Looking at Cheng Xuanjia who was slumped in a wheelchair, Zhao Changxing bent down with a solemn expression and looked straight into his eyes.
"But what we have is still not enough."
"The army is a primitive one, and everything is waiting to be done. At this stage, we still don't know how to conduct a real interstellar battle. We are trying our best to explore, but the progress is slow."
"Our civilization and our fleet need a figure who can build things from the top and point out directional principles. The current first member of the War Commission, Marshal Li Dajiang, frankly speaking, I think his level is not as good as yours."
Li Dajiang listened calmly, his expression not changing at all.
"If you die, the construction of our civilized army may be delayed for decades. Now that Moyun Litar civilization may arrive at any time... If you just leave like this, will you feel at ease?"
A fierce light burst out from Cheng Xuanjia's eyes, which did not look like it could be emitted by a dying old man.
"Don't forget that this army was finally established with the support of resources from the Jupiter system. It can be said that you personally forged this army. Obviously, this army is still in its infancy at this moment.
Then, don’t you want to raise it with your own hands?”
Cheng Xuanjia made a ho-ho-ho sound in his throat. His chest rose and fell rapidly.
Zhao Changxing patted Cheng Xuanjia's shoulder gently and whispered: "Receive treatment well, and then live on."
Zhao Changxing didn't know whether his words could arouse Cheng Xuanjia's will to survive, and if so, to what extent, and whether a strong will to survive could really create a miracle - although this kind of thing was not mentioned in historical data.
It is common in records.
At this point, the only thing he can do is hope that a miracle really exists.
Maybe the medical conditions here on Sedna are better than those in the Jupiter system and the Voyager spacecraft. Maybe people's sincere hope has moved some gods. Maybe the will to survive can really create miracles. In short, Cheng Xuanjia's
My body actually started to improve.
He regained his clear thinking, the ability to breathe on his own, eat on his own, and then regained the ability to move his upper body.
At this moment, except that he still has no feeling in his legs and can only move around with the help of a wheelchair, at least in appearance, he is no different from an ordinary old man.
Zhao Changxing also announced his new appointment.
His original duties as War Commissioner have been removed and replaced by the positions of Honorary President of the War Commission and Chief Advisor of the War Commission.
Having regained consciousness, he began to observe and think on his own.
He has personally participated in exercises and training with the soldiers countless times, understanding in detail every tactic formulated by the commander, and observing the entire war system including combat spaceships, aerospace carriers, military factories, staff headquarters, etc. But he has never
Just watching, never commenting on it.
He looked at it like this for several years and thought about it for several years.
After that, he slowly wrote down his thoughts over the years.
"What is the soul of an army? What is the source of the army's combat effectiveness? What supports them to risk their lives to fight?
Throughout history, it is obvious that only the army whose driving force is to "defend hometown, defend civilization, and protect parents, wives and children" will have the most powerful combat effectiveness. Such an army can often accomplish many incredible miracles.
It is just such an army that our civilization needs.
Marshal Li Dajiang has many unique and comprehensive thoughts on overall strategy and tactics. In this regard, I dare not say that he is better than him. But I found that Marshal Li Dajiang seems to have ignored the relevant matters of 'mission', 'responsibility', etc.
Education in spiritual power. I recommend strengthening this aspect."
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During the meeting held by the War Committee, the members unanimously agreed to Cheng Xuanjia's proposal. As a result, the soldiers' training subjects were added to the conventional physical fitness, discipline, skills, tactics, etc.
Time is passing rapidly, human civilization is growing, and the human fleet is also growing.
In the past few decades, the combat spaceship has undergone more than twenty major iterations. Its performance has not improved much compared to when the fleet was first established. After all, basic science has not improved much during this period.
There was no big breakthrough.
However, the performance has not improved much, and the overall architecture, design ideas, etc. have undergone earth-shaking changes. Just like, using the same technology and using the same resources, some people can draw beautiful mountains and rivers, while others can only doodle a chicken.
Come.
The engines are still those engines, and the armor is still the same armor, but today's spaceships are completely different from those in the past. Today's spaceships are not only easier to operate, less prone to errors, but their combat efficiency has also been greatly improved. Even the environment inside the ship has been greatly improved.
