People's Federation will live forever

We already know the extraordinary locking and destroying effect of the light-level on flying objects, which locks most of the strategic support methods of the People's Federation, but isn't that what war is like?It forces us to find a better solution. Tactics are just a concept of thinking, and the first to respond to changes in the environment will win.

Precise strikes won't work, missiles and powerful single projectiles will be intercepted by lasers, so let's change direction and give up precision to find another way?

When a round of metal rods processed into a cylindrical shape was unloaded from the rail gun on the Nibelungen at dozens of times the speed of sound, and lined up on the lunar surface for ground bombing, it was unsurprisingly destroyed by the fortress. Dozens of ray-level scattered under the abdomen caught the trajectory.

Unlike the chariots that are used as cannon fodder, the ray-classes—whether heavy or normal—seem to have received some kind of behind-the-scenes power command, allowing them to skip the calculation limit beyond their brain capacity and directly raise their necks to the sky. Their washbasin-sized eyes seem to be composed of thousands of compound eyes, seeing the slightest traces in the eyes, and then, they start to shine!

The shell of the railgun shell is made of tungsten alloy, but the laser has exceeded the upper limit of the shell and quickly vaporized. The normal light level can be irradiated for up to four seconds, which is enough to completely vaporize the kinetic energy shell until it loses its lethality.

However, when the laser penetrated into the inside of the projectile, something seemed to cause the shell to explode in the air!In the sky a few kilometers above the ground, a violent rain of diamonds fell like a goddess scattering flowers. The thumb-sized diamonds were exploded and erupted from the pre-engraved disintegration parts of the projectile. Combined with the super high flight speed of the projectile, Scattered at the beta group, each one carried enough kinetic energy to tear steel plates, and one exploding shell could scatter nearly [-] shells!

The first law of light level - find and destroy.But the number you can intercept can never exceed your own number, which is the first principle of reality.

Shrapnel... This ancient weapon has only played brilliantly in a few battlefields since its birth. When humans entered the era of armored warfare, it was only effective against unprotected infantry. It also lost most of its value, but it has now encountered a A good time has two necessary factors——

1. The flying speed of Nibelungen's rail gun can be close to a hundred times the speed of sound, and the shell will not be detonated in advance by the light level before it can cause damage because the flight is too slow.

2. beta...is nothing more than a pile of slightly stronger flesh and blood. It is a godsend opportunity for the dense small bullet rain to meet the space where the kinetic energy never weakens.

"It's me who can come up with a countermeasure in such a short time!"

Li De praised the watcher fiercely, but the latter did not respond, but only warned: "If the betas have stress evolution, they won't take this move for long."

"maybe."

Li De agreed, but objected, hehe said: "Then we just need to become faster than them."

A salvo of the Nibelungen is twelve shots, which will induce twelve ray-levels to fire, but this is not the end, because there are nearly [-] ray-levels and two heavy-rays under the belly of the fortress. The level staggered beside the fortress level, how would they react to the bursting diamond rain?

The second law of light level - intercept all flying objects that pose a threat to the beta cluster.The diamond rain flying at supersonic speed obviously has this threat. They will use their inertia to tear up the chariots all over the mountains. Even if they are not accurate, the twelve exploding shells will sprinkle thousands of fragments, and they will always kill dozens of people. only?

As a result, the light-levels opened fire, and the target was no longer the precisely shot shells, but the diamonds, which were obviously less valuable. This time, their precision that made Li De even terrified became useless, and they fell into a long-term battle in vain. Up to 12 seconds of cooldown.

The third law of light level - precise point shooting, unable to focus and sweep.This seems to be a shortcoming of their own functional design, and the diamond shotgun has magnified this shortcoming to an unbearable level. A piece of bullet screen almost covers the entire mountain, as Li De observed. Hundreds.

This damage is not ideal, but killing is not the purpose of the bombardment. Thanks to these worthless projectiles, all the light classes below the fortress class have fallen into a cooldown due to the forced salvo.

"After all, it's just a biological machine. The result of running according to the program is that it crashes when it exceeds the processing range."

Li De said it lightly, but the current high-efficiency results of exchanging small for big are all due to the untiring work of the watchman in the first few chapters, and the effective data obtained from the experiment of spending hundreds of shells on light-level interception. shells.The Watcher will always be Li De's most reliable backing...Of course, only Li De.

"But, why diamonds? The amount you typed out just now would be worth billions of dollars in previous life auctions?"

