The strongest commander in the universe

"Congratulations, General Lin Fan!"

"Thank you Marshal!"

"You don't need to thank me, it's due to your own strength, keep working hard!"

"Yes!"

Then, Liang Xue, Emma, ​​and Chris were also awarded the title. After all, they were generals, so Sanders personally awarded the title.

Among them, Chris became a lieutenant general, Liang Xue became a major general, and Emma finally entered the ranks of generals and became a brigadier general.

The brigadier general was also called the reserve general of the federation, but back then Lin Fan skipped this step directly, as soon as he became a general, he became a major general.

But this is a special case after all, Emma still has to start her career as a brigadier general.

Saunders looked at Lin Fan and the others, nodded in satisfaction, and then picked up another appointment from the desk.

"Due to the reform of the Starfleet organization, a new level of legion has been added. Admiral Lin Fan is now appointed as the head of the First Legion of the Federation Starfleet. It is organized into twelve standard fleets, with a total of 24 warships, and the headquarters is set up in Horton!"

"At the same time, Houghton will become an important military town. The Federation will not immigrate ordinary people here. Everything in this star system will be handled by General Lin Fan, the head of the Starfleet First Legion!"

"Finally, regarding the formation of the legion, the former First and Third Fleets of the Federation will be included in the First Legion and become the first and second fleets under the command of the Legion. The First Fleet will serve as the guard fleet for the head of the Legion, and Lin Fan will still be on board. Will personally command, the commander of the Second Fleet is Chris Rhodes, and the remaining ten fleets will be completed within ten years, and the commander candidate will be submitted by the First Legion and approved by the Starfleet headquarters."

"The above are the latest appointments. Are there any questions?"

"Report, no!"

"Very well, the Third Fleet is already in Houghton. You will set off tomorrow and go to Houghton to rendezvous with it, and then you can start the construction of the legion."

"Yes, Marshal!"

"Lin Fan, wait a minute, I still have something to tell you!"

Just when Lin Fan and the others were about to leave the office, Sanders spoke again.

After Liang Xue and the three looked at each other, they withdrew wisely. They understood that Marshal Sanders had important matters to explain to Lin Fan alone!

"Lin Fan, your task is very heavy, no more than Liang Xingchen's. The Federation needs an external channel, understand?"

"Understood, Marshal don't worry, give me five years, I will take down the Kabat Empire!"

Lin Fan naturally understood what Sanders meant. In the current federal territory, there are two roads to the outside world, one of which is blocked by the Io Federation, and the other is blocked by the Kabat Empire.

If the federation wants to continue to develop, one of the channels must be opened, otherwise, even if it relies on the curvature engine to cross these two civilizations and lay down new territories, it will increase the difficulty of ruling because it is not connected to the mainland.

And the Io Federation is absolutely not allowed to fight. It is a key link in the future increase of human population. Wouldn't it be stupid to fight that?

Therefore, the only option available is the Kabat Empire. For Lin Fan, three years to supplement the establishment to five fleets, and another two years to destroy the Kabat Empire is enough time.

"Okay, until you are ready, the Federation will maintain the deal with them. On the one hand, it will squeeze out their last resources, and on the other hand, it will reduce it to leave enough backs for you!"

"understand!"

Ten minutes later, Lin Fan left Sanders' office, joined the other three, and set off to return to Earth.

"Sorry, Chris! Originally, I wanted you to spend more time with your wife and daughter on Earth, but now it seems that's not possible. I'm leaving for Horton tomorrow!"

Back on the shuttle ship back to Earth, Lin Fan said to Chris.

"Where the hell is it, Legion Commander, and Alice can move to Horton as a member of the army!"

"That's not a problem, but you and Alice both went to Horton, what about my daughter? After all, Horton is an important military town, and there is no school!"

You must know that Chris's daughter Ava is still young, so she can't take her to Houghton with her. There is a military town there, but there is no school for Ava to study.

"This is no problem. Ava has received the admission notice from the Interstellar Military Academy, and she will be enrolled in two months. After she graduates, please ask the commander to help her come to our legion!"

Chris said with some embarrassment, after all, this is definitely a back door.

It's not that Chris wants to take special care of his daughter, but just hopes that the family can have more opportunities to be together.

"Okay, I agree to this matter! I will greet Dean Li Fulai, don't worry!"

"Thank you, Commander!"

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After more than 20 days, Lin Fan arrived in Holden with the First Fleet.

It has been introduced before that Horton was once the military industrial center of the Oaks Empire. It has 1 life planet and a total of 42 resource stars. It also has these three huge asteroid belts, each of which is a part of the asteroid belt in the solar system. Dozens of times the size, and the resources are more abundant.

The Oaks Empire has established a huge warship manufacturing base on Holden, which is composed of countless warship production lines. Now these bases are being transformed by a large number of industrial robots. It is expected that the transformation will be completed in half a year. The most important military industrial base of the Federation.

