Nine Hundred and Sixty-Two Unmoved

After some open and covert fighting, Beidu finally regressed under pressure from all parties. In early April 2030, the combined fleet left the port.

The combined fleet has more than one hundred warships in total, including fifty-five warships dispatched by the Beiyuezhou Fleet.

The more than 50 warships dispatched by China include five large aerospace carriers; 18 destroyers and 32 frigates, a complete main fleet group.

Despite this, the outside world is still very dissatisfied with Beidu's decision, because the Beiyuezhou Fleet has twelve aerospace carriers. In addition to the four taken away by the assault fleet, there are eight more, but there are only five in the combined fleet. There are three more ships that are always kept in my pocket.

Foreign media believe that the earth is already at a critical moment of life and death. Preserving strength at this time is simply seeking death. As the largest space country, Beidou has the strength and the responsibility to devote all its armed forces to stop aliens.

Even in China, there are a group of people who believe that leaving a few space carriers is useless.

This view cannot be said to be wrong. If the combined fleet fails, the three space carriers retained in Beidu will not be able to take on the important role at all. It is better to devote them all to the combined fleet to fight.

The combined fleet has more than a hundred battleships in total, including more than a dozen space carriers alone. It can be said to be the most powerful fleet in human history. If this fleet is defeated by aliens, there will be a few more. It is impossible for the air carrier to turn the tide of the war.

In desperation, Beidu had no choice but to announce the truth to the outside world. It was not that these three space carriers did not want to be sent out, but that they were unable to make the trip due to various reasons.

There are many specific reasons, and Beidu also explained them in detail:

Only one of the three air carriers is intact. However, due to errors in material coordination, it has not been equipped with enough carrier-based aircraft. Coupled with a serious shortage of pilots, it was unable to perform missions in a short period of time.

The other two ships appear to be complete, but in fact one has just come off the production line, the equipment has not been installed in place, and it cannot leave the dock; the other ship had a minor accident not long ago, destroying two propellers, and must be repaired. to act.

The reason is very strong. The outside world does not know whether it is true or not. In short, they cannot pursue it even if they want to. No matter what kind of speculations and slanders, they cannot shake Beidu's determination.

In fact, the air carriers that Beidu keeps in its pocket are not three, but six out of the three. This is because among the four air carriers in the assault fleet, only the Nanzhou is real, and the other three are real. They are all comprehensive supply ships disguised as space carriers!

However, the shortage of carrier-based aircraft and pilots is indeed true, but it is not as serious as publicly announced.

When the combined fleet set off, the aircraft manufacturing plant in Beiyuezhou was organizing a production raid, and pilots were also training intensively. In order to fill the vacancies in time, the military even lowered the training standards for pilots.

There should not have been such a low-level mistake. Originally, the carrier-based aircraft and pilots were enough to fill all the air carriers. However, some time ago, Beidu carried out automated modifications to all warships, and the air carrier was no exception.

One of the key points of the modification is to replace all carrier-based aircraft with unmanned remote control models. The pilot does not need to sit in the cockpit of the carrier-based aircraft, but only needs to sit in the remote control cabin of the mothership to control the corresponding aircraft.

Coupled with the military's corresponding improvements in carrier-based aircraft, the air carrier's aircraft capacity has been greatly increased. The result is that the aircraft that were originally enough for twelve air space carriers ended up filling only six warships.

However, the military is making up for the gap. It will not take long before a steady stream of carrier-based aircraft on the production line can fill the warships and pilots can be in place in time.

Due to limited training time, the overall quality of this batch of pilots will definitely be weaker.

Not only the space carrier, there are also a group of destroyers and frigates that have not been sent out. There are some objective reasons for Beidu to cover up these warships. First, there is a lack of crew members. Sending rookies who have not completed training not only cannot form combat effectiveness, but may also become Second, there is insufficient weapons and equipment. The military concentrates all nuclear weapons on the departing warships. Without nuclear weapons, it is difficult to fight against alien warships with only conventional weapons. It is better to keep them in Beiyuezhou as a backup.

It is said that the moon produces a large amount of helium 3, and the space fleet should not be short of nuclear weapons. However, helium 3 is not that simple. It is an inert gas that is difficult to liquefy. Its properties are difficult to combine with other substances. The reaction conditions of rare compounds are also very harsh. Helium 3 cannot be turned into a solid substance through a chemical reaction.

Moreover, helium-3 fusion requires a lot of energy and produces little energy. It is fine for use in fusion reactors, but it is somewhat useless for use in nuclear weapons.

In addition, the reaction conditions for helium-3 fusion are too harsh. Taking into account various factors, a pure helium-3 nuclear warhead is neither economical nor affordable, and it is simply impossible to produce it with the current technical capabilities of mankind.

Therefore, humans have always been able to engage in second-generation fusion of deuterium and helium 3. The number of nuclear warheads has always been limited by deuterium production. It does not mean that with helium 3, nuclear bombs can be exploded infinitely.

Another very important factor is that nuclear power engines consume a large amount of nuclear raw materials!

All in all, human beings have a large production and consumption of nuclear raw materials, and they are not as abundant as ordinary people imagine.

On May 12, 2030, the interceptor fleet flew across the orbit of Mars. The two sides were traveling in the same direction, and the distance was getting closer and closer.

All people in all countries on the earth are concerned about the interception fleet. The most important thing every day is to care about the situation of the interception fleet.

However, the general public did not wait for the news of the interception fleet's exchange of fire with the enemy. Instead, they waited for the news of the attack fleet's arrival at Jupiter!

May 20, 2030, Yaoshan.

The attack fleet arrived near Jupiter, slowed down and entered the orbit around Jupiter, but did not change its orbit to a low-altitude orbit. It has always maintained a distant distance of more than 20 million kilometers from Jupiter.

This is the third time Ye Han has been close to Jupiter in his military career. Looking at the red giant planet spinning quietly on the screen, his mind couldn't help but think of his two expeditions to Jupiter.

One failure nearly resulted in death, another official promotion was successful, but in fact no results were obtained... What was the final result of the third expedition to Jupiter?

"Chief!" Lin Yi gently interrupted Ye Han's thoughts, "There is news about the Nanzhou."

After the fleet recovered, the first thing to do was to contact Earth and ask about the situation in the past few months.

Ye Han tilted his head slightly, still staring at the main screen: "What did you say?" The Yushan has been nailed to Europa. Ye Han thinks that this guy is good. It would be a pity to leave him on Europa, so he specially wants him. Come over and serve as the captain of the Yaoshan.

Lin Yi took a deep breath: "The flagship reported that the alien fleet has shown no sign of returning. The intercepting fleet is about to engage in firefights with the enemy, and it will take a few more days at most."