For a cruiser like the Short-lived Brilliant Burn, it only takes five and a half weeks to travel from Sun-Earth L2 to Jupiter.
People who are not familiar with aerospace will look at this flight time and say that you are wrong. It takes one week for this ship to travel from low-Earth orbit to Sun-Earth L2. Is it possible that the distance from Sun-Earth L2 to Jupiter is only five times that of the Earth to Sun-Earth L2?
Is it much?
However, this is actually wrong, because of a basic formula: the movement distance S is equal to 1/2at^2, and the flight time must be squared.
The faster the ship, the shorter the time it takes to get to one place, and the smaller the difference in time it takes to get to different places.
The two fast cargo ships escorted by the short-lived Brilliant Burn arrived in Ceres in just over two weeks.
When approaching the Space Force fortress in the 500-kilometer orbit of Ceres, Wang Ping'an and Angeli were in the common room wearing spacesuits, looking at Ceres in the distance with everyone.
"It's so small." Someone muttered.
Zhai Shanshan replied: "It's an asteroid. This one is the big brother in the asteroid belt."
When the Short-lived Brilliant Burning began its approach, a torch cruiser happened to be leaving the harbor, probably for patrol.
The cruiser leaving the harbor flashed a light signal: "Welcome to the place where black tulips bloom."
Angele asked doubtfully: "What does the place where black tulips bloom mean?"
Wang Ping'an shrugged: "How the hell do I know?"
"If you die here," Colonel Diao Youming suddenly appeared next to the two of them, "your belongings will be put into an iron box with a black tulip pattern and sent back to Earth."
This time everyone was silent.
The colonel continued: "Be happy! You will be tempered by blood and fire here. As long as you can go back alive, you will have a better understanding of life and life.
"This is a melting pot, and everyone will show their true nature here. Now you all seem to be good young people going to stir up trouble in distant places. In a year, this outer disguise will be removed.
"We will know who the real hero is then."
The young people looked at each other.
Diao Youming added: "After you dock in the port, you will be added to various detachments. As I said, there will be veterans to take you. You are all well-trained elites. The veterans neglected training because of the battle, and even
I may not be as good as you in some specific skills.
"However, I advise you to listen to the veterans. That's it. I will no longer lecture you individually. If you want to see me, you can only see me in a collective meeting of the entire brigade. I wish you good luck."
After speaking, Diao Youming took the initiative to salute the entire supplementary brigade.
Zhai Shanshan: "Everyone is here, stand at attention~ and salute!"
Wang Ping'an followed everyone's actions and saluted Diao Youming.
After docking, everyone in the replenishment team took off their spacesuits and returned them to the cruiser, then floated onto the pier in their training uniforms.
A row of officers was already floating on the dock.
A civilian officer held a tablet and shouted: "Hello, fellow comrades, I will read the units you belong to one by one. Here are the comrades from each unit who are here to take you back to the army. Most of them will be assigned to combat boats.
Troops, because combat boat troops suffered relatively high casualties.
"When I read the name, I floated out. Zhai Dengshan, Qin Tiezheng, Wang Jinjin, Xie Xian, you go to the first detachment! Follow this Captain Andre."
Zhai Dengden, his partner Qin Tiezheng, and two others floated out together, and then a blond captain made a "go" gesture to them, turned around and started to lead the way.
Zhai Dengshan looked back at Wang Ping'an and shrugged.
Wang Pingan gave him a thumbs up.
The civilian officer read again: "Wang Ping'an, Angérie de Leon, Prabas Coronel, Yoram Kini, Abdul Benigni, Onofre Portes,
Second detachment. Follow Captain Gong Chuanguo."
Wang Ping'an turned on the propeller on the suitcase and floated out, with Angeli following behind him.
Captain Gong Chuanguo came up to us and said jokingly: "You guys are forming an international column. Each name is longer than the last."
Wang Ping'an: "Fortunately, there are no Soviets here, so the name is really long."
"Hahahaha, when you get to our troops, you will see the Soviets." Gong Chuanguo said as he led Wang Ping'an and his party to the exit of the pier.
Wang Ping'an asked while operating the suitcase: "Is it really the International Brigade?"
"Yes, I am already one of the few Chinese people in the detachment. As soon as you come here, you will be ranked fifth among the eight great kings of our country."
Wang Ping'an: "The Eight Great Vajras? We are talking at noon, and no one has a home?"
"Oh, you are a knowledgeable person! So you are Brigadier Xu's man?"
Just as Wang Ping'an was about to get excited, Prabas coughed and interrupted the conversation: "Well, we don't understand what you are talking about at all."
Angeli: "This is a widely circulated model opera. It seems that the Chinese people know a little bit about it."
Gong Chuanguo laughed loudly: "It's not that popular. It's just that our space force often has to run long distances. When we are bored, we will watch old movies and dramas. Even the Torch Cruiser can easily go two or three weeks without anything happening.
But apart from training, I can only pass the time by myself."
Wang Ping'an: "Actually, this is quite interesting. The Space Force is the unit that understands traditional culture best, just because the voyage is too long and the journey is boring."