In addition to the battleship manufacturing bases, the federation also built a huge space scientific research city in Horton, which is located on the edge of the battleship manufacturing bases. The main person in charge is Lin Fan's old acquaintance, the chief scientist of the federation, Bai Zixuan.

Today's Bai Zixuan is no longer as old as before after using the gene enhancement potion and brain domain development potion.

The whole person looks like he is in his 40s. Compared with before, not only his physical fitness is better, but his life expectancy has also increased by at least 200 years. In love with a certain female scientist.

Regarding this matter, Lin Fan definitely supported it. After all, Bai Zixuan used to never marry a wife or have children in his whole life for scientific research. Now that he has such a heart, it is naturally a good thing!

In short, Holden is now in an era of massive construction, every planet and every void is undergoing massive construction.

Chapter 112 The Resentful Bai Zixuan

Following the sudden contraction of the void, the First Fleet ended the jump and arrived at Horton.

The terrain here can be said to be one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it. There is only a narrow star road to the outside world. It was once known as the number one pass in the Aux Empire!

At this moment, the former Third Fleet is stationed at the exit of this Star Road, under the acting command of the original Quite's adjutant Butland.

After Chris takes office, the original Third Fleet will be officially renamed as the Second Fleet of the First Legion of the Federation Starfleet, and Bartram will become Chris' adjutant.

At the same time, due to Chris' departure, Emma, ​​who became a brigadier general, logically became the commander of the First Squadron of the First Fleet.

As for Li Cangqiong's lack of military rank, even if he was promoted to a higher level this time, he was still only a colonel, temporarily serving as the commander of a small team under Emma's command, commanding 100 warships.

Speaking of which, the First Squadron under the command of Lin Fan’s First Fleet has become a veritable gathering place for the younger generation of generals. The commanders of the ten squadrons are all rising stars who have graduated from the Interstellar Military Academy in recent years. It's only been 5 years since graduation.

For now, the biggest headache for Lin Fan is that there are too few people available, especially since there are still ten fleets to be expanded in the future, which alone requires thousands of senior military commanders.

But the question is, where are there so many people?

Take the current fleet regulations as an example, a lieutenant colonel can only command a squadron, a brigadier general can only command a squadron, and a lieutenant general can only command a fleet!

Fortunately, there are only 4 fleets in the entire Federation, so there is no problem for the time being, but the Federation will expand to 24 fleets in the next ten years. According to such rules, can people use it?

The commanders of 20 fleets alone require 20 lieutenant generals, 200 brigadier generals, and 2000 lieutenant colonels and colonels. Isn't this a joke!

This is not counting the staff officers, bridge command groups, etc. needed by each fleet. There is also a large number of generals and schools here, but where are there so many generals and schools in the four fleets?

Called from Starfleet Headquarters?Don't talk about it, most of them are people who can only talk on paper. Isn't the lesson from the previous Quite not enough?

In this regard, Lin Fan believes that it is not possible to follow the old rules. From now on, in the First Legion, everything must be based on strength, and strength is the foundation of everything.

On the basis that his strength can be satisfied, Lin Fan can adjust his rank down by two ranks.

To put it simply, the fleet commander originally needed a lieutenant general, but now, as long as you are strong enough, you can be at least a brigadier general.

After the adjustment of the squadron commander, even if you are only a lieutenant colonel, it is fine, of course, the premise is that you must have enough strength to pass Lin Fan's test!

After this arrangement, a large number of generals who are clearly capable but are limited by insufficient military ranks will have a wider path of advancement, and at the same time, it can also solve the dilemma of insufficient senior officers.

Even Lin Fan has already made up his mind that when the Third Fleet is fully organized, Emma will be the commander, and Li Cangqiong will succeed Emma as the commander of the First Squadron.

Immediately doing what he said, Lin Fan immediately put this idea into a written report and submitted it directly to Sanders.

On the same day, Sanders told Lin Fan that he agreed with Lin Fan's plan, just as Lin Fan expected. Lin Fan only needs to select good candidates to report in the future, and he doesn't need to stick to his rank.

Lin Fan, who received an affirmative reply, naturally announced the news to the two fleets immediately, which aroused quite a heated discussion, most of which were quite supportive, except for a small number of conservatives who were very disgusted with it. .

These people are used to seniority, especially in the Third Fleet!

For them, Lin Fan would have to clean up sooner or later, but now is not the time.

After finishing dealing with the fleet, Lin Fan came to the space research city under construction.

At present, the main body has been built, and the follow-up is to continuously install other modules around the central main body one by one, and it will take about half a year to complete.

"Lin Fan!!!"

Lin Fan, who had just entered the central control room, heard someone's voice complaining, which immediately aroused goosebumps all over his body.

Looking in the direction of the voice, it was looking at the much younger Bai Zixuan, looking at himself with resentful eyes that perfectly matched the voice just now!

Lin Fan couldn't help breaking out in cold sweat behind his back, this Bai Zixuan must have some tendency!

"Ahem, Bai Lao, long time no see!"

"That's right, it's been five years, and you haven't handed me a small card for five years!"

While talking, Bai Zixuan looked at Lin Fan with resentment, like an angry little daughter-in-law.

