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On July 26, the second batch of reinforcements arrived at the lunar base.

This time, personnel delivery was carried out by reducing load and increasing personnel delivery. In addition to the life support system, there was no additional load of other materials on the entire spacecraft, and a total of 138 people were transported.

Twelve of them are domestic space experts and engineering construction personnel, led by a lieutenant general.

The remaining 126 people were all armed personnel selected from African bases!

There is a very clear one in the agreement that the defense of the lunar base is fully responsible for the Universal Company! As a shareholder in China, the domestic company will use a molten hole in the mountain range next to the base as a base to carry out research work independently.

Scientists originally at the base also had work to do, and some were to conduct arguments on the future expansion and construction of the base. On the other hand, some scientific research equipment that was "transported to the lunar warehouse in advance" were assembled and a new research laboratory was opened.

After this personnel replenishment, all defense facilities were managed by dedicated personnel, effectively ensuring the integrity of the entire defense system and the stability of not being interfered by external electronic equipment.

The first large-scale wheeled combat vehicle also appeared in the base, using hydrogen energy to provide electric power. The station vehicle used the base of an ordinary wheeled combat vehicle, canceled the top armored turret, and formed a top cover from tempered glass, installed a laser main gun, and three secondary guns, with six crew members.

This is the first field patrol force at the base.

Most of the previous alert work was to use detectors and radar stations set up on various hills as early warning methods. Even if unexpected situations were discovered, they could not leave the position and search and fight. With this tank, the base could finally manage the space artillery positions in the form of points within a small range, thereby repairing defense loopholes and improving the defense system.

Not long after, the power of this land patrol team increased to two lunar chariots and four accompanied by infantry fighting vehicles, thus expanding the land defense surface to a range of 100 square kilometers.

By September, most of the idle people had new jobs.

There is a large piece of flat land between the base and other mountains, which is also the place where Xiao Qiang and his friends landed.

The flat ground is narrow and long, about fifty or sixty kilometers long and about ten kilometers wide. A thick layer of moon dust accumulates in the entire basin, which is three or four meters thick.

All the people on duty at the base were dispatched. Equipment was installed in a cave next to the basin.

This set of equipment is very long and looks like a bread production line. The closed box corridor is more than 20 meters long. The inside is an alloy-based conveyor belt. Below the conveyor belt is an electric heating equipment.

The entire device is completely sealed and there are complex separation devices inside.

From the outlet of the separation device, several pipes extend out to the collection device and are connected to the corresponding collection box.

At the discharge port of the production line, the heated processed substance falls off the conveyor belt and falls on another conveyor belt. The end point of this conveyor belt is a furnace.

A remote-controlled construction vehicle slowly drove towards the basin, shoveled up a full bucket of moon soil from the ground, and then drove it back and sent it to the production line hopper.

The production line is started, and the electric heating device heats the lunar soil on the conveyor belt. The temperature is increased to 800 degrees and then stabilizes. Due to the chemical reaction, the gas in the lunar soil begins to separate out and is absorbed into the collection device for liquefaction treatment.

Lunar soil is rich in a large number of minerals, including iron oxide, and many minerals in industrial demand.

Just heat it to 700 degrees, and the 3 in the lunar soil are separated and sent to the separator. While separating 3, it is also |+|

It is relatively simple and easy to separate 3 from lunar soil, but the extraction efficiency is not very high.

To get a 3-hour meal: go down one hundred meters!

With their current production capacity of this small equipment, they can extract up to five to ten tons of 3 materials in a year.

Moreover, according to the current progress of human research on nuclear fusion, in the future, these three extracts can only be used as strategic reserves and cannot be converted into energy immediately for people to use.

Despite so many 3,

Xiao Qiang planned to sell half of these liquid 3 items as his own reserve and half to China. As for whether to distribute them to other countries in China or retain them by himself, it is not his business.

Anyway, the most important clause of the original agreement was to sell the 3 extracted from the moon to China.

For Xiao Qiang's view, this is equivalent to the domestic position of domestically acting as a lunar base product underwriter. It not only ensures the base's subsequent material supply and obtains a large amount of funds, but also allows the domestically to obtain a large number of 3,,,::. In other words, it is also a killing two birds with one stone.

With a large number of three responses, I think that if I come to the earth, I will invest more manpower and material resources to carry out research on nuclear fusion.

Controllable nuclear fusion energy is likely to contribute to human civilization earlier.

This is all a story later.

For Xiao Qiang, what he values ​​more is extracting 3 by-products.

A meal of 3, 71 carbon. In addition, heating the lunar soil can also separate oxygen from the lunar soil.

It's okay with nitrogen and carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are good things.

=...Liquid can provide supplies to various power transportation vehicles and liquid hydrogen batteries at the base. In addition, spacecraft coming from the earth can also replenish liquid hydrogen at the lunar base from now on, so as to carry more materials.

The main obstacle that hinders humans from gaining a foothold on the moon can be said to no longer exist!

After the liquid hydrogen fuel supply equipment is installed, Xiao Qiang can declare to the world that the moon has become a fuel supply station for people to travel to and from the earth and the moon, and will also become a relay station for people to explore space!

At the same time, this set of equipment does not only produce these products, but can also be deeply processed through expansion and connection with other equipment.

There is a large amount of iron oxide substances in the lunar soil. Only chemical reactions require a pure raw material-grade iron ore supply. The iron ore smelting and finishing on the moon has a raw material supply. In the future, when the abundant iron ore on the moon is mined, iron ore can also be used to reduce the reaction, thereby obtaining iron and the water needed for human survival!

It's a win-win situation!

However, these deep processing and finishing processing need to be transported from the earth.

At present, Xiao Qiang only hopes to obtain the necessary products for base construction and road paving through heating reactions: cement.