"That's right, a lot of retired space force members have gone to make movies or write novels," Gong Chuanguo said.
As they spoke, the group of people drifted out of the space port and entered the passage connected to the main body of the fortress. Because the people who come here are all well-trained space forces by default, the setting of the passage is very straightforward and not as complicated as the military-civilian hybrid space station.
the design of.
As soon as Wang Ping'an grabbed the railing, the simulated gravity generated by the rotation knocked him to the ground.
"I thought this kind of frontline space station wouldn't be able to rotate." Angeli also landed on the ground nimbly and muttered.
Gong Chuanguo: "It is true that the first-generation space station did not rotate a few decades ago, but now we should pay attention to the physical health of the Space Force commanders and fighters. The new space station has started to rotate. Come on, the partners of the detachment are waiting for you."
Wang Ping'an and Angeli are on the same side.
Next, Gong Chuanguo took them into the living area of the space station.
In fact, it is not accurate to say the living area. As a fortress of the Space Force, various factories are dispersed in the living area. This can ensure that the engineering troops can rush to the factory as quickly as possible in the event of an emergency, and at the same time, the invading enemy cannot control it all at once.
All factories.
The Space Force commanders and fighters in the dormitory can also organize a first resistance.
Angeli whispered to Wang Ping'an as she walked: "This looks different from all the space stations we have been to."
"Of course, this is a purely military space station, and all designs follow pragmatism."
"That's right," Gong Chuanguo turned around and said, "even these trees were added by the psychology department for the sake of mental health. They didn't exist originally."
Wang Ping'an suddenly asked: "This time we supplemented the brigade, we didn't see anyone from the psychology department. Could it be that the casualties in the psychology department weren't high?"
"How could it not be serious? Of course, the old scholar who stayed in the fortress did not suffer any casualties, but the instructors who went out with the troops suffered heavy casualties." Gong Chuanguo replied, "But they follow a different set of selection criteria. In a few days
It should be there soon."
"Will another fleet be coming in a few days?" Prabhas asked.
"Yes, the equipment losses have been a bit heavy recently, so cargo ships are flying here one by one."
As soon as he finished speaking, several lieutenants came towards him. They opened their mouths and shouted to Gong Chuanguo: "Chuan Guo, why are you leading this colorful group?"
"We are accepting new recruits. Our international column has added another Chinese! There are already five of the Eight Great Vajras!"
The lieutenants all laughed.
After meeting them, Wang Ping'an asked: "Your nickname is Sichuan Guo? How to write it?"
"Sichuan for Sichuan cuisine, Guoba for crispy rice. They call me that because of my place of origin. By the way, I'm telling you, I'm very good at cooking Sichuan cuisine. Sometimes I go to the cooking class to quietly show off my skills."
Angeli asked worriedly: "Is Sichuan food very spicy?"
Gong Chuanguo replied: "It's not ancient Sichuan cuisine, but modern Sichuan cuisine is really good. But don't worry, we mainly like spicy food... Oh, our dormitory area is in front."
Gong Chuanguo pointed to the large hatch in front.
Wang Ping'an saw the sign hanging next to the hatch from a distance: "Second Carrier Combat Craft Detachment."
"We are really assigned to the combat boat detachment."
"No, although the cruiser will also be damaged, the total death rate is not as high as ours. After all, pirates don't have big ships. But the cruiser is too obvious, and the pirates can spot it from a long distance, so they can only use combat boats to conduct a sneak attack~
" Gong Chuanguo said.
Abdul: “Can’t you paint the cruiser with matt paint and then approach it silently?”
Gong Chuanguo: "We have actually done something like this. We first took the torch route to accelerate for a certain distance, and then turned off the engine. The cruiser that lost power drew an arc under the influence of the sun's gravity and rushed towards the presumed location of the pirate base.
"That attack was very successful, but such an operation was very troublesome to organize and took a long time, because most of the time the cruiser was moving under the influence of the sun's gravity, solar wind and inertia. The speed was no more than when the engine was fully turned on, and the route was also longer.
long.
"And then..."
Gong Chuanguo paused and glanced at the new members: "Moreover, the pirates have spies around here, and the cruisers will be discovered when they set sail."
Wang Ping'an frowned: "Are the spies lurking inside us? What are the military police doing?"
"Please, there are a lot of miners on Ceres next door. It's not easy to catch spies hidden among hundreds of thousands of people. The military police and the security department of the mine next door have arrested several groups, but they still haven't caught them all.
"In short, after this kind of raid works once, it will be useless later. When the pirates know that your cruiser has set sail, they will secretly move it. Anyway, if you don't come directly by the torch string, the cruiser will float for a long time.
"So we have to rely on combat boats to raid pirate dens. Anyway, most pirate ships can be dealt with by combat boats. Kill the pirate ships and cover the landing of the marines at the enemy's base. This is our job. Welcome to join the second ship
Carrying a combat boat detachment.”
Gong Chuanguo, like a great butler, made a gesture of invitation.
"Our detachment leader should be waiting for you."
Wang Ping'an: "Where is the instructor?"
"Not here yet. The previous one died." Gong Chuanguo said lightly, but the expression on his face was sad.