A large number of gravity waves suddenly formed, and then more than ten warships arrived here, including three destroyers alone, ten frigates, and three supply ships.
"Captain, received a communication from the Wuluo."
"Received on the home screen."
"Yes, Captain!"
The next moment, Luo Hao, as the commander-in-chief of the support fleet, appeared on the main screen of the bridge.
"Xingchen, how is the situation at the seventh node now?"
"According to the monitoring device left behind before we left, the current number of war bugs in the seventh node is 49,862, and they are in a wandering state. There is no sign of returning to the bug mound."
"Okay, after the fleet jump engine is fully charged, we will set off to clean up those bugs, but before that, you need to replenish the ammunition."
"clear!"
After the call ended, Jiang Xingchen wasted no time and immediately asked Chen Xiaoguang to move the battleship over. After completing the docking with the supply ship, he began the supply of ammunition.
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After one hour.
Qingluan has returned to the seventh node again.
However, this time it was not a single ship, but a total of fourteen battleships, including three destroyers.
With the monitoring device left behind by the Qingluan, the fleet easily jumped to the best attack location, and opened fire as soon as it arrived.
The firepower network jointly deployed by fourteen warships is simply not something that 50,000 warworms who have lost their mothers and are now slow to move can break through.
In just half an hour, they were completely wiped out.
However, it will not be so easy to find the invasion point of the insect mound next.
Although the seventh node is only a few thousand kilometers wide, its length is nearly one-tenth of a light-year. If you want to find an invasion point in such a large range...
It's really not a simple matter.
Even if there is no harvest after several years, it is quite normal.
But we have to look for it, otherwise this only passage connecting the inside and outside of the Death Nebula will no longer be safe.
Finally, after discussions with the top management of the fleet command, it was decided to maintain a certain force presence in the seventh node for a long time until the invasion point was found and the safety of the passage was ensured.
In terms of scale, the initial decision is one destroyer and four frigates, which will be rotated every three months.
After the arrangements were made, the remaining warships began to return.
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Seven days later.
The scientific research institute produced a preliminary report.
According to the analysis of the fragments of the insect mound brought back by the Qingluan, an unknown special substance was detected in it that has not even been recorded in the Star Sea Federation's fire database.
Afterwards, after conducting countless tests, it was discovered that this substance has strong energy absorption properties and can absorb a large amount of energy and store it in it.
The most critical thing is that during the process of absorbing energy, the substance will release a special interference wave, which can not only interfere with communications, but even interfere with other devices such as radar.
This also explains why, at the seventh node, all other communications except laser communications are unavailable, and when the insect mound disappears, it cannot be detected by radar.
However, it is not yet clear how the insect mound becomes visually invisible.
Although, even if you know how the wormhole interferes with communications and radar equipment, it is not that easy to come up with countermeasures.
At least it's impossible to say that it can be done in a few days and half a month.
But that doesn't matter for the time being. Although the countermeasure technology is not that fast, it can still be alleviated by using existing technology.
And this is about a report submitted by Jiang Xingchen a few days ago.
In this report, he put forward a bold hypothesis. Instead of thinking about how to counter this interference, we should change our thinking and think about how to make full use of this interference wave when it is impossible to counter it.
Can interference waves be used in reverse?
This was the first thought that came to many people's minds when they read this report.
But soon, after they looked at it for a few times, they were all shocked.
Jiang Xingchen proposed a plan that did not require any high technical content. It only required manufacturing the simplest and lowest-cost communication module.
So, what are these communication modules used for?
In fact, it is very simple. Just space them at a certain distance and spread them in large quantities in the seventh node of the nebula channel.
Just imagine, what will happen if that weird worm mound comes to the seventh node again after the deployment?
You know, although the worm mound may interfere with communications, the range is also limited.
Then, when he appears, those communication modules within his range of influence will undoubtedly be interfered with and all will fail.
