spaceflight manual

Chapter 51 Prelude to Xintiandi
Since Angeli asked, Wang Pingan introduced: "This is my junior in the Space Flight Academy, one grade lower than me, named Zhai Dengshan."

Angeli frowned slightly: "Climbing?"

Wang Pingan: "Zhai, roll your tongue. But we do generally call him 'climbing a mountain'."

Angeli rolled her tongue deliberately, trying to pronounce "Zhai", but accidentally turned it into a French flick.

This time everyone was amused.

The Scot, who hadn't declared himself, picked up the bagpipe and played a few portamentos, which made the scene even more funny.

Wang Pingan: "Zhai, but it doesn't matter if you really can't send it out, just tell him to climb a mountain, that's what we all call it."

The edges of Angeli's ears were slightly red, but she controlled herself and pulled the topic away: "Look at you, the juniors are already captains."

Wang Ping'an: "Let me explain this. He was also number one that year, so he graduated as a lieutenant. In fact, he was only promoted one more time than me."

Zhai Dengshan nodded: "That's right, I'm actually promoted at a regular speed. Senior Qin Qiong is the real rocket promotion. It's almost three years to the first level, which is really fast. But I heard that seniors can no longer fly?"

Wang Ping'an's face darkened: "Yes. In order to save a novice, we walked around in front of Instructor Ma, and we were cleaning up the debris of the disintegrated spaceship."

"It was the time when you took the silver star, right? Although we all came from novices, I still couldn't help but say that novices are really harmful. When will memory transplantation be practical?"

Angorie coughed, and after attracting attention, she said, "Don't just talk about the old days on your own, the introduction hasn't been finished yet."

"Ah? Isn't it all over?"

"You haven't introduced me yet."

Wang Pingan said "Oh".

Zhai Dengshan joked: "I understand, the scourge is that I don't want to introduce it, I want to enjoy it alone."

"This is Angelie from Lyon. As you can see, she is French, and she is a natural person with only her hair adjusted. She is nearsighted so she wears glasses."

"Hello." Angeli stretched out her hand gracefully.

Zhai Dengshan glanced at Wang Ping'an: "I won't be beaten if I shake hands?"

Wang Pingan: "No, just hold it."

Only then did Zhai Dengshan lightly shake hands.

Angeli: "Your name, shouldn't you be a mountaineer? Why did you become a space army?"

"My name is Dengshan, because my father participated in the operation of climbing Naroda Peak. He lost many brothers there. Every Qingming Festival, he goes to the airborne field to pay homage to his brothers." Zhai Dengshan sighed, "The war has shaped the father's A whole generation."

Wang Pingan nodded empathetically: "Yes. A whole generation."

Angeli hesitated to speak, but finally chose to remain silent.After all, France has slipped through two consecutive wars, sitting and watching others fight to the death, while singing and dancing.

After talking about his name, Zhai Dengshan turned the topic back to Qin Qiong: "When I got the news, I had just finished my vacation on Mars. The timing is not coincidental. If it happened just before my vacation, I could choose to go to Earth for vacation." Then I met Qin Qiong."

Wang Pingan: "He will be happy if you go."

As soon as the words fell, the hatch at the entrance of the atrium opened again, and Diao Youming walked in with two officers.

Diao Youming has a gold star shining on his chest.

Seeing Venus, Wang Pingan subconsciously stood up straighter. This medal has such an effect, because people who can get this medal usually do things beyond the limits of human beings.

Just like the name of the medal: Human Hymn Medal, it is an honor that can only be obtained by those who write a new hymn for the human race.

Most people reacted the same as Wang Ping'an.

Diao Youming scanned the entire atrium and said, "Tell me."

Because the troops have not yet been formed, and naturally there is no commander to shout the password, several captains looked at each other, and finally Zhai Dengshan spoke first: "Stand at attention!"

There was a uniform heel-heeling sound in the atrium.

Diao Youming: "Relax."

There was another uniform sound of footsteps.

Diao Youming: "Welcome to Ceres - I wanted to say this, but the asteroid belt is not a good place, not even as good as Titan or the Kuiper belt's deep space watch station.

"In those places, what you have to fight is only the harsh natural environment or the loneliness brought by deep space, but in the asteroid belt, what you have to fight is human beings.

"The propaganda of the asteroid belt has always been biased. It seems that we have a crushing equipment advantage against pirates. It is only because the asteroid belt is too wide that we cannot destroy the pirates.

"This is wrong. In fact, pirates have always been able to obtain equipment similar to ours. Although the overall situation of pirate ships is far inferior to ours, if it is only better than a single piece of equipment, pirates have no disadvantages.

"For example, pirates will have plasma weapons similar to ours, and phased laser arrays similar to ours, but they are generally not as well maintained as we are.

"However, the plasma from even a poorly maintained plasma weapon can vaporize a ship's equipment and people."

Diao Youming scanned the audience again, and said word by word: "You better give up the idea that you can crush the pirates with your equipment advantages after you reach the asteroid belt. Of course, we have equipment advantages on the whole, but they are not enough to crush them! "

Wang Pingan raised his hand.

