1148 Reconquest of Southern Europe
The assault fleet immediately opened up at full speed and pursued the fleeing alien fleet.
The soldiers who received the order screamed and prepared to beat the water dogs.
Because the strength of the alien fleet exceeds that of the assault fleet, during this period of time, the northern capital strictly ordered Gao Kai not to engage with the enemy, and the fleet was very aggrieved from top to bottom, now it's okay, a sneak attack like a joke, blowing up more than forty enemy ships, and less than ten left, how can you let go of such a good opportunity?
However, not all the battleships participated in the pursuit, Gao Kai only took the capital ships, and all the assault ships remained, responsible for cleaning up the nuclear bombs that missed the target.
According to satellite monitoring data, less than a third of the nuclear bombs hit enemy ships, and the remaining nuclear bombs still orbit the earth according to their original orbit.
Ordinary space junk left in orbit is a great safety hazard, let alone a powerful nuclear bomb?
If you don't get rid of the nuclear bomb in a hurry, you may not be able to hit something when you turn around.
Cleaning up the nuclear bomb is not so simple, the strike fleet is in a retrograde trajectory, and it is not so easy to switch from a retrograde trajectory to a retrograde one, it is not a matter of changing directions, but it is necessary to slow down and accelerate again.
Even if it is a nuclear engine, it is not so easy to complete such an adjustment, and once the relative speed of the battleship is lower than the first cosmic velocity, it will be pulled by the gravitational pull of the earth, and if the speed cannot be raised in time, the battleship may even be pulled into the atmosphere by the gravitational force of the earth.
Gao Kai is not a novice, he has long considered this aspect of the problem, so he did not bring the assault ship at all, but has been staying on the forward track and standby.
After receiving the order, the assault ship immediately changed its orbit to a low orbit and at the same time released the engineering boat on board.
These engineering boats are actually modifications of the Swifts, and they follow the edge of the nuclear bomb's orbit, and after matching the speed of the nuclear bomb, they get close to the nuclear bomb, grab the nuclear bomb with a mechanical arm, and collect them into the cargo hold.
This is probably the first time in human history that a nuclear bomb fired during a battle was recovered, setting a precedent for nuclear bomb recovery.
It is not only nuclear bombs that are left in orbit, but also a large number of alien warship wreckage.
The alien warship was torn apart by a nuclear bomb, and countless large and small debris floated in outer space, and the slow ones were gradually captured by the earth's gravity, and sooner or later, they would fall into the atmosphere one day.
The fast ones are still running along the retrograde orbit, and those large pieces of wreckage are easy to do, and they can be cleaned up anyway, but the trouble is those scattered debris, not to mention the large number, and the distribution range is also wide, and as time goes by, the distribution range of these debris will become wider and wider, directly threatening all the anterograde satellites in orbit.
Therefore, it is necessary to solve the debris before it spreads out over a large area, otherwise there will be endless troubles.
The fleet was also prepared for this issue, first launching a special batch of missiles into the wreckage orbit.
This thing warhead is filled with a special solution, and when the warhead is opened, this solution immediately expands thousands of times, and in the blink of an eye, the volume expands thousands of times, turning into a "cloud" suspended in orbit.
This thing is a special aerogel, and some people call it solid smoke, and its earliest use was to collect comet fragments.
Comet fragments are smaller than grains of sand, but six times faster than bullets, and aerogel was invented to capture these tiny pieces, which is like a baseball glove that can catch all kinds of debris flying at high speeds, and is the most suitable material for cleaning up space junk.
Small fragments can be aerogel, but large pieces of alien battleship wreckage will not.
In order to clean up the wreckage of the enemy ship, Beiyuezhou has prepared a number of unmanned engineering boats, which are also modifications of the Swift and equipped with high-power thrusters, and the task is to find large pieces of wreckage, attach to the wreckage, and push them away from the earth.
In order to prevent the resurgence of the aliens in the wreckage, the military decided to throw the wreckage directly into Venus...... There is no special reason to choose Venus, it is because the position of Venus is appropriate.
There is also a view that aliens are far more adaptable to the environment than humans think, and even if aliens are thrown into Venus, they can develop special creatures that adapt to the environment of Venus, and even rely on Venus to start over and eventually make a comeback.
However, this view has been refuted by most people, where is Venus? It is a barren land full of acid rain, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a forbidden area for organic matter.
The aliens are tough, but look at their chosen targets, Europa, Europa, Callisto, all of them are celestial bodies with water.
To put it mildly, Mars is more suitable for colonization than Jupiter's satellites no matter how you look at it, but aliens don't have the idea of colonizing Mars at all, why? Isn't it because Mars is dry and dehydrated?
So the possibility of aliens surviving on Venus is infinitely close to zero.
Aliens are always eyeing the earth, isn't it for the water on the earth?
No one wanted aliens to land on Earth, and countries did their best, but in the end they still couldn't stop the aliens.
Now that the last alien fleet has been routed by the Strike Fleet, humanity's next task is to rid the landing aliens as much as possible......
It is a personal knowledge that aliens are hiding underground, and it is a long and arduous process to eliminate aliens.
And now the question is not how humans can get rid of the aliens, but that the aliens are driving the swarm to attack the humans!
However, this problem has become less of a problem after the alien fleet has been expelled.
Later in the day, the assault fleet pursuing the alien fleet split in two, and the destroyers with high endurance and strong combat effectiveness continued the pursuit, and all the frigates returned home.
The first task of the frigate after returning home was not to clean up space junk, but to cut into a low-altitude orbit, levitate over Europe, and launch a large-scale air attack on the insect swarm occupying southern Europe, and any bug exposed to the ground, even one, would be devastating from outer space.
In just half an hour, half a giant worm could no longer be seen in the whole of Europe, and even the ordinary giant worms that were not under the control of the aliens were purged by the fleet.
Of course, only a handful of bugs were wiped out by the fleet, and most of them fled back underground after the air raids began.
The people stranded in the occupied area were originally precarious, but when they woke up, all the bugs disappeared.
"It's like a dream, I can't even believe my eyes!" So says one of the survivors.
When the news broke, the whole world boiled, and overnight, most of the haze over Europe disappeared, the alien landing was no longer an inseparable shadow, and many people who fled the occupied areas could not wait to pack up and prepare to return home.
Governments have tried to dissuade them, suggesting that the swarm is still hiding underground, and that there is still a risk of returning to the occupied areas.