the Giant Star, and in order to defend the hard-won construction achievements, Lu Jian issued an order to defend the Giant Star at all costs.

The First Fleet dispatched all the warships, but there were too many biological warships sent by the Outer Skeletons, and in the melee, two destroyers were seriously damaged, the Jinmen was moderately damaged, the Yellow River was almost sunk, and the North lost more than 60 fighters.

At the critical moment, Lu Jian ordered the seriously injured Huashan to abandon the ship, and Shi Jianghai, the captain of the Huashan, did not evacuate with the crew, but drove the battleship to forcibly enter the faster-than-light mode, and used the battleship as a light-speed torpedo to crash into the bone mound!

Shi Jianghai sat in the lifeboat at the most important moment before the impact, and the lifeboat will immediately get out of the faster-than-light state after breaking away from the mothership flying faster-than-light, but the distance between Huashan and the bone mound is too close, the lifeboat just flew away from the battleship, and the Huashan hit the bone mound head-on, and the fierce impact caused countless fragments to scatter, and the lifeboat that had just flown out not far away happened to be hit by a boulder, and when the rescuers found Shi Jianghai after the battle, he had stopped breathing forever.

After all, the Huashan is a giant warship that is fourteen kilometers long, not a petite light-speed torpedo. Immediately after the impact, the bone mound fell apart, turning into an asteroid in the outer space of the Giant.

The bone mound is gone, but a large number of biological warships that took off are still there, and after the bone mound is lost, these biological warships rush towards the giant star, and the First Fleet intercepts it with all its might, but a third of the enemy ships still break through the obstruction and successfully land.

The location of the broken bone mound was too close to the Giant Star, and after the battle, a large number of bone mounds and wreckage flew towards the Giant Star, and the fleet carried out a multi-day volley. Crush all the large pieces. To ensure that the meteorite will not damage the surface of the Giant Star, which has been streaked through the sky day and night for more than a week.

In order to deal with the bone mound fragments, the fleet missed the best time to destroy the enemy. When the free hand comes. The Outer Skeletons have established hundreds of strongholds on the planet Giant.

Nearly two years. The side of the Giantstar that was almost destroyed by the Outer Skeletons has been restored to green thanks to the efforts of the immigrants, and the Outer Skeletons have landed all over the world.

Fortunately, Lu Jian was not unprepared.

In order to cope with a possible battle, Lü Jian distributed a large amount of weapons and ammunition to the immigrants before the war. The fully armed immigrants give them a certain amount of self-protection in the face of the Outer Skeletons.

Immigrants are not disciplined armies, and even with the most advanced weapons, they are still scattered. However, under the threat of the Outer Skeleton, even the most selfish people will rise up to resist.

In addition, due to the large number of huge protists growing on the giant star, the human settlement strongholds are built as strong as fortresses in order to resist the invasion of giant creatures, even if the immigrants do not understand military knowledge, it is not a problem to rely on strong settlements to shoot the outer skeletons, right?

No matter where the Exoskeletons attacked, it would be impossible for them to succeed in breaking through the settlements for a while under the desperate resistance of the immigrants.

In just one week, the North dispatched more than 4,000 sorties to repel more than 1,000 attacks by the Outer Skeletons attacking the settlements, which was able to stabilize the situation on the ground.

Only a dozen settlements were eventually breached by the Exoskeletons, and most of the immigrants managed to escape.

The most surprising thing was the wreck of the Yangtze River.

A group of immigrants didn't know what Lu Dao thought, and directly established a settlement near the wreckage of the Yangtze River, and after discovering the attack of the Outer Bone Man, the people in the settlement fled directly into the wreckage of the Yangtze River, and successfully blocked the attack of the Outer Bone Man with a large number of Tesla coils left near the Yangtze River by Ye Fei.

The more than a million immigrants on Giant Star are all criminals of all kinds, including high-tech criminals. After they entered the wreckage of the Yangtze River, they actually succeeded in opening some of the weapons sealed in the Yangtze River and armed a large number of immigrants. And carried out several active attacks against the Outer Bone Man, and actually fought well, and successfully uprooted two Outer Bone Man strongholds.

Lu Jian felt that these people had played a lot of roles in the attack of the Outer Skeletons, and planned to give them a little reward, but he didn't expect that before the notice was issued, these cowardly criminals actually took the lead in issuing a "Declaration of Independence", claiming to break away from the Earth Government and establish the Giant Star Autonomous Government with immediate effect, so angry that Lu Jian almost ordered to directly blow up the wreckage of the Yangtze River.

So far, the vast majority of settlements on the Giant Star are still under the control of humans, but most of the immigrants are trapped in the settlements and dare not leave, while the outer bone people are hurrying to collect various resources, and I wonder if Lu Dao plans to build a new bone mound.

Lu Jian attaches great importance to the movements of the Outer Bone People, but the weapons on the battleship are too powerful, and the ground attack will affect the environment of the Giant Star, and the strongholds and settlements of the Outer Bone People are intertwined, and the use of weapons of mass destruction may involve settlements.

Now Lu Jian is sending fighter planes to raid the stronghold of the Outer Bone Humans, and on the other hand, he is sending commandos to clean up the Outer Bone Humans.

The effectiveness of the air strikes was unsatisfactory, and the outer skeletons of this group had a certain air defense capability, and after the loss of a dozen fighters, the raid had to be temporarily put to an end.

The ground clearance of the commando team was very successful, but after the wreck of the Yangtze River, the First Fleet only had one assault ship left, the Yellow River, and the assault regiment on the Yellow River lost a large group of personnel in Proxima Centauri, leaving only two squadrons of men and horses, such a large planet, this is completely a drop in the bucket.

After introducing the situation of the Giant Galaxy, Lu Jian said in a hurry: "The current situation is like this, both sides have their own advantages, and they have been deadlocked for two days. The Outer Bone People have killed a lot of native giant beasts during this time, and if they are allowed to develop, the situation is not optimistic. He sent several satellite images to Ye Fei, the first one was a photo of asteroids in the outer space of Giant; The second is a top-down view of the human settlement and the Exoskeleton stronghold. The third is a large number of exoskeleton people catching protists in the wild; The fourth is a photo of the Exoskeletons attacking the settlement.

"You mean that the enemy is left to land on the planet's surface?" Ye Fei asked after reading a few pictures.

I thought the situation here was very critical, but I didn't expect the situation to be completely opposite.

Shi Jianghai and Ye Fei didn't have much contact, and the two were not very familiar with each other, but they had been in the same fleet for several years, and his heroic sacrifice made Ye Fei very sorry.

"Do you have a way?" Lu Jian waited for Ye Fei's answer with expectant eyes.

The military did not deliberately keep the situation of the Aquila secret, but it also did not publicize it with great fanfare, except for the two power shock ships, he really didn't know where the combat effectiveness of the Aquila was.

Ye Fei nodded confidently, leave this task to me, there is no unit in the whole army that is more suitable for this task than my warship. (To be continued......)