"The fastest battleship?" Ye Fei's heart was hot, and he couldn't wait to ask, "How fast?" ”

In less than a decade, humans have mastered faster-than-light technology and increased faster-than-light travel to forty times, but this speed is still as slow as a snail crawling for the distant interstellar space.

In this regard, Ye Fei, who flew on the Yuanwang for eight months before returning to the mainland of the earth, was deeply touched.

Nie Jianrong smiled: "The theoretical maximum flight speed is seventy-six times the speed of light. ”

"Theoretically?" When Ye Fei heard these three words, his heart suddenly felt like a basin of ice water, "The Aquila is an experimental ship?" ”

The first warship of any type must undergo perfect sea trials, the purpose of which is to verify the various systems on the ship and determine a series of data such as the maximum conventional speed, strike capability, endurance range, self-sufficiency time and so on.

The Celestial Army officially appointed him as the captain of the Aquila, which means that this battleship must have existed and been completed, but the three words "theoretically" indicate that the Aquila may not have completed its sea trials, and it may not even have started sea trials!

Nie Jianrong really didn't know what to say, so he shook his head and sighed lightly: "Ye Fei, can't you be a little confused?" "Running into a smart subordinate is definitely a misfortune for the superiors.

Ye Fei smiled bitterly: "I have to take thousands of Shang to drive a battleship to the battlefield, dare to be confused?" He doesn't care at all about what experimental ships are not experimental ships, but since the above has appointed him as the captain, then he has the responsibility to complete the comprehensive trial of the battleship as soon as possible, instead of driving a battleship with hidden dangers to the battlefield.

Nie Jianrong nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, but don't worry." The Aquila has not yet completed its maximum speed flight, and the other aspects of the sea trials have been carried out seventeen rounds, forty times the speed of light has also been carried out once. My old man assures you that the Aquila is a supership beyond your imagination. ”

Ye Fei unabashedly showed a look of astonishment, unable to figure out what kind of warship the Aquila was, Nie Jianrong, the Minister of National Defense, actually admired it so much.

"Okay, I've said everything I need to say, my old man won't delay your time." Nie Jianrong seemed to put down the stone, "Go ahead, Secretary Xie is waiting for you outside the door." ”

"Yes!" Ye Fei stood up and saluted. Turn around and jump towards the main entrance of the conference hall.

watched Ye Fei leave. Old General Nie's smile gradually retracted, replaced by deep worry.

As soon as he turned around, Ye Fei could no longer hide the joy in his heart, and his face turned into a flower.

He is Chinese New Year's Eve and 4 years old. It has been 16 years since I joined the army. It took only sixteen years to go from an ordinary soldier to a colonel.

However, he was promoted quickly. In the history of our army, the stars shine, but it is by no means unique, and it is not even too conspicuous, but for the time being. His track record of promotion is impressive.

Although the difference between the colonel and the colonel is only one word, it is a watershed for the officers of our army, the colonel is only a middle-level cadre, but the colonel has stepped into the ranks of senior cadres, and he is also a real battleship captain, which is definitely a qualitative change.

How could Ye Fei not be overjoyed and overjoyed?

However, he was not a hairy young man after all, and when he arrived at the main entrance of the conference hall, he had already adjusted his mood, although he could still see that he was in a good mood from his expression, but he was no longer so conspicuous.

As soon as he opened the door, Ye Fei saw the female captain who brought him to the conference hall, and the captain handed Ye Fei a set of colonel epaulettes with both hands: "Captain Ye, congratulations." There was no change in expression on her face at all, and she looked stereotypical.

"Thank you." Ye Fei couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and took the epaulette with a smile, "What should I do now?" ”

He didn't see Secretary Xie's appearance clearly just now, but now he realized that the female captain's appearance was quite mature and upright, but it was not as good as Gao Lan.

"Please follow me." Secretary Xie found that Ye Fei was not in a hurry to change to the rank of colonel on his shoulder, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Captain Xie took Ye Fei down to the first floor, but instead of leaving the building, he walked straight to the left side of the corridor and entered the elevator at the end of the corridor.

