Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 263: Top Secret Manuscript

In the dark sky, rows of dense artillery fire flashed and soared into the air, whistling across the sky and landing on the Western Turkic and Risa allied forces. Under the cover of fierce artillery fire, the Eastern Turkic steel torrent rumbled and crushed through. This time, the Eastern Turkic had made ample preparations.

In the rear camp, a mobile medical team from the Eastern Kingdom advanced through the darkness, following behind the charge suicide squad.

"Brother Zhou, where are you?" In the mobile medical team, Ye Xiaomei, with a dusty face and a tall figure, looked at the endless artillery fire streaking across the dark sky ahead, feeling like crying but having no tears.

Twenty days ago, Ye Xiaomei volunteered to go to the front lines to provide support, a request made to the hospital director. The hospital leaders were moved, believing her to be a model of righteousness, and commended her throughout the hospital, calling on all medical staff to learn from her. Her story was even published in the newspaper. Actually, Ye Xiaomei's thoughts were simple; she simply wanted to see Zhou Yuan. Her parents didn't explicitly object, only reminding her to be careful. Ye Xiaomei left her parents, the hospital, and Beining, leaving her familiar homeland for the first time, embarking on a journey to a foreign land with her soldiers. Ye Xiaomei inquired throughout the military, but couldn't find any news of Zhou Yuan. Fortunately, the intensive training she underwent in the week before the troops went to the front lines forged a strong will in her.

Ye Xiaomei clearly remembered that after lying in wait near the border of the New Li Kingdom for two days, around 9 PM tonight, the frontline troops launched a fierce artillery attack on the New Li Kingdom. Then, under the overwhelming force of the armored vehicles, the battle line was pushed to the border of the Risa Kingdom in less than two hours. What Ye Xiaomei found strange was that the majority of the wounded soldiers initially received by the mobile medical team were air force pilots, not army soldiers. Several wounded pilots told Ye Xiaomei that their fighter jets had suddenly experienced equipment malfunctions, lost contact, and had to eject to safety.

Later, all the wounded were soldiers from the Army Vanguard Assault Team. Seeing those young soldiers with severe injuries such as broken arms and legs and exposed intestines, Xiao Mei felt great sympathy. She and her colleagues did their best to help them, providing first aid, bandaging wounds, and comforting them. Those soldiers who could no longer fight were treated by the mobile medical team and then transported back to China for further treatment.

Every time the medical team received a wounded soldier, Xiaomei was terrified that the soldier might be Zhou Yuan, yet she also hoped to meet him. This unwavering belief in seeing Zhou Yuan kept her working tirelessly behind the scenes.

It was now midnight. After nearly an hour of intense artillery bombardment and assault, the Eastern Turkic vanguard assault team finally broke through the combined defenses of the Rissa and Western Turkic forces. Then, under the cover of a large number of tanks and heavy armor, the main force of the Eastern Turkic army quickly advanced the position under the cover of darkness. Ye Xiaomei's medical team also began to pack up their things, dismantle the tents, and set off with the main force.

About ten minutes later, Xiaomei, who was moving with the main force, clearly felt the pace of the team suddenly slow down and then stop. The mobile medical team had to stop and wait. Ahead, it was as if fireworks were rising into the sky, with anti-aircraft guns firing densely into the air, followed by a series of violent explosions and towering flames. Xiaomei shuddered; she knew where the explosions were coming from, but she was near the front of the main force. She heard the continuous explosions ahead, and then noticed more towering flames, this time like a curtain of fire moving towards her. Three minutes later, the company commander of the escorting company for the mobile medical team shouted through a megaphone, "Retreat! Retreat!" Some soldiers of the escorting company took positions outside the medical personnel, some assisted the medical personnel in moving supplies and equipment, and some helped the exhausted doctors and nurses, making for an orderly retreat.

Suddenly, everyone felt a buzzing sound above their heads, like the sound of an airplane. The guard company commander shouted through the loudspeaker, "Take cover! Take cover!"