Li De said with a smile, but the watchman obviously didn't have a sense of humor, and just threw the blueprint of this cannonball - a diamond, a four-bonded carbon atom structure, when the gem merchant touted it as "forever and ever" to let women When a crazy man is poor and crazy, the People's Federation treats the purest one as a cheap industrial product.The reason why the watchmen choose diamonds is not because of other reasons, but because they can be made without supplies.

Just collect carbon from the moon, then send it to the fusion processing center in Nibelungen, and use the ultra-high temperature and high pressure provided by fusion energy to manufacture it, which is simpler than producing rifle bullets.In fact, if the cluster bombs can't withstand the high G force fired by the railgun, the watchman would like to strengthen the power of the shrapnel.

"The Nibelungen is not a professional industrial ship, and cannot mass-produce 'decoy shells'. There are seven bombardments left." The watcher replied, "A total of 84 seconds can be bought for you."

"Every interception at the light level has a cooldown of 12 seconds." Li De—or his prosthetic bodies poked their heads out of the bunker and activated the electromagnetic propulsion device. It is activated by remote control, and the goal is to reach the kill range within one kilometer of the fortress!"

"I still have four nuclear bombs, at least one is guaranteed to survive...and the whole army is destined to be wiped out after this war."

The swarming chariot class broke through the cover, and their slender arms stretched out to Li De, but they were twisted into mud by the nano-blockers that were excited head-on.Before being surrounded, eleven prosthetic bodies soared into the air, seemingly stepping on a forest of arms to escape in a thrilling manner.His eyes were always on the crater in the distance, and the red mercury nuclear bomb in his hand was beating rhythmically like a heart.

"No loss is too great."

PS: Cannonballs must fly very fast to be valuable, so they can only be sent by space battleships, otherwise they will be exploded hundreds of kilometers away and lose their value.

Only the ultra-high-speed electromagnetic railgun can cross these hundreds of kilometers before being vaporized and destroyed on Beta's head.

Chapter 20 The Triumph of Pyrrhus

A ball of light, a signal generator emitting a yellow signal, broadcasting communication, soaring into the sky, it looks so eye-catching on the desolate moon.The low gravity ensures that the signal will stay in the air long enough that, if you're lucky, an eyewitness will echo with a green flare.

"Marcus, Dom, damn it, where are you?"

Bud intends to use the car radio to call, but the electromagnetic pulse produced by the nuclear explosion makes this idea can only be rejected abruptly.Communication, smooth communication is also the most important link in the military. Traditional electromagnetic wave communication is not so easy to use in the universe. There is no atmosphere to protect it, and the interference of cosmic rays and solar wind charged particles all over the place makes long-distance communication a success. It was an extravagant hope to try their luck, but the reality proved that Bud and others were not so lucky.

Damn, if only we could use the leader's quantum communication too!Ignore the delay, absolute secrecy, can be called the crown of the communication industry.

But let's not talk about the technical difficulty of quantum communication. The leader himself is a quantum life that can be easily controlled like hands and feet. If he and others want to use it, they must rely on photon repeaters.If you want to use quantum communication, you must have twin photons at both ends of the communication to establish entanglement and distribute keys. A repeater contains a complex number of entanglement units for point-to-point communication.

What does this mean?Only the important units that have been distributed in the repeater can carry out quantum communication. Relying on space stations, bases and spacecraft to establish an interstellar network, the coverage is difficult to popularize.Quantum communication is by no means a commodity for the common people. Every time a communication unit is added, all repeaters must be upgraded simultaneously, so it is still far away to popularize it to individuals.

(There is a gap with reality)

Bud fell into deep thought... At least, if the neutrino communication is successful, he and others won't have to be so embarrassed.This technology, which is still under research, is likely to become the basis of the next-generation communication of the People's Federation. This kind of extremely small, uncharged neutral basic particles can travel in a straight line at near the speed of light, and can easily penetrate steel, seawater, etc. , and even the entire earth, while the energy loss itself is very small.In fact, this is far more important than imagined, and even Bard can't look at it from a macro-strategic perspective.

As early as the Jiaxintu Defense War, the Supreme Council used large-scale drone swarms to fill the manpower gap. Since then, all military commanders have taken a fancy to the potential of drones.Combat drones have grown along with artificial intelligence, but the technology sector has also discovered many of its shortcomings.

