Chapter 320: Expanding to Three Galaxies Simultaneously
Zhao Dongye and his party, who had nothing to gain, stayed in the Empire for a few days and soon hurriedly embarked on the journey back to the solar system. However, both the Empire and the Earth Federation highly praised the meeting between the top leaders of both sides during the press conference.
Claiming to have achieved unprecedented results, they signed cooperation agreements in many fields such as economy, culture, technology, and military, deepening their mutual feelings and exchanges.
The picture of Li Fu and Zhao Dongye shaking hands undoubtedly became the picture of Time magazine that year. The most powerful forces in human civilization united together to jointly create a glorious picture of the interstellar era.
In the outer space of the Empire Kyushu Star, there are huge space ports, and in these large space ports, there are huge space battleships. There is no doubt that these are all space ports used by the Empire military.
At this time, in the space port, huge space battleships were flying with pennants, and the national anthem of the empire sounded in the military ports. In the outer space, groups of space fighters were like void elves, flashing in neat rows in the void, like tired birds returning to the forest and landing in space battleships.
In the void farther away, the spaceships from the imperial capital star Yanhuang Star were still constantly transporting supplies and replenishing energy for these warships. The nearby Jiuzhou Star exuded the halo of life. From Jiuzhou Star, countless space fighters and spaceships flew rapidly.
There are two cities on Jiuzhou Star, as well as huge military camps. This time, the empire is preparing to expand outward, and all the soldiers are resting here on Jiuzhou Star. At this time, spaceships and others are constantly transporting these imperial soldiers to the space port, and the army is about to set off.
The space port is extremely busy. The empire has a population of over 100 million, but the number of troops it has is very small. The total number of imperial troops is only 200,000, which is very rare.
However, although the number of troops is small, the strength is very strong. The Empire now has two large space battleships, "Huangdi" and "Qin Shihuang", with a mass of 10 billion tons.
It has ten medium-sized space battleships with a mass of 1 billion tons, each of which is as large as the "Huashan" space battleship with the largest mass on the Earth Federation side, and all of them use anti-gravity power systems, with faster speed, stronger defense, more terrible attack power, and longer attack distance.
In addition to these large medium and large space battleships, the Empire also has more than 200 small space battleships, spaceships, and millions of space fighters. Because the number of fighters is more than the total population of the Empire's army, most of the space fighters are kept in the form of reserves, and when it is almost time, they will be sold to the Earth Federation for replacement.
The Empire's army can be said to be armed to the teeth. With only 200,000 troops, it actually has such a huge military force. The Empire has always spared no expense in terms of national defense investment.
Although there are only 200,000 troops, each of these 200,000 people is an elite among the young people in the empire. First of all, in terms of Yuanli cultivation, each of them has at least reached the Yuanli warrior stage, with very good physical fitness and can withstand pressure that ordinary people cannot bear.
At the same time, in terms of cultural level, each person is recruited from major universities in the empire, at least undergraduate college graduates, and this standard is still based on the teaching level of the empire. In the Earth Federation, each one is a doctoral graduate.
And after arriving in the army, they still have to undergo rigorous training, especially in terms of professional knowledge and ability. The army in the interstellar and cosmic era is where talents are really needed, because high-tech warships, weapons, equipment, etc., if you don’t have a certain foundation, you can’t control them at all, not to mention that they need to be maintained, repaired, and deal with more serious emergencies on the battlefield, which is a test of overall quality.
Li Fu, who knows this well, has always adopted a policy of elite soldiers in military construction. Although there are not many people, they are all real elites. From the quality of the soldiers themselves to the weapons and equipment of the army, logistics support, etc., all aspects have been fully worked on. The first place where various high technologies are applied is the army.
Being a soldier in the empire is very well paid. The average income of the empire's army is more than three times the average income of the empire as a whole. Therefore, in the empire, those who can serve in the army are all talented and are the envy of young people.
Raise troops for a thousand days and use them for a moment!
Since the empire decided to officially expand abroad, the empire's army has begun to take action. The huge investment of the empire in the army in recent years has also reflected its value and brought returns to the empire.
In the largest space port, the emperor Li Fu of the empire and the prime minister Fang Zheng of the empire are leading the empire's high-level officials to personally see off the soldiers who are about to go on an expedition.
Luo Xiaoyao, Zhan Fei, and Liu Xuling, three military generals, are standing in the front at this time, with upright postures and firm eyes. This time, the three of them will lead a fleet to expand to a galaxy respectively, so at this time, they are also very excited in their hearts.
Expanding territory, leaving a name in history, and being ennobled and appointed as prime minister, from ancient times to the present, as a soldier, especially a senior general in the army, everyone has such a plot in their hearts.
This is even more true in the interstellar universe era. The vast starry universe is their best battlefield. Striving to lay down a starry sky for future generations is also the most important educational link in the imperial army. From the very beginning, when the imperial army was established, Li Fu planted the seeds of active external expansion for the imperial army, so every soldier in the imperial army was instilled with such ideas.
"History will remember this day, and the names of each of you will be written into the history textbooks, because you are about to complete a great cause, a great cause that will benefit the present and the future. You will become the sword in the hands of our empire and lay down a starry sky for our descendants of Yan and Huang."
Li Fu's voice was loud and passionate. Looking at the young faces below, their eyes were firm and flashing with extremely excited sparks. Each of them was full of pride on their faces, and the rising fighting spirit rushed straight into the galaxy.
"Let's go!"
With Li Fu's order, the entire huge space port began to operate frantically, and the imperial soldiers lined up and entered their space battleships in an orderly manner.
Soon, spaceships began to slowly leave the space port. Each of the three fleets consisted of two medium-sized spaceships and ten small spaceships, carrying more than 20,000 space fighters and 20,000 soldiers, with three fleets totaling 60,000.
It can be said that the Empire sent out 1/3 of its forces this time, and expanded to three galaxies at the same time, which was full of confidence. After all, the Empire's strength is here, and the combat capabilities of each fleet are very impressive, and the strength is even stronger than the Earth's expeditionary force to the Canis Major Galaxy.
The number of combatants may not even be a fraction of the Earth's expeditionary force, but the number of warships is very small, and each spaceship in the Empire's army is the crystallization of the Empire's technology, and the comprehensive combat effectiveness is far better than the old spaceships of the Earth Federation.
Whether it is from the speed, acceleration, defense, attack weapons, attack distance, etc. of the warships, or from the performance of the space fighters, the ability and training of the combat soldiers, etc., they are far beyond the reach of the Earth Federation's army.
The three fleets flew farther and farther in the void. The Imperial Royal Corps led by Luo Xiaoyao will go to the Aquila Galaxy, 10.2 light years away from the Centaurus Galaxy; the Imperial Frontier Corps led by Zhan Fei will go to the Eridanus Galaxy, 8.5 light years away from the Centaurus Galaxy; the Imperial Garrison Corps led by Liu Xuling will go to the Hercules Galaxy, 5.4 light years away from the Centaurus Galaxy.
The Aquila Galaxy, Eridanus Galaxy, and Hercules Galaxy are the three galaxies closest to the Centaurus Galaxy. Each galaxy is connected to the Centaurus Galaxy by a space-time ocean current, and it is also a galaxy that the empire must conquer. The three galaxies, each galaxy has a different direction, and it is completely different from the direction of the solar system.
Li Wandu looked at the increasingly blurred Jiuzhou Star outside the battleship, feeling the slight pressure brought by the continuous acceleration of the powerful anti-gravity engine, with light flashing in his eyes and his hands clenched tightly.
As the fifth son of the imperial emperor Li Fu, Li Wandu is not very old now, just in his early 20s. He inherited the excellent genes of his parents. Li Wandu is very handsome and a genius.
He has performed very well in Yuanli cultivation since he was a child. Under Li Fu's personal teaching, he has reached the Yuanli warrior stage at a very young age, and now he is about to enter the realm of Yuanli master.
At the same time, he is also very hardworking and excellent in learning. He has completed the university credits 2 years in advance, and is actively preparing to take the exam of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, hoping to become a scientist as soon as possible.
Being in the imperial royal family, he did not receive any superior treatment, but instead suffered a lot of pressure. He has an emperor father, and his brothers and sisters in front are all outstanding people. He has made a great reputation by himself, so Li Wandu is also under great pressure. In addition, Li Fu and Wang Yun have been very strict in their education since childhood, so Li Wandu also hopes to have the opportunity to show himself well.
This time, when the news came out that the imperial army was going to go on an expedition, he, like everyone else, applied to join the expedition without any hesitation and became an expeditionary soldier, determined to expand territory and leave his name in history.