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Chapter 215 The first ship!
Jade Star Base, Fusion Reactor Laboratory.

In a very spacious factory building, two robotic arms are installed on the four walls, ceiling, and floor.There are many metal joints on the robotic arm that can rotate flexibly.

A total of 12 robotic arms extend toward the middle and are finally connected to a large box with a side length of about two meters.

Following Han Yang's order, the 12 robotic arms moved at the same time.Under their coordinated efforts, the big box in the middle began to move flexibly in the air.

Sometimes it goes up, sometimes it goes down, constantly going back and forth, constantly stopping and turning, and the range of its movements is getting bigger and bigger.

Later, the twelve mechanical arms even started to rotate rapidly like swinging a meteor hammer.Its overload pressure is even as high as 10 G!

After struggling for a long time, Han Yang controlled the robotic arm to stop, dismantled the big box, and began to carefully examine its internal structure.

What appeared in Han Yang's field of vision at this moment was still an excellent small and high-power fusion reactor.

That's right, inside this large box with a side length of only two meters is a nuclear fusion reactor device.During the previous violent movements, it had been running and outputting stable and large amounts of power to the outside world through cables.

Han Yang wants to use this method to simulate the movement of the spacecraft in space to test its stability and reliability.

"It's OK. All components are working well, and the anti-seismic procedures have worked perfectly to minimize external interference."

Han Yang was very satisfied with this result.

Passing the first stage of stability testing means that the first fusion reactor that we have built to meet shipboard requirements is truly qualified for onboard testing.

In the past period of time, based on his own accumulation and extensive research in fusion reactors, as well as the dedicated teachings from ETA engineers, Han Yang's research in this area has made rapid progress and overcome dozens of major obstacles in one fell swoop.Today, a practical shipborne fusion reactor has finally been built!

Under Han Yang's control, the frame of a small spacecraft with a size of more than ten meters has been prepared in the Jade God Base and the spacecraft factory.

The spacecraft frame was completely designed and manufactured by Han Yang independently.At this moment, as long as a few more key components are installed, it will immediately become a real spaceship.

The shipboard high-power micro fusion reactor made by Han Yang himself was installed in the reserved position.

But at this moment, something equally important is missing.

High power small ion thruster.

Not far from the fusion reactor laboratory, in a huge factory building of the Propulsion Laboratory, the 22575th propulsion experiment is being carried out.

Dozens of strong special steel cables are connected to a roughly cylindrical component.Under the huge power supply from the nuclear fusion power plant, through the electromagnetic acceleration coil, microscopic particles ionized by high temperature into ions violently erupted from the tail of this huge cylinder.

The huge upward force immediately straightened the steel cable that bound it.The force was transmitted to the surface, immediately causing rapid changes in numerical values.

When the value is fixed within a certain range, there is no big change up and down, and after more than ten minutes, the sound of the ion thruster gradually decreases, and finally turns off completely.

"Judging from the test data, it should be qualified. However, the final result has to be tested on the ship in the field."

Therefore, in the spacecraft manufacturing factory, the spacecraft frame was installed with an ion thruster also independently designed and manufactured by Han Yang.

At this point, all the elements that make up a spaceship are gathered together.

Under the direct control of Han Yang, the spacecraft slowly took off and first arrived in the orbit of the Jade God.Then it accelerated suddenly, breaking away from the gravitational constraints of Jade God in a short time and entering space.

It sprayed blue flames violently, and the entire spacecraft accelerated forward at an extremely fast speed.In just a few minutes, the speed accelerated from hundreds of meters per second to more than ten kilometers per second, and it was still accelerating extremely fast.

It disappeared from the Jade Star almost instantly and entered the vast interstellar space.

Here, it is like a fish entering the boundless sea, constantly accelerating, stopping suddenly, turning sharply, up, down, left, right...

The sea is vast enough to allow it to swim unbridled.

After struggling for several hours, it returned to the spacecraft factory under Han Yang's control.

Dozens of robots immediately came forward to conduct a comprehensive and detailed inspection of it.

When the test results came out, Han Yang was filled with excitement.

After so many years, so long of hard work, day and night, finally, relying on its own technology and industrial strength, it has created a true interstellar spacecraft.

