Chapter 215 The First One!

Yushenxing Base, Fusion Reactor Laboratory.

In a very spacious factory building, two robotic arms are installed on the four walls, ceiling, and floor. There are many metal joints on the robotic arms, which can rotate flexibly.

A total of 12 robotic arms extend to the middle together, and finally connect to a large box with a side length of about two meters.

With Han Yang's order, the 12 robotic arms moved at the same time. Under their coordinated and unified efforts, the large box in the middle began to move flexibly in the air.

It sometimes goes up, sometimes goes down, keeps going back and forth, keeps stopping and turning, and the movement amplitude is getting larger and larger.

Later, the twelve robotic arms even started to rotate rapidly like swinging a meteor hammer. Its overload pressure is even as high as 10G!

After a long time of tossing, Han Yang stopped the robotic arm, removed the large box, and began to carefully examine its internal structure.

At this moment, what appeared in Han Yang's field of vision was still a small high-power fusion reactor in good condition.

That's right, inside this large box with a side length of only two meters is a nuclear fusion reactor device. During the previous violent movement, it has been running, and has been outputting stable and large amounts of electricity to the outside world through cables.

Han Yang wants to use this method to simulate the movement of the spacecraft in space to test its stability and reliability.

"It's OK. All components work well, and the anti-seismic program has played a perfect role, reducing external interference to a minimum."

Han Yang is very satisfied with this result.

Passing the first phase of the stability test means that the first fusion reactor that meets the shipboard requirements has truly qualified for onboard testing.

In the past period of time, based on his own accumulation and extensive research in fusion reactors, coupled with the dedicated teaching from Ita engineers, Han Yang's research in this area has made rapid progress and broken through dozens of major obstacles in one fell swoop. Today, a practical ship-borne fusion reactor has finally been manufactured!

Under Han Yang's control, in the spacecraft factory at the Yushenxing base, a small spacecraft frame with a size of more than ten meters has been prepared.

This spacecraft frame was completely designed and manufactured by Han Yang. At this moment, as long as a few key components are installed, it will immediately become a real spacecraft.

The high-power micro fusion reactor built by Han Yang himself was installed in the reserved position.

But at this moment, there is still something equally important missing.

A high-power small ion thruster.

Not far from the fusion reactor laboratory, in a huge factory building of the propulsion laboratory, the 22575th propulsion experiment is underway.

Dozens of strong special steel cables are connected to a component that is roughly cylindrical in shape. Under the huge power supply from the nuclear fusion power plant, microscopic particles ionized into ions by high temperature through the electromagnetic acceleration coil erupt violently from the tail of this huge cylinder.

The huge upward force immediately straightened the steel cable that bound it. The force was transmitted to the surface, and immediately caused a rapid change in the value.

When the value is fixed within a certain range, there is no big change up and down, and it lasts for more than ten minutes, the sound of the ion thruster gradually decreases and finally shuts down completely.

"From the test data, it should be qualified. But the final result still needs to be tested on the ship."

So, in the spacecraft manufacturing factory, the spacecraft frame was installed with the ion thruster that was also designed and manufactured by Han Yang.

So far, all the elements that make up a spacecraft have been gathered.

Under Han Yang's direct control, the spacecraft slowly took off and first came to the orbit of Yu Shenxing. After that, it accelerated suddenly, broke free from the gravitational bondage of Yu Shenxing in a short time, and entered space.

It violently sprayed blue flames, and the whole spacecraft accelerated forward at a very fast speed. In just a dozen minutes, the speed increased from hundreds of meters per second to more than ten kilometers per second, and it was still accelerating very fast.

It almost disappeared from Yu Shenxing in an instant and entered the vast interstellar space.

Here, it was like a fish entering the boundless sea, constantly accelerating, stopping suddenly, turning sharply, going up, down, left, right...

The sea was wide enough for it to swim freely.

After several hours of struggling, it returned to the spacecraft factory under Han Yang's operation.

Dozens of robots immediately came forward to conduct a comprehensive and detailed inspection of it.

When the inspection results came out, Han Yang was full of excitement.

For so many years, after such a long period of hard work, day and night, finally, relying on its own technology and industrial strength, it finally built a real interstellar spacecraft.