The main component of lunar soil is volcanic ash.

Volcanic ash is naturally the basic component of cement.

Heat it to 200 degrees below the melting point of the cement component. Then melt other impurities first and separate them. Then heat the remaining substances to 1,775 degrees, and the final product is very similar to the local cement sold on the market.

Since Xiao Qiang's recombination abilities are used in the most important part of base construction, it is impossible to provide a large amount of products in areas such as cement.

Even in the base, lunar soil has been used to fill the earth's concave and convex soil. It transports cement from the earth to build a flat and wide cement road. Which country has such a great capital?

In December 2011, the third supply of the African base arrived.

This time, not many people came, only more than a dozen topographic surveyors and professional engineering personnel. All of them were sent by the ship, including a large number of engineering mechanical equipment parts needed by the base.

After a brief renovation, all this batch of special engineering machinery was assembled and roads began to be paved between the graded areas adjacent to the main base. The engineering experts who originally arrived in the base took action to renovate and expand the interior of the base, opening up the space even wider.

With relative managers among all departments of the base, Xiao Qiang suddenly became idle.

He now has his own independent house. Although the living facilities inside are also simple, this is also his only privilege as the leader, and he can have an independent space.

Xiao Qiang's daily work became very simple. He was to walk around the base, listen to the opinions of various departments, and deal with some key issues. After that, he took the time to reorganize some important equipment needed by scientists, and there was not much to do.

While occasionally providing researchers with a small amount of equipment, he used all his main abilities to reorganize a small disc space warship.

The base's extension range is now very wide, with a depth of more than 900 kilometers, which is also the maximum range that can be controlled under existing technical conditions. If you want to continue to expand the radiation range of the base, you need to build a smooth road. This can only gradually connect various strongholds in the next two or three years.

So far, more than fifty laser cannons and three electromagnetic cannons are scattered in the lunar mountains of 800,000 square kilometers. Each stronghold is very isolated, and the space land warfare forces lack corresponding supply of tanks and good road traffic. It is already the limit to be able to rescue nearby positions. In a critical situation, it is difficult for those peripheral positions to receive fire support.

Therefore, Xiao Qiang’s focus is on how to quickly deploy land forces and provide firepower support.

Xiao Qiang, Han Kun, Jiang Cheng and two researchers who first came to the moon formed a separate group. They spent two months in a small basin to build a large assembly workshop covering an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters in a wide outlet cave. Here, in the future, it will be the hangar of the moon base and the future space fighter factory.

In March of 1991, 2018, the fifth batch of reinforcements also arrived at the lunar base.

They are also mainly engaged in engineering construction personnel and have brought more special engineering machinery and equipment. The mission of these engineering personnel is to open up a huge space three kilometers underground in the mountains to create living space for the future transfer of African bases.

To this end, they will hollow out hundreds of cubic kilometers of underground rock layers and divide them into several layers for agriculture, survival security, residence, research and production.

After Xiao Qiang met them, he also learned from them that exploring the moon has become the most fashionable term on the earth.

But he didn't really understand that it was his stimulation that made all countries on earth take the initiative to sell their own way and try to land on the moon as they compete.

If the first reinforcement spacecraft came to the moon and the countries on the earth had not reacted much, they saw a spacecraft flying towards the moon, even the most dullest person began to feel that there was a strange name in it.

The United States responds the fastest.

Because he was stimulated by the aerospace planes at the African base, the terrified lawmakers passed the US aerospace plane development plan with a rare unified understanding.

Congress allocated $100 billion to make the aerospace planes practical as soon as possible. It also required that ten small aerospace fighters with aerospace combat capabilities be produced by 2021.

When they saw an African base launching a spaceship to the moon, the United States was very puzzled. What treasure did the Chinese find on the moon? In July of the year, they also launched a lunar exploration rocket at the Houston Space Center and sent a reconnaissance satellite to the orbit of the moon. It was like passing through this satellite to see what the Chinese were doing.

The images sent back by the satellite scared all the Americans who were unconscious.

Looking at the back of the moon, with huge turrets and lined gun barrels on an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, the Houston Space Center was suddenly in anger!

After obtaining the clear picture, the head of the NASA Center simply turned his eyes and fainted.

As soon as the White House received the news, it immediately stopped all meetings and convened an emergency meeting of the State Department.

All the local ministers and military commanders gathered in Washington and had a heated discussion on the latest situation. Looking at the initially improved defense system, the American generals looked blank and their minds were blank.

Building such a huge defense system is an unimaginable huge project with the strength of the United States.

If all the equipment is transported from the earth, a rough calculation will require thousands of Earth-Moon spacecraft to shuttle back and forth. This investment is so great that the United States can directly file for bankruptcy.

If the equipment is not transported from the earth, but to the moon, all raw materials are sourced locally. This idea is good, but it is not practical at all practical.

Each set of equipment can range from hundreds of tons to tens of thousands of tons to tens of thousands of tons.

Without aerospace planes, it takes several times to transport a complete production line to the moon, and hundreds of ground rocket launches. This alone will allow the United States to spend all the last cent in the treasury!

What makes people even more attractive is to establish a complete industrial chain, not to transport a set of equipment. Instead, it is to transport at least hundreds of supporting factories and production lines, and to connect ore collection and refineries and processing plants together, so that they can be free of charge.

, become an extraterrestrial colonial system!

In addition to so many factories, there are also corresponding workers.

If there are workers, they will also have to solve various facilities such as residence, life, and entertainment for them...

It is just to make money that the big arms dealers, large consortiums, and technology groups were pale and speechless when they looked at this huge plan and figure.

They could not understand at all, how China was like, without knowing it, sent so many materials to the moon and established such an unimaginable defense system?
To be continued...