It has been greatly improved and is more suitable for soldiers to fight for a long time.
Up to now, the human fleet has a total of 100,000 soldiers including commanders, soldiers, logistics, civilians, scientific research, military and other positions. A new combat spacecraft that requires 10-12 front-line soldiers to operate has been built.
500 ships have been built. Three large space carriers have been built.
With the support of large-scale resources from the Jupiter system, human civilization is also developing rapidly.
At this moment, the total population of human civilization has exceeded 6 million people.
Time passed slowly, and after a long time, the full-band space telescope array, which was deployed near the Sedna star and always aimed in the direction of the star Lalande 21185, reported a message to Zhao Changxing.
Ever since we learned that the Moyun Litar civilization that destroyed the main body of deep space civilization was in the Lalande 21185 galaxy, human civilization has never relaxed its monitoring of that direction.
Every breakthrough in space observation technology must be applied here first. Although almost everyone knows that even if the arrival of Moyun Litar civilization is warned in advance, the situation will not change in any way.
Because not only can human civilization not be able to fight, it can't even run away. Moreover, this situation will remain so for a long period of time.
At this moment, human civilization has been developing steadily for more than 400 years. But even if human civilization is given another 1,000 years, it is still impossible to have the ability to defeat the Moyun Litar civilization, or to have the ability to conduct interstellar navigation.
But Zhao Changxing still stubbornly did this. He always believed that even if he died, he had to die clearly, and he could not die like this in a daze.
When he first received this message, Zhao Changxing was shocked. He subconsciously thought that the space telescope array had discovered traces of the Moyun Litar civilization fleet. But after looking at it, he found that it was not the case.
The space telescope array discovered a slightly strange small reflection nebula in the direction of the star Lalande 21185, about 0.95 light-years away from the star Sedna.
Interstellar dust clouds are not uncommon in the universe. They can be large or small. The large ones can stretch for hundreds of light-years, and many new stars are born inside them. The small ones may only cover a small area.
Calculated in kilometers, it is not noticeable at all.
Just like the small reflection nebula discovered at this moment, its size according to observations is only about 20*16*700 million kilometers. In the universe, it is completely small.
But what is very strange is that people have not found any radiators around this small nebula that can be reflected by it.
No neutron stars, no stars, no black holes.
Nothing at all.
People have been able to determine that it is not an emission nebula that can emit light on its own. Before, people have never searched for it in this area, which can also prove this.
So, this means that there must be some existence, or some physical process that people have not yet understood, that occurred near this small nebula, causing the originally dark interstellar dust clouds to reflect light.
This should be the scope of research by astronomers and physicists. It was only because Zhao Changxing had previously issued an order that "any anomalies in the direction of the star Lalande 21185 must be reported," so this matter was reported to him.
"Continue observing."
Zhao Changxing made suggestions on how to deal with it.
But after hearing the news, Zhuang Yunwei, the chief scientist of the Academy of Military Sciences of Human Civilization, reported a guess to Zhao Changxing with concern.
"Leader, what lights up this previously dim nebula may be the spacecraft's thruster. If, if it uses an ion thruster."
Zhao Changxing's brows immediately frowned.
"We have already done calculations. If the jet power of the ion thruster is large enough and the jet area is wide enough, we can achieve the effect of lighting up a nebula."
"Why didn't we observe the tail flame?"
Zhao Changxing raised questions.
Obviously, the charged plasma ejected by the ion thruster has extremely high temperature and brightness. If a tail flame can light up a nebula, then there is no reason why humans cannot observe it.
"It's possible that its jet direction is not aimed at us." Zhuang Yunwei said in a low voice: "Even we now have certain high-directional technology, which only condenses the jet direction into a very small range, instead of
Spread over a large area.”
This explanation makes perfect sense and is completely reasonable. But similarly, a reasonable explanation is not necessarily correct.
Zhao Changxing's eyes became deep and distant: "Can you find any further evidence?"
Zhuang Yunwei's expression became increasingly serious: "If our guess is correct, then I can predict that this nebula will soon become dim again. Because... that fleet will soon pass through it."
Just as Zhuang Yunwei predicted, it went out after only three days. It was like it had never lit up before.