"Command center, the Aquila is requesting to take off." The familiar spherical panoramic screen, the familiar command chair and the familiar console, everything was so familiar, Ye Fei couldn't help but have the illusion of returning to the bridge of the Yangtze River.

Liu Gong said that the Aquila was built with reference to the giant ship of the expeditionary force, Ye Fei thought it was referring to the performance parameters, but when he entered the battleship, he realized that the passage specifications, cabin settings and decoration styles in the ship were almost exactly the same as those of the giant ship, which was simply a copy of the giant ship!

Ye Fei secretly speculated that this was probably done to save costs and shorten the construction period of the warship. No wonder the captain of the Aquila was appointed above, and the Aquila was basically the same as the Yangtze River. If you start training from scratch, the battleship will need at least a few months of run-in before it can carry out the combat mission, but you can replace the original crew of the Yangtze River, and you can immediately start the battleship and give full play to the most basic combat effectiveness!

"Aquila, you can take off, good luck." The female dispatcher of the command center blessed the warriors who were about to sail with the sweetest voice.

"Aquila - ready to take off!"

"The power system is operating normally, reactors 1 to 12 are activated!"

"Start the optical imaging system, the panoramic screen is displayed normally!"

"The detection system is activated, the radar is normal, the magnetic sensor is normal!"

"The control system is working properly, starting the conventional engine, and the power output is 12%!"

"Open the armored airlock—"

Amid the rumbling sound of machinery, the air in the workshop was quickly evacuated, and then the armor above the Aquila, which was up to 100 meters thick, unraveled layer by layer, and a few rays of starlight shot into the shaft through the shaft-like airlock.

"The power output is eighteen, twenty-four, thirty-three...... Takeoff! "The anti-gravity engines on the four assault landing ships and the capital ship contributed at the same time. Under Jiang Xue's control, the huge Aquila slowly left the ground and steadily ascended into the shaft.

The control system of the Sky Eagle was much more sensitive than that of the Yangtze River, Jiang Xue's energy was highly concentrated, and her hands holding the rudder were as steady as Mount Tai, and the battleship rose rapidly, flying out of the shaft in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Xue breathed a sigh of relief instantly, and in less than a minute, fine beads of sweat were already covering her forehead.

"The Yangtze River has been lifted off, and all systems are working normally!" Ye Fei immediately informed the command center of the situation.

"Captain Ye, you are now commanding the Aquila." The helpless dispatcher rolled his eyes.

There was a muffled laugh on the bridge. Ye Fei was not embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Get used to it. Laugh a fart smile, hold it back for me! ”

It's good that he didn't say this, but as soon as the words came out, everyone was no longer depressed. Laughed straight out loud.

Ye Fei thought about it and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Damn." Just got on the new ship, there was such an oolong. Command center. The Aquila has lifted off and all systems are working properly! ”

"Received by the command center, please go to the predetermined location and moor."

"Understood!" Ye Fei replied solemnly. "Jiang Xue!"

"Yes!" Jiang Xue drove the battleship to a small turn, but it took more than ten seconds to fly above the lunar base and slowly descend to the mooring area on the surface of the base.

As soon as the battleship came to a stop, the transport vehicles that had been waiting in the berthing area immediately rushed up and sent the materials and equipment that had been prepared to the battleship in one go.

In the past, the replenishment of warships had to be done by man-operated mechanical equipment, but the highly automated Aquila directly received the supply module with a robotic arm and sent it to the ship, and transported it according to the type of replenishment, either to the ammunition depot or to the supply tank.

In addition to supplies, personnel were also the top priority of this replenishment, and although the Aquila had a standard crew of nine hundred and fifty men, the number of people actually sent into the battleship exceeded one thousand.

When people eat whole grains, they inevitably have a headache and brain fever, so why do you have to bring a few replacement people?

Among the 1,000 people, half of the original crew of the Yangtze River was not enough, but because there were not enough people to settle so many people.

The light space carrier alone occupies more than 370 people, including more than 270 pilots alone, making it the largest unit in the entire fleet of the Aquila.

Another large part of the establishment is the commando team, each assault landing ship can carry a group of commandos, in addition to the original three groups, there is a brigade of commandos, the captain is codenamed wolf cub.

These two units alone divided up nearly seven hundred establishments, and the remaining three hundred people were distributed to various ships, like a handful of sand thrown into the water, and they could not even be seen. Fortunately, the remaining battleships use a large number of automatic equipment, and only a few people are needed, and the most are only a dozen people to control the entire ship.

It didn't take long for all the personnel to get on the ship, and the heads of various departments were basically all the old people, Ye Fei directly left the work of personnel placement to his subordinates, and became the shopkeeper himself.

