Two days later, the transport ship carrying four thousand sailors was on time.
The space fleet does not have a dedicated troop carrier, and the Yue Fei requires a lot of personnel, so it can only temporarily install a hibernation cabin on a transport ship and convert it into a temporary troop carrier, responsible for transporting crew members to Beichenzhou.
After leaving the transport ship, everyone entered the hibernation cabin. The temperature outside the cabin gradually dropped, and the crew quickly entered a state of autonomous hibernation.
After everyone entered hibernation, Ye Han took several bridge officers to check all the hibernation cabins and made sure there were no problems before entering their respective hibernation cabins.
When Ye Han lay down 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 saw that the time on the wall had changed to August 26, 2037, which was one and a half days shy of one day.
Others also woke up at the same time and floated out of the hibernation cabin one by one.
Ye Han floated to the side of the cabin and turned on the monitor switch on the wall. The scene outside the ship immediately appeared on the screens in all directions. Behind the battleship was the endless starry sky, and in front was a planet the size of a full moon. It blocked half of the battleship and the sun.
The sun overflows from one side of Mercury, like a rising crescent moon.
The sunlight is so strong that it makes Mercury appear extremely dim. It is difficult to see what is on the back of Mercury. We can only barely make out the twilight circles dotted with craters.
The environment there is very similar to that of the moon, with large and small craters everywhere... Well, celestial bodies without an atmosphere all suffer from this problem, just like having smallpox.
Staring at Mercury's figure, Ye Han couldn't tell what his mood was. He felt both expectant and anxious.
His wife and children were there, and 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 Beichenzhou's wife and children.
As the transport ship flew closer and closer, Ye Han put on his power armor and began to check the conditions of the soldiers.
Nowadays, autonomous hibernation has been popularized in space fleets for a long time. The technology is very mature and everyone wakes up on their own within a specified time.
This shows that the physical fitness of the soldiers is all up to standard, which makes Ye Han very pleased.
At this time, the transport ship had flown near Mercury, and the star completely blocked the sun. Through the lens outside the transport ship, Ye Han found several open-pit mine deposits being mined on the back side of Mercury near the North Pole.
As we all know, the Earth is the densest planet in the solar system, and Mercury ranks second, after 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 material density is also much greater. If the influence of gravity is excluded, the material density of Mercury is 5.3 grams/cm, while the material density of the Earth is only 4.4 grams
/cm.
This means that Mercury contains richer mineral resources than the Earth, and the gravity here is lower, making the mineral deposits easier to mine.
If Mercury is a rich mine, then the moon is a poor mine at best. Why did Beidou rush to build Beichenzhou? Isn't it just because of the mineral resources here?
After these years of development, Mercury has become the most important resource base in Beidu. According to Ye Han's understanding, the steel and steel produced here account for 40% of humankind's total output. For every three warships built by the orbital factory, two of them are
The raw materials come from Beichenzhou.
Moreover, Beichenzhou also found a uranium mine with astonishing reserves on Mercury. The weapons-grade enriched uranium produced there accounts for 76% of human production!
Humanity's battleship fuel, nuclear warheads, and nuclear reactors are all inseparable from uranium 235. To put it more exaggeratedly, without the 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, but before they flew directly above the North Pole, ten landing craft left the ship at the same time and slowly fell towards the surface of Mercury.
Looking down from the sky, half of the north pole of Mercury is bathed in sunlight, while the other half is hidden in darkness. The craters in the sunlight cast long shadows. The closer to the north pole, the longer the shadows become.
No matter how you look at it, this place is a barren and barren land, but everyone knows that Beichenzhou is down there.
Ten landing craft lined up and fell towards the largest crater in the North Pole of Mercury. The engines on the boats started from time to time, and each time they would emit a stream of flames. However, each start was very short, and they did not continue to work until they were close to the ground to prepare for the fall.
The landing craft slowed down.
Inside the crater, the seemingly normal ground slowly opened up, revealing a huge bottomless hole. A line of landing craft silently entered the hole and fell vertically into the depths of the hole.
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 a row, the landing craft finally dropped into a large, fully enclosed hangar.
After all the landing craft came to a stop and the thrusters were turned off, the air extraction equipment in the hangar was 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 then the air was passed into the hangar.
The airlock slowly opened, and a group of people walked into the hangar.
Ye Han dragged his luggage and led a group of people out of the landing craft. He saw a group of generals approaching, each wearing a dazzling general star on their shoulders, which almost dazzled everyone.
On the other hand, looking at Ye Han, except for Lieutenant General Ye Han, all of them were below the colonel level. Even He Lu, the deputy captain, was only a colonel.
There is no way, the captain Ye Han still has a high rank but a low position. Under normal circumstances, the captain of a super battleship should be a rear admiral, and the deputy captain should be a senior colonel at most, which cannot be compared with the Beichenzhou base.
There was only one middle-aged man in the crowd carrying three general stars on his shoulders. Ye Han quickly saluted: "Director Zhe!"
Zhe Zhipeng extended his right hand in return and said with a smile: "Ye Han, right? I've heard of you a long time ago. You were the one who set the destruction record of our fleet. You've made our fleet look bad!"
Ye Han was pretending to be modest for a while: "Director, you have given me the award. My achievements have long been in the past."
Zhe Zhipeng waved his hand: "There is no merit. Your record is the result of hard work. Super gunboats and super battleships are battleships that are stronger than you, so they cannot be counted!"
Ye Han couldn't answer this at all, so he could only laugh along without making a sound.
Zhe Zhipeng didn't talk nonsense, pointed to a major general wearing glasses next to him and said: "This is our engineering supervisor, Chai Jin!"
Ye Han was a little dazed, thinking that this man had the same name as Chai Jin, but his face didn't show it at all. The two of them saluted each other and shook hands in a very friendly manner.
Zhe Zhipeng pointed to another major general officer: "This is our technical director, Nanbo."