Ye Fei felt the feeling of overweight caused by the continuous acceleration under his feet, and immediately estimated the approximate ascent speed of the elevator. He didn't ask, Secretary Xie didn't say anything, the elevator gradually rose in silence, and stopped rising and moving for a while, and only after more than ten minutes did it slowly slow down and stop, as soon as the elevator door opened, what caught Ye Fei's eyes was a huge underground space, and outside the elevator door was not a corridor, but a simple passage erected on a high wall.

"This is the assembly workshop of the base's secret research department." Secretary Xie said indifferently.

The two stepped out of the elevator, the soles of their shoes stepping on the metal plate with a loud sound, and looked around, and a large number of robotic arms were installed on the walls around them. Leaning on the metal railing, he looked down condescendingly, and a strange-looking battleship was quietly moored in the middle of the clearing.

"This is the Aquila?" Ye Fei's mouth opened wide in shock.

Ye Fei thought that he was also well-informed, whether it was a human, a mechanical civilization or an alien human warship, he had seen some of them, but the battleship in front of him made him not know how to describe it.

The Aquila has a wide tail and a stepped contraction at the waist, and the ridge is not the streamlined and smooth transition that is common to expeditionary warships, but is composed of several protrusions to form a deformed "earth" shape.

The only word he could think of was weird.

"That's right, this is the Aquila, the fastest flying warship of mankind, there is no one!" Secretary Xie's eyes suddenly showed a bit of fanaticism, "Aren't you surprised?" ”

"It's a bit unexpected." Ye Fei admitted frankly.

The Expeditionary Force's warships are all as delicate as works of art, but the Aquila looks like a shoddy DIY handicraft made by naughty children, full of heaviness and roughness.

Looking at the mechanical arm on the wall, Ye Fei seemed to have an understanding: "Could it be that we built this battleship ourselves?" ”

"Of course!" Secretary Xie puffed up his chest proudly, "Since the emergence of mechanical civilization, our scientific and technological personnel have been working hard to digest the technology from the mechanical civilization, and the military technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years. From design to manufacturing, it completely surpasses any previous type of warship. ”

Ye Fei suddenly realized: "What's so special about the Aquila?" ”

The Aquila is the military's first completely self-built faster-than-light warship, and Secretary Xie's pride is completely understandable. Even he himself is full of pride.

Industry is not something that can be achieved overnight by patting the buttocks, the overall improvement of the industrial level not only requires technology, but also takes time, the significance of the Aquila is that the military's technology has reached the level of manufacturing faster-than-light warships, and some aspects may have achieved partial transcendence.

Although the United States and Russia are also concentrating on digesting the technology of mechanical civilization, until now, it seems that even the resonance communication device has not been developed, and the overall level is much worse than that of the Chinese side, and it is impossible to build faster-than-light warships on their own!

In the current situation. It does not seem to matter whether it has the ability to create faster-than-light warships. But mechanical civilization is not human after all, if mechanical civilization is far away from human beings, then China will be the only country with faster-than-light battleship manufacturing technology!

That's the gap, that's the advantage. And it's a resounding strategic advantage!

Secretary Xie just wanted to speak. Suddenly, there was a shrill siren from the stern of the ship. The yellow police lights kept flashing, and Secretary Xie's eyes lit up: "Let's go, it's time to dock." She jumped to the stern of the ship.

"Docking? Right, what? Ye Fei was confused. Hurriedly followed behind Secretary Xie.

After a while, the two of them arrived at the position where they could see the stern of the ship, only to see hundreds of thick robotic arms holding a giant long strip of about three kilometers long, which was slowly sending towards the stern of the ship. After a deafening bang, the member docked horizontally with the lower part of the battleship's tail.

Then the mechanical arm sent another identical member, docked with the top of the tail, and the two components were embedded in the stern, which looked like two thick horizontal bars on the butt of the battleship.

"That's it!" Secretary Xie's eyes lit up, and he was full of antiquity.

"What's up?" Ye Fei asked curiously.

He didn't know what the relationship between Secretary Xie and the Aquila was, but he could see that Secretary Xie had an indescribable affection for this battleship.

"You'll know in a moment." Secretary Xie sold a pass, "Follow me." ”

Ye Fei reluctantly followed behind Secretary Xie, if he was replaced by a male secretary, he might have been beaten at this time.

The two went all the way down to the bottom of the workshop, and Ye Fei found that the side of the battleship also had abnormal protrusions, two on the port side and two in the middle.

