February 8, 2209, the Giant Galaxy.

The Aquila left its synchronous orbit and approached the Giant, and while passing the height of the Giant, it shot a towing beam to the ground, which accurately shone on the assault ship that rose to an altitude of 10,000 meters.

With the assistance of the Aquila, the battleship's ascent speed suddenly accelerated, and it didn't take long for it to reach the first cosmic velocity of the Giant Star, successfully detach from the atmosphere, and reconnect with the main body of the Aquila.

At this point, the six-day clean-up operation came to a perfect end, and all the Outer Bone strongholds on the Giant Star were wiped out under the indiscriminate bombardment of the assault ships, and the large-scale raid on the human side came to an end.

During this time, the organized Exoskeleton Humans on the planet's surface were swept away by the Aquila, and only a handful of Exoskeletons managed to escape the capture of the assault ship.

However, escaping their lives does not mean that they are lucky, but the beginning of a nightmare!

Some of these exoskeletons who failed to survive and die with the stronghold were lucky enough to escape because the stronghold was attacked and were not in the stronghold, and this situation accounted for the vast majority; The other is that when the stronghold is devastated by an assault ship, it sees the opportunity quickly and escapes the stronghold in time to survive.

Most of the former gather into groups ranging from tens to hundreds to advance and retreat together, while the latter only have three or five at most together, and most of them flee alone.

Moreover, these surviving exoskeletons are scattered all over the world, and it is impossible for them to gather together in a short period of time.

Exoskeletons are social creatures like humans, and their technological strength must be achieved under the strength of the group. It is also impossible to translate it into combat effectiveness.

Even so, the human side did not let them go, and once a large group of exoskeletons were discovered, the J-447 fighters on the North and the hen would immediately dispatch to carry out surgical precision strikes.

A small group of only a few Exoskeletons is out of range, and such a target is really not worth the fight. However, the Outer Bone People of this size also lost the ability to storm human settlements, and Lu Jian issued a large number of weapons to the immigrants, as long as they did not act alone with their bare hands, it would not be very difficult for the armed immigrants to deal with three or five lone Outer Bone People.

The lone exoskeleton is not only a thorn in the side of humans, but also a thorn in the flesh of protists. Those hungry giants were not picky eaters at all. The Outer Bone Man was included in the recipe - for those giant predators with amazing bites, the Outer Bone Man's bone armor was not much harder than a thin and crispy chocolate rind.

The Outer Bone Man hunted behemoths by sheer numbers, and when the population advantage disappeared, the relationship between hunters and prey was reversed in an instant.

All in all. The entire Giant's planet is full of enemies of the Outer Skeletons. It was only a matter of time before the remnants of the Exoskeletons were completely wiped out.

Ye Fei neatly completed the clean-up plan ahead of schedule. Lu Jian couldn't wait to announce the good news to the various settlements of the Giant Star, and the criminal immigrants who didn't believe much in the military didn't believe the news at first, but after not seeing the Outer Bone Man for several days. Most of the settlers accepted the truth.

The only exception was the group of immigrants who occupied the wreck of the Yangtze River, but they were not stupid enough to directly confront the fleet, and immediately announced the cancellation of their independence after receiving the news from Lu Jian.

It's a pity that neither Lu Jian nor Ye Fei planned to let go of the person who stabbed him in the back at the critical moment, and more than a thousand immigrants were controlled by the military, and the culprit was found out and publicly shot.

In addition to using strong means to suppress the resistance of the immigrants, Lü Jian also used Huairou means to disintegrate and divide the immigrants internally, commuting the sentences of the immigrants who had made outstanding contributions to the war, and promising to send them back to Earth after the end of the sentence.

The reason why most criminals embark on the road of no return to breaking the law and committing crimes is for material or monetary enjoyment, and Giant Star is a barren land where birds don't, although two years of construction have made the settlement on Giant Star initially look a little, but even New Yanjing, the largest settlement on Giant Star, is not as good as the living conditions of a random small village on Earth.