Ye Xiaomei looked up at the sky and, in the reflection of the flames behind her, saw more than a dozen glittering objects falling overhead—bombs!

Ye Xiaomei reacted instinctively, quickly lay down, closed her eyes, and cried out in her heart one last time, "Brother Zhou, farewell."

Ye Xiaomei lay quietly on the ground, waiting for death to come.

But after a while, she didn't hear the sound of the bombs exploding. Ye Xiaomei slowly moved her hands away from her head and looked up. What she saw made her pale. She saw six or seven bombs hovering quietly two meters off the ground, not falling. In the dead of night, this scene was undoubtedly eerie.

The company commander, soldiers, and other medical personnel also sensed something was wrong and, like Ye Xiaomei, witnessed an appalling scene.

The company commander of the guard company slowly stood up first. He looked at the bomb hovering beside him and had an urge to reach out and touch it, but he didn't dare. The commander picked up the megaphone on the ground with trembling hands and shouted in a hoarse voice, "Go!"

Everyone stood up, staring in horror at the bomb hovering two meters above the ground, and sprinted forward. Ye Xiaomei followed her colleagues and left the danger zone.

Soon, everyone heard a series of explosions. Turning around, they saw flames shooting into the sky where they had just been lying down. They were astonished and deeply grateful for their survival. The group continued their rapid retreat.

"Company Commander Zhang, what's going on?" A doctor who was on good terms with the company commander asked immediately.

"Dr. Chen, I'm not well-educated, how would I know? It's unbelievable!" Ye Xiaomei knew these bombs had been hovering in the air for a long time before landing. Was this defying Earth's gravity or the laws of physics?

After retreating for more than ten miles, the group suddenly realized that no one was following them, and they guessed that they had become separated from the main force.

Company Commander Zhang ordered the communications officer to set up a radio and call the main force, but there was no response.

Company Commander Zhang ordered the deputy company commander to lead a team to set up camp in a small grove of trees, arrange for people to stand guard, and protect the medical personnel. Company Commander Zhang himself led four soldiers back to the front line in the dark. About an hour and a half later, Company Commander Zhang and the four soldiers returned to the camp in the grove.

Company Commander Zhang and his four soldiers looked visibly dejected. Everyone surrounded the five of them, asking about the situation of the vanguard force.

Company Commander Zhang choked up as he said that the vanguard force had been completely wiped out, and what the five men saw was a large area of ​​charred corpses and burning tanks and armor.

"These are ten thousand comrades!" Company Commander Zhang roared.

Company Commander Zhang ordered the communications officer to immediately call the rear headquarters, and they made contact shortly afterward.

"Commander Chu, this is Zhang Shouguo, the company commander of the escort company of the vanguard mobile medical team..." Company Commander Zhang reported the battle situation and the unfortunate news to General Chu.

General Chu fell silent for a moment. Since the mysterious malfunctions of both sides' aircraft, he had assumed the enemy would cease their aerial attacks. He never imagined they would still be dropping bombs in large numbers, especially with Company Commander Zhang reporting the bizarre phenomenon of bombs hovering in the air. He recalled the secret telegram he had received half an hour earlier from Vice Chairman Chu of the Central Military Commission, instructing him to remain inactive and focus on defense. The telegram also mentioned strange events occurring globally, and that the commander-in-chief was in secret contact with the president of a Western country to discuss solutions to a major global crisis. What on earth was happening? General Chu was utterly perplexed.

"Company Commander Zhang, you should set off now and return overnight. I will send someone to meet you."

"Yes, Chief."

The mobile medical team and the guard company set off overnight, taking advantage of the darkness to head towards the front-line military headquarters. The front-line military headquarters was where Ye Xiaomei and the others had been lying in wait for a day. This place was located about ten kilometers on the Eastern Tu side of the border between the New Li Kingdom and the Eastern Tu Kingdom.

On the way, the group encountered a battalion of marines sent by General Chu to meet and support them. They arrived at the front-line military headquarters around six in the morning.

Company Commander Zhang and his deputy were invited by General Chu to the headquarters. The other soldiers and medical personnel ate breakfast and rested under the arrangement of the soldiers.