Although its performance is not comparable to that of the spaceships in the original human space force fleet of the same tonnage, let alone the warships that can actually fight against the Eta people, this is undoubtedly an extremely good start.

Han Yang estimated that with his current technology, the overall performance of a warship of the same tonnage as the guard ship used by the guard would only be about 70% of that of the guard ship.

A 30% overall performance gap may not seem like much, but it means a huge difference in combat power.

A comprehensive assessment shows that only about 40 self-made warships, coupled with sufficient tactics and coordination, can confront a guard ship.The winning rate is about [-]-[-].

But Han Yang believed that as long as he continued to research and iterate, it would no longer be far away from him to actually create a warship that could fight against the Eta people.

"Well, Jade God Planet is too barren after all. Except for some resources that are in short supply everywhere, slightly scarcer resources cannot be supplied.

Relying on smuggling materials from the inner solar system to Jade God is, after all, too slow and extremely restricted. It is impossible to obtain it on a large scale. It can only be regarded as a trickle at best.

If you really want to obtain resources on a large scale, you still have to rely on yourself. "

Han Yang thought silently and finally made up his mind.

"Next, we need to build more than 100 small and medium-sized spacecraft with a carrying capacity between 1 and 5 tons to travel between other surrounding dwarf planets and Elysium, develop other dwarf planets, and obtain resources from other dwarf planets!"

Han Yang has confirmed through data query and personal observation that there are a total of 1000 dwarf planets, or asteroids, with a size of more than 36 kilometers within a range of 300 billion kilometers around Jade.

If the standard is lowered to 100 kilometers, then this number will rise to 122.The rest are less than 100 kilometers in size. Although they are of lower quality but have a certain mining value, there are about 30 of them.

This is a total of 152 pieces.

With Ephesus as the center and a radius of 1000 billion kilometers, it covers an area of ​​approximately 42 trillion trillion cubic kilometers.In such a vast space, there are only a few planets, and the total mass is only a few hundredth of the Earth's. This shows how sparse the matter in the outer solar system is.

The resource reserves on these asteroids or dwarf planets are as poor as those on Ephesus.But, a little adds up to a lot.

If all 152 of these can be developed and all resources supplied to the Jade God Base, then it should be possible to support the development of Han Yang for decades.

Decades later, Han Yang may have also found a new way to obtain resources.

"Now I have mastered the manufacturing technology of small spacecraft with a total mass of less than 3000 tons. Although it is a little more difficult to build a cargo ship with a mass of 1 to 5 tons, there are no theoretical obstacles, only technical obstacles. After studying for a period of time, you can always make a breakthrough.

The key difficulty is that building so many spaceships... consumes too many rare minerals.It's not enough to rely on long streams of water or supplies from the Jade Star. "

For example, heavy rare earth elements, such as gallium, germanium, niobium, gold and other rare elements, are almost non-existent on Elysium. They must be smuggled out from the inner solar system by moving ants and moving in a long stream.

Han Yang suddenly realized that he was in an extremely embarrassing situation at the moment.

The 152 asteroids add up to a small amount, but they can mine rare minerals that meet their own needs.But to fully develop 152 asteroids, at least 100 cargo ships are needed.To build more than 100 cargo ships, you must first have enough rare minerals.

This formed a dead knot, which stuck Han Yang.

"Or... while there are still some rare mineral reserves, build two or three cargo ships first, move around, increase the reserves bit by bit, and build spaceships bit by bit?"

Han Yang thought carefully and rejected this plan in a moment: "No, this is too slow. And in this way, the equipment quota originally allocated to the resistance army will also be diverted. Without my support, the resistance army will It’s about to collapse.”

After thinking for a moment again, a slightly crazy plan emerged in Han Yang's mind.

"If that's the case... then let's do the big thing!
In the previous stage, I had made many spaceship frames and supplied them to the rebels.Now, as long as the reactors and thrusters are supplied, the rebels can immediately install them on the spacecraft, greatly improving the performance of the spacecraft and greatly improving the combat effectiveness.

When the resistance forces' combat power increases, I will rely on the resistance forces to solve my 'start-up capital'!
It just so happens that the Governor's Office is expected to be determined to solve the rampant rebel forces in the asteroid belt. The solution is most likely to dispatch guard ships from all over the solar system to launch a comprehensive encirclement and suppression.