The immigrants who thought that they could only grow old in this life saw a glimmer of hope from Lu Jian's promise, and suddenly burst out with twelve points of enthusiasm, but all the things that can be linked to meritorious service awards were all used by the immigrants, and the most direct consequence was that the progress of the projects in each settlement was improved to varying degrees, and all of them were guaranteed in quality and quantity.

In addition, the whistleblowing report has also entered a peak period, and what passive death, conspiracy and sabotage, and disobedience have all become the reasons for the whistleblowing, which has caused the Immigration Administration Bureau a headache for a while.

In a word, Giant Star is completely on the right track.

On February 12, 2209, the First Fleet received an order from the Strategic Command Center to hand over the defense of the Giant Star to the Aquila, and the entire First Fleet returned to the ship as soon as possible.

Lu Jian, who received the news, sighed with emotion: "After leaving for so many years, I can finally go home and have a look." ”

Ye Fei's eyes turned red with envy: "Isn't it!" ”

"What? Is it unwilling to leave you and your battleship behind? Lu Jian saw through Ye Fei's mind at a glance.

"What if you don't want to? The order has been given, what can I do if I disobey! Ye Fei didn't have to hide his thoughts at all in front of Lu Jian, and directly said what he thought in his heart.

"You, if someone else asks for it, you can't ask for it!" Lu Jian glared at Ye Fei angrily, "As far as the First Fleet is now, if there is another bone mound, it will have to be collided with a battleship." Who will you keep soon? ”

There are quite a few warships in the First Fleet, but most of them have been fighting since they were formed in 2204, and it is long time to overhaul them. And the weapons on the ship are almost used, otherwise they would not have had to ram with the battleship in the battle against the bone mound.

"Commander, I understand the reasoning, but I think that only by using the Aquila to defend and bend talents, can the offense exert its combat effectiveness, and besides, I am not the material for immigration......"

"Fart, don't come to this set with Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is the material for immigration? You kid just don't want to stare here. When I can't see it? Lu Jian didn't give any face, "Don't talk nonsense, I handed over the Giant Star to you, how big this responsibility is, you don't need me to say that you understand." Hurry up, and the handover formalities are done. ”

The official level crushed people to death, and no matter how reluctant Ye Fei was, he had to carry out the order.

The handover of defense was not complicated, Ye Fei took advantage of the fact that the fleet had not yet left, and handed over all the personnel rescued by the Aquila from Gliese 581 and the three frozen black bone men to Lu Jian to bring back to Earth.

Lu Jian didn't take all the spaceships with him. It is clearly stated in the order. It was the ships of the First Fleet that were withdrawn to Earth, and this did not include refrigerated migrant ships carrying large numbers of unthawed migrants and transports carrying large quantities of supplies.

By the way, the Giant Star Immigration Office is set up on a transport ship, where there are hundreds of staff from the mainland. Specializes in managing immigrants on the planet Giant. And coordinate the planning of the construction design on the giant star.

The head of the immigration department has a high administrative level. It is equivalent to a provincial and ministerial-level official, but it is now an extraordinary period when the Outer Bone Man may arrive at any time, and the Giant Star has always been under absolute military control. Therefore, after Lu Jian led the fleet away, Ye Fei was the supreme commander of the Giant Star and the real Emperor of the Earth.

Ye Fei didn't need to worry about the construction of the Giant Star at all, and his life was quiet and simple. Ye Fei, like everyone else, thought that it wouldn't be long before another group of people from the outer bones would arrive at the Giant Star, but more than ten days had passed, and there was no movement.

Ye Fei began to wonder if the range of the early warning system of the Giant Star was too close, and decided to send a camouflage reconnaissance ship to expand the reconnaissance range, but the reconnaissance range was expanded to about one light year, and still no abnormalities were found.

An enemy on the surface is not a threat, but an enemy in the shadows is a danger.

Just when Ye Fei was shocked and couldn't figure out the spatial movements of the outer skeleton man, the Aquila suddenly received a document forwarded by the headquarters.