The bottom line is - now that humanity is largely free of the risk of civil war, military deployments are shifting toward possible cosmic threats.For those unknown existences, after analysis by the Ministry of Industry and Research, nuclear bombs represented by the power of stars will become one of the most reliable weapons for mankind.Therefore, the research on nuclear technology has been advancing in recent years, from individual red mercury nuclear bombs to strategic warheads with an equivalent of [-] million, forming a family.Without the detached status of the old earth country's heavy weapon, nuclear bombs have become a conventional weapon in the hands of the military. In fact, when beta was discovered on the moon, the military's first consideration was to use a hundred strategic nuclear bombs to cleanse the dark side.

However, the extensive use of nuclear bombs will inevitably lead to electromagnetic pulses all over the battlefield in the future, communication will be blocked, and circuits will be burned.Heavy vehicles from the Guard and Blackhand have adaptive armor resistance, but what about drones?

Swarm drones that rely extensively on cluster electromagnetic wave signal command will lose their value, while AI-driven drones equipped with anti-EMP armor and do not rely on manual command are expensive, and most of them are super-heavy tactical drones. form a general advantage.Don't say that regardless of the cost, it is a desperate time, and the victory of the war depends on the rational allocation of resources.

Neutrino communication... Bud sighed with emotion, it's a pity that he is an engineer and not a physicist, otherwise...

"Have it!"

Cole shouted, startling Bud. He looked along the horizon and saw a bright ball of light rising from the sky not far away. At the same time, the radio station also received the communication broadcast by the ball of light. The voice is its own teacher, Dr. Adam Phoenix!

But when the two of them were happy about this, one, no, four small suns suddenly bloomed on the moon plane in the distance, and the light was so dazzling.

"How many times has this nuclear explosion happened?"

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"Information update..."

There are tens of thousands of lights flashing on the Eternal City, which contain innumerable command signals, just like the massive amount of information that converges here, intelligence from all sides needs to be dispatched in this most important facility of the People's Federation today , it is Olivia who takes on such a heavy responsibility.

It's been three hours since the battle on the moon started, which is not too long, but there are important events happening every moment in this short period of time.The first artificial impact on the moon, new weapons and tactics against beta—these will all be analyzed and integrated into tactical regulations against new enemies, and submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Research to modify the production line of weapons.The war machine of the People's Federation has already started rumbling, and looking down from the holographic simulation screen, there are many rocket tail flames shining from the atmosphere of Sira—except for the orbital accelerator running at full speed, located in the blue-eyed capital and all districts. The space launch site is full of schedules, and a large number of reinforcements and supplies are arriving non-stop.

"General! The steel claw mobile division of the Defense Legion has launched into the air in ten batches. The first to fifth companies have arrived at the No. 12 port preparation area. It is estimated that the total number of 500 people will be assembled within twelve hours. Only half of the equipment needed will be provided when it arrives!"

Olivia nodded slightly——the leader has ordered the joint operation of the black hand and the guards, so she is obliged to arrange for these "friendly troops": "Half is half, and my discipline camp can also form 500 people." The troops. Compared with this, can our transportation force still keep up?"

"The production line has been urgently dispatched to speed up the completion of two barges, but to get the reinforcements to leave on time in [-] hours, we can only wait for the transport ship of the First Expeditionary Force to return." The lost ship, but in fact this loss really affects the precious transportation capacity.

"Our production line can only support three barges at the same time. Unless there is a new design or a star port, the fastest completion will take a week."

Insufficient transport capacity is really troublesome, but the leader's battle on the moon also provided valuable information for the follow-up troops. Just an hour ago, the soldiers had no idea what they were going to fight, but now they have a relatively complete book. The scriptures are here to guide.The fog of war has been uncovered, and this time the Guards and the Black Hand stand on the same starting line, and their value needs to be re-evaluated through battles.

"I'll talk to Ensger about this issue."

Olivia leaves her seat, she removes the VR goggles and hands over communications control authorization to the officer.The First Expeditionary Force still has six hours to reach the moon, and they are led by Miles... just because of envy, Olivia feels that she also wants to go to the moon to see, she doesn't like the feeling of sitting behind.

"I have received the latest information that Marcus and others have been successfully rescued by Commander Bard, and there are signs of a large-scale nuclear explosion on the surface of the moon. The situation is unknown, but it seems that our leader has successfully lifted the most dangerous state... .At its own expense, supplemented by a large number of nuclear weapons and strategic resources."

However, she shook her head slightly: "If every small tactical victory requires such a high price, we don't have to think about capacity."

