On June 22, 2208, Aquila arrived at the red dwarf Laland-21185, located 8.21 light-years from our solar system.

Laland-21185 is a solitary star, surrounded by nothing but a handful of broken asteroids, not even icy asteroids.

To Ye Fei and the others' disappointment, they pounced on the air again, and the bone mound in the intelligence had already left here, Ye Fei thought that it might be because the resources here were too scarce, and the outer bone people could not even replenish water, so they had to leave here.

However, this is just Ye Fei's speculation, and there is no evidence at all.

The Aquila did not fight for a long time after finding the bone mound every time, but the faster-than-light voyage after the battle was basically ten or twenty days, so there was no problem of fatigue among the personnel on the ship, so the battleship immediately left Laland21185 after discovering that the target had disappeared.

From mid-April to late June, the Aquila flew to Proxima Centauri, Wolf 359, Ross 128, and Laland 21185, and although it flew twice in a row, the information on the appearance of the bone mound was not fictional. As it turned out, the speculation of the General Staff was unfortunate that the outer bone colonies that had entered human-controlled airspace were already showing a tendency to explode.

These days, not only the Aquila is busy fighting the enemy, but the other fleets are not idle.

On June 9, 2208, the U.S. Third Interstellar Fleet, about 10.5 light-years from the Sun, carried a resting colony of Outer Skeletons.

The diameter of Tianyuan-4 is about 0.84 times that of the Sun, which looks similar to the Sun, and the environment of this planetary system is very complex. With six planets of all sizes, two asteroid belts and the massive Kuiper Belt, it is the planetary system with the closest environment to the solar system near the Sun.

However, the star is less than a billion years old, it is still very young, the star itself is not stable, the magnetic field activity is very strong, and the stellar wind is 34 times stronger than the sun. Therefore, although there is a planet in the habitable zone, the environment is extremely harsh, and the conditions for life are not available at all.

After understanding the environment of Tianyuan Si, the war-seeking U.S. troops took the initiative to attack the Outer Bone Man.

The American commander has always been worried about a sneak attack by the Sea Urchin. Luckily, though, this exoskeleton colony hasn't been targeted by sea urchins. The U.S. military only needs to deal with biological warships.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of a superweapon that can make a final blow at the speed of light torpedoes, the U.S. military had to gradually eliminate the vitality of the Exoskeletons, which led to the very low combat efficiency of the U.S. military, which was roughly equivalent to the extent that the First Fleet of the Expeditionary Force had just arrived at Proxima Centauri.

Fight like this. Slowly wear down the fleet of the Outer Skeletons. Sooner or later, we will be able to destroy this Outer Skeletal Force. However, Starfleet has been suppressed by the achievements of the Chinese Expeditionary Force for several years, and the American commanders are eager to win, and they simply cannot wait that long.

So the American commander gave an order. More than a dozen warships copied the tactics of power shock ships for short-distance faster-than-light flights, and annihilated the biological warship Aquila with the light explosion impact of the battleship, the battle process of the Aquila in Proxima Centauri has long been spread, and it is said that the United States and Russia have begun to design similar warships, but the design and formation speed of a new warship is not so fast, and it is impossible to equip the fleet in a short time.

But the faster-than-light flight of ordinary warships also has an irresistible lightburst impact, and these battleships are larger in size and stronger in impact, countless biological warships died tragically in the impact tactics, and a US warship even smashed an asteroid with a diameter of 140 kilometers.

Using the same tactics for several days in a row, the American fleet completely crippled the Outer Skeleton, and after finding that they could not fight the enemy, the Outer Skeleton once again came up with a turtle tactic and tried to enter the speed of light and slip away.

The red-eyed commander of the U.S. military ordered all the smallest warships in the fleet to evacuate, and set up a control system so that it would automatically enter a faster-than-light state and directly hit the bone mound with the battleship......

The bone mound was torn apart by the impact of the nine-kilometer-long battleship, and the battleship was also crushed to pieces in the impact.

In any case, the U.S. military won an unprecedented victory, which can almost be described as a shame, and its political significance far outweighed the value of the battleship itself.

On June 14, 2208, two days after the victory, it took thirty-three days for Russian troops from Proxima Centauri to finally fly to Luhman16, also known as WISE1049-5319, the closest to Proxima Centauri.