Secretary Xie took Ye Fei to the side of the workshop, found a researcher wearing a classic white coat, with an old face but good spirits, and respectfully introduced: "Liu Gong, this is the newly appointed captain of the Aquila; Captain Ye, this is Liu Gong, the chief engineer of the Aquila, let Liu Gong introduce the details of the battleship, and I won't be ugly as a half-asser. ”

"Hello Liu Gong." Ye Fei greeted respectfully.

With the current medical technology, it is impossible to show old age if he is not more than 100 years old, and this Liu Gong is really not young.

"Captain Ye, hello. I don't know what you want to know. Liu Gong's voice was unusually gentle, with a sense of vicissitudes accumulated over the years.

Ye Fei replied without thinking: "Everything, the more detailed the better." ”

Liu Gong smiled when he heard this, as if he saw a naughty child who was not greedy enough: "This is impossible, even if I am engaged in engineering, I dare not say that I know everything about this battleship." "At Ye Fei's age, he is simply a child in Liu Gong's eyes.

Ye Fei was stunned for a moment, and realized that his words were too general, so he quickly changed his words: "Liu Gong, I really don't know how to use techniques, so please introduce me and give me a rough introduction, huh...... It's about fighting. ”

"Ha Luha, that's too much." Liu Gong smiled heartily, pointed to the battleship and said, "This is not a battleship, but a fleet!" ”

"Huh?" Ye Fei was almost not amused by Liu Gong, and the expression on his face clearly expressed what he thought in his heart.

The Yuanwang is twenty-two kilometers long, the Yanjing is ten and four kilometers long, even the Yangtze River is fourteen kilometers long, and the Aquila is only a little longer than the Yangtze River, how can it be a fleet?

"I know you don't believe it." Liu Gong smiled very happily like a prank successful child, "The Aquila is the name given by the military, and its earliest design is called a multi-functional combined battleship, the hull is composed of a main and seven auxiliary eight kinds of warships, what you see now is the appearance of a completely combined battleship, and it can also be broken down into sixteen special warships with different functions." ”

"How is that possible?" Ye Fei was even more puzzled, but looking at Liu Gong's appearance, it didn't look like a joke. Looking at Secretary Xie again, he smiled calmly and calmly.

"In this world, there is nothing that can never be imagined, and nothing can be done." Liu Gong smiled domineeringly.

I don't know if Lu Dao felt that the shock to Ye Fei was enough, Secretary Xie and Liu Gong glanced at each other and said: "One main and seven auxiliaries refers to the fact that the Aquila is composed of one ship and seven auxiliary warships, and the number of auxiliary warships is not one of each. ”

"That's right." Liu Gong took out a glass-plate-like tablet, called up the three views and said, "One master is the main body of the battleship, the capital ship; The seven auxiliaries refer to light aerospace carriers, camouflage reconnaissance ships, medical rescue ships, assault landing ships, air supremacy fire ships, power shock ships, and engineering maintenance ships. ”

Between words. The three views on the tablet began to change with Liu Gong's instructions. The vertical of the word "soil" on the ridge of the ship was separated first, that is, the light aerospace carrier.

Then there is the horizontal one above the "soil", which is separated separately, and it is a camouflaged reconnaissance ship.

The horizontal below the word "soil" is a medical rescue ship.

Two battleships were separated from each aft side of the two sides. That is, four assault landing ships.

Two battleships were separated from each of the two midships. That is, four anti-aircraft fireships.

The two at the stern of the ship that had just docked were powered shock ships.

The engineering maintenance ship is located at the bottom of the battleship near the stern.

After a complete split. The side of the capital ship has become a three-order shrinking tower-like structure, and the other dozen or so warships are large and small, long and short. The shapes are different and the specifications are different, and Ye Fei is dazzled, and he doesn't remember which module is what warship at all, but he just thinks that their names are somewhat similar to the warships in service in the expeditionary force.

"What can these ships do?" Ye Fei shook his head and asked puzzledly.

