February 14, 2205, Valentine's Day.

In the dark and boundless starry sky, only the starlight flickering in the distance, and the eternal void suddenly flashed a trace of colorful light, and the colorful light gradually gathered, and not long after, a dark giant spaceship appeared out of thin air. On the inconspicuous side of the bow of the ship, the ship is painted with an off-white port number: TJ0001.

Above the board number, there are three slightly larger characters: Yangtze River.

"Out of the faster-than-light mode, the powertrain is normal."

"The detection system is normal, and the nearby airspace has been scanned."

"Everything is working fine with the fire control system."

"Damage report is normal, no accidental loss report ......"

The situation reports of the various systems of the battleship were gathered on the bridge one after another, and Ye Fei, who was sitting firmly in the command chair, looked calm: "Ruan Peng, what did the magnetic sensor find?" ”

"Report, nothing has been found at this time, progressive scanning is underway, and the scan is currently eleven light-seconds."

"Che Qi, is there anything abnormal?"

"It is reported that no anomalies have been found in the optical system, and the ship's position is being confirmed...... The azimuth was determined, and the distance from Proxima Centauri was 0.8 light-years, and the target area was reached with no error. ”

"Very good, the scanning system, the optical system remain searching, first mate, contact the fleet and report the location of our ship."

"Roger." Fu Hongye replied.

"Report, received a reply from the fleet, and proceeded according to the plan. Orbital data for the Wolf community is attached. ”

Ye Fei's eyes suddenly shot a little sharp: "Calculate the orbit azimuth and prepare the light-speed torpedo!" ”

"The orbital azimuth is being calculated, the orbital azimuth has been calculated, and the position of our ship has been corrected by three, and the direction has been corrected by five."

"Lightspeed torpedo ready!"

Everything was ready, Ye Fei sat quietly in his chair without saying a word, but the rapid heaving of his chest revealed his nervous mood.

The Outer Bone Man came faster than expected, according to the report of the mechanical civilization, the Wolf 359 community will arrive at Proxima Centauri in mid-March 2205, so that the enemies of the Sirius community actually rushed to the front and back of the enemies of Wolf 359, and the difference in arrival time was no more than ten days at most.

During the military discussion a few months ago, because Ye Fei inadvertently told the secret of the lack of power in the bone mound, the First Fleet's combat plan was greatly revised, from a comprehensive passive defense to a large-scale mobile defense.

The delivery time of the First Fleet was half a year, but after concentrating all the construction capacity, the time for the mechanical civilization to build a batch of super warships was shortened to about three months, and shortly after the end of the military discussion, all fourteen ships of the Third Fleet were delivered to the army.

The solar system only needs to leave one fleet to defend, so the Third Fleet is handed over to the remaining troops and will no longer sail to Proxima Centauri, and the Second Fleet, which has been delayed for several months, will rush to the aid of the First Fleet according to the original plan.

Prior to this, the task of the First Fleet was to hold back the enemy, exchange space for time, until reinforcements arrived at Proxima Centauri, and then concentrate superior forces to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.

It also took more than five months for the Second Fleet to reach Proxima Centauri, which was basically the same as the First Fleet's Northern and Yuanwang in terms of time.

In a head-on battle, the First Fleet may not have much chance of winning, but it is not difficult to delay time. Since the community from Wolf 359 had already fought a fierce battle with the Russian army, Lu Jian decided to meet the Yangtze River alone ship and drag the Wolf community; The main force of the fleet went to meet the Sirius colony.

For this reason, Ye Fei set off a month in advance, with the purpose of dragging the enemy forces of the Wolf community.

"Ready to launch!" Ye Fei suddenly let out a loud shout, and everyone's eyes fell on the scissors at the same time.

The scissors flew to carry out the firing operation: "Turn on the torpedo tube...... Torpedo ejection...... Engine start! ”

The belly of the Yangtze River was synchronized with the front knife command, first cracking a huge hatch that occupied a quarter of the height of the hull, and then a short and thick black torpedo shot out of the hatch, the huge torpedo first glided a distance first, and then a colorful shimmer suddenly lit up on the mine body, and with a flash of light, a giant torpedo comparable to the size of a medium-sized battleship actually disappeared.

On the bridge of the Yangtze River, Ye Fei's two eyebrows were almost twisted into hemp ropes, and he asked softly worriedly, "Is the launch time accurate?" ”

"Boss, don't worry, there is no error with the scheduled plan."

"What about the direction and speed of the launch?" Ye Fei asked again.

"There's no problem with the direction, the speed...... I only dare to say that it went faster than the speed of light. "Scissors don't dare to guarantee this kind of thing," if the data of the mechanical civilization is not wrong, the torpedo should hit the target 100 percent!" ”

"Should? There are many things that should be done. Ye Fei's worries not only did not stop, but became more tormented by the passage of time.

The first premise for the Yangtze River to complete its mission is to accurately hit the bone mound in faster-than-light flight!

Due to the lightburst nature of faster-than-light flight, any matter that stands in the way of the faster-than-light vehicle will only end up in pieces, and the only way is to neutralize the impact of the lightburst by means of hedging against the lightburst.

The light-speed torpedo is not a random name, but a real faster-than-light torpedo, even the Yangtze River only carries two light-speed torpedoes, and once they are used, they must be returned to Earth to be replenished!

What's even more devastating is that the range of the light-speed torpedo is extremely limited, in the state of super-light, it can only continue to fly for two hours, and because of technical reasons, the maximum speed of the light-speed torpedo is the same as that of a battleship, which is 9.2 times the speed of light.

That is, a torpedo launched at the speed of light will not be able to catch up with a battleship moving at full speed at all!

Fortunately, no kind of aircraft that enters the faster-than-light state can change the direction of travel, which gives the chicken's light-speed torpedo a place to use.

The lightburst will produce a physical phenomenon similar to water waves in normal space, and by observing this faster-than-light wave, the orbit of the aircraft can be accurately located, but because the speed of the aircraft is greater than the speed of light, the faster-than-light wave can only be observed after the aircraft has flown by, and cannot be detected in advance.

Previously, the Yangtze River received the superluminal flight orbit data of the Wolf community observed from the mechanical civilization, and only by calculating the elapsed time of the Wolf community according to the data and accurately launching the light-speed torpedo within the effective time could it have the possibility of hitting the target.

As the minutes ticked by, the atmosphere in the bridge became more and more solemn, and it seemed that the two-hour time limit was about to be exceeded, and if the torpedo ran out of range, it would automatically get out of the faster-than-light state, and by then, it would be just a huge bomb!

Just when Ye Fei almost gave up, the optical system suddenly captured a little unusual picture.