Next, as the insect mound moves, some of the communication modules that were originally inactive will be restored because they are out of the interference range.
Similarly, some modules that were not originally interfered with will begin to fail as they enter the interference range.
Then, relying on the network formed by this communication module, you can not only confirm the general area where the insect mound is located, but also its movement trajectory.
If you want to go deeper, you can even locate the center of all failed modules through the network of this communication module. If nothing unexpected happens, that is the precise location of the worm grave.
You see, there is no need to research any new technology at all, and it does not even use any advanced technology. Even a small workshop can easily produce this thing.
But it happens that this kind of thing without any technical content directly and significantly alleviates the most important problem now.
This kind of thinking also amazed people who read this report.
What they are thinking about is how to develop targeted technologies to avoid the embarrassment of interference in their communications and radar and other equipment.
But Jiang Xingchen used a completely opposite idea to solve this problem.
Of course, the effect is definitely not as good as the specially developed countermeasure technology, but it is enough for emergency use.
The most important thing is that in this solution, there is no need to manufacture anything with high-tech technology. It is just a shell, plus a simple communication module. Even some people with strong hands-on skills can easily do it at home.
Made.
So, after discussions between Su He, Mu Zhengfeng and Lu Weiming, the decision was made directly.
make!
Made in large quantities!
Moreover, they also mobilized capable people in the Canglan system to build it together!
So, in just three days, hundreds of millions of this simple device had been manufactured, and several cargo ships had pulled it to the seventh node.
Of course, for the seventh node to fully deploy such a special anti-worm mound network, the number of 100 million communication modules is still not enough.
But this is not a problem. Even if it does not have a big impact on the existing production plan, Canglan Series can manufacture about 30 million sets of these simple devices every day.
According to calculations, if you want to deploy the seventh node in a state without dead spots, you should need about one billion.
So, at most one month...
This will complete the deployment of the entire seventh node.
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Just when all this was going on in an orderly manner.
The resistance's second batch of shipbuilding plans has also begun.
On the one hand, the production lines that had built so many battleships before could not sit idle. On the other hand, the incident at the seventh node of the Nebula Channel caused the rebels to lose a Qingluan-class frigate, but they also killed nearly 80,000 people.
Only fight insects.
This amount is greater than the gains from the previous battles combined.
This means that the rebels have obtained a large amount of resources used to build Wuluo-class destroyers and Descendant-class cruisers.
Finally, along with the Hailan star system, batch after batch of humans were sent to the Canglan system, and many of them had undergone military training.
After all, in the Milky Way, many civilizations will form slave armies. After buying the slaves, they will wear collars filled with explosives and let them drive battleships to fight.
Therefore, in addition to scientific research talents, the most valuable people in the slave trade are those who have received professional military training.
In other words, perhaps the resistance army still lacks senior commanders, but as people from the Hailan star system continue to be rescued back to the Canglan system, there is really no shortage of sources of soldiers at the grassroots level.
As for the lack of senior commanders, they can also be transferred from the deputy positions on active warships. For example, the first officer can be promoted to captain, right?
As for the issue of experience, let's cultivate it on the battlefield...
If there is still a gap, the old guys who have retired from the resistance can come out and fill in for a few more years.
Therefore, in the second round of shipbuilding plan, six Wuluo-class destroyers alone were ordered at one go, and twenty-four Qingluan-class frigates were directly arranged.
In addition to these two battleships, the cruiser USS Descendant, which is currently unfinished, has also been scheduled to start construction on a sister ship.
This is not only to deal with the starry sky Zerg, but also...
After this second round of shipbuilding plan is completed and all warships have become combat effective, Suhe is ready to launch a larger-scale and wider-scale human rescue operation.
Although the four major civilizations in the galaxy cannot be defeated by the rebels for the time being, the rebels can touch the planets controlled by their civilizations.
In short, Su He already has a huge plan in mind.
According to this plan, the population of the resistance will increase from more than 500 million within ten years...