Although its performance is not even comparable to the spacecraft of the same tonnage in the human space fleet at the time, let alone the warships that really fight against the Itars, but this is undoubtedly a very good start.

Han Yang estimated that with his current technology, the comprehensive performance of the warships of the same tonnage as the guard ships used by the guard team is only about 70% of that of the guard ships.

A 30% difference in overall performance may not seem like much, but it means a world of difference in combat power.

Comprehensively, it takes about 40 self-made warships, plus sufficient tactics and coordination, to fight against a guard ship. The winning rate is about 50-50.

But Han Yang believes that as long as he continues to study and iterate, he is not far away from making warships that can fight against the Itars.

"Well, Yu Shenxing is too barren. Except for some resources that are not lacking everywhere, slightly scarce resources cannot be supplied.

Relying on smuggling materials from the inner solar system to Yu Shenxing is too slow. There are many restrictions and it is impossible to obtain them on a large scale. At most, it can only be regarded as a long-term trickle.

To really obtain resources on a large scale, you still have to rely on yourself."

Han Yang thought silently and finally made up his mind.

"Next, we need to build more than 100 small and medium-sized spacecraft with a capacity of 10,000 to 50,000 tons to travel between the other dwarf planets and Jade, develop the other dwarf planets, and obtain resources from the other dwarf planets!"

Han Yang has confirmed through data query and personal observation that within the 100 billion kilometers around Jade, there are a total of 36 dwarf planets, or asteroids, with a size of more than 300 kilometers.

If the standard is lowered to 100 kilometers, then this number will rise to 122. The rest, with a size of less than 100 kilometers, although the quality is low, but with a certain mining value, there are about 30.

That's a total of 152.

With Jade as the center of the sphere, the radius of 100 billion kilometers covers about 420 trillion trillion cubic kilometers of space. In such a vast space, there is only such a small planet, and the total mass is only a few hundredths of the earth. The sparseness of the outer solar system is evident.

The resource reserves on these asteroids or dwarf planets are as poor as Jade. But, a little bit adds up to a lot.

If all 152 asteroids can be developed and all resources can be supplied to the Yushenxing base, then it should be possible to support Han Yang's development for decades.

Decades later, Han Yang may have found a new way to obtain resources.

"At this moment, I have mastered the manufacturing technology of small spacecraft with a total mass of less than 3,000 tons. Although it is a little difficult to build a cargo ship with a mass of 10,000 to 50,000 tons, there is no theoretical obstacle, only a technical obstacle. After a period of research, a breakthrough can always be made.

The key difficulty is that building so many spacecrafts... too many rare minerals are consumed. Relying on a long-term supply or replenishing from Yushenxing is not enough."

For example, heavy rare earth elements, such as gallium, germanium, niobium, gold and other rare elements, are almost non-existent on Yushenxing, and must be smuggled out from the inner solar system by relying on ants moving, a long-term way.

Han Yang suddenly found that his current situation was extremely embarrassing.

152 asteroids add up to a lot, and rare minerals that can meet their needs can be mined. But to fully develop 152 asteroids, at least 100 cargo ships are needed. And to build more than 100 cargo ships, there must be enough rare minerals.

This formed a dead end, which stuck Han Yang.

"Or... while there are still some rare mineral reserves, build two or three cargo ships first, and then increase the reserves little by little, and build spacecraft little by little?"

Han Yang thought carefully, and rejected this plan in a moment: "No, this is too slow. And in this way, the equipment quota originally allocated to the rebels will also be diverted. Without my support, the rebels will collapse immediately."

Thinking for a moment again, a slightly crazy plan emerged in Han Yang's mind.

"In that case... let's do something big!

In the previous stage, I have already manufactured many spaceship frames and supplied them to the rebels. Now, as long as the reactors and thrusters are supplied, the rebels can immediately install them on the spaceships, greatly improving the performance of the spaceships and their combat effectiveness.

When the rebels' combat effectiveness is improved, my 'start-up funds' will be solved by the rebels!

It just so happens that the Governor's Office should also be determined to solve the rampant rebels in the asteroid belt, and the solution is most likely to draw guard ships from the entire solar system to launch a comprehensive encirclement and suppression.