Liu Gong smiled kindly: "Young man, in fact, the battleships of the Aquila were born from the giant ships of the expeditionary force, don't look at the size of these battleships, but the firepower is not worse than the warships used by the expeditionary force now." ”

Ye Fei understood that he was definitely inferior to Liu Gong in terms of technique, so he simply said straight to the point: "Liu Gong, don't sell Guanzi, give me some dry goods." ”

"Hehe, Cheng!" Liu Gong put down the tablet and began to talk about the Aquila.

The concept of modular battleships first appeared in science fiction, but we never had the technical ability to design and build them until the advent of mechanical civilization. By the time the expeditionary force was formed, the Aquila had already completed the main design. However, in the past few years, the expeditionary force has been fighting abroad, and the problems exposed in actual combat have been constantly fed back, and the design of the battleship has been greatly modified, and finally the Aquila was built.

The small size of the battleship is due to the large use of automatic control systems, which reduces the number of operators and the area of a large number of living spaces, and the standard crew of the whole ship is only 950 people, while the standard crew of a fleet of the expeditionary force exceeds 30,000!

In other words, the living space required by the Aquila is only three percent of the fleets of the expeditionary force!

Most of the Aquila's living space is set on the capital ship, except for the light space carrier, there is no living space on the auxiliary ships, so the Aquila's core capital ship is 15 kilometers long, which is much larger than other ships.

The core capital ship has a large reflex laser cannon on each side, a large-caliber reconnection gun in the middle, and 24 improved light-speed torpedoes in the torpedo compartment under the abdomen. In addition, the ship is equipped with high-speed close-in laser artillery small electromagnetic anti-aircraft guns, 50MM close-in anti-artillery integrated systems, directional microwave cannons and offensive missile nests - defensive missiles are combined in the integrated missile and artillery system, and are no longer set up to occupy valuable space inside the warship.

The firepower of the core capital ship completely destroyed the active Yanjing-class capital ship, and because of the extensive use of automatic control systems, such a battleship only needs twenty-four controllers to control perfectly.

In addition to the capital ships, the largest warship is the light aerospace carrier, which carries 200 J-447 fighters and 50 auxiliary fighters, and has a main gun and some close defense guns, which can be used as a destroyer if necessary.

The assault landing ship is a new-type warship designed because the expeditionary force found that the landing craft equipped with the assault ship are lacking in fire protection, and the main characteristics of the 3.2-kilometer-long battleship are that the belly armor is extremely thick, and the ship's weapons are mainly concentrated on the belly, which is convenient for ground attack.

It is also because of the characteristics of this assault that when the assault landing ship docks, it docks with the capital ship on the spine of the ship, and rushes out of the belly of the ship with thick armor and many weapons.

The air-supremacy fireship is the main anti-aircraft module of the Aquila, equipped with a high-power omnidirectional laser turret, which can provide long-range anti-aircraft firepower for the warship up to one light-second.

Camouflage reconnaissance ships are actually small optical camouflage ships, which are cousins of the submarines of the expeditionary force.

The focus of the medical rescue ship is not on medical treatment, but on rescue, equipped with only a small number of defensive weapons, but with twenty-four search and rescue boats that can carry out short-distance faster-than-light pilots.

An engineering maintenance ship, as the name suggests, is a repair ship.

The most distinctive are the two power shock ships, the development of which was inspired by the stubborn beasts that hit the Yangtze River!

To put it bluntly, the power shock ship is simply a remote-controlled unmanned ship, it has the strongest power and the heaviest armor, and does not fight with shipborne weapons, but enters a faster-than-light state to hit the enemy and achieve the purpose of destroying the enemy.

At the same time, the power shock ship is also a powerful power source for combined warships, and the power shock ship alone can reach a record speed of eighty-six times the speed of light, and the speed of the Aquila without the impact ship will drop to fifty-four times the speed of light, and when combined, the speed of the Aquila will increase to a record seventy-six times when connected to the reactors and faster-than-light engines of all warships!

Of course, at the moment this rate is still in the theoretical stage.

Ye Fei's eyes straightened when he heard this, and his eyes were even hotter when he looked at the battleship than at Gao Lan.

Feeling that Ye Fei had already entered the state, Secretary Xie said: "Captain Ye, in order to let the battleship form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, I will inform you from above that we will transfer personnel from the survivors of the Yangtze River to join the Aquila as soon as possible, we are running out of time." (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter is rather monotonous, so I added a sentence to the title.