But the supply of supplies is much more troublesome, and a large amount of supplies are generally sent to the ship, but the huge ship as big as a hill is like a bottomless pit that cannot be filled, and no matter how many things are thrown in, you can't hear a sound.

After more than four hours of uninterrupted transportation, the battleship's warehouse was only half full, and Ye Fei, who had been waiting on the bridge, suddenly received a communication from the command center, informing him to take off immediately.

Ye Fei found that the supply army didn't know when the road had stopped, and immediately asked angrily: "Only give me half of the supplies, where can I go?" ”

"Captain Ye, the base has been emptied of the supplies for the sixth, seventh, and eighth fleets of the expeditionary force, and all the remaining supplies have been fully loaded onto your battleship." The dispatcher explained kindly.

Such a large warship, replenishing it requires an astronomical amount of weapons, ammunition and food supplies, and exchanging these materials for currency can make the richest bank go bankrupt directly, that is, the country has the strength to support such a powerful fleet.

"Even if you delay the supply of those three fleets, you have to finish it for me first, right?" Ye Fei knew that the dispatcher would definitely not be able to say anything about this, so he didn't waste his spit and lost his temper with the dispatcher.

The capital ship of the expeditionary force is basically the same size as the Aquila, and the supply of one is almost enough for the Aquila.

"Captain Ye, there is an order from above. You are required to fly to the base of Saturn immediately, and when you get there, you will fill up the missing supplies. The dispatcher said.

"You didn't say it sooner! Attention departments, get ready for liftoff immediately! Ye Feicai didn't care where he was supplying, as long as the supplies were enough, "Jiang Xue! ”

"Roger!" Jiang Xue started the engine, and the Aquila slowly ascended lightly until it was out of the gravitational range of the moon.

In the case of the Earth, no matter how strong the power of the Aquila is, it is impossible to rise directly into space, but the gravitational pull of the Moon is much smaller than that of the Earth. So the battleship was able to lift directly into the air with the assistance of the anti-gravity engines of the four assault landing ships.

"Command center. I need a direct passage to Saturn's base! Ye Fei unceremoniously asked.

"The request is dismissed, get off the plane of the zodiac, and fly however you want." Nie Jianrong's voice suddenly interjected in the communication.

As soon as Ye Fei heard that it was the voice of the big boss, he immediately became a turtle with a shrunken head and didn't dare to mess around anymore. Gray commanded the battleship to fly away from the ecliptic plane: "Aquila." Faster-than-light engine charged! "He had a difficult story about the dispatcher. I don't want people to think he's a bully.

People are good at being bullied and horses are good at being ridden, and the supplies for the other three fleets are sufficient, and when they get to him, they are only half of them. Isn't this watching people through the cracks in the door? This time, if he doesn't let go of his fart, he will admit it, and next time there may be some bewitchment.

"Thirty-second countdown to faster-than-light flight—"

Everyone immediately fixed their positions, they were all members of the heavenly army, even if they didn't know the actual distance between Saturn and the earth, but the vague approximate distance no one knew the way, and such a short distance would use superluminal speed?

"Three, two, one - start!"

The Aquila suddenly disappeared into the blinding colorful light in the sky, and the thousand or so people on the ship only felt that everything around them suddenly seemed to stop, and it took a while to regain a little mobility, but before they could fully recover, the battleship was out of the faster-than-light state.

The familiar Saturn base was in sight, Ye Fei glanced at the clock, from the time it set sail to the time it was faster than light, it only took seventy-six seconds for the Aquila.

When I first arrived at the Saturn base, the spaceship alone sat for more than two months, and now it is here in an instant, which is really emotional.

"Aquila calls Saturn base, Aquila calls Saturn base, please answer if you receive it!"

"Saturn base received, Aquila, the base airport is too small, your ship cannot land, the base will send a transport ship to deliver supplies on board, please fly to the designated coordinates and wait for receiving."

"Understood." Ye Fei replied, "Jiang Xue? ”

"The coordinates from the Saturn base have been received." Jiang Xue replied.

"Fly over." Ye Fei said dryly.

Soon the Aquila flew to a position more than ten kilometers away from the Saturn base air port and stopped, waiting quietly. After a while, the airlock of the airport was opened, and more than a dozen transport ships with big heads and round bellies flew out of the airport and headed straight for the Aquila.

"Ye Fei!" The haunting Nie Jianrong cut into the communication again, "There is a batch of supplies at the Saturn base that you need to receive in person. ”

"Yes!" Ye Fei wondered for a while, he didn't even need to sign the gravity shell, what did he actually need to receive in person?