Since you are going to make a big move, it is impolite not to reciprocate, so let you see it!"

Han Yang made up his mind.

...

Asteroid belt, Juno.

Juno is a larger asteroid in the asteroid belt, but its own mass is still not enough to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium and make itself spherical.

It is irregular in shape, about 320*267*200 kilometers in size, with a total mass of about 219 kilograms, which is about 1/224,000 of the Earth.

Because it contains relatively rich and high-purity olivine and other minerals, it also has certain mining value, and there is also a city on it.

In addition to having certain minerals, it is also the headquarters of the Guard Fleet of the Asteroid Belt Guard Bureau.

There are several large supply and maintenance bases built on its orbit. The guard ships belonging to the Asteroid Belt Guard Bureau are replenished and repaired here on a daily basis.

This has always been an absolute forbidden area for forces such as the rebels, gangs, private armed forces, and smuggling gangs. After all, this is the core of the guard fleet, and no one dares to make trouble here.

At this moment, above the heavily guarded Juno orbit, Supply Base No. 1, Director of the Asteroid Belt Security Department Wang Qing, and a group of subordinates stood solemnly. Outside, a guard fleet from Earth is slowly entering the harbor.

The officials leading the team arrived at the No. 1 supply base via ferry. Wang Qing came forward immediately with a group of subordinates.

"Welcome, welcome. Thank you for your hard work for coming all the way."

Facing Wang Qing's welcome, the deputy commander of the Earth Guard fleet stood at attention and saluted: "The Earth Guard fleet has a total of 150 guard ships and 15,000 guards, reporting to you!"

"good!"

Wang Qing's face was full of joy.

The guard fleet from Earth is the last one to arrive. The rest, fleets from the four gaseous planets, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, have all arrived in advance.

At this moment, the total number of guard ships gathered around Juno has reached 2,000, 18 comprehensive supply ships, and the total number of guard soldiers is about 190,000.

Compared with the previous combat strength of only 400 guard ships in the asteroid belt, at this moment, this number has increased five times!

Welcoming the deputy commander of the Earth Guard Fleet into the conference room, Wang Qing came to the rostrum under the gaze of all the guard officers.

"Everyone knows that rebel activities are rampant here in the asteroid belt, which has caused huge obstacles to the Pluto development strategy. Governor Malentin and Captain Wolf have repeatedly given instructions to eradicate this cancer and restore the asteroid belt. A bright and sunny day.

In the past, relying solely on our asteroid belt security agency was not enough. Now, with your help, we are much more confident. Here, on behalf of the asteroid belt government and the National Security Agency, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you all! "

There was warm applause from the audience. The commanders all said that now that our army has gathered, the so-called rebels are nothing more than chickens and dogs, and they can be defeated overnight.

"Okay. I'm very happy to see that everyone is so confident. I also believe that this operation will live up to the trust of Governor Malentin and Captain Wolfe, and will definitely achieve complete results! Next, I Let’s explain the specific strategic and tactical arrangements.”

In the conference room, Wang Qing looked at the projection and began to explain the troop deployment and action plan in detail.

"This operation mainly adopts a steady and steady strategy. In view of the elusive and extremely cunning characteristics of the rebels, we must resolutely avoid fighting with the rebels and focus on searching for the rebel base areas.

This operation plans to launch more than 1 million detectors, and our forces will also be divided into four squadrons to carry out drag-net inspections in four airspaces in order to thoroughly screen the asteroid belt and leave no trace behind. If the fish slips through the net, we must uproot the rebels! "

Wang Qing's strategic arrangements are smooth and stable. Although there are no bright spots, there are no omissions.

This is also a plan approved by Wolfe.

Because our side has the strength advantage, we can reap the results as long as we fight steadily, and there is no need to pursue any surprise victory.

This steady and pragmatic arrangement was unanimously approved by all participants.

Except for a few details.

During the discussion, a guard officer said: "My question is, is our encirclement and suppression net too sparse? In this case, it is easy for fish to slip through the net, right?"