Busy during the day and more at night

As in the title, I can't stop the work when it comes, and I can't spare time.

Today is September, a very interesting day, and friends who are working can understand. I know that the update frequency has been messy recently, but after all, it is necessary to have food, books do not make money, and work is the most important thing. Please forgive me.

By the way, is 2K better or 3K looks more comfortable?

Chapter 21 Silver Fortress

"The Eternal City informs the staff of the lunar base."

The desolate moon is no longer quiet. After ten nuclear bombs shine on the dark side, the atmosphere of war has enveloped the staff of the moon base.As the closest human facility to the enemy, the Advanced Base has to take on tasks beyond its original responsibilities - science will be put on hold, the mission to create the first habitable colony on the moon will be suspended, and by order of the Supreme Council, it will be built here As a fortress, the army will take over the work of scientists, and many scientific research results that have taken years of hard work have to end unfortunately.

When Bud returned to the base, he inevitably saw many frustrated scientists who were packing their own laboratories and data. This scene made him heartbroken. In a trance, he seemed to see the scene of civilization stagnating due to war decades ago .The laboratory set up for progress will be transformed into a military factory by engineers, and the site will be expanded to accommodate the military supplies of the expeditionary force. The impact of the war has just emerged, and I don’t know how long this suffering will last.

The forward base has never had a name in the past, but now it has - "Silver Fortress", not only because its magnificent building shell is made of silver titanium alloy wall panels, but also because it will be completely subordinate to the "Silver Ring Belt" military The system becomes a permanent defense facility.Now, Bud seems to understand why he was selected as the base commander, because he is not only an engineer, but more importantly, his military background. He is a reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Defense Corps!

The Supreme Council... Sure enough, it has been prepared for a long time.

The broadcast from the Eternal City is still playing in the base in a loop. Although the content is very humane, there is a bone-chilling coldness in General Olivia's voice-"Your work has been completed, and the council thanks you for your dedication. Now The situation is changing, the twelve scientific teams stationed at the base must evacuate immediately, and the transport barge will carry the expeditionary force to arrive in four hours... Please don't hesitate, your research is not rejected, it is still an important wealth of mankind, When the war is won, it will continue to serve the cause of the SUPP."

"Once again, any non-combatants must be ready to evacuate immediately. It is important to understand that until the enemy is defeated, humanity has no future."

"future..."

Bud sighed, and dragged the slightly bulky hard spacesuit and walked towards the front of the corridor.Since I came back half an hour ago, I was forced to separate from my teammates - Dom was rushed to the medical center, and his condition was very bad... In fact, he was the most seriously injured that year, as if the god of death Going after him like he owes hell his life.

Dr. Adam will be the surgeon for Dom himself, so he doesn't even have the chance to speak to the teacher.Marcus was just outside the operating room, and it looked like he wasn't going anywhere unless Dom was safe and sound.

As for Cole... here he is, walking towards him, and not only that, he seems to have brought an idler with him.

"Hey baby~ look who I brought?"

The black buddies gave way to the man in black complacently. Bud was in a bad mood. Seeing Cole coming, he couldn't help but cursed: "Idiot, where have you been? I didn't ask you to help direct the evacuation... ...leader?"

"Yo, the momentum is good, Commander."

The man took off the hood on his head, his appearance remained the same for thousands of years, the iconic red mechanical eyeballs looked directly at Bud's eyes, the corner of his mouth was half a smile, and he didn't open his mouth when he spoke—"I want to inform Good news for you, I have discussed with Commander Wu Wei, you, and your little friends, return to the army, and then build D team."

"As for this base... it will be handed over to me first, do you have any opinions?"

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Of course, I dare not have any opinions. Not only that, Bud felt that he might be relieved - he was as big as one head when all kinds of things were overwhelmed. torture.

Until now, I was actually just a team leader. Being an official is certainly a joy, but as the saying goes, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility.As a soldier, he only had to be responsible for his life, think about it and let the commander do it, but now that he is the commander, the lives of hundreds of people in the base depend on his orders, and it is impossible for him to find someone to tell him what to do.

After this incident, he found that he is actually only suitable to concentrate on one thing, being a soldier or doing research, or in other words, he is a soldier.Similarly, Li De also clearly understood this point, so the "Delta" team took shape again. They were all fighters, belonging to Li De's fighters.

However, there are two people who seem to have some problems.When the resurrected Li De came to the door of the medical center, he only saw Marcus sitting at the door with a depressed face. Even Li De's arrival couldn't make him look up.