It is a binary star system consisting of two brown dwarfs, also known as "failed stars", whose surface temperatures do not exceed 3000 K due to insufficient mass.

In the case of Jupiter, for example, it is not massive enough to have a fusion reaction, but it is thirteen times the mass of Jupiter to be able to carry out hydrogen fusion, and a celestial body greater than 65 times the mass of Jupiter will produce lithium fusion, but to become a real star, it must reach eighty times the mass of Jupiter!

Therefore, strictly speaking, these two brown dwarfs are not classified as stars, they only have a star-like structure, but do not have the mass of a star. This object is one of the most numerous in the Milky Way!

The reason why these two brown dwarfs attracted the attention of the Russian army was that they had a large number of small celestial bodies orbiting in their vicinity, which gave the Outer Skeleton people the conditions to stay.

After the Russian army arrived at this place, which only had a number but no name, it quickly launched a reconnaissance operation, but the reconnaissance for two consecutive days did not find anything, and it was not until the third day that a sea urchin ship was accidentally discovered!

This discovery made the Russian army ecstatic, tracking the position of the sea urchin, and finally found the bone mound hidden near the brown dwarf star - this bone mound is only about 600 kilometers in diameter, and its mass and gravity do not even reach the level of hydrostatic equilibrium, that is, its shape is not a circle!

The Russian army suddenly realized, no wonder they didn't find this bone mound before, because the bone mound they are used to has at least a round appearance, and this one has subverted the impression that human beings have always had!

Having found the target, the Russian army immediately went on the offensive.

The Russian warships were born from the Yanjing-class capital ships, but they did not only buy the blueprints of the capital ships. It was only after obtaining a complete set of drawings of the expeditionary force's giant ships that it was believed that destroyers and assault ships were not suitable for equipping troops, so they combined the designs of various warships and pieced together this kind of multifunctional warship that the Russian military called the "Admiral" class.

This kind of warship cannot be disassembled, but it has the ability to be similar to the Aquila, that is, it can carry fighters and can also launch orbital airborne troops, which is somewhat similar to the warships of the United States.

However, the most special thing about the general level is that the Russian side spent a lot of money to buy a batch of light-speed torpedoes from the Chinese side!

Once upon a time, China relied on the advanced weapons of the Russian army to carry out a vigorous modernization process, and now the situation is reversed, and the polar bear must import weapons from the Chinese side to equip the troops!

More than a dozen Admiral-class battleships pounced directly on the bone mound. I also killed the sea urchin halfway.

The Russian army fought fiercely with the Outer Skeleton Man. A large number of biological warships were killed, and although the Russian ships were not damaged in battle, almost all of them were damaged, and they had to launch light-speed torpedoes at the last time.

The lightspeed torpedoes sold to the Russian army are all old models. Large in size and powerful. With a single shot, it shattered the bone mound and ended the battle.

The Russian commander sighed afterwards. Originally, I was reluctant to launch the light-speed torpedo purchased at a high price, but I didn't expect to use the light-speed torpedo to solve the problem.

Since then, the expeditionary forces of China, the United States, and Russia have launched a three-front operation in a vast space. Intercept the outer bone colonies approaching the solar system with all your might!

However, the number of fleets involved in interception is still too small.

On June 24, 2208, an exoskeleton tribe arrived at Proxima Centauri and exchanged fire with the remaining fleet, and the Second and Sixth Fleets worked together to annihilate the enemy in only half a day—the shock tactics used by the U.S. forces in the Battle of Tianyuan IV are now well known under American propaganda.

In addition, the so-called Sixth Fleet is actually a new fleet consisting of six capital ships, two assault ships, and one aerospace carrier of the original sixth, seventh, and eighth fleets.

Previously, it was rumored that the destroyers in these three fleets were sold to the Russian army, but in fact, twelve destroyers, four assault ships and two aerospace carriers were sold separately to European countries for the formation of the EU task force.

The battleship has been sold to them for several months, but the EU fighters, who have never built a real space fleet, are still getting acquainted with the battleship, and the probability of forming combat effectiveness in a short time is basically zero.