This scene even attracted the attention of other people nearby, and the fire of gossip ignited ragingly in the entire central control room.

Lin Fan looked around at the people around him, and suddenly felt that the dog was beeping.

What you said, people who don’t know it would think that I sent you love letters every day 5 years ago.

"Bai Lao, your words are too easy to be misunderstood!"

"What's the misunderstanding? It's not you, kid. I've been waiting for you to come over and give me a small card every day at the Mars base, but this wait is only five years, five years! How many years can you wait in life, huh? Tell me about it then!"

Pfft... Lin Fan instantly felt that the gossip flames around him were burning more fiercely.

Quickly interrupted Bai Zixuan's words to prevent him from exaggerating.

"Bai Lao, the war has been busy these past few years, and there is really no time for scientific research, and you can still dig deep into the previous technologies!"

"It's up to you to say? In the past few years, we have used your technology as a basis and have been conducting more in-depth research. Now the second-generation curvature engine is already in the test, which can double the current jump speed. .”

"At the same time, a new generation of warship guns is also being tested, which I call a plasma cannon. Compared with the current ion beam cannon, it has a longer range, greater power, and faster charging speed .”

"By the way, the engine has also made great progress. The anti-gravity engine that is still being researched, if successful, will increase the maximum speed of the battleship by more than ten times, at least it can reach a speed of 5 kilometers per second, and become a real sub-light speed. engine."

"There are other aspects..."

Well, Bai Lao is still the same Bai Lao, and when he talks about scientific research, he is so excited that he can't stop!

However, Lin Fan is still very interested in the second-generation curvature engine and plasma cannon that Bai Zixuan mentioned. Of course, if the anti-gravity engine can also be built, it will definitely push the human federation to a real fourth-level civilization.

Seeing Bai Zixuan who was still waving his hands excitedly and talking non-stop, Lin Fan had no choice but to smile wryly!

Chapter 113 Star Military Academy

It has been a year since Lin Fan returned to Holden. During this year, the entire Holden was undergoing major construction.

First, the warship production bases of the former Oaks Empire were completely remodeled, and the production line of human warships was manufactured and replaced. At present, it can reach the level of annual production of 1 warships.

This is only the transformation of about 1/5 of the warship production base group. After all the transformation is completed, the estimated annual output can reach about 5 warships.

The biggest advantage of Holden is that the number of resource stars is terrible, and in this star system, the asteroid belt is also very large and dense, and the resources are very rich.

According to preliminary investigations, the amount of various resources contained in Horton's three asteroid belts is about 3 times higher than that of the asteroid belt in the solar system.

Coupled with a total of 43 huge resource stars, Holden's warship manufacturing does not need to transport resources from outside at all, and can even export a large amount of resources outside while satisfying its own construction tasks.

This is also the reason why the Oaks Empire wants to build the largest warship production base here. The geographical conditions are really good.

But now all of these belong to the Federation. Lin Fan believes that as long as there are ten years, the Federation will definitely be able to create a military force that can sweep the surrounding area.

As for the only living planet in this star system, Horton Star, Lin Fan directly developed it in the direction of a vacation planet.

After all, there will be an entire legion stationed here in the future. For human beings, they cannot be separated from the living planet for too long. In space for a long time, emotions such as depression, anxiety, and irritability will gradually amplify, and various mental illnesses will easily appear.

This is why there is a clear regulation in the Federation Starfleet that after serving in space for up to 8 years, it is mandatory to go to the planet of life to take a vacation of at least 6 months.

In fact, this problem also exists in other civilizations. Therefore, the third-level civilization will widely use dormancy devices for long-distance journeys without curvature engines. Otherwise, who can withstand the journey of more than ten years and decades!

With the curvature engine, this problem will be alleviated a lot, but there is still a need for a living planet that soldiers can go to at any time.

Therefore, Lin Fan decided to turn Horton Star directly into a vacation planet. On the one hand, it can provide residence for the military families of the soldiers of the legion, and on the other hand, it can provide a good environment for the whole legion to relax and relax.

At the same time, Lin Fan also paid special attention to the training of officers. Just lowering his military rank was not enough. Lin Fan even built a small space city on the orbit of Horton Star and established the second military academy of the Federation. Federal Star Military Academy.

But this military academy is different from the Federation Interstellar Military Academy. It does not enroll ordinary federal citizens, but only recruits active soldiers of the Starfleet.

The purpose is to further cultivate potential talents among the active servicemen. After all, what the Interstellar Military Academy teaches can only be regarded as the basics.

Another important purpose is to discover some special talents who have gone the wrong way, and to train them a second time, just like Li Cangqiong in the past. In fact, his talent in fleet command is stronger than that of mechs.

If Lin Fan hadn't seen his talent in fleet command back then and gave him a chance, then Li Cangqiong might have been just an officer of the mech unit for the rest of his life.

Simply put, the Federation Interstellar Military Academy is like a new barracks, and Lin Fan's Star Military Academy is like an officer training camp.