In the next week, the 7th Marine Corps fought steadily, with restraint in its fierce offensive. It advanced step by step and advanced another 3,500 kilometers. Counting the more than 2,000 kilometers advanced in the previous three days, there are only 5,000 kilometers left from Chu Jungui's new base.
The reason why the distance is not much closer is simple, the direction of advancement is a bit off.
Chu Jungui had already tentatively fought against the 7th Army more than a dozen times, using various tactics, and even an oversized sea urchin appeared once. However, this time the sea urchin failed to achieve success again. The 7th Army did not use anti-matter bombs like Morgan did last time. Instead, it directly mobilized 500 assault boats. After a burst of extremely fierce firepower... Chu Jungui had to do it again. Earth Escape.
Although in terms of military expenditure, the loss ratio of both sides in this wave reached 1:60. After all, the assault boats cost money every minute and every second. But under normal circumstances, Chu Jungui would definitely not be able to consume the Federation, even 1:600. .
Deep underground, Zhizhe and Kaitian were carrying Chu Jungui through quickly while complaining unwillingly: "What's so great about it is that there are so many people! It's like we can't do it."
The wise man made a small stab in a sad manner: "If Brother Dao is willing to eat well, of course we can. But now..."
Kaitian said: "We have to rely on that bald man to do this. We have to ask him to work harder."
The wise man said: "I think the direction of his research is a bit biased. You don't have to worry about whether it tastes good or not, as long as you can gain weight. Really, that bald man talks all about humanitarianism. In my opinion, it is the biggest mistake to make Brother Dao inhumane. of humanity!”
"That's right, wasn't this the same idea in the past when raising chickens and feeding pigs?"
Chu Jungui lay quietly on the two little guys, thinking alone. In fact, his injury this time was not serious, but his speed moving underground was far slower than Kaitian and Wise Man. These two guys have borrowed human technology, and now they are completely molecular-level underground boring machines, the kind that integrates digging, fixing, and storage.
It had been 10 days since the 7th Marine Corps landed. They laid down the shadow of doom the next day. Of course, what they acquired was only an empty city. In the successive battles, Lightyear lost a total of 1,200 tanks and 30 mechas, with more than 200 casualties, and the rest were fighting beasts. The 7th Army only lost 300 tanks and 20 assault boats, and its mecha losses were only single digits. Of course, from the perspective of military expenditure, this is not the case.
Since the founding of Light Years, this was the first time that Chu Junhui had a head-on battle with the federal ace force. After ten days of fighting, except for the troops directly controlled by Wise Men and Kai Tian, who had the upper hand, the light-year human soldiers were at a complete disadvantage compared to the Seventh Marine Corps.
The lack of individual combat power is largely made up for by unparalleled tactical command, and it takes light years to fight the 7th Army. The commander of the 7th Army is not just a general person. He adjusts and improves tactics almost every day. Until now, the combat effectiveness of the entire 7th Army has been raised to a higher level. Such an opponent can no longer be described as an ordinary famous general.
Half a day later, Chu Jungui returned to the Ark that was used as a temporary command base, and his body had been repaired. After coming out of the medical cabin, Chu Jungui came to the map.
His position is now 1,000 kilometers away from the vanguard of the 7th Army and 4,500 kilometers away from the energy base. Chu Jungui raised his hand and the map switched to the area where the new energy base was located. You can see that at the edge of the map, a total of 20 Arks are moving forward together, slowly pushing over a small hill. Wherever they pass, the ground altitude will drop by 5 meters. They can go back and forth several times a day. A small hill with a height of 100 meters. It’s gone.
Countless amounts of earth were dumped into the Ark-shaped refining furnace. These refining furnaces are 10 times larger than the largest refining furnaces in the past. An Ark is a refining furnace, and each furnace can process thousands of tons of raw materials at a time. To put it bluntly, it can refine thousands of tons of soil and turn it into various raw materials within half an hour. Three of these million-ton refining furnaces have been built, and three more are under construction.
Chu Jungui looked at a completed design drawing and another design drawing that was only 20% complete. He finally made a decision and directly arranged the completed design drawing for production.
Two giant manufacturing machines began to lay down materials layer by layer to print the latest designed tank. The only difference from the past is that this manufacturing machine can print 9 tanks at the same time.
The newly designed chariot is not much different from the previous one, except that the human driver is removed and all is operated by combat beasts. The tank's defense has been increased by half, its firepower has been increased by half, and its overall combat power is equivalent to 80% of the 7th Army tank, but the cost has not increased much.
The design of the new tank is full of disposable taste. Except for the replaceable battery, other parts are basically disposable. For convenience, some parts are simply fixed and packaged directly in the body. This greatly improves the defense of the tank and greatly reduces the difficulty of manufacturing.