The transports that flew to the side of the Aquila each found a docking hatch and sent a steady stream of materials and resources onto the battleship, only one of which leaned unhurriedly against the belly of the Aquila.

After Ye Fei arrived at the belly of the ship, the transport ship that had already completed docking opened the airtight gate for docking, and as soon as the gate opened, a person couldn't wait to get into the Aquila.

When Ye Fei saw this familiar and somewhat unfamiliar figure, he was stunned on the spot, and asked in disbelief: "Veterinarian?" ”

"Ha Luha, boss, you didn't expect it to be me, did you?" The veterinarian squeezed his eyes narrowly.

"Holy, you kid!" I haven't seen him for many years, Ye Fei was so excited that he didn't know what to say, he rushed up and punched the veterinarian with an arrow step, and then hugged the veterinarian violently and slapped him on the back.

"Stop, stop!" The veterinarian screamed in pain, "Boss Ye, are you going to murder?" ”

"Nonsense, I didn't make much effort." Ye Fei glared at the veterinarian dissatisfied, "You kid don't come with me for this!" ”

The veterinarian smiled bitterly: "Boss, you still treat me as the same as back then, I have been doing research at the Saturn base for the past few years, I have long been abolished, you are working so hard, how can I stand it?" ”

When Ye Fei heard this, he suddenly sighed: "Hey, you said that you are so good, why do you have to go to any laboratory?" By the way, what the hell is it that I have to sign for? He looked behind the veterinarian and found nothing.

"Hey, it's in the back. It's me you're going to receive! The veterinarian touched his nose and said.

"You?" Ye Fei was overjoyed, "That's great, don't worry, even if you go home when you get here, the black bear, the monkey and the scissors are all there, I guarantee that it won't take long for you to practice again!" ”

The veterinarian smiled bitterly again: "Boss, I transferred to the Aquila, but I didn't come back to be a commando. ”

"Huh?" Ye Fei was puzzled, "Then what are you here for?" That's right, you're a lieutenant colonel now. I don't have a superfluous captain to do for you. ”

"Just your captains. It's not necessarily like me. The veterinarian smiled treacherously, looked at the few people behind Ye Fei, lowered his voice and said, "Keep it secret for the time being, let's receive the supplies first." I'll explain it to you in more detail later. ”

See the veterinarian like this. Ye Fei immediately realized that things were not so simple. Immediately agreed to the veterinarian's request.

The veterinarian returned to the airlock and sent a signal, and a team of men and horses immediately escorted a bunch of instruments that Ye Fei couldn't understand into the Aquila and sent them to the reserved warehouse under the ship's belly for storage.

This warehouse was next to the airborne capsule of the commandos.

Don't look at the presence of assault landing ships. However, the landing module was not canceled on the Aquila, and the location of the landing module was similar to that of the Yangtze River, directly below the belly of the ship.

A large number of supplies were on the ship, it was the busiest time, even if there was nothing to do with Ye Fei, it was not good for him to leave the bridge for a long time, and he had to be busy for a while to see the veterinarian, so he said hello and returned to the bridge first, and at the same time of returning, the news that the veterinarian was transferred to the Aquila notified the black bear and other old brothers.

Several people immediately geared up and prepared to give the veterinarian a lesson in the lesson.

Gravity-free replenishment in a vacuum was much easier than replenishment on the lunar surface, and after two hours all of the Aquila's warehouses were filled, and the veterinarian moved all the secret supplies into the bilge and locked the hatch himself.

From this time on, except for himself, even Ye Fei could not open this hatch.

"Command center, the Aquila is ready to depart after resupplying, please instruct." Ye Fei reported the situation of the Aquila as soon as possible.

"Aquila, let's go, over!"

"The Aquila understood." Ye Fei cut off the communication from the command center, and a resolute look appeared on his face: "The target is Proxima Centauri, and the superluminal engine is charged!" ”

"The charge is complete, and the faster-than-light engine starts counting down...... Three, two, one - start! ”

The Aquila disappeared again in the rainbow of light, and due to its location too close to the Saturn base, the base's communications were severely disrupted for a time, but fortunately there were no serious consequences.

In view of the strong magnetic field generated when the tachyon engine is activated has a super interference ability, the Celestial Army, which has learned the lesson, immediately ordered that no warship should enter the faster-than-light state at close range at the base during non-war time.

After entering the faster-than-light state, the speed of the Aquila soared, and it didn't take long for it to reach a top speed of seventy-six times.

The speed increased, and the duration of the abnormal state when entering the faster-than-light state also increased a lot, and after a full day, the sense of time of the personnel on the ship returned to normal, everything was on track, and the old comrades-in-arms who had been reunited for a long time finally found a time to get together.

