Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 439 Juno's Great Retreat

Zhong Cheng immediately made a final decision on the plan, and decided to urgently transfer four aerospace planes including the Star Reacher, which were in the Venus and Mercury transformation projects, back to Earth.

There are still two days before the four aerospace planes fly back to the earth. Lin Wei and Gui Bin are in charge of preparing for the modification of the vacuum pump.

Zhou Hu, Zhao Wei, Yang Xi and others immediately went to Tiangong City to prepare for the refitting project of the Qinglong aircraft carrier with Liu Yang and other personnel from the Red Star Ship Manufacturing Company.

Zhao Wei is the main designer of the Qinglong aircraft carrier, and Liu Yang is the direct builder of the Qinglong aircraft carrier. Their understanding of the Qinglong aircraft carrier is unparalleled except Zhong Cheng.

Although it is very difficult to complete the modification project in one month, Zhao Wei still said that there is no problem.

The next day, Zhong Cheng received a call from Deng Yongxing, and was scolded all over his head, accusing him of not allowing the Xuanyuan to fight.

In the end, Zhong Cheng had no choice but to take the national crisis as his head, and the soldiers should obey orders more, and fooled Deng Yongxing.

In fact, he really couldn't bear to let this veteran soldier in his 60s face the extremely cruel interstellar war, and defeat meant death on the battlefield.

This may be unfair to others, but Zhong Cheng still wants to take care of this old friend within his ability.

2042 8 Month 25 Day.

Juno is nearly 5 million kilometers away from Earth.

Juno is the third asteroid discovered by humans and one of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt. It is an S-type asteroid composed of heavier rocks.

It has an irregular shape with a diameter of 320×267×200 kilometers, smaller than Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta. It is one of the four major military fortresses of the Human Federation in the solar system in the asteroid belt.

Because it is rich in various minerals, it has become the largest industrial base in the asteroid belt except Ceres, with more than 150 million permanent residents and 5 garrisons.

There is only one large city on Juno and the only space port - Juno City. It is built in a pit with a diameter of 100 kilometers on the surface of the planet. It can also be called a crater, but its central position is 20 kilometers below the surface level.

Therefore, Juno City is a city where most of its buildings are underground.

After the air battle on Vesta on July 7, the rebel space fleet underwent a brief rest and appeared in the airspace of Pallas three days later.

The Rebel Command issued a network-wide announcement calling on Pallas defenders to lay down their weapons and stop resisting.

However, Nawaf, the chief executive of Pallas, and Domilik, the garrison commander, rejected the high-ranking officials promised by the rebels, saying that they would fight to the last person.

The rebels failed to persuade them to surrender, and launched an attack on Pallas on August 8.

A week later, Pallas fell, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians including Nawaf and Domilik were killed.

The Federation could no longer hide that it was at a disadvantage in the war, and ordered to shrink the defense line of the asteroid belt to defend Ceres with all its strength.

Because Juno will definitely be the next attack target of the rebels, without the support of the space fleet, relying on ground troops will definitely not be able to defend.

Therefore, the Federal Wartime Committee decided to withdraw all civilians and industrial facilities on Juno, as well as most of the garrisons to nearby Mars, leaving only [-] federal troops to hold their defensive positions.

If the rebels attack, plan to use surface artillery to stop them, and then retreat into the underground city of Juno City to deal with the rebels.

Juno Administrator Carl Ludwig is directing the evacuation at the Juno City Spaceport.

After the retreat of Juno star began, the Federal Space Agency dispatched three basalt spacecraft to be responsible for the evacuation of personnel, materials and equipment.

Within half a month, the three Xuanwu spacecraft made three round trips, and most of the evacuation work has been completed.

Today will be the last trip to evacuate the remaining 30 civilians and 4 Union soldiers.

Carl Ludwig looked at the men, women and children who were waiting to board the ship in the space port, all of them looked depressed and their eyes were full of reluctance.

He empathizes, and he has more affection for Juno City vs. Juno than anyone else.

Ten years ago in 10, he took a space plane with 2032 team members. After a long voyage of more than 150 months, he represented the American Federation at that time and also represented all mankind to set foot on this desolate land for the first time.

He has put in too much effort and painstaking efforts to develop from a simple underground bunker to a huge urban industrial complex with a radius of 30 kilometers and a depth of 10 kilometers.

Every street, every high-rise building and every factory building here, he can tell the ins and outs of every detail, and even draw the structure diagram of the building.

Although there are no green waters and green mountains here, he planned and built a better working and living environment than most cities on the earth, so that countless people who came to Juno star voluntarily became permanent residents and regarded this place as their own home. .

Now that the solar system war broke out in an all-round way, the Federation had to give up Juno, and let his life's hard work go to waste.

War is a devastating disaster for cities built on asteroids. Even if the Federation regains Juno in the future, will Juno City still exist?
According to the battle report from Pallas, the city of Pallas on Pallas has been reduced to ruins. Hundreds of thousands of civilians either died in the flames of war or died of suffocation after the urban ecosystem was destroyed.

From this point of view, he had to agree with the Federation's decision to evacuate the people on Juno.

Carl glanced with a heavy heart at Chen Jianshe, the supreme commander of the Juno Federation Army beside him.

Chen Jianshe was only sent from the Earth Federation Army General Command two months ago to take over the defense of Juno. He must be in a bad mood to give up his defense zone so soon!
From Chen Jianshe's gloomy face, Karl also saw unwillingness and grief.

Chen Jianshe was ordered to evacuate with a large force, but the three defense regiments under him would stay behind to defend Juno. These officers and soldiers were basically dead.

Not only Chen Jianshe, but Karl himself did not understand the thinking of those big figures at the top of the Federation.

Now that Juno Xing can't hold on anymore, then everyone should be evacuated.

It is said that it lost the face of the Federation without fighting, and there are so many defensive artillery and equipment on Juno that they cannot be withdrawn, so it is better to use them to consume the vitality of the rebels.

Karl is not a soldier and doesn't understand military affairs, but he thinks this is a stupid decision made by those big men, who can stand and talk without back pain.

Karl also knew that after the outbreak of the war, the Chinese people in the top ranks of the Federation were not at ease with Western officials like them.

Chen Jianshe was sent to replace the original garrison general, and one of the main purposes was to prevent him from defecting to the enemy with officials from the Juno administrative region.

But how could he surrender to the enemy, he is too aware of the virtues of the group of people who are now in charge of the so-called autonomous government of Jupiter and Saturn.

Before he came to Juno, he worked in the lunar administrative region of the former American Federation. He is very clear about the human rights and humanitarianism of the high-level executives of large western companies headed by Robin. In private, they treat ordinary people as slaves and tools to make money. driven by people.

Moreover, he adopted all kinds of methods to deal with different voices, which made him dare not speak out.

On the other hand, the current human federal government dominated by Chinese people, although there are many unsatisfactory places, at least it has guaranteed general fairness and justice, and its care for ordinary people is sincere.

Carl sighed in his heart, hoping that the federal army could turn the tide of the war as soon as possible and recover Juno, so that he could come back again, complete his unfinished business, and make Juno a paradise in his heart!

(End of this chapter)