In addition, there are also 34 new warships that have just been delivered to the EU by mechanical civilization, because the EU has no experience in forming a space fleet, and it is somewhat confident in copying the establishment of the Tianda space country, so the warships that can be organized into three fleets were organized into two fleets by them, but it is a pity that the EU countries that lack aerospace background are still lacking suitable crews than China, and the crews currently being trained do not have a year and a half of time to come in handy.

As for other countries, it is completely petty, and a half-ship warship has no impact on the overall strength of mankind at all, and can only stay at home as a guard fleet - after entering the interstellar age, the strength of human countries is extremely polarized, and the three major space countries that have successfully entered the inner universe era have grabbed various space resources, and their strength has increased rapidly, leaving other countries far behind.

The second-tier countries are the old powers of Europe, these countries must look at the face of the great space country in order to obtain valuable mineral resources, although they have also made efforts to try to join the space club, but the results are very little, until the invasion of the Outer Skeletons, they have not achieved much.

Needless to say, although many third-tier countries have escaped war and poverty, high-end toys like space warships cannot be created by their fragile economic system and industrial level.

It's not that these countries can't afford to buy warships, and it's not that the three major aerospace countries are biting to death and refusing to sell them, but that the weapon platform of warships is not everything will be fine when you get it, and the maintenance of warships, the training and use of weapons, and the training and renewal of crews will cost a lot of money, and they must be continuously invested during the service life of warships, like a bottomless pit to suck up all the funds of these countries!

It is important to know that the Chinese Celestial Force began its period of rapid development only after the orbital arsenal and the Saturn arsenal were put into production, and before that, the Chinese military invested a large amount of money in infrastructure construction, which is said to be enough to revitalize the economies of dozens of small countries at the same time.

The reason why the Tianda Fleet country takes the route of elite troops is that economic factors are also one of the important reasons!

It's a pity that the total fleet of the Tianda Space Country is still too small, and it can only be left and right in the continuous invasion of the Outer Skeletons.

On July 15, 2208, Aquila arrived at Rutan, 12.36 light-years from the Sun. After two days and nights of fierce fighting, the outer bone group fell one, and the sea urchin ship was a group.

Five days later, the Aquila arrived at Nanhesan, 1.11 light-years away from Rutan, but received an early warning signal from the early warning satellite left on Rutan, and had to return immediately.

On July 29, 2208, the U.S. Starfleet arrived at Rutan 726-8 at a distance of about 8.73 light-years in the constellation Cetus, and half a month later turned to Tenkura 5, also located in the constellation Cetus at a distance of 11.9 light-years, and reached its target in early September 2208.

Russian troops after the end of the battle for the brown dwarf. then go to Wolf 424 in Virgo......

The fleets of the three countries did not blindly switch to war. The production capacity of mechanical civilization has increased, and both the American and Russian sides have formed more than one new fleet.

In addition to the Interstellar First Fleet, which was originally stationed in Gliese 581, the U.S. military has formed three new fleets. Two of them are stationed on Proxima Centauri. The other went directly to Tianyuan IV.

The Aquila left Proxima Centauri shortly after that. The two fleets left Proxima Centauri and flew to Tianyuan IV, and by the beginning of August 2208, they had not yet reached Tianyuan IV. But it's not far away.

The three fleets of the Russian side, one stationed on Proxima Centauri, one went to Barnard, the last one went directly to Sirius, and the remnants of the first fleet formed at the earliest returned to the mainland of the solar system to wait for the adaptation and redress.

The fleets of the three nations are like a springboard from one galaxy to another, and the cleared ones are taken over by the newly formed fleet, striving to create a perfect circle of guards around the solar system.

At this time, the fleets that mankind put into the war were Russia, three Americans, four middle six, plus the independent Aquila, a total of fourteen fleets fighting independently, which seemed to be a lot, but in fact it was not enough at all, and each fleet had to find ways to find traces of the outer skeletons and take the initiative to attack in order to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent.

The EU fleet that remains on the soil of the solar system for training

The Chinese side has acquired a total of 36 new warships, but the Chinese side has already six fleets fighting abroad, and the space forces are seriously understaffed; after the unprecedented success of the Aquila, these warships are being automatically refitted in order to reduce the staffing as much as possible, and the training plan for new fighters is in full swing.

No matter how advanced weapons are, they need people to control them, and some people in other countries lack warships, but only China has too many warships to use.