Diao Youming: "I haven't asked you to ask questions yet. Humph, Wang Ping'an, I know you, and I thought you were such an excellent soldier when I offered to go to Ceres. But after looking at your resume, it's nothing but shit, except for that There is no bright spot beyond the silver star.

"You like to interrupt the superior's lectures like this, don't you? You can also tell a few jokes to brighten the atmosphere, right? A show-type personality like you will die very quickly on Ceres."

Wang Pingan: "Then I have to ask more clearly, where did the pirates get their weapons?"

"That's not something our Ceres garrison is trying to figure out. Military police and anti-opportunity agencies are trying to track down arms smuggling.

"But space is too empty, even in the busy circle of fire, there are too many places that cannot be taken care of.

"The smuggling boat is painted with a matte black paint, and after the initial acceleration, it has been drifting silently. How difficult it is to find out, you should be better than me who understands psychology."

Most of the people present were astronauts, and everyone knew how difficult it was to find a silent, black-painted smuggling ship.

On Earth, radar can easily monitor every corner.But in space, even with super-large transmit power and a super-large transmit antenna array, the active radar system can only monitor tens of thousands of kilometers.

In the universe, tens of thousands of kilometers are basically a fraction, and the voyage of any interplanetary cargo spacecraft far exceeds this figure.

In space, we mainly rely on passive detection methods to detect long-distance targets, receive weak signals through huge antenna arrays, and then rely on computers to separate them from the cosmic background radiation. This is the current mainstream surveillance method.

For those spacecraft that deliberately cover up their own radiation, this method is simply a needle in a haystack.

Diao Youming looked around the atrium, looking at the faces of the silent astronauts one by one: "Okay, very good, it seems that your professional skills are very strong.

"You know that it is difficult to catch this kind of smuggling boat, so you naturally know that these can only be traced by the military police and the anti-speculative bureau in another, simpler way, and catch these criminals selling weapons from the source.

"You should also know that this is not our mission. Our mission is to wipe out those pirates who already have equivalent weapons, protect the main mining areas in the asteroid belt, and those flying to Jupiter and Saturn that must pass through the asteroid belt cargo ship.

"Don't ask why the pirates have good weapons, and don't ask why the pirates can never be finished, they will always have manpower. If you can find materials that can point to the black hand behind the pirates during the battle, then I thank you on behalf of the entire space force.

"At present, it seems that this is a never-ending war. You will stay in the asteroid field for three years, but a considerable number of you will not live to finish your duty.

"Wang Pingan, what else do you want to ask?"

Wang Pingan: "I have a little more than two years left to perform front-line duties. Am I going to work for three years?"

Diao Youming had an expression of wanting to swallow Wang Ping'an alive, but he controlled himself: "Yes, you have to stay for three years. Originally, the ten-year first-line service rule is an implicit rule. You can find it in any exercise code." less than.

"This is a manifestation of the humanization of the Space Force. But there are obviously some people, the Space Force is too human for him. Do you know who I mean, Wang Pingan?"

Wang Pingan answered firmly: "No! I know! I know!"

"It's you!" Diao Youming said angrily, but his tone quickly softened, "But I hope that I will change my mind in the future. You gave me a good impression at the beginning. Although you are very frivolous, you feel like a good seed. So even though you Your resume is a piece of shit, I still choose to trust my own eyesight. I hope you don’t make me regret it.”

Diao Youming looked around the entire atrium again, and continued: "As for the others, most of them are excellent soldiers of the space army. However, being good at war is not enough. So I deliberately selected some people with strong subjective initiative.

"Most of them are thorns in the army, and they have their own mavericks. For example, Abdul is a mystic who tells fortunes all day long and uses that kind of magical Tarot cards. I don't even know you are How did it get mixed into the materialist space force.

"Or the Englishman Parabas, who plays with his bagpipes all day long, and tries to hide a Scottish broadsword.

"There are many more, you are simply a bunch of psychopaths, but in your resume, there are records of solving problems because of wit and maverick.

"Now, I just want to try to see if your mavericks and subjective kinetic energy can still work on Ceres. Of course, it doesn't matter even if it doesn't work, because I have recruited so many qualified and outstanding people. Space Marines."

Diao Youming turned to the group of Space Force soldiers headed by Zhai Dengshan.

"Your resumes are very beautiful, and each of you is excellent. Even if the freaks can't complete the task, you will complete it, but the casualties may be a bit heavy.

"Of course, you should work hard to prove that you are stronger than the freaks, and that you are the mainstay of the Space Force."

Zhai Dengshan shouted on behalf of everyone: "Guaranteed to complete the task!"

"I can not hear!"

The next moment, all the soldiers of the space army shouted together: "Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

The people who were named "freaks" looked at each other in blank dismay.

Angeli muttered in a low voice, "Building competition is a common technique."

Diao Youming nodded in satisfaction: "Very well, that's the spirit. These two officers will assign you a room, and we have a week to test your professional skills. Those who fail will be brushed off and go back to the original unit .

"Those who pass the test will take the torch cruiser 'Short Life Brilliant Burning' with me, and together with the fast transport ship that delivers supplies, we will go to Ceres."

(End of this chapter)