One Thousand Three Hundred and Fourteen It Is Better to Rely on Yourself than to Rely on Others

Asteroid belt, Leishan.

It was pitch black all around, no celestial bodies could be seen, no sky above and no ground below, only a smaller sun hanging in the distant sky.

Outside the battleship, dozens of people worked together to remove a ten-meter square armor plate from the surface of the front cabin, and then held up the heavy armor plate together, slowly moved to the middle of the battleship, and stopped above the last gap.

Ye Han let go and flew under the armor plate, commanding loudly: "Down, down, down... back, back... a little higher, good!"

The armor plate was buckled on the gap, and a group of soldiers immediately flew over and carefully fixed the seams between the armor plates.

When the last piece of armor was installed, Ye Han breathed a sigh of relief, flew out of the battleship, and looked at the intact armor under his feet and breathed a sigh of relief.

After a whole week, the outer armor of the battleship was finally repaired.

But when his eyes turned to the front cabin, Ye Han's heart twitched a few times.

In order to repair the middle section and the rear cabin, not only all the intact armor plates in the front cabin were removed, but also many damaged armor plates were removed. The front cabin now looks like a thatched house after a hurricane, with the frame and cabins all exposed, and only a few broken armor plates hanging on it.

And there is a bug machine nailed to each of the remaining armor plates, which looks tattered and messy, which is miserable and desolate.

Looking at the middle section and the rear cabin again, they are covered with heavy armor everywhere. Although there are some gaps between some armor plates, the armor is placed in a stacked manner, which has little protection against the enemy's firepower, but any radiation from the outside cannot directly hit the inner layer, thus ensuring the safety of the inner layer.

At this moment, several different flavors are intertwined in Ye Han's heart, just like overturning a five-flavor bottle, it is simply a mixture of all kinds of flavors.

He couldn't help but sigh: "What is modularization? This is modularization!"

This sentence is not said casually, because the ability to repair the warship so quickly not only benefits the full efforts of all officers and soldiers on the ship, but also has a direct relationship with the structure of the warship.

It's a long story. Human space warships were born to fight against aliens from the beginning. In order to speed up the manufacturing of warships, Beiyuezhou has adopted modular design since the 011 level.

In other words, as long as all the parts required for the warship are manufactured according to the standard and assembled together, it will be a complete warship.

And modularization is only one of the means to speed up shipbuilding.

Another important means is one platform with multiple configurations.

To put it simply, all warships produced by Beiyuezhou use the same basic structure, which is like the skeleton of a warship. The orbital factory only needs to add cabins, armor and various weapons to the skeleton to make a complete warship!

In other words, although the Leishan is much more advanced than previous destroyers, its basic structure is not much different from previous warships, including armor.

The armor of the Leishan is completely compatible with the armor of other battleships. In order to achieve this, the military divides the armor into several types, such as flat, curved and connected. The specifications of each type of armor are exactly the same. Using the pre-prepared modular armor, the surface of a warship can be quickly covered. At most, a small number of special-specification armor plates are used in the corners.

However, special specifications must also consider universality. As more warships are built, special specifications become regular sizes.

Precisely because the Leishan has a modular foundation, the armor removed from the front cabin can be installed in the middle and rear cabins without any obstacles. When returning to Beiyuezhou in the future, as long as the front cabin is repaired and covered with a layer of armor plates, the Leishan can be restored to its original state immediately.

The armor has been repaired, but for the Leishan, this is only the first step of a long journey.

At present, the Leishan is still inside the asteroid belt, and the straight-line distance from the Earth's orbit is not less than 5 astronomical units.

This is not a big deal. The problem that makes Ye Han scratch his head is that the warship is heading in the wrong direction!

If the Leishan continues to fly along its current route, it will take at least three to five years to return to Earth. In the case that all thrusters fail, the most effective way to return is to get rescued by friendly forces.

However, there are only a few human warships in the entire asteroid belt, and the friendly forces in the direction of Base No. 3 are too far away, and distant water cannot quench thirst nearby; the Nanzhou is close enough, but after the Leishan left the battle, the alien fleet has been unwilling to let go of the Leishan, and Gao Kai had to command the Nanzhou to entangle the enemy to buy time for the Leishan.

In the current situation, Ye Han has only two choices, one is to wait for reinforcements from Beiyuezhou, and the other is to fly back to Beiyuezhou himself.

Waiting for reinforcements is not realistic at all. It will take at least one and a half months from the time Beiyuezhou sends a spacecraft to the time when the reinforcements approach the Leishan.

One and a half months is not long, and Ye Han can wait, but no one can guarantee that the aliens will not cause trouble for the Leishan during this period.

At present, nine out of ten weapons on the Leishan are gone. Not to mention fighting against an alien fleet, it can't even deal with an alien warship. It can be said that it is completely disarmed.

If you can't count on rescue, you can only count on yourself.

After Ye Han returned to the bridge, he immediately summoned the heads of the main departments and held a meeting.

The meeting was to summarize the work results of the previous stage, that is, to repair the outer armor with quality and quantity; the second was to deploy the specific work of the next stage, that is, to repair the damaged thrusters.

Before he finished speaking, except for Luo Qi and He Lu who knew about it, everyone else was in an uproar.

It's not that everyone is against repairing the thruster, but there is no precedent for repairing the thruster in the field. Even if they want to repair it, they don't know where to start. How can everyone's reaction not be intense?

However, Ye Han immediately told everyone his plan, and everyone was relieved when they heard that it was only a partial repair.

"The first step in repair is to find out the condition of the thruster. This matter is the same as repairing the armor. I will personally take charge." Ye Han turned his eyes and said, "He Lu, you come and introduce the situation of the thruster."

"Yes!" He Lu called up a file and said bluntly, "I haven't actually seen the thruster. According to the data analysis recorded by the damage control system, the main problem of the thruster is the deformation of the reaction chamber caused by long-term over-power operation. Other problems are related problems caused by the deformation of the reaction chamber. The specific situation must depend on the specific situation of the reaction chamber... This is probably the situation, Captain, I'm done."

Ye Han pulled the corner of his mouth: "You are really simple... Who else has questions?"

Everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and no one spoke.

"No problem? Let's do this for now." Ye Han said, "Everyone has been very hard-working during this period. When you go back, notify the soldiers to rest. Wait for notification when the thrusters are repaired. Let's disperse."