If it was normal, this would not be a big deal, but the base is very busy at this time, and Marcus' behavior is particularly conspicuous in the base.After General Olivia's notification was issued, according to Li De's order, all members of the only engineering team set off and followed the "highway" opened by the advance base to the radar and scientific research station area in the fringe area.

War is imminent, some places can be abandoned, but areas like the ice factory must not!The precious water brought by meteorites is the main source of circulating water in the lunar base, and with the arrival of the expeditionary force, the need for water will be upgraded to a strategic material. I am afraid that it is not enough, how can I voluntarily discard it?

While everyone was preparing for the upcoming war, the lonely figure of Marcus stood guard at the door of the medical center. The red light "in operation" hangs high above the door, and perhaps from his point of view, that red light represents Dom's life, tension, danger, and life hanging by a thread.

"You think you killed him?"

Li De spoke, and he went straight to Marcus, who stood up as if feeling something. Li De, who is 1.7 meters tall, is a head short in front of Marcus, who is 1.8 meters [-]. This is not only because the Scylla people are much taller than the people on Earth, but Li De refuses to let his prosthetic body be different from his former self. any changes.

Marcus looked at Li De, he didn't understand the meaning of Li De's words.The awkward silence made Bud and Cole feel extremely uncomfortable. Cole wanted to speak, but Reed raised a hand to stop speaking.

"I don't deny the friendship between the two of you, Marcus, I understand that you think Dom feels pain because of your injury, but he's not dead yet, you don't need to take the responsibility on yourself."

He said, but his words made Marcus excited as if he had grasped a life-saving straw: "You said he wasn't dead, Dom wasn't dead? Is it true? How do you know..."

"Of course I know!"

Reed was a little disturbed by Marcus grabbing his shoulders, but he was also a little envious, envious that Marcus had a brother who was so daring.His eyes flickered for a moment, making Marcus realize his disrespect, and then nodded: "He's not dead, but whether he can recover depends on Dr. Adam, maybe, he needs some more mechanical parts. ..”

"As for you, follow me."

Li De pointed to Bud and Cole, and then ordered Marcus, which surprised the latter for a while, and hurriedly said that he would wait for the operation to end, but Li De sternly scolded: "You stay here What's the use, pray for him? Don't forget your identity, Master Chief, you still have the duty to defend this base!"

Marcus stopped talking, Bud nudged Cole with his elbow, and said in a low voice, "Marcus is like seeing Hoffman...I said there is always someone he is afraid of! "

Suddenly, Li De turned his head and stared at Bud: "Don't whisper behind my back, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"I haven't settled the score with you for the mistakes you made in directing the rescue!"

PS: We have every reason to form a protagonist to lead the "protagonist" team!

Chapter 22 Silver Fortress

Working through the decompression chamber is always nerve-wracking, and for Cole and Marcus, two people who don't care much about "details", it always makes Bud worry that they haven't put on the hard spacesuit. , As a result, he suffocated to death in front of himself as the air was exhausted.

But the other person is different - the leader doesn't wear any protection, and the cyborg's body is not afraid of the vacuum.People's Federation's technology has made a lot of commendable progress, such as the hard spacesuit worn by Bud and others, which is a kind of airtight shell armor suit modified from the army.The spacesuits of the old era also required multiple layers of materials to be stacked, resulting in a snowman-like bloated body that could not perform long-lasting delicate operations.And the space suits on them, which are similar to medieval plate armor, also have built-in power devices. According to the Ministry of Industry and Research, with a little modification, it is a light power armor that can be used.

Just as the advance base has become a "Silver Fortress" in a blink of an eye, Bud has more reasons to believe that the leader has long been preparing for this new war, but he can only suppress this feeling in his heart.He doesn't believe in any conspiracy theories, this war was indeed just an accident, but...

"Bud, you're a smart man." Li De said, but he didn't look at them. "There are some things you can't hide from you, but I have nothing to prove. Let your own eyes witness the truth!"

Li De's words seemed to indicate something, and the three of them looked at each other, pretending to be silent.After leaving the base, along the extended "road", they quickly waited for a ground vehicle in the parking lot of the base-remember the omnipotent "Liquidator" armored vehicle?The multifunctional vehicle with a huge loading capacity and deformability was finally retired a few years ago, because neither the People's Federation nor the military no longer needs the tasteless bunker function, but the car family it extends has reached the moon. exert its value.