One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Four First Arrival at Beichen

Two days later, the transport ship carrying 4,000 crew members set sail on time.

The space fleet did not have a dedicated troop transport ship, and the Yue Fei needed more personnel, so it could only temporarily replace the hibernation cabin on a transport ship and convert it into a temporary troop transport ship to transport the crew to Beichenzhou.

After the transport ship set sail, everyone entered the hibernation cabin, and the temperature outside the cabin gradually decreased, and the crew soon entered the autonomous hibernation state.

After everyone entered hibernation, Ye Han took several bridge officers to check all the hibernation cabins, and only entered their respective hibernation cabins after confirming that there were no problems.

When Ye Han lay in the hibernation cabin, he happened to see the time on the wall: July 13, 2037.

When he opened his eyes again, he subconsciously looked up, and the time on the wall had become August 26, 2037, one day short of one and a half months.

Others woke up at the same time and floated out of the hibernation cabin one after another.

Ye Han floated to the side of the cabin and turned on the display switch on the wall. The scene outside the ship immediately appeared on the screens in all directions - there was an endless starry sky behind the battleship, and in front of it was a planet the size of a full moon, which blocked the battleship and the sun. Half of the sun overflowed from the side of Mercury, like a rising crescent moon.

The sunlight was so strong that Mercury was particularly dim. It was difficult to see what was on the back of Mercury. One could only barely see the twilight zone full of craters.

The environment there was very similar to that of the moon, with craters of all sizes everywhere... Well, celestial bodies without an atmosphere all have this problem, just like having smallpox.

Looking at the figure of Mercury, Ye Han couldn't tell what his mood was. He was both expectant and nervous.

His wife and children were there. When he thought about seeing them soon, he was so excited that he couldn't calm down for a long time. He couldn't help but open his personal terminal and sent a message to his wife and children in Beichenzhou.

The transport ship flew closer and closer. Ye Han put on his power armor and began to check the situation of the soldiers.

Nowadays, the space fleet has long popularized autonomous hibernation, and the technology is very mature. Everyone wakes up by themselves within the specified time.

This shows that the physical fitness of the soldiers has all met the standards, which makes Ye Han very pleased.

At this time, the transport ship has flown near Mercury, and the star completely blocks the sun. Through the lens outside the transport ship, Ye Han found several open-pit mines being mined on the back of Mercury near the North Pole.

As we all know,

the earth is the densest planet in the solar system, and Mercury ranks second, second only to the earth.

But not everyone knows that the gravity of the earth is much greater than that of Mercury, and the impact of strategy on the density of matter is also much greater. If the influence of gravity is excluded, the density of Mercury is 5.3 grams/cm3, while the density of the earth is only 4.4 grams/cm3.

This means that Mercury contains more abundant mineral resources than the earth, and the gravity here is lower, so the minerals are easier to mine.

If Mercury is a rich mine, then the moon is at best a poor mine. Why did Beidu rush to build Beichenzhou? Isn’t it because of the mineral resources here?

After years of development, Mercury has become the most important resource base in Beidu. According to Ye Han, the production of steel here accounts for 40% of the total output of mankind. For every three warships built by the orbital factory, the raw materials of two ships come from Beichenzhou.

Moreover, Beichenzhou has found a uranium mine with amazing reserves on Mercury. The weapons-grade enriched uranium produced there accounts for 76% of human production!

Human warship fuel, nuclear warheads, and nuclear reactors are inseparable from uranium 235. To exaggerate a little, if there were no uranium mines on Mercury, humans might have been trampled by aliens long ago.

The transport ship slowly approached Mercury and began to fly around Mercury. More than ten minutes later, the transport ship flew over the North Pole of Mercury for the first time.

Ye Han and others entered the landing craft in advance. Before they flew directly above the North Pole, ten landing craft left the ship at the same time and slowly fell to the surface of Mercury.

Looking down from the air, half of the North Pole of Mercury was bathed in sunlight, and the other half was hidden in darkness. The craters in the sunlight cast long shadows. The closer to the North Pole, the longer the shadow.

No matter how you look at it, this is a barren land, but everyone knows that Beichenzhou is right below.

Ten landing craft lined up in a row and fell towards the largest crater in the north pole of Mercury. The engines on the craft started at irregular intervals, and each time they would emit a burst of flames, but each start was very short, and they did not start to work continuously until they were close to the ground, slowing down the falling landing craft.

Inside the crater, the seemingly normal ground slowly opened up, revealing a huge bottomless cave. The landing craft lined up in a row entered the cave silently and fell vertically into the depths of the cave.

After all the landing craft entered, the door covering the cave entrance slowly closed, blocking the starry sky.

After passing through three sealed doors in succession, the landing craft finally landed in a fully enclosed large hangar.

After all the landing craft stopped and the thrusters were turned off, the exhaust equipment in the hangar started at full capacity to extract all the harmful gases produced by combustion, and then normal air was injected until the air pressure in the hangar reached the standard, and the airlock leading to the hangar slowly opened, and a group of people walked into the hangar.

Ye Han dragged his luggage and walked out of the landing craft with a group of people. He saw a group of generals coming over. Each of them had a dazzling star on his shoulder, which almost dazzled everyone.

On the other hand, except for Ye Han, the lieutenant general, all the generals were below the school level. Even He Lu, the deputy captain, was only a colonel.

There is no way. Captain Ye Han is still a high-ranking but low-ranking officer. Under normal circumstances, the captain of a super battleship should be a major general, and the deputy captain is at most a colonel, which cannot be compared with the Beichenzhou base.

There was only one middle-aged man in the crowd with three general stars on his shoulders. Ye Han saluted quickly: "Director Zhe!"

Zhe Zhipeng returned the salute and stretched out his right hand, smiling and said: "Ye Han, right? I have heard of you for a long time. The destruction record of our fleet was set by you. You have made our fleet proud!"

Ye Han was falsely modest: "Director, you are too kind. My achievements are already a thing of the past."

Zhe Zhipeng waved his hand: "No need to praise. Your record was won through hard work. Super gunboats and super battleships are battleships that are better than you, so they don't count!"

Ye Han couldn't respond to this at all, and could only laugh silently.

Zhe Zhipeng didn't waste any words, pointing to a major general wearing glasses beside him and said: "This is our engineering director, Chai Jin!"

Ye Han was a little stunned, thinking that this person had the same name as Chai Jin in the novel, but his face didn't show it at all. The two saluted and shook hands very friendly.

Zhe Zhipeng pointed to another major general officer: "This is our technical director, Nan Bo."

"Quality Director Shang Mingyuan."

"Technical Director Ma Chengzhi..."