Since you are going to launch a big move and come and go without being disrespectful, let me let you see it! "

Han Yang made up his mind.

……

Asteroid belt, Juno.

Juno is the larger one in the asteroid belt, but its mass is still not enough to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium and give itself a spherical shape.

它是不规则形状的，大小约是320*267*200公里，总质量约2.67*10^19千克，约为地球的22.4万分之一。

Because it contains relatively abundant and high-purity olivine and other minerals, it also has a certain mining value, and there is also a city on it.

In addition to having certain mineral resources, it is also the location of the headquarters of the Asteroid Belt Guard Agency's guard fleet.

There are several large supply and maintenance bases built in its orbit.Guard ships belonging to the Asteroid Belt Guard Agency are replenished and repaired here on a daily basis.

This has always been an absolutely forbidden area for rebels, gangs, private armed forces, smuggling gangs and other forces.After all, this is the core of the guard fleet, and no one dares to cause trouble here.

At this moment, above the heavily guarded Juno orbit, Supply Base No. [-], Director of the Asteroid Belt Security Department Wang Qing, and a group of subordinates stood solemnly.Outside, a guard fleet from Earth is slowly entering the harbor.

The officials leading the team arrived at the No. [-] supply base via ferry.Wang Qing came forward immediately with a group of subordinates.

"Welcome, welcome. Thank you for your hard work for coming all the way."

Facing Wang Qing's welcome, the deputy commander of the Earth Guard fleet stood at attention and saluted: "The Earth Guard fleet has a total of 150 guard ships and 1.5 guards, reporting to you!"

"it is good!"

Wang Qing's face was full of joy.

The guard fleet from Earth is the last one to arrive.The rest, fleets from the four gaseous planets, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, have all arrived in advance.

At this moment, the total number of guard ships gathered around Juno has reached 2000, 18 comprehensive supply ships, and the total number of guard soldiers is about 19.

Compared with the previous combat strength of only 400 guard ships in the asteroid belt, at this moment, this number has increased five times!
Welcoming the deputy commander of the Earth Guard Fleet into the conference room, Wang Qing came to the rostrum under the gazes of all the guard officers.

"Everyone knows that rebel activities are rampant here in the asteroid belt, which has caused huge obstacles to the Pluto development strategy. Governor Malentin and Captain Wolf have repeatedly given instructions to eradicate this cancer and restore the asteroid belt. A bright and sunny day. Before, relying solely on our Asteroid Belt Guard Agency was unable to cope. Now, with your assistance, we are much more confident. Here, on behalf of the Asteroid Belt Government and the Guard Agency, I once again, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you all!”

The audience burst into warm applause.The commanders all said that now that our army has gathered, the so-called rebels are nothing more than chickens and dogs, and they can be defeated overnight.

"Okay. I'm very happy to see that everyone is so confident. I also believe that this operation will live up to the trust of Governor Malentin and Captain Wolfe, and will definitely achieve complete results! Next, I Let’s explain the specific strategic and tactical arrangements.”

In the conference room, Wang Qing looked at the projection and began to explain the troop deployment and action plan in detail.

"This operation mainly adopts a steady and steady strategy. In view of the elusive and extremely cunning characteristics of the rebels, we must resolutely avoid fighting with the rebels and focus on searching for the rebel base areas.

This operation plans to launch more than 100 million detectors. Our forces will also be divided into four squadrons and carry out drag-net inspections in four airspaces in order to thoroughly screen the asteroid belt and leave no trace behind. If the fish slips through the net, we must uproot the rebels! "

Wang Qing's strategic arrangements are smooth and stable.Although there are no bright spots, there are no omissions.

This is also a plan approved by Wolfe.

Because our side has the strength advantage, we can reap the results as long as we fight steadily, and there is no need to pursue any surprise victory.

This steady and pragmatic arrangement was unanimously approved by all participants.

Except for a few details.

During the discussion, a guard officer said: "My question is, is our encirclement and suppression net too sparse? In this case, it is easy for fish to slip through the net, right?"

