At the beginning of February 2204, the main lunar base of the Chinese Celestial Army.

Just after the Spring Festival, there is no trace of the joy of a few days ago in the base, an unusual ceremony is being held at the base, the protagonist of the ceremony is fourteen super-large warships hovering over the base, about to set sail. Inside the battleship, tens of thousands of officers and men of the heavenly army were waiting for the moment when the order was issued.

After that meeting, which was related to the future development of various countries, the three major space-faring countries immediately began intensive preparatory work, and handed over their respective warship drawings to Pioneer IV as soon as possible.

In order to adapt to the upcoming changes, China, the United States, and Russia invariably carried out a drastic reorganization of their existing forces while waiting for warships.

The reorganization of the existing units by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense is mainly reflected in the ratio of the services and arms, with the proportion of the army being further reduced, a large number of army soldiers being dismantled, and the entire regiment and division being assigned to the armed police force responsible for public order.

The scale of the navy has expanded slightly, but after thoroughly understanding some of the alien technology, the technical content of the navy has been further improved, the personnel has not increased but decreased, and the combat effectiveness has increased by several grades.

The Air Force eliminated a batch of F-440s and replaced them with new F-447s, a new fighter that uses some alien techniques, and cut a large number of personnel like the Navy.

The personnel of the Navy are all outstanding officers and men of the Navy and Air Force, and they have not left the army, but have turned into a military force to continue their service.

At the same time, all the units that had been expanded during the war were laid down, and the outstanding officers and men among them could be transferred to other units on the premise of volunteering.

The last and most important event is the large-scale expansion of the Celestial Army, and the target of this expansion includes not only ordinary young people, but also all the commanders and fighters of the army, navy, and air force!

All officers and men who are interested in the aerospace industry can sign up, and those who pass the test will be directly transferred to the space army and will be given preferential treatment.

However, whether it is a young person in society who joins the Heavenly Army, or an outstanding officer and soldier, they will receive a questionnaire that has never been done before, the questionnaire involves various aspects such as family and career ideals, which seems to be aimless, but in fact, one of the very inconspicuous questions is "whether you are willing to join the expeditionary fleet far away from the solar system" is the main purpose of this questionnaire.

And other issues are more or less related to this article, such as how to deal with family conflicts before and after the distance, the idea of not being able to return to the solar system for a long time (more than ten years and no ceiling), and so on.

The purpose of the military is to select from among the recruits who are truly interested in conquering the galaxy, and reserve talents for the upcoming expedition.

Those poor children who were about to enter the Heavenly Army could not have imagined that the officers and soldiers of the Heavenly Army on active duty also received questionnaires with similar contents one by one.

After Ye Fei received the questionnaire, he did not hesitate to write an affirmative answer after the question of whether to join the expeditionary fleet.

The bright starry sky has been his dream since he was a child, before the emergence of mechanical civilization, leaving the solar system only existed in the description of science fiction, and now because of the emergence of mechanical civilization, it has become within reach, how can he give up the hard-won opportunity?

More than half of the hundreds of thousands of officers and men of the Heavenly Army, from top to bottom, answered yes on this question -- the environment of the Heavenly Army is relatively monotonous, but the longing and yearning for the universe of the officers and men of the Heavenly Army are incomparable to any profession.

It's just that when it comes to family, the Chinese tradition of valuing family leaves everyone in a dilemma, unable to find a middle point between family and dreams.

If the worries of the officers and soldiers cannot be solved, even if they get warships built by mechanical civilization, the members of the expeditionary fleet will lose their morale and eventually lose their motivation to fight because they are far from their hometowns.

To put it another way, it is not a big problem to stay away from the solar system, and it is only when people who are far away from relatives for a long time are the most troublesome problems for officers and men.

For this, the military has tried to find a way up and down, but if the symptoms are not cured and the spear is not fundamentally solved, sooner or later there will still be problems.

Two months later, the Chinese problem was still not resolved, and the warships that Russia needed were unexpectedly delivered first.

I don't know if Lu Dao has little confidence in the traditional Russian warships, but according to the appearance of the Russian warships, it is easy to distinguish the giant whale bloodline of these warships.

Obviously, what the Russians handed over to the Pioneer 4 was only the blueprint of the improved Giant Whale-class battleship, but it was nearly half larger than the ordinary Giant Whale class, and the length of the ship reached a record 4,800 meters, which is more than any capital ship in active service.

For a time, the Russian Celestial Army led by Frossilov was full of ambition, and according to the military agreement reached between human beings and mechanical civilization, the Russian Expeditionary Regiment, with a total number of more than 100 warships, immediately left for Wolf 359 in the direction of Leo.

According to the information provided by the mechanical civilization, the only planet of this flash star is a perihelion orbiting dwarf planet, and every once in a while, this unlucky planet will be baptized with a "sunbathing", the surface temperature is as high as thousands of degrees, and there is absolutely no condition for the existence of life - the flash star refers to the star that erupts from time to time with large flares, and it looks like a light bulb with a sudden increase in voltage. (A flare is a violent solar activity, please visit Baidu for details.) ）

On Earth, I just feel that the brightness of Wolf 359 always changes irregularly, but when I am in it, I have to worry about the next flare that I don't know when it will appear.

According to human habitual thinking, such a crazy star is absolutely useless to the skeleton man, and must be skipped without looking at it, but this is not the case.

The intelligence of the mechanical civilization mentions some exoskeleton habits that humans have never known about.

Although the biospacecraft can carry out interstellar voyages, the biospacecraft has been in a state of attrition during the voyage, and once all the water stored in the biospacecraft is exhausted, the biospacecraft will also "die of thirst".

Therefore, when approaching the star, the instinct of the creature will drive the creature spacecraft to fly to the edge of the star system to find small bodies with sufficient water to replenish the water lost during the voyage.

Not even the Exoskeleton who controls the bioship will be able to change this habit.

No matter how barren the star is, there will really be nothing. There are a large number of small celestial bodies in the far sky of Wolff 359, and the exoskeleton colony will definitely stay there for some time.

As for whether the Russian army can get there before the outer skeleton leaves Wolf 359, it depends on how the mechanical civilization coordinates.

The history of mankind's first flight out of the solar system can only be written by the Russians, and China and the United States are red-eyed and do not understand why the Russian warships were delivered in the first place, but at this point, they can only knock out their teeth and swallow blood, patiently wait for their own warships, and invariably cold the news of the Russian expeditionary fleet.