When the black bear saw the veterinarian, he came up with a bear hug, and the veterinarian's bones rattled and almost didn't break bones.

The scissors and the monkey were not polite, and took the opportunity to punch each other, almost beating the veterinarian to the point of being angry.

When the black bear let go of the veterinarian, the scissors pulled Jiang Xue, who was standing and watching the excitement, over, and put his arms into his arms: "Veterinarian, this is my daughter-in-law, I just got married home,"

"Two unlucky children, halfway through the wedding, I received the order to return to the team." The black bear urn said angrily.

The veterinarian had already seen Jiang Xue, and when he heard the two of them say this, he immediately gritted his teeth with hatred: "I rely on your scissors, and I still want to introduce you to me, but I didn't expect you to lead all the beasts to the house!" My brother and sister are really blind to marry you! The old bachelor who has been soaking in the laboratory all these years was so jealous that his eyes were green, and he praised the scissors for their shit luck.

Everyone is used to making trouble together, and she doesn't think there's anything, but Jiang Xue is not an old brother who was born and died together, so she frowned when she heard this.

Ye Fei hurriedly made a round: "Jiang Xue, don't listen to his nonsense, a few of us are used to making trouble, don't take it to heart." ”

Jiang Xue hurriedly shook her head: "No, I don't have anything to do." ”

Heartache daughter-in-law's scissors pulled the veterinarian: "You did it on purpose, didn't you?" If you dare to joke around, I'll post your nude photos online! ”

The veterinarian grinned nonchalantly: "Liar, how can you have my nude photos?" ”

"Humph!" The scissors pointed at their eyes, "What are you doing with my eyes, clairvoyance, pediatrics!" ”

The veterinarian was stunned when he heard this: "No, it's all your own brothers, what are you doing with your eyes!" In fact, he is not afraid of a big man at all, and he is nude in the nude photos, but he realized that what he said just now was really inappropriate, so he said this in order to give face to the scissors.

The veterinarian doesn't care, it doesn't mean that other people don't care either, Jiang Xue raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and gritted her teeth with a powdery face: "Zhu Zhiqiang, what's going on with your eyes?" ”

"Huh? No, it's nothing! Scissors panicked.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xue grabbed his ear, "Say, who have you peeked at?" ”

The plan is not as fast as the change, and the sudden turn for the worse immediately stunned everyone.

Even Ye Fei listened to the scissors talk about the mechanical eye and the perspective function for the first time today, thinking that everyone was looking smooth in the eyes of the scissors, and suddenly felt tired in his heart, and the only bit of sympathy disappeared immediately.

"No, no, I'll see who is going, you're the only woman on the bridge......"

Jiang Xue's eyes were dark, and she almost fainted: "Just me, a woman, you can look at it, right?" No wonder she always felt that the eyes of the scissors were wrong when she looked at her, and he had been looking at her for several years.

Even if Scissors is her man now, the past can't just be settled.

"Work hard, don't give me face!" Ye Fei gloated and set up seedlings to make a fuss, and the others also stared at the excitement with the same interest.

As soon as Ye Fei said this, Jiang Xue's face suddenly turned red, and the hand that twisted her ears couldn't help but relax a little.

Except for veterinarians here, who doesn't know that Jiang Xue has always been cold? I didn't expect her to have such a side.

Feeling the strength on his ears loosen, the scissors hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "Wife, I really don't have it, besides, we are both husband and wife, what do I have to look at it a few times...... Oops, let it go...... Help—"

"Ha Luha, you just bear with it, who made you not have a tight mouth!" Ye Fei said jokingly.

The scissors were forgiving, and countless unequal treaties were promised before Jiang Xue let go, rubbing her ears vigorously with her teeth, and not forgetting to give the veterinarian a fierce look.

A gag laugh diluted the strangeness of years of separation, and the veterinarian felt that he was back in the crowd, and everyone felt that the veterinarian was still the same veterinarian.

Ye Fei wasted no time in asking, "Veterinarian, what exactly are the things you brought?" It's time to tell me, right? "From top to bottom, there is no place for the Aquila that the captain does not know, except for what is in the warehouse.

The veterinarian looked around, put away his smile and said softly, "Trust me, I'll tell you when it's time to say it, but now is not the time." ”

"At least give me a hint, huh?" Ye Fei asked without giving up, "Even a little bit." ”

"This one does." The veterinarian said, "It's an experimental weapon, and when I have the conditions to use it, I'll naturally bring it up, and if I don't get the right opportunity, I might have to bring it back to the Saturn base as it is...... That's all I can say. (To be continued......)

PS: More than a hundred words were added at the end of the previous chapter.