This is a report from the mechanical civilization, to put it simply, in the days when the main force of the outer bone people is gradually approaching the earth, the main force of the mechanical civilization is dispersed, and the superluminal impact tactics are used to give a devastating blow to some of the outer bone people, according to the data on the report, there are at least thirty bone mounds destroyed in the hands of the mechanical civilization.

Coupled with the outer bone population that humans have wiped out, more than half of the bone mounds that flew to the solar system have been wiped out.

But also because of the powerful blow of the mechanical civilization, several outer bone groups fell into the sky and united together, gathered and flew towards the solar system, and the current army of twenty-four bone mounds is only about fifteen light-years away from the solar system.

Due to the rejection of human beings before, the main force of the current mechanical civilization is located on the periphery of the bone mounds group, which is more than thirty light-years away from the solar system, even if it flies to the solar system immediately, it is impossible to intercept them before the arrival of these bone mounds, so these twenty-four bone mounds can only be solved by humans themselves.

The various fleets of the human race have always acted alone, and it is okay to deal with one or two bone mounds, but twenty-four bone mounds, this number is by no means something that several fleets can deal with together.

Ye Fei didn't know if the Dao Mechanical Civilization was deliberate, but no matter how he thought about it, he felt that there was some kind of unknown conspiracy hidden behind this matter.

The report was accompanied by an order ordering the Aquila to immediately proceed to the intended interception airspace twelve light-years from the solar system, and after converging with the other fleets that had rushed there, the vast colony of fourteen bone mounds would be resolutely wiped out.

Ye Fei's two eyebrows were almost twisted into hemp rope, what kind of joke is this? The Giant Galaxy is now only protected by the Aquila battleship, and once the Aquila leaves, the Giant Star will become a lamb to the slaughter, what if the bone mound enters the Giant Star? Who will protect more than a million immigrants?

Ye Fei immediately contacted the strategic command center to explain the current situation of the giant star, and asked the command center to reconsider the order to transfer the Aquila.

However, the reply from the command center was that there was no need to worry, according to the information of the mechanical civilization, there were no bone mounds within ten light years of the Giant Star!

Even if there are no Exoskeletons nearby, it would be too risky to leave a habitable planet with more than a million immigrants, millions of frozen immigrants, a huge amount of supplies on eight transport ships, and a large number of administrative staff here, and at least a little bit of military power just in case!

Ye Fei, who was unwilling, argued with reason, and finally got the strategic command center to agree to leave the light space helicarrier to protect the giant galaxy.

Of all the Aquila's warships, only the Helicarrier, which carries hundreds of warplanes, is best suited for such a mission.

Ye Fei was very clear about the combat effectiveness of the Aerospace Helicarrier. Knowing that the hen lacks a powerful weapon that can be used to make a final decision, he deliberately left four light-speed torpedoes before leaving, anyway, the light-speed torpedo is just a large missile with a faster-than-light engine installed, even if it leaves the battleship, it can be launched by other means, and four light-speed torpedoes are enough to deal with possible enemies.

On February 19, 2209, the Aquila left the Giant Galaxy, where it had been stationed for only half a month, and rushed to the scheduled interception coordinates at full speed. At the same time, detailed information from both sides was sent to the Aquila.

After carefully reading the detailed information, Ye Fei realized that the twenty-four bone mounds of the Dao Knower were not concentrated in one place. But it's not that far from each other.

According to the reconnaissance of the mechanical civilization. At present, seven bone mounds have gathered together and stopped moving.

The other bone mounds will also converge in the same location in a few months with their current flight direction and speed, and it is believed that the outer bone people will definitely not gather together for such a boring reason as having a meeting.

If it weren't for the location of the seven bone mounds that were a little far away from the human defense line, I am afraid that the human fleet was already on the way to a sneak attack at this time.

