Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 214: A Gamble

Li Qingsong saw that under his all-out attack, regardless of cost or sacrifice, he replenished as many warships as he destroyed, replenished as many unmanned combat facilities as he destroyed, maintained the most violent outpouring of electromagnetic cannon projectiles and laser beams at all times, and detonated large-yield electromagnetic interference bombs at all times. At this moment, even those powerful nuclear-level warships had to make certain tactical changes because of his all-out attack.

They were no longer like before, relying on their energy shields to launch reckless and fierce attacks. Instead, they had to start cooperating with each other and began to retreat to a certain extent to avoid their own artillery fire.

Their forward steps were abruptly stopped by Li Qingsong!

Although this was only a squadron of the enemy, without any large warships in it;
Although the enemy may not come with the intention of destroying him, his main combat mission is simply to intimidate him so that he will surrender;

Although he had given his all and suffered heavy casualties at every turn;
Although it was the combination of all these conditions that resulted in the effect of stopping the opponent's advance at this moment, one thing was undeniable.

That is, with the combat power of an electro-weak civilization, he temporarily stopped the fleet of a strong nuclear civilization, preventing them from making any progress!

Judging by the combat effectiveness displayed by both sides at this moment, Li Qingsong knew that there was probably no other electroweak civilization in the entire Milky Way that could do this.

"Although you are powerful, you are not invincible."

Li Qingsong's heart was filled with surging fighting spirit. He looked into the distance again, towards where the main fleet of the Intelligent Scourge was.

There are still more than two million warships stationed there, and they have not been deployed.

Li Qingsong knew that this number should exceed the limit of warships that a normal strong nuclear civilization could possess.

Civilizations of different levels have different population limits, or in other words, organizational limits.

The degree of organization depends on the level of technology. The more advanced a civilization is, the greater its ability to organize its population through technological means. An unorganized population, on the other hand, is not only not a help to civilization, but rather a burden.

As a result, civilizations of different levels have different population limits.

According to Li Qingsong's estimation, the upper limit of the population of a strong nuclear civilization can support a fleet size of approximately 70 to 100 million warships.

The intelligent Scourge, by enslaving the intelligent life of other civilizations, has gained combat power that is significantly beyond that of normal civilizations of the same level.

The total number of warships, reaching more than two million, is a manifestation of its strong war capability.

Now, most of its war strength remains in the rear and has not been deployed.

This won’t work.

This is exactly the reason why Li Qingsong is willing to pay such huge casualties and keep this squadron outside the defense circle.

What will happen if your main fleet doesn't go out?
Of course, even if Li Qingsong could temporarily withstand the opponent's attack at this moment, if the opponent wanted to truly break through his defense circle, they could do it by dispatching at most tens of thousands of warships, and there was no need to dispatch all of them.

But Li Qingsong knew that his opponent would most likely not do that.

Li Qingsong was somewhat confident in his judgment, but the chances were not too great. However, at this moment, there was no other option but to take a gamble.

If the enemy didn't send out their entire army, but only sent a small number of reinforcements...

Li Qingsong knew that he should consider reopening the business.

At this moment, within the supercomputer mothership, powered by ultra-long-distance communication technology, the battle situation on the front lines was being transmitted in real time, being processed by Akainu in real time. The war ahead was already massive enough. And with a larger war, the amount of data generated inevitably increased. With more data, processing required more resources.

But at this moment, on the supercomputer mothership, the many supercomputer bases are still operating smoothly, and even the power consumption does not fluctuate much.

In the logic operation unit, a lot of information is still flashing rapidly.

"The prey civilization did not collapse in spirit due to our show of force. Instead, they showed an even stronger will to fight, and even managed to intercept our fleet outside the defense circle.

It is no longer possible to defeat the enemy with just one squadron.

To achieve this, approximately 40,000 additional warships would be needed.

But in this battle, the determination of their fighting spirit exceeded my expectations.

Their manned warships completely disregarded casualties, and even seemed to be actively seeking death.

The success rate of the "crush the enemy and force their surrender" plan has dropped to less than 20%. Even if the enemy is truly defeated, they will still face a large-scale suicidal attack.

While this certainly wouldn't cause any damage to us, the enemy's intelligent life is a valuable asset. A large-scale suicide attack would result in the death of a large number of intelligent life forms, preventing us from capturing enough 'native' intelligent life forms, and the harvest would be less than expected.

In this case, the original battle plan needs to be abandoned. We need to deploy more combat forces to make the enemy lose its combat capability without destroying their warships or causing heavy casualties.

Controlling the enemy is more difficult than killing them. Based on a comprehensive assessment of the battlefield situation and the enemy's will to resist, the total number of warships we need to deploy is... 150 million.

To ensure that the plan goes smoothly, I think we can be a little more radical.

A thorough survey of the system has confirmed the absence of any external threats, both within and beyond the system. A reserve of 50,000 warships from the main fleet will be sufficient for basic defense.

A total of 200 million warships remain that can be deployed to the battlefield.

There is another point to note.

Reconnaissance satellites detected that the prey civilization had placed a large number of hydrogen bombs in the asteroid belt, which were suspected to be hydrogen bomb traps.

But since we encountered heavy losses in the hydrogen bomb trap in the previous star system, we have specially adjusted our response plan and reaped the benefits - the second hydrogen bomb trap posed no threat to us at all.

The reality has proved that as long as we reduce our speed and explore carefully, the hydrogen bomb trap will be ineffective against us.

This is probably because the prey civilization does not understand the situation in the previous few galaxies and is completely unaware that the hydrogen bomb trap is no longer effective against us, so they set it up again.

So, the battle plan is summarized as follows:

Another 200 million warships will be dispatched. While reducing their speed and carefully exploring to avoid the threat of hydrogen bomb traps, they will concentrate on launching targeted attacks on the engines, electromagnetic guns, radars, and laser cannons of manned warships to deprive the enemy of their ability to launch suicidal attacks, leaving them for us to capture in the future.

......"

(End of this chapter)