Wang Qingxin said: "It doesn't matter. Due to the strict blockade of key materials in the past period, most of the rebel warships in the asteroid belt use energy batteries and speed-class ion thrusters. The combat radius is short, The combat time is also very short, and you have to return to the base to recharge every once in a while.

Not only that, the power of the rebel warships is also very weak. Even with such a sparse encirclement and suppression net, they had no time to escape. With the performance of our guard ships, we can easily catch up. "

The officer nodded: "I see. That is indeed feasible."

Another guard officer said: "I have no objection to this arrangement. It's just... is the defense here on Ceres a little empty?

Ceres is the most important planet in the asteroid belt. About 70% of rare minerals and resources are transferred on this planet, including rare earth minerals, molybdenum mines, gold mines, copper mines, gallium, germanium, niobium, etc. There is a lot of output and it plays an important role.

On the planet, there are more than 100 important targets rated A or above in various mineral smelting plants, foundries, processing plants, etc.

Only 10 guard ships were left for defense, which seemed too weak. "

Facing the officer's question, Wang Qing smiled confidently: "First of all, the rebels never conflict with us head-on. Secondly, the performance of the rebel warships is extremely backward. If there is a head-on conflict, a hundred ships combined will not be ours." According to statistics, the total number of rebel warships is only about 800, and our 10 guard ships are completely sufficient.

Third, there are a large number of land air defense facilities on Ceres. There are many land-based electromagnetic guns and land-based air defense radars. Even without guard ships, they are completely enough to ensure the safety of Ceres.

Taken together, even if the worst happens, Ceres will not be threatened. "

Hearing Wang Qing's explanation, the officer immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it. This is indeed foolproof, I have no doubts."

"Okay! In that case, I order each fleet to maneuver to the corresponding coordinates according to the order, and be sure to complete the layout of this defense area within three months. After that, according to the unified order, encirclement and suppression will be launched at the same time!"

"yes!"

After arranging the follow-up actions, Wang Qing was high-spirited and energetic.

Look at the time, it’s time for the Illuminati online discussion again. Wang Qing couldn't wait to log into the virtual conference room.

He couldn't wait to share what happened in the asteroid belt with his comrades.

While waiting for his comrades to land, Wang Qing even thought silently: Han Yang and Wei Liang must have known that a unified operation was about to begin in the asteroid belt. The annihilation of the rebels was just around the corner. A major obstacle to the Pluto development strategy was about to be eliminated. Eradicated, they will definitely be happy...

After landing in the conference room, looking at the excited Wang Qing, Wei Liang couldn't help but ask first, "What are you so happy about?"

"Good thing!"

Wang Qing was in high spirits and gave a rough outline of the plans to gather the asteroid belt troops and launch an encirclement and suppression campaign.

Of course, this is just a rough talk, without any details or things that need to be kept confidential.

Sure enough, after Wang Qing finished speaking, he saw looks of joy on the faces of Han Yang and Wei Liang at the same time.

"Are we finally going to solve the problem of the rebels in the asteroid belt? Great."

Han Yang's face was full of excitement.

"Very good."

Wei Liang said sincerely: "Now, the asteroid belt can finally stabilize."

After discussing some of the latest trends, policies, etc., the discussion ended with a slight sneer on Han Yang's face.

At this moment, Han Yang's latest shipboard fusion reactors and ion thrusters have been "distributed" to the asteroid belt.

"With Wang Qing's character, the encirclement and suppression strategy he formulated is indeed a steady and steady advance... In this case, my arrangement will work."

Han Yang's heart moved, and immediately, several messages came to the leaders of the various resistance armies.

"Commander! Old A has a message!"

"Huh? Come and show it to me!"

Chu Feng pushed away the notebook in front of him, stood up and walked towards the communication room.

Opening the message, he looked at it carefully. After a long time, he took a long breath.

"Sure enough, the Eta people's big move is coming, and Old A has also taken action... Notify the rest of the resistance brothers to hold a meeting!"

Today's Chu Feng is at least very prestigious among the resistance forces in the asteroid belt. All the rebel armies followed Chu Feng's lead. Han Yang's information also changed from directly communicating with every resistance army in the past to only communicating with Chu Feng.

