1148 Recovering Southern Europe

The assault fleet immediately went into full gear and chased the fleeing alien fleet.

The soldiers who received the order screamed and rubbed their hands, ready to beat the fallen dog.

Because the alien fleet was stronger than the assault fleet, Beidu strictly ordered Gao Kai not to engage in battle with the enemy during this period. The fleet was very frustrated from top to bottom. Now, a sneak attack that seemed like a joke blew up more than 40 enemy ships, and there were less than ten ships left. How could such a good opportunity be missed?

However, not all warships participated in the pursuit. Gao Kai only took away the main battleship, and all the assault ships stayed behind to clean up the nuclear bombs that did not hit the target.

According to satellite monitoring data, less than one-third of the nuclear bombs hit the enemy ships, and the remaining nuclear bombs still orbited the earth in their original orbits.

Ordinary space debris left in orbit is a huge safety hazard, let alone a powerful nuclear bomb?

If the nuclear bombs are not cleaned up in time, who knows what they will hit when they turn around.

Cleaning up the nuclear bombs is not that simple. The assault fleet is in a retrograde orbit. It is not that easy to change from a retrograde orbit to a prograde orbit. It is not a matter of changing direction, but it must slow down and then accelerate.

Even with a nuclear engine, it is not that easy to complete such an adjustment. Moreover, once the relative speed of the warship is lower than the first cosmic speed, it will be pulled by the gravity of the earth. If the speed cannot be increased in time, the warship may even be pulled into the atmosphere by the gravity of the earth.

Gao Kai is not a novice. He has long considered this issue and did not bring the assault ship over at all. Instead, he stayed in the prograde orbit and waited.

After receiving the order, the assault ship immediately changed its orbit to a low orbit and released the engineering boats on the ship.

These engineering boats are actually modified versions of Swifts. They move along the edge of the nuclear bomb's orbit. After the speed is consistent with the nuclear bomb, they approach the nuclear bomb, grab the nuclear bomb with a mechanical arm, and put them into the cargo hold.

This is probably the first time in human history that a nuclear bomb launched in a battle has been recovered, which has set a precedent for nuclear bomb recovery.

Not only nuclear bombs are left in orbit, but also a large number of alien warship wreckage.

The alien warship was blown to pieces by the nuclear bomb, and countless large and small fragments floated in outer space. The slow ones were gradually captured by the earth's gravity, and sooner or later, they would fall into the atmosphere.

The fast ones still run along the retrograde orbit. Those large pieces of debris are easy to deal with, and they can be cleaned up in any way. The trouble is the scattered fragments. Not only are there a lot of them, but the distribution range is also wide. As time goes by, the distribution range of these fragments will become wider and wider, directly threatening all the prograde satellites in orbit.

So it is necessary to solve them before the fragments spread over a large area, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

The fleet was also prepared for this problem, and first launched a batch of special missiles into the debris orbit.

The warhead of this thing contains a special solution. After the warhead is opened, this solution immediately expands thousands of times, and in a blink of an eye, the volume expands thousands of times, turning into a group of "clouds" suspended in orbit.

This thing is a special aerogel, and some people call it solid smoke. The earliest use was to collect comet fragments.

Comet fragments are smaller than sand grains, but they are six times faster than bullets. In order to capture these tiny particles, aerogel was invented. This thing is like a baseball glove, which can catch all kinds of high-speed flying fragments. It is the most suitable material for cleaning up space debris.

Aerogel can be used for small fragments, but large pieces of alien warship wreckage cannot.

In order to clean up the wreckage of enemy ships, Beiyuezhou prepared a batch of unmanned engineering boats. These engineering boats are also modified Swifts, equipped with high-power thrusters. Their mission is to find large pieces of wreckage, attach to the wreckage, and push them away from the earth.

In order to prevent the aliens in the wreckage from reviving, the military decided to throw these wreckages directly into Venus... There is no special reason for choosing Venus, it is just because Venus is in a suitable position.

There is also a view that aliens' ability to adapt to the environment is far beyond human imagination. Even if aliens are thrown into Venus, they can develop special creatures that adapt to the environment of Venus,

and even rely on Venus to start a new business and eventually make a comeback.

However, this view was refuted by most people. What is Venus? It is a barren land with acid rain everywhere. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a forbidden zone for organic matter.

Although the aliens are strong, look at the targets they choose. Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are all celestial bodies with water.

To put it bluntly, Mars is more suitable for colonization than Jupiter's satellites no matter how you look at it, but aliens have no idea of ​​colonizing Mars at all. Why? Isn't it because Mars is dry and lacks water?

So the possibility of aliens surviving on Venus is infinitely close to zero.

The aliens always keep their eyes on the earth. Isn't it for the water source on the earth?

No one wants aliens to land on the earth. Countries have also tried their best, but they still failed to stop aliens in the end.

Now, the last alien fleet was defeated by the assault fleet. The next task of mankind is to eliminate the aliens who landed as much as possible...

Anyone knows that aliens are hiding underground, and it is a long and arduous process to eliminate aliens.

And the problem now is not how humans can eliminate aliens, but that aliens are driving swarms to attack humans!

But this problem has become a non-issue after the alien fleet was expelled.

Later that day, the assault fleet chasing the alien fleet split into two. The destroyers with high endurance and strong combat effectiveness continued the pursuit, while all the frigates returned.

The first mission of the frigate after returning was not to clean up space junk, but to cut into low-altitude orbit, hover over Europe, and launch a large-scale air strike on the swarm occupying southern Europe. Any worm exposed on the ground, even if there was only one, would be devastated by outer space.

In just half an hour, there was no more giant worms in the whole of Europe, and even ordinary giant worms that were not controlled by aliens were cleaned up by the fleet.

Of course, only a very small number of worms were destroyed by the fleet, and most of them fled back underground after the air strike began.

The people stranded in the occupied area were originally in danger, but when they woke up, all the worms disappeared.

"It was just like a dream, I couldn't even believe my eyes!" said a survivor.

When the news came out, the whole world was boiling. Overnight, the haze over Europe disappeared for the most part, and the landing of aliens was no longer an inseparable shadow. Many people who fled the occupied areas couldn't wait to pack their luggage and prepare to return home.

Governments around the world tried their best to dissuade them, saying that the Zerg was still hiding underground and that it was still risky to return to the occupied areas.