Wang Qingxin said: "It doesn't matter. Due to the strict blockade of key materials in the past period, most of the rebel warships in the asteroid belt use energy batteries and speed-class ion thrusters. The combat radius is short, The combat time is also very short, and you have to return to the base to recharge every once in a while.

Not only that, the power of the rebel warships is also very weak.Even with such a sparse encirclement and suppression net, they had no time to escape.With the performance of our guard ships, we can easily catch up. "

The officer nodded: "I see. That is indeed feasible."

Another guard officer said: "I have no objection to this arrangement. It's just... is the defense here on Ceres a little empty?
Ceres is the most important planet in the asteroid belt. About 70% of rare minerals and resources are transferred on this planet, including rare earth minerals, molybdenum mines, gold mines, copper mines, gallium, germanium, niobium, etc. There is a lot of output and it plays an important role.

On the planet, there are more than 100 important targets rated A or above in various mineral smelting plants, foundries, processing plants, etc.

Only 10 guard ships were left for defense, which seemed too weak. "

Faced with the officer's question, Wang Qing smiled confidently: "First of all, the rebels never conflict with us head-on. Secondly, the performance of the rebel warships is extremely backward. If there is a head-on conflict, a hundred ships combined would not be ours." According to statistics, the total number of rebel warships is only about 800, and our 10 guard ships are completely sufficient.

Third, there are a large number of land air defense facilities on Ceres.There are many land-based electromagnetic guns and land-based air defense radars. Even without guard ships, they are completely enough to ensure the safety of Ceres.

Taken together, even if the worst happens, Ceres will not be threatened. "

Hearing Wang Qing's explanation, the officer immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it. This is indeed foolproof, I have no doubts."

"Okay! In that case, I order each fleet to maneuver to the corresponding coordinates according to the order, and be sure to complete the layout of this defense area within three months. After that, follow the unified order and launch an encirclement and suppression campaign at the same time!"

"Yes!"

After arranging the follow-up actions, Wang Qing was high-spirited and energetic.

Look at the time, it’s time for the Illuminati online discussion again.Wang Qing couldn't wait to log into the virtual conference room.

He couldn't wait to share what happened in the asteroid belt with his comrades.

While waiting for his comrades to land, Wang Qing even thought silently: Han Yang and Wei Liang must have known that a unified operation was about to begin in the asteroid belt. The annihilation of the rebels was just around the corner. A major obstacle to the Pluto development strategy was about to be eliminated. Eradicated, they will definitely be happy...

After landing in the conference room, looking at the excited Wang Qing, Wei Liang couldn't help but ask first, "What are you so happy about?"

"Good thing!"

Wang Qing was in high spirits and gave a rough outline of the plans to gather the asteroid belt troops and launch an encirclement and suppression campaign.

Of course, this is just a rough talk, without any details or things that need to be kept confidential.

Sure enough, after Wang Qing finished speaking, he saw looks of joy on the faces of Han Yang and Wei Liang at the same time.

"Are we finally going to solve the problem of the rebels in the asteroid belt? Great."

Han Yang's face was full of excitement.

"Great."

Wei Liang said sincerely: "Now, the asteroid belt can finally stabilize."

After discussing some of the latest trends, policies, etc., the discussion ended with a slight sneer on Han Yang's face.

At this moment, Han Yang's latest shipboard fusion reactors and ion thrusters have been "distributed" to the asteroid belt.

"With Wang Qing's character, the encirclement and suppression strategy he formulated is indeed a steady and steady advance... In this case, my arrangement will work."

Han Yang's heart moved, and immediately, several messages came to the leaders of the various resistance armies.

"Commander! Old A has a message!"

"Huh? Bring it to me quickly!"

Chu Feng pushed away the notebook in front of him, stood up and walked towards the communication room.

Opening the message, he looked at it carefully. After a long time, he took a long breath.

"Sure enough, the Eta people's big move is coming, and Old A has also taken action... Notify the rest of the resistance brothers to hold a meeting!"

Today's Chu Feng is at least very prestigious among the resistance forces in the asteroid belt.All the rebel armies followed Chu Feng's lead.Han Yang's information also changed from directly communicating with every resistance army in the past to only communicating with Chu Feng.

At this moment, he gave an order, and the leaders of various resistance organizations immediately logged into the virtual conference room as quickly as possible.

In the virtual conference room, more than a dozen leaders could not hide their excitement.

Commander Chu has not held a plenary meeting for a long time.At this moment, another plenary meeting is held. Is there going to be any big move?

During the recent period, civilian ships cannot be attacked, and official ships cannot be attacked. Brothers have been struggling to support us. Is this situation finally going to improve?

Chu Feng smiled slightly.

"Let me tell you some bad news first. Old A sent intelligence, saying that the Earth Guard has mobilized a large number of guard ships from all the planets in the solar system to the asteroid belt, preparing to launch a comprehensive clearing of us. The operation is expected to be between 2 and 4 It will begin within a month. By then, the number of guard ships participating in the encirclement and suppression operations may be as high as 2000."

As soon as the news was announced, the expressions of all the resistance leaders immediately became stiff.

2000 guard ships, what a concept!You must know that the current total strength of our own resistance forces is less than 1000 warships, and their performance and combat power are so different from those of guard ships that even 100 ships cannot defeat one of them.

The previous 400 guard ships were enough to make things difficult for our side. Now, there are 2000?
Why fight? Just go home and commit suicide.

"But...Old A also provided the latest batch of support."

Chu Feng changed the topic and the solemn atmosphere in the virtual conference room finally relaxed a little: "500 sets of shipboard high-power nuclear fusion reactors and high-power high-speed ion thrusters!"

"what?!"

At this moment, all the resistance leaders were shocked at the same time.

At this stage, what are the real factors restricting our own combat power?Obviously, one is energy and the other is power.

Without energy and power, one's own warships can only use energy batteries to provide power and rely on speed-class ion thrusters to provide power.

Not only does it have low thrust and low reliability, it cannot fly for long and has to return to the base to recharge.Over the years, our own soldiers have continued to fight in such tattered spaceships.

As long as these two most important problems can be solved, Chu Feng can guarantee that the combat effectiveness of the resistance army will immediately increase by more than ten times!
With this batch of supplies and stronger mobility and combat effectiveness, we will have real hope if we can survive this encirclement and suppression.

"Old...Old A's technology and production capacity have finally made a breakthrough? Can they finally build these two pieces of equipment?"

"Commander Chu, where are the supplies?"

"I just received the message from Old A and came to inform everyone of the meeting. I haven't gotten the supplies back yet."

Chu Feng said: "But calling everyone to this meeting today is not just for this one thing.

Old A's message also stated that he had received reliable intelligence that the ETA fleet would not participate in this encirclement and suppression.At the same time, the guard ship's encirclement and suppression operations will adopt a "steady and steady attack and comprehensive search" plan. "

The faces of the rebel leaders showed thoughtful expressions.

"Honestly, with this batch of material assistance, I think everyone is still a little confident that they can catch the guard fleet off guard and survive this siege. But...is it limited to this?"

Facing the leaders who were limited in thinking, Chu Feng emphasized: "This is our opportunity!
During the encirclement and suppression, the guard fleet maintains its own strong combat power, which will inevitably spread the encirclement and suppression network widely, and the troops will be scattered, which will lead to a partial lack of troops.

Although the guard fleet is unprecedentedly powerful, at the same time it is powerful, it also exposes its flaws.

Because they can't possibly know that our combat power has suddenly increased so much with the support of Old A.

This is where our opportunity lies!This is our chance to do something big!
Brothers, for how many years, we have been hiding here and there, and have been suppressed and beaten by the guard fleet. I don’t know about you, but I have been holding my breath in my heart!

A few years ago, Mercury's brothers assassinated Lotrit, which greatly inspired the spirit of our human civilization, and his name is still being passed down to this day.

Now, Lao A's assistance is focused on our asteroid belt. After so many years of assistance, we are still unknown and unknown.Brothers on other planets may not say anything, but they are probably laughing at us in their hearts.

Now is our perfect opportunity to do something big and let our brothers on other planets remember us! "

Chu Feng tried his best to encourage, and when the leaders of the resistance army had already made a move, he revealed the most important news: "And...Old A said that his base is currently lacking some key resources, and its production capacity is limited. We are limited and cannot build more equipment and spaceships. Now, Old A needs our help!"

(End of this chapter)