At this moment, he gave an order, and the leaders of various resistance organizations immediately logged into the virtual conference room as quickly as possible.

In the virtual conference room, more than a dozen leaders could not hide their excitement.

Commander Chu has not held a plenary meeting for a long time. At this moment, another plenary meeting is held. Is there going to be any big move?

During the recent period, civilian ships cannot be attacked, and official ships cannot be attacked. Brothers have been struggling to support us. Is this situation finally going to improve?

Chu Feng smiled slightly.

"Let me tell you some bad news first. Old A sent intelligence, saying that the Earth Guard has mobilized a large number of guard ships from all the planets in the solar system to the asteroid belt, preparing to launch a comprehensive clearing of us. The operation is expected to be between 2 and 4 It will begin within a month. By then, the number of guard ships participating in the encirclement and suppression operation may be as high as 2,000."

As soon as the news was announced, the expressions of all the resistance leaders immediately became stiff.

2,000 guard ships, what a concept! You must know that the current total strength of our own resistance forces is less than 1,000 warships, and their performance and combat power are so different from those of guard ships that even 100 ships cannot defeat one of them.

The previous 400 guard ships were enough to make things difficult for our side. Now, there are 2,000?

Why fight? Just go home and commit suicide.

"But...Old A also provided the latest batch of support."

Chu Feng changed the topic and the solemn atmosphere in the virtual conference room finally relaxed a little: "500 sets of shipboard high-power nuclear fusion reactors and high-power high-speed ion thrusters!"

"What?!"

At this moment, all the resistance leaders were shocked at the same time.

At this stage, what are the real factors restricting our own combat power? Obviously, one is energy and the other is power.

Without energy and power, one's own warships can only use energy batteries to provide power and rely on speed-class ion thrusters to provide power.

Not only does it have low thrust and low reliability, it cannot fly for long and has to return to the base to recharge. Over the years, our own soldiers have continued to fight in such tattered spaceships.

As long as these two most important problems can be solved, Chu Feng can guarantee that the combat effectiveness of the resistance army will immediately increase by more than ten times!

With this batch of supplies and stronger mobility and combat effectiveness, we will have real hope if we can survive this encirclement and suppression.

"Old...Old A's technology and production capacity have finally made a breakthrough? Can they finally build these two pieces of equipment?"

"Commander Chu, where are the supplies?"

"I just received the message from Old A and came to inform everyone of the meeting. I haven't gotten the supplies back yet."

Chu Feng said: "But calling everyone to this meeting today is not just for this one thing.

Old A's message also stated that he had received reliable information that the ETA fleet would not participate in this encirclement and suppression. At the same time, the guard ship's encirclement and suppression operations will adopt a "steady and steady attack and comprehensive search" plan. "

The faces of the rebel leaders showed deep thoughts.

"To be honest, with this batch of material aid, we can catch the guard fleet off guard and survive this siege. I think everyone is still somewhat confident. But... is that all?"

Facing the leaders who were confined to thinking, Chu Feng emphasized: "This is our chance!

During the siege, the guard fleet will be self-confident about its strong combat power, and will inevitably spread the siege network very wide, and the troops will be very dispersed, which will cause local troop shortages.

Although the guard fleet is unprecedentedly powerful, it also exposes its flaws.

Because they can't know that our combat power has suddenly increased so much with the support of Lao A.

This is our opportunity! It is our opportunity to do something big!

Brothers, for many years, we have been hiding from place to place and have been suppressed by the guard fleet. I don't know how you can... , anyway, I have been holding my breath in my heart!

A few years ago, the brothers of Mercury assassinated Rotrit, which greatly inspired the spirit of our human civilization, and their names are still being spread to this day.

Now, Lao A's aid focuses on our asteroid belt. After so many years of aid, we are still unknown and unknown. The brothers of other planets may not say it, but they are probably laughing at us in their hearts.

Now is the perfect opportunity for us to do something big and let the brothers of other planets remember us! "

Chu Feng tried his best to encourage, and when the leaders of the rebels were already interested, he threw out the most important news: "And... Lao A said that his base is currently unable to build more equipment and spacecraft due to the lack of certain key resources and limited production capacity. Now, Lao A needs our help!"