The Aquila is not so much a battleship as a miniature fleet!

As soon as the battleship returned to normal, the whole ship was engaged in intense training.

The Aquila was born out of the Yenching-class capital ship and can be seen as an improved version of the Yenching-class. The control method is similar to that of the giant ships of the expeditionary force, but after the extensive use of automatic control equipment, the control of the battleship has completely changed, and everyone must adapt to the new changes in their respective positions as soon as possible.

The distance between the solar system and Proxima Centauri is only 4.22 light years, and it only takes twenty days to reach it at the speed of the Aquila, which is enough time for the soldiers to master the general performance of the battleship, but if you want to give full play to the 100% combat effectiveness of the battleship, it still needs a long run-in.

In order to master the battleship as soon as possible, the soldiers soaked in their respective posts day and night, even if it was just a button, they had to constantly grope for familiarity, and only when the order was given, they reached out and pressed it without looking, and pressed their fingers exactly on the required position.

Only in this way can you react as quickly as possible in battle.

Everyone else is only responsible for their own share, and no matter how many things are different, they are limited, and within a few days they began to enter the drill stage. Only Ye Fei, the unlucky captain, had to be familiar with all the technical parameters, and he was busy reciting the performance parameters of the battleship day and night, and the technical manual as thick as a brick almost made him collapse directly!

Only when you really can't carry it can you walk around, and even if you have to rest your brain to see the situation on the battleship on the spot, you should try to find time to sit on the consoles everywhere and see the actual situation for yourself.

I have to say. The Aquila's ingenious design concept is very advanced, this battleship is much better than Ye Fei imagined, and Ye Fei, who is inflated with confidence, even thinks that a battleship of the Aquila is enough to fight against an integrated fleet of the expeditionary force!

April 17, 2202, Proxima Centauri.

After twenty days of high-speed sailing, the Aquila finally arrived at Proxima Centauri before the enemy arrived.

The Aquila appeared not far from Proxima Centauri, and after a short, faster-than-light flight, the battleship appeared near Proxima Centauri with unmistakable accuracy, leaving a dozen smashed asteroids in its track.

Proxima Centauri is the same as when it left, the broken bone mound still orbits Proxima Centauri, and its orbit is ridiculously close. Proxima Centauri is only one astronomical unit or so around space. The three groups of warships each occupy a clear position. There are more than 70 signals detected by the magnetic sensor in an instant.

Ye Fei was taken aback, when did Proxima Centauri gather so many warships?

The battleship had just left the faster-than-light state, and before Ye Fei could judge the specific location of the battleship, the communication system received a communication from the Second Fleet. The Resonant Communicator receives a series of lengthy and meaningless codes. The ship's automatic answering system was immediately activated. A similar string of passwords was answered.

The key was checked correctly, and the garrison fleet immediately identified the Aquila, and the two sides established direct communication. The bust of Zheng Guo, the commander of the Second Fleet, appeared on the communication screen and greeted him politely: "Welcome to Proxima Centauri." He said it politely, but Zheng Guo's heart was puzzled, he didn't know where this Aquila came from, if it weren't for the three words Aquila given by the identification system of friend or foe, he didn't even know what the name of this strange-looking warship was.

"Commander Zheng is too polite." Ye Fei replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "I haven't seen you for a few years, but you are still so energetic." ”

"Oh?" Zheng Guo was stunned, "You know me?" ”

He looked at Ye Fei's appearance and felt a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he searched carefully in his memory, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

"You are really a noble person, I am the captain of the Yangtze River of the First Fleet, Ye Fei, don't you remember?" Ye Fei smiled, "You still wanted to dig me up." ”

Zheng Guo slapped his forehead: "I think about it, I said how can I see you so familiar, I really can't imagine it, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you have become a colonel, tsk!" It's enviable. He glanced at Ye Fei's shoulder with emotion, and did not hide the heat in his eyes.