The EU has been in contact with the Chinese side many times in the hope of getting these warships, but the Chinese side has never relented.

The EU side knows that in addition to the warships sold to them, all the warships left by the Chinese side to the Sixth Fleet have undergone preliminary automatic modifications, and a large number of personnel have been reduced, and the newly arrived warships will be used for the second fleet after the modification is completed!

So far, the Second Fleet has lost only one destroyer, and most of the personnel on board have escaped, and there is basically no loss of personnel, and nearly 30,000 officers and men have been scattered over more than 30 warships, which can only be said to be barely an army.

The plan of the Celestial Army Headquarters is to return to the First Fleet stationed in the Giant System after the Second Fleet is completed, and then replace the First Fleet with Skyhawk-class warships.

The military's own production capacity is limited, and the First Fleet's record is obvious to all, so it became the first fleet to be refitted, and will gradually replace other fleets with Aquila-class warships.

In fact, the delivery of mechanical civilization is also an improved model based on the drawings of the Aquila, but only the drawings of the Iron Bull handed over to the mechanical civilization are exactly the same as the Iron Bull, but the length is only nine kilometers, which is much smaller than the Aquila.

The new warship was named the Harrier Eagle class.

In actual combat, the expeditionary force found that the firepower and protection of the giant ship were sufficient, but the huge size caused the battleship to have insufficient mobility, and although the speed was fast, it was very troublesome to turn.

Therefore, on the Aquila class, except for the main ship of the Iron Bull, the volume of each ship has been reduced a lot. The Harrier-class battleship has been accurately calculated by the designers, and the volume has been reduced as much as possible on the premise of strengthening firepower and power, in order to improve the maneuverability of the battleship.

When the Harrier-class drawings were delivered to the mechanical civilization, the construction of the Aquila had not yet begun, and due to the lack of confidence in the Aquila, the military did not hand over the drawings of the auxiliary warship to the mechanical civilization for construction. However, the performance of the Aquila is so eye-catching, and the military is currently considering adding auxiliary warships to this batch of warships, but what makes the military a headache is that this batch of auxiliary warships must be reduced in equal proportions, and the good news is that the personnel needed on the ships can be further reduced.

In the end, the military decided to attach the exact same auxiliary ship as the Aquila to these ships, but with some reasonable improvements, the two assault landing ships were left with only one on the port side, and the other side was docked with a camouflaged reconnaissance ship; The number of air-supremacy firepower ships has been changed from four to two, and the air-space carriers have been abolished; an additional hangar was installed on the vacated ridge to carry thirty J-447 fighters; Medical rescue ships and engineering maintenance ships are carried separately by non-warships.

Only the power shock ships were favored by the military because of their strong performance in battle, and the number remained the same.

However, this does not mean that the speed of the Harrier-class battleship can surpass that of the Skyhawk-class, because of the reduction in size, the reduction of auxiliary ships, the number of fusion reactors on the ship is also reduced, and the power is a cut worse than that of the Skyhawk class.

The military's plan is to form a combat sequence in which the two types of warships, the Skyhawk-class and Harrier-class warships, are matched with high and low after large-scale refitting in the future, just as the Air Force's light fighters and heavy fighters are matched with each other.

The structure of the two types of warships is similar, the equipment inside the ships is exactly the same, only the number is different, and the auxiliary warships are exactly the same, so it is completely possible to call them "ship families" according to the concept of "gun family".

The emergence of the ship family will greatly reduce the difficulty of training the crew and the complexity of logistical support, and save a lot of money, time, and energy.

As for which type of warship the expeditionary force will use as the main force in the future, it will depend on the performance of two warships of different sizes, but of the same origin and same species, on the battlefield.

Time flew by in a constant battle, and by October 2208, humanity had basically completed the outer defense circle, but at most one fleet was stationed on each nearby star, and the number of fleets in some directions was insufficient, and even the fleets had to be dismantled and stationed in adjacent planetary systems, such as Rutan and Nanhe, which were only 1.11 light-years apart, were garrisoned by the dismantled Fourth Fleet.

It was also at this time that the Aquila, which had been fighting continuously for half a year, received a new order. (To be continued......)

PS: Suddenly there is a feeling of powerlessness, this chapter is too messy, sorry.