After hearing the reports from the two company commanders, General Chu was saddened by the sudden bombing raids on the frontline assault troops, which had resulted in the deaths of nearly 10,000 men. However, he was astonished by the bizarre incident involving the floating bombs experienced by the mobile medical team and the escort company. After all, General Chu was knowledgeable and knew that it was impossible for objects to float in mid-air. Connecting this with the missile misfires, aircraft malfunctions, and the contents of General Chu's secret telegram from the previous night, he couldn't help but consider a possibility: had aliens already arrived? If it was indeed the work of aliens, then everything could be explained logically. But alien technology was far too advanced! On the other hand, this was the real reason for the secret contact between the commander and the president of the Western Turks.

General Chu couldn't help but think of one person: Zhou Yuan, the genius Zhou Yuan. If Zhou Yuan were in China, he would definitely consult him about aliens and these strange events, but Zhou Yuan was already secretly infiltrating the Western Lands. However, according to the agreement, since the motherland launched two ballistic missiles thirty hours after receiving Zhou Yuan's radio signals, it meant that Zhou Yuan should have been safe and sound a day ago. But this was wartime, and he wondered how Zhou Yuan and his beloved daughter were doing now.

General Chu recalled that when he and his subordinates visited Professor Ye, a renowned physicist at Qing Teng University, at night, Professor Ye and his family of three were discussing Zhou Yuan and reviewing his manuscripts. Professor Ye had accepted General Chu's invitation to a meeting. Professor Ye spoke highly of Zhou Yuan, saying that some aspects of Zhou Yuan's manuscripts were beyond the reach of ordinary people. His daughter, Ye Xiaomei, said that she met Zhou Yuan during his hospitalization at Friendship Hospital and was also deeply impressed by him.

General Chu's thoughts drifted back to eighteen days ago; he remembered that day was July 15th.

That morning, a top-secret meeting was held at a conference center of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The topic of the meeting was to discuss Zhou Yuan's six boxes of notebooks and manuscripts.

Zhou Yuan's six boxes of notebooks and manuscripts cover astronomy, physics, aerospace, mathematics, communications, and military affairs (mainly weapons).

This conference brought together the top scientists in these six fields in China.

The day before the meeting, the six groups had already organized and categorized their notes. These top scientists from the Eastern Land were initially astonished by the contents of Zhou Yuan's manuscript.

However, every scientist was still impressed by Zhou Yuan. Some of the ideas in Zhou Yuan's manuscripts seemed to exceed the scope of their understanding, or even the current human knowledge and imagination. For example, in astronomy, Zhou Yuan calculated that in addition to Earth, there are nine other terrestrial planets orbiting the sun in a consistent manner; in physics, Zhou Yuan even believed in the existence of four-dimensional space, five-dimensional space, and even higher-dimensional space, believing that three-dimensional space is dominated by the particle nature of light, while higher-dimensional space is dominated by the wave nature of light; in communications, Zhou Yuan invented a hybrid variable-prefix code; in mathematics, Zhou Yuan even pioneered a theory of manifold topological space; in aerospace, Zhou Yuan demonstrated the possibility and technical means of landing on a horizontal planet; in the military, Zhou Yuan proposed the concepts of cluster missiles and missile clusters, and provided specific design, manufacturing technologies, and methods.

Due to the tense situation between the Western and Eastern Tu states, at the suggestion of General Chu, these scientists vigorously searched for military applications in Zhou Yuan's manuscripts that could be quickly monetized, especially the two boxes of manuscripts on aerospace and military fields. The other manuscripts were categorized, prioritized, and ordered according to their importance and urgency.

Zhou Yuan's manuscript thus became a top-secret document of the Eastern Turkic Kingdom. The first technological application of the contents of Zhou Yuan's manuscript was the hybrid variable-prefix code and the two ballistic missiles that hit the Western Turkic Kingdom's destroyer. These two ballistic missiles were cluster missiles.

"Zhou Yuan, I'd really like to hear your opinion," General Chu sighed.