Ye Fei smiled bitterly: "Commander Zheng, you are a major general, the supreme commander of Proxima Centauri, do you laugh at me?" ”

"How so?" Zheng Guoha smiled, "It's true that I'm a major general, but you don't want to think about it, I'm almost eighty years old this year, is it more than twice as old as you?" How old are you to become a colonel, even if you have seniority, promotion to major general is a sure thing, I am just a major at your age, do you say I envy it? ”

Zheng Guo did not put himself above Ye Fei at all in his words and suppressed people with his identity. Ye Fei's age is not very old, his military rank is not low, and his future prospects are even more limitless, maybe he will be on the same level as him one day. At that time, Zheng Guo would not be able to find anything stronger than Ye Fei except for his qualifications that far surpassed Ye Fei!

Zheng Guo had already remembered at this time, Ye Fei had been mentioned several times in the battle report of the Heavenly Army Headquarters in the past few years, but he didn't match people at the beginning, and it was too late to win over such an outstanding young officer, how could he offend without knowing the depths?

Zheng Guo knew that even if he went further, the possibility of being promoted to general was very small, but Ye Fei was different, he had both military achievements and young capital, maybe in a few years, the relationship between the two would be reversed. Now that the relationship is pulled, it is good to ask Ye Fei for anything in the future.

"No, I'm just lucky." Ye Fei said very humbly.

"Luck is also part of strength, why don't I have such good luck?" Zheng Guo smiled to himself, "And I'm not the Supreme Commander of Proxima Centauri now." ”

"How?" Ye Fei frowned, "If I'm not mistaken, in two months, you will be here for three years, right?" Who is more familiar with Proxima Centauri than you? I can't think of anyone other than you who would be a better fit for this position. ”

"It's not a question of suitability or not, but the command is impossible to unify at all, have you seen those two bunches of warships?" Zheng Guo put away his smile and asked with a solemn expression.

Ye Fei nodded and said that he saw it.

Zheng Guo said: "Near the direction of the twin stars is the newly established second starfleet of the United States, and you also know what kind of virtue their first starfleet is. In the past few years, there has been no good record, relying on the advanced battleship, as soon as he arrived at Proxima Centauri, he coaxed seven to disobey and eight to be angry, holding back his strength and waiting to clean up the outer bone man first, and he was ashamed. ”

The U.S. Second Expeditionary Force has 28 warships, all of which are giant warships with a volume of more than 10 kilometers, but basically the length is within 15 kilometers, and the built-in weapon design makes it impossible to see the true strength of these warships, but looking at the Yankees' eager appearance, the combat effectiveness should not be much worse.

"These are the new warships of the Americans? I heard that they are armed with neutron cannons. I don't know how powerful it is. Ye Fei said expectantly.

Although Liu Gong analyzed the situation with the neutron cannon. But Ye Fei was still full of interest in this legendary weapon.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Guo looked disdainful: "Fart's neutron cannon, fool the child." It may be useful to deal with biological warships, but if it is really against our warships, it is impossible for the neutron beam to penetrate the armor of the battleship. A bunch of waste snacks. ”

Ye Fei raised his eyebrows: "I'm looking forward to it." It's not that bad, is it? ”

Zheng Guo shrugged his shoulders disrespectfully: "The Yankees are too showy." After arriving at Proxima Centauri, I conducted a small-scale exercise, and I watched the neutron cannon they fired with my own eyes, and the battleship detected a stream of high-energy particles. But the target of learning is an asteroid, and you say that you bombard an asteroid with neutrons, what can you see? If you get some uranium-235 or something, it's pretty much the same. But to be honest, except for the unknown power of the neutron cannon, the other weapons are not much worse than our expeditionary force. "The veteran general does not belittle potential opponents because of differences in positions.

Strategically despise the enemy, tactically value the enemy. As a real soldier, General Zheng has won three flavors.

"It's like getting a new toy and trying to show off your child?" Ye Fei smiled happily.

"It's very vivid." General Zheng smiled heartily, "There are also Russians. ”

"I saw it, they have the most warships." Ye Fei said.

Zheng Guo said meaningfully: "The fact that there are many warships does not mean that the strength is strong. ”

Ye Fei was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Che Qi, give me a close-up view of the Russian fleet." ”

"Yes!" Che Qi simply operated twice, and the Russian direction of the spherical screen was magnified several times in succession, showing a group of Russian ships on the screen.