In order to counter this unprecedentedly powerful enemy force, the Allies drew a large number of fleets. These include the U.S. Interstellar Second Fleet, Fourth Fleet; the First Fleet and the Third Fleet of the Russian Expeditionary Force; Combined European First Fleet, Second Fleet and Third Fleet.

The Americans have also built only four fleets until now. Half of them at once. It was already concentrated with all its strength - the other two fleets were too far away to rush to the interception airspace.

The Russians suffered heavy losses in the recent battle, and now only three formed fleets have the strength to fight a single battle. To be able to play two is also to go all out.

Not to mention the combined European fleet, the only three fleets were all in battle, which can be described as bankrupt.

The Chinese side's lineup was even more unprecedentedly strong, dispatching the expeditionary Second Fleet stationed at Proxima Centauri, the newly formed Fifth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet, three full fleets, and even repatriated the main force of the Aquila.

It must be noted that the Fifth Fleet and the Sixth Fleet are powerful fleets formed by splitting the capital ships and assault ships of the Seventh and Eighth Fleets after selling all their destroyers to Russia.

After mobilizing so many fleets, the defense strength of the mainland of the solar system is only the Chinese side's internal number, the Fourth Fleet, the mainland fleet and a few scattered warships from other countries.

However, there is no need to worry about the defense of the solar system, because the Kuiper Belt Arsenal under the control of Pioneer IV is about to deliver a batch of newly built warships, and Pioneer IV itself also has strong offensive and defensive capabilities.

Soon after, the U.S. First Star Fleet and the Third Expeditionary Fleet, which were in a state of return, also received orders to rush to intercept the airspace.

Although both fleets suffered considerable losses in the Battle of Gliese 581, the remaining warships have regained some combat effectiveness after continuous repairs, at least as reserves.

At this point, the Allies have withdrawn most of the armed forces of mankind, and the defense power in other directions of the solar system is only the two fleets of the US Interstellar First Fleet and the Russian Second Fleet, and the defensive pressure is unprecedented.

In the meantime, the mechanical civilization was not idle, and the eight bone mounds were destroyed by the mechanical civilization in the process of flying into the gathering place, but each bone mound destroyed consumed a split of the mechanical civilization, and the mechanical civilization individuals currently in the nearby airspace had used up all the fragments, and they were unable to destroy more bone mounds.

The mechanical civilization entities in other directions were too far away to rush there, and the remaining sixteen bone mounds could only be solved by the humans themselves.

On May 22, 2209, the Aquila arrived at the interception zone, which had undergone several adjustments.

It is located in the direction of Sirius' bisector to the South River Triangle, about 12 light-years from the Solar System. By the time the Aquila arrived, there were already seven fleets that had participated in the battle, and the total number of warships was as high as more than eighty!

Today's human beings are no longer the crappy goods who are in a dilemma suppressed by a bone mound, and every fleet here has the ability to independently fight against the bone mound, and basically every fleet has a record of destroying the bone mound.

At this time, there were less than seven days left before the arrival of the enemy troops, but the US Fourth Fleet, the Russian First Fleet, and the Combined European Second Fleet were unable to arrive in time due to the long distance.

With so many warships in different countries, command was a big question, but the Allies had already established the question of command before the Aquila arrived.

The number of warships dispatched by the Chinese side in this battle was not the largest, but the strength of the Chinese fleet of eight Yanjing-class capital ships, four North-class heavy aerospace carriers, seven Yangtze River-class assault ships, four destroyers and the Aquila was the No. 1 among the fleets of various countries, and the command was undoubtedly held by the Chinese representative Nie Jianrong.

In the event of a major error in Nie's command, an eight-member staff committee consisting of two senior Chinese officers had the power to revoke orders that had already been issued, or even to strip Nie of his command.

As soon as the Aquila got out of the faster-than-light state, Nie Jianrong's communication was received in front of Ye Fei, the old general glanced at Ye Fei deeply, and said straight to the point: "Ye Fei, this battle is only allowed to be won and not lost, and the first shot will be handed over to you." (To be continued......)

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