The preparations before a cross-border expedition are arduous and boring, ranging from the food, fuel, energy, ammunition supplies, etc. required by the group's soldiers and robot troops, to the transportation of research equipment, various destroyers, and heavy armored units.
The massive and wide variety of materials led to the fact that even though there was a mobile space station with endless storage space as a war fortress, Harland, who was responsible for logistics work, and thousands of group engineering department employees still spent half a month to complete all the items on the list. Seventy to eighty percent of the required supplies have been put into storage.
If it weren't for the group branch in Elysium Space World that temporarily deployed several sparrow-class transport ships on the route from Earth to the Spirit Star Industrial Base to transport large materials, even the star hub with extremely powerful computing power would not be able to guarantee that it could Complete all preparations before the portal opens.
Although there are some insignificant flaws in the details, Haaland estimates that their opponents must be too busy because of this too urgent war.
As the saying goes, soldiers are expensive and quick. In order to prevent the enemy from taking the lead, Yang Tianyi, who had arrived at the Lingshen Star Spaceport on a transport ship, checked the strategic reserves in the warehouse and couldn't wait to send a message to all the group personnel participating in the expedition. Order.
Different from the expedition to the Kingdom of Leon two years ago, the group at this time can be said to be strong and powerful, and its comprehensive strength is even different from that time - this is from the full dozen parked in the spaceport dock, that is, ten The two Javelin-class frigates can be easily seen.
However, as the second phase of the dock and spaceport project is coming to an end, Ramsay, who is still serving as the Minister of the Navy, has more than once requested the group to build a destroyer-class warship for the navy that is more powerful than a frigate. After all, it is impossible to rely on small ships alone. To win a decent interstellar war.
In response to the old general's reasonable request, Harland's reply was that the design of a new destroyer was not easy. Even with the large amount of information and drawings Yang Tianyi obtained from the People's Federation for reference, there was no real object for reference and the experience was relatively weak. The group's ship designers could only scratch their heads and tinker with the design drawings, not daring to let go.
After all, the optical tonnage of destroyer-class battleships is several times greater than that of frigates. While they have stronger firepower and thicker armor, the cost of destroyers will also soar. Before the construction of the first expensive prototype test ship officially begins, even if they know it is impossible, designers must find ways to make up for all the shortcomings and loopholes that will appear in the warship in the future.
Even if the new warship on the drawing is just a prototype, and even if the engineering department does not include any valuable ship-based weapons when calculating the cost, Haaland estimates that the cost of a destroyer will not be less than 400 million. Universal Credit Points.
This is a conclusion reached after taking into account the Lingshen Star Industrial Base, a supplier of high-quality alloys and raw materials. It is conceivable that the cost of the first prototype destroyer will definitely exceed everyone's imagination, and it may even be There is an embarrassing situation where one destroyer is worth more than a dozen frigates.
In order to avoid this situation from happening, apart from repeatedly asking designers to continue to improve the design while trying to reduce costs, neither Harland nor Ramsey can come up with a better way for the time being.
Seeing an endless blue light slowly appearing in the holographic projection, Yang Tianyi, who realized that the portal was opening, raised his hand and gently touched the leader badge on his chest that was only worn during war. Reflecting the faint light emitted by the portal in the projection, he seemed to be thinking about something.
"Turn on ion thrusters No. 1, 2, and 3, increase the power to ten percent, and move toward the blue light point."
Seeing that the portal in the leader's mouth had appeared, Captain Tom Patterson, who was transferred from the Group's First Fleet to command all naval forces in this expedition, ordered in a serious tone: "All staff immediately followed the prompts and light instructions to go to their respective responsibilities. All areas must be on duty within five minutes.”
Under the colonel's meticulous instructions, as three streams of cyan-blue hot ions spewed out from the nozzle of the thruster, the more than two kilometers high Spirit Star Space Station finally ushered in its first move after its completion. .
Just ten minutes later, the space station, which seemed slow but was actually moving at several times the speed of sound, suddenly disappeared into a sea of blue light without warning. At this time, Harlan, who was located in the Lingshen Star Industrial Base, Germany also received reports from the Star Hub regarding the loss of tracking and communication signals at the spaceport.
"Everyone, come on! Whether the soldiers can return triumphantly from another world depends on us!"
After delivering an impassioned speech, Haaland came to the floor-to-ceiling window of his office and looked into the distance. I wonder if it was his imagination. Even though this place was dozens of kilometers away from the large alloy furnace in the industrial base, he still looked into the distance. You can feel the endless and amazing heat from the orange-red light on the horizon that never stops day and night.
On this frigid asteroid that is farther from the sun than the Earth, while the large furnaces are producing alloys, the waste heat they release also ensures to a certain extent that the human employees at the base can wash their hands whenever they get off work. Take a nice, hot bath.
Fortunately, the group has high technology to extract water resources from asteroid regolith, otherwise no one would be willing to use the industrial water sent thousands of miles from the earth by transport ships to the workers at the base for washing.
"Doubling alloy production in one quarter? Yang Tianyi, Yang Tianyi, I think you are not a family member and don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are! Oh, forget it, I am just a hard worker..."
After complaining to himself a few times, the CEO's figure slowly disappeared at the end of the endless corridor of the base building. It seemed that he was running to the refinery area to increase the group's imminent alloy production. Plan figured out.
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Due to the different division of labor in the plan, Edward's teleportation work is far less ambitious than that of the group. There are neither huge mobile steel fortresses nor neatly arranged robot legions that can be seen at a glance. There are only hundreds of equipment. Equipped with modern weapons and well-trained soldiers of the Imperial Immortal Army.
In order to better perform their missions and reduce the intelligence exposed to the enemy, these elites in the imperial army did not carry many high-tech weapons. What they even held in their hands were not the lasers or electromagnetic rifles provided by the group, but the ones in the magazines. An assault rifle filled with gas-blast bullets.
Of course, the standard equipment of the group army such as exoskeleton armor and Z1 robot do not appear in their equipment list. It can be said that except for a small number of heavy machine guns also equipped with gas-explosive bullets, this Immortal Army unit whose main purpose is to lurk does not have any eye-catching heavy weapons. Compared with the army that is armed to the teeth, it is like running naked.
It is precisely because of this that, as the emperor that every Immortal Army member swore allegiance to when they enlisted in the army, Edward was proud of them but also full of worries.
No one knows who their opponent is and how powerful it is. As Yang Tianyi said when comforting him, "The empire is an eagle that wants to fly independently." But what he didn't say is that the eagle needs to endure before becoming an eagle. The hardships may be unimaginable to ordinary people.
Edward regarded the lives of countless soldiers as stones paving the way for the empire. Edward did not want to be that kind of emperor, but if this was the price that the young eagle had to pay for its transformation, then the only thing he could do besides praying for the soldiers from the bottom of his heart was Make good use of these "pebbles" and prevent their sacrifices from being in vain.
So he stood majestically in front of a simple and elegant wooden door, raised the golden cup in his hand, drank the overflowing wine with hundreds of carefully selected immortal army elites, and served them with his own hands. Pushing open the door that may represent death.
"We march to hell!" When the leading officer roared, the soldiers behind him also shouted in unison: "We march to hell! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Set off!"
Under Edward's complex gaze that showed no emotion, more than a hundred soldiers lined up in two rows, marching in neat steps and slowly disappeared into the blue aperture of the portal in silence, their steps as fast as if they were on the other side of the door. On one side is the relaxation and comfort of your own home.
No one knows how many of this brave and fearless pioneer army will return with honors in the end, but the soldiers know that their emperor will wait for them behind this door until the last moment.
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