Ye Fei took a closer look and immediately understood what the old general meant.

The Second Fleet is all giant ships, the American Starfleet is all new warships, and only the Russian warships are a mix of new and old.

Ye Fei secretly screamed that it was a pity, he was blind to the veterans on the old ship: "General, why do I think the new battleship of the Russians is a little familiar?" ”

"Can you not be familiar? That's our Yanjing-level improved type. Zheng Guo grinned, but he couldn't laugh, and seemed very dissatisfied with the design of the Yanjing sold to the Russians.

"How so?" Ye Fei was stunned for a moment, feeling that his brain couldn't turn around.

"How not?" Zheng Guo sighed, "The Russians' industrial strength and design ability are indeed not worse than ours, but you also know that their expeditionary force lost the first battle, and although they won several battles after withdrawing to Proxima Centauri, the main force of each time was our fleet, and they were all raised to support them." If they design a new warship, it will be no problem to win on the battlefield, but if they lose again, the current government will have to step down directly. ”

The implication is that China's Yanjing-class battleships have already defeated the Outer Bone Man in battle, and buying such a battleship will naturally be able to avoid the risks brought by the new design and directly raise the strength of the Russian Expeditionary Force.

"Understood." Ye Fei shook his head and smiled bitterly, "This is really, it was sold to them like that?" ”

Ye Fei first felt that it was not worth selling the design drawings of the Yanjing-class directly, but then he thought of his Aquila, and felt that there was already a better one anyway, so he sold it, just to build a new warship.

"Who knows?" Zheng Guo tugged at the corners of his mouth, "I definitely won't sell the original directly." ”

This is also a common practice in the international arms trade, and the export type of the same weapon is always worse than the prototype.

Zheng Guo paused, and continued: "Now that Proxima Centauri has a three-legged powerhouse, no one can control anyone, and the nominal command of the fleet has been taken over to the Allied Headquarters, in fact, it is just to do its own thing, at most notify them before they make a move." ”

Ye Fei didn't know how to accept Lu Dao's words, although the allies were nominally united, no one would give their own command to others. Therefore, the command has not been unified until now, but fortunately, the Outer Bone People are the common enemy of all mankind, but they don't have to worry about someone stabbing them in the back, at most they are passive and sabotage.

However, the Celestial Army has never counted on others, so whether the United States and Russia cooperate or not makes no difference to China at all.

After a general understanding of the current situation of Proxima Centauri, Ye Fei changed the topic: "Commander Zheng, how strong are we in Proxima Centauri?" ”

Zheng Guo sighed helplessly: "It's roughly the same as the United States and Russia, the Fourth Fleet just arrived not long ago, and the Fifth Fleet is on its way." The ship is full of rookies who have never seen blood. Also net foreign mercenaries. I arranged for them to visit the ruins of the forward base first to feel the atmosphere of the battlefield. ”

"Forward base ruins?" Ye Fei was stunned at first, "Is it the forward base back then?" ”

Zheng Guo nodded heavily: "It is the one built by your First Fleet, and it is now the education base of the Expeditionary Force." New to Proxima Centauri. The first stop is to visit there. Americans want to see it too. But I can't get it for the time being, so I'll have to wait a little longer. ”

"Let them go into the ruins of the forward base...... Is it appropriate? Ye Fei would rather never forget that sad place, where thousands of martyrs died. How can outsiders be allowed in?

Zheng Guo shook his head and said: "There is nothing inappropriate, let the Yankees and Russians see how we have come over the years, don't always think that you are good." "To put it mildly, the peace in the solar system in recent years has been completely supported by the Chinese expeditionary force one victory after another, and without the Chinese expeditionary force, the solar system would have been filled with outer skeletons.

Ye Fei didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he was silent for a moment and asked: "Commander Zheng, when I left, I didn't know what I had to explain clearly, and I only gave the number of the Independent Task Force of the Expeditionary Force, do you know whether our ship belongs to the command of the Second Fleet?" ”

"I really don't know this, it's the first time I've heard the word Aquila, if it weren't for you, the captain, how could I say so much?" Zheng Guo said truthfully, "The Fourth Fleet is at the same level as our Second Fleet, and it does not accept my leadership at present, and our Second Fleet will stay for a long time, otherwise it is not certain that I will contact you."

"How so?" Ye Fei was puzzled, "The command is not unified, what if there is a fight?" ”

Multi-headed command is a taboo for soldiers, and it is impossible for the headquarters to be unclear.

Zheng Guo shook his head and said: "I think it may be that the above thinks that one fleet is enough to deal with an outer bone group, and there is no difference between unified and ununified command, and it is a waste to pinch two units of the same level together." Anyway, Lao Chai and I are also acquaintances, so it's impossible not to cooperate at all when we really fight. It's better to get in touch with the local area and ask about it. ”

The Second Fleet is of the same level as the Fourth Fleet, the commanders are all rear admirals, and the commander of the Fourth Fleet is named Chai Yang, who has a close personal relationship with Zheng Guo.

Ye Fei nodded: "Okay, I'll ask the headquarters when I go back." ”

"As soon as possible, let's talk about it first, I'll call Lao Chai when I go back, and the three of us will meet together." Zheng Guo said.

"Listen to your arrangement." Ye Fei had no reason to disagree, although his military rank was one level lower, but at this level, it was time to expand his network.

Cutting off communications, Ye Fei immediately contacted the mainland, and the answer given by the headquarters was that the Aquila was commanded by Ye Fei alone and fought independently, and emphasized that the command of the Aquila was not in the headquarters of the Sky Army, but under the direct command of the Ministry of Defense!

The Ministry of Defense meddling in the command of the Celestial Army? Even if Ye Fei didn't have any political IQ, he began to feel that the taste was wrong.

Since mankind entered the cosmic age, the status of the army, navy, air force and space forces has been reduced to the point of dispensability. The current situation is that the space force is the dominant force and can completely replace the national defense function of the army, navy, and air force.

Moreover, the space army has aviation units and airborne troops, and the traditional army is simply unable to confront the high-ranking space army, and both the military and the civilian population have called for abolishing the traditional arms set up and reorganizing the Ministry of National Defense.

Ye Fei guessed that depriving the Aquila of command from the Heavenly Army was an attempt by the Ministry of Defense, and maybe it would not be long before the Army would be reorganized into a security force similar to the armed police.

It's really interesting to think about it, human beings only had an army at the beginning, and now that the heavenly army established at the end of the day has a tendency to replace all arms...... If you don't replace it, you can't use the warships of the Celestial Army to carry the men and horses of the Army and run dozens of light years away to play landing warfare, right?

The coordination between the two command systems and arms alone was enough for the command to turn gray.

After clarifying his position, Ye Fei took the initiative to contact Zheng Guo: "Commander Zheng, the Aquila is fighting independently, and the command does not belong to any unit...... I need to know the enemy's movements now. ”

"The enemy's movements?" Zheng Guo smacked his lips and said in a businesslike tone, "According to the feedback from the long-range early warning system, according to the current speed of the enemy, the enemy army with the leading speed is still about seven days away from the AB double star; The other enemy army was about a day's mile behind. ”

"So fast?" Ye Fei's heart sank, "The enemy is coming soon, why is our fleet still waiting here?" ”

Zheng Guoshuang spread his back: "If there were no Yankees and Russians, our fleet would have sailed to AB Shuangxing and waited, now the Americans are in a hurry to show off, and the Russians want to win a battle, what are we anxious about?" Look at it, tomorrow, at most the day after tomorrow, the Yankees and the Russians will definitely not be able to help it, let them take the lead, let's cheer and shout. ”

Ye Fei's face twitched slightly, and he said in his heart that he was really an old fox, but he said with a straight face: "Commander Zheng, please pass on the detailed information of the enemy to me as soon as possible." ”

"It's easy to do." Zheng Guo agreed. (To be continued......)

PS: Irrigation is not a good habit, I confess, I confess, I repent......