When the 13 energy bases are fully completed, the daily production capacity of various materials in the new base will exceed 5 million tons, and the production capacity of combat vehicles will exceed 2,000 vehicles.
Firepower is another factor. No matter how high the tank production capacity is, biomass explosives will not be able to keep up. Now tens of thousands of square kilometers around the energy base have turned into desert, and all the woods and grasslands have either been transplanted or dug out to refine materials. In terms of quantity, no matter how dense the vegetation is, it is far inferior to the soil and rocks.
Fortunately this issue was resolved a few days ago.
The micro wormhole transmission device that had not been used for a long time suddenly started to move. Dr. Zero sent over two samples and a design drawing.
The sample is now in Chu Jungui's hand. It is two prismatic crystals, about the size of a little finger. These two crystals are advanced versions of metallic hydrogen. They are special crystalline alloys that consume a lot of energy during the manufacturing process. At the same time, the stable crystal structure will be destroyed under certain conditions, thus releasing a large amount of energy. In other words, this is an explosive with one level higher energy than biomass explosives. The standard mass of the two crystals is only 100 grams, but the explosion yield is equivalent to 100 kilograms of high explosives. Their raw materials are not difficult to obtain, and their main consumption is massive amounts of energy.
Chu Jungui weighed the crystal in his hand, raised his hand a little, and switched the screen again.
A huge cylindrical device dozens of meters high appeared on the screen, with multiple thick cables one meter in diameter connecting the equipment and the energy base. As terrifying currents poured into the device, the raw materials inside melted instantly, then gradually crystallized in the powerful force field, and finally countless crystal pillars were poured out from under the device.
Crystal explosives can be detonated with ordinary explosives. That is to say, if crystal pillars are inserted into ordinary warheads and the gaps are filled with biomass explosives, the power of the cannonball will be increased by more than ten times in an instant. The key is that with a nearly unlimited energy supply, the theoretical production capacity of crystal pillar explosives is also unlimited. Now as long as Chu Jungui is given some time, he can give the 7th Marine Corps a taste of what real firepower coverage is.
What Chu Jungui needs now is time, and it doesn't take long. He switched back to the defense line of the 7th Army. As soon as he realized it, several small-scale troops appeared on the edge of the map and began to harass them.
At the rear base, Wise Man is discussing an improved fattening plan with Le Mans. Faced with the 17 improvement plans put forward by wise men, Le Mans' bald head kept dripping with oily sweat. However, it will take time to improve the formula. The only thing that can be implemented immediately is the improvement of feeding methods.
With the mature design drawings in hand, it only took half an hour to complete the entire renovation project. Now the molecularized food is no longer placed, but sprayed. The powerful jet can ensure that the food penetrates two-thirds of Brother Dao's body. The difference between the two methods before and after is roughly the difference between natural free-range breeding and cramming.
At the same time, the rotation speed of the equipment is greatly accelerated, which can ensure that the sprayed food can evenly spread around the body under the action of centrifugal force and contact more body cells. This is the equivalent of a massage after eating to aid digestion.
Both of these methods are physical. Wise men have also proposed more chemical methods, but further experiments are needed. As for several energy field methods, they need to be further improved.
Wise men believe that humans were able to compress the growth cycle of a chicken from several years to one and a half months in the original home planet era. Now that we are in the 35th century, there is no reason why Brother Dao cannot be twice as fat in half a month.
In contrast, Kaitian's resentment towards Brother Dao is not so deep, and it feels that 20 days is acceptable.
Chu Jungui relied on patience to deal with the 7th Army bit by bit, waiting for the formation of a large force in the rear. At the same time, Admiral Morgan looked at the vast white map in front of him, his patience almost exhausted.
The progress of the 7th Marine Corps was indeed obvious, exploring and occupying millions of square kilometers of area in ten days. But the problem is that the area they explored is completely deserted, and there is no trace of base or artificial activities at all. The light-year troops still appear from all directions like ghosts, and there is no pattern. For this reason, Morgan had already argued several times with the commander of the 7th Army, but to no avail. Sometimes the noise was too loud, and the commander would simply step back and let Morgan choose a direction to explore. How could Morgan be picked out? He knew very well that after laying down the shadow of doomsday, he could only rely on Meng to find Chu Jungui's lair.
Although this is true, all the funds for the 7th Army are borne by the Morgan family. It is no exaggeration to describe this ace unit as a gold-eating beast. Even if it is completely stationary, the daily military expenditure will be 1 billion. The so-called stillness means that the soldiers do not even eat.
Just when Morgan was in a state of distress, he received another piece of good news and a piece of bad news.
The good news is that the Jolly Roger Corps has arrived in the N7703 system, increasing Morgan's available troops by half.
The bad news is that Jolly Roger only brought 50% of its troops, but brought 200% of its equipment, including